A version with Alicia Keys was included in Charles ' 2005 duets album Genius & Friends.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

1987's Gaudi was the Project's last release, though they planned to record an album called Freudiana next.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

Arista's refusal to release the album had two known effects: the negotiations led to a renewed contract and the album was never released.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

* The New Wave band Missing Persons ' best-selling album was called Spring Session M.

Her producer was present and suggested she include a version of it on her 1970 album Whales & Nightingales.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

When Heart in Motion was released in 1991, many fans were surprised that the album was so clearly one of contemporary pop music.

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

Although " Takes A Little Time " was a moderate hit single, the album failed to sell like the previous two albums, which had both gone multi-platinum.

The album was certified Gold in 2000.

He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist three times: 1998 for album " Nour El Ain ", 2002 for album " Aktrr Wahed Byhbak 2001 " and 2007 for album " El Lillady ".

Their last studio album of the 1970s, Love Beach ( 1978 ), was dismissed even by the trio itself, who admitted it was delivered to fulfill a contractual obligation.

Adrien Begrand of PopMatters dismissed the original recording, but praised the re-release, writing " the album blazes on at a furious pace, and being a 1985 metal album, the subject matter, though now a bit dated, is such a refreshing change from the suburban angst that dominates today's nu-metal.

Whereas some praised the band's new Stones-influenced sound, some dismissed the album as tired and drawing too heavily on their influences.

The album contained the popular song " Warm Love " but otherwise has been largely dismissed critically.

Norman himself later dismissed this album in a Belgian press conference as " just a collection of tapes I had ... some were even recorded before the plane accident.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Soon after recording sessions for the next album began and one track had been completed, Hynde declared that Chambers was no longer playing well and dismissed both him and Foster.

Both had been previously associated with Jefferson Airplane, Spence as the band's first drummer, playing on their first album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, and Katz as the band's manager, but both had been dismissed by the group.

The following month, after numerous delays, Canibus ' seventh solo album, Hip-Hop for Sale, was released, but was panned by critics, who dismissed it as yet another failed attempt to gain mainstream recognition.

One version of events states that Weikath, Deris and Grosskopf felt that Kusch and Grapow, in particular, were spending more time on and paying more attention to their new side-project, Masterplan ( Grapow's output on Helloween albums had dropped to barely one song per album by that point ); since the others believed that Kusch and Grapow were not 100 % dedicated to Helloween they were dismissed.

However, Kim Neely of Rolling Stone dismissed the album as " genuinely offensive satanic drivel.

Due to Flesh being angered, his retaliation led him towards the idea of an album titled " Majority Rules " but Bizzy Bone dismissed this claiming it was just Flesh-n-Bone's anger towards Krayzie leaving.

" Bangs dismissed Black Sabbath as " a shuck — despite the murky songtitles and some inane lyrics that sound like Vanilla Fudge paying doggerel tribute to Aleister Crowley, the album has nothing to do with spiritualism, the occult, or anything much except stiff recitations of Cream clichés ".

Reviewing 2003 Slayer box set Soundtrack to the Apocalypse, Adrien Begrand of PopMatters dismissed the effort as " easily the weakest album in the Slayer catalogue ", while Westword Onlines Michael Roberts dubbed the record their " biggest mistake.

In a March 2006 Billboard. com interview, he dismissed the possibility of a new Pixies album for the time being: " I'd only be interested if it happens in an organic manner ; if all our schedules are aligned and we're all feeling it.

The Mozart project was roundly panned and dismissed by the press ( although the album was ultimately Sky's most successful album in the United States ) and the band took another two years off before returning again.

The award of five stars to the 1997 Oasis album Be Here Now ( widely criticised elsewhere and subsequently dismissed as self-indulgent by the band's songwriter Noel Gallagher himself ) has been seen as a turning point.

Street and guitarist on Viva Hate, Vini Reilly, had a dispute over songwriting credits-Reilly claimed to have written the majority of the tracks on the album, which Street dismissed and claimed that he wrote all of the tracks on the album and Reilly had no part to play in this.

In the same year, the band released a double-album, The Black Album / Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols, comprising The Black Album – an album recorded before ... The Dandy Warhols Come Down that was rejected by Capitol Records and dismissed by the band themselves – and Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols, a collection of B-sides, covers and unreleased songs.

Several of these double entries have been collected by Ben Bagley and Michael McWhinney, along with Rodgers and Hart songs that disappeared permanently en route to New York and others that reached Broadway but have not become part of the constantly heard Rodgers and Hart repertory, in a delightfully refreshing album, Rodgers And Hart Revisited ( Spruce Records, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York ).

* Alien ( album ), by Strapping Young Lad

* " Alien ", a song by Bush on the album Sixteen Stone

* " Alien ", a song by Erasure on the album Loveboat

* " Alien ", a song by Japan on the album Quiet Life

* " Alien ", a song by Lamb on the album Fear of Fours

* " Alien ", a song by Nerina Pallot on the album Dear Frustrated Superstar

* " Alien ", a song by Thriving Ivory on their self-titled album

* " Alien ", a song by Tokio Hotel on the album Humanoid

* " My Alien ", a song by Simple Plan on the album No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls

* ATLiens, a1996 album by OutKast

* Animal, a 1988 album by The Bar-Kays

* Animal, a 2009 album by the London-based electronic band autoKratz

* Animal, 2008 album by Far East Movement

* Animal ( Kesha album ), a 2010 album by American pop singer Ke $ ha

* Animal !, a 2008 album by Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

* Animals ( Pink Floyd album ), a 1977 concept album by Pink Floyd

* " Animal ", by Ellie Goulding from Lights ( Ellie Goulding album ) ( Bright Lights )

* " Animal ", by Kesha from Animal ( Kesha album )

* " Animal ", by The Kinks from To the Bone ( The Kinks album )

* " Animal ", by Mindless Self Indulgence from If ( Mindless Self Indulgence album )

* " Animals ", by Dead Poetic from Vices ( Dead Poetic album )

* " Animals ", by The End from Elementary ( album )