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 ".

While receiving generally favorable reviews, however, the album did not achieve the crossover success Parton had hoped for.

The album was a commercial disappointment compared to the band's previous effort, charting generally low at # 5.

Crash was, despite his erratic behavior, generally regarded as a brilliant lyricist ( a contemporary critic described him as " ransacking the dictionary "), and the final lineup of Smear, Doom, and Bolles had become a world-class rock ensemble by the recording of ( GI ), turning in a performance that spurred an LA Weekly reviewer to write, " This album leaves exit wounds.

Tork was a proficient musician, and though the group generally did not play their own instruments on their first two albums, he was an exception, playing what he described as " third chair guitar " on Mike Nesmith's song " Papa Gene's Blues " from their first album.

Estimates of their album sales generally range from 150 million to 300 million albums, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists.

The album received generally favourable reviews from the press.

However, the critical response to the album was generally very positive, with Stephen Thomas Erlewine from allmusic claiming " The world is a better place for having Supergrass in it.

The album, generally referred to as the Love Symbol Album, would peak at No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

Smith in 1985In 1984, The Cure released The Top, a generally psychedelic album on which Smith played all the instruments except the drums — played by Andy Anderson — and the saxophone — played by returnee Porl Thompson.

The album is generally highly regarded ( allmusic. com giving it 3 out of a possible 5 stars ), but has been out of print for many years.

Cake considered the album more professionally produced than Motorcade, despite references to its " raw " sound, and the reception was again generally positive ; critics noted the broadening of Cake's sound, with Joshua Green noting in the Westword that " Nugget spans a broader range of topics than did Motorcade, with similarly appealing results ", and Matt Weitz in the Dallas Observer saying that " The gimlet eye and sardonic humor of 1994's Motorcade of Generosity is intact, but Fashion Nugget is aptly named ; it updates Motorcade with beatboxy soul and hip-hop rhythms ".

Reviews of B-Sides and Rarities were generally good ; Devin Grant of The Post and Courier wrote that " For an album full of odds and ends, this Cake release is every bit as good, and every bit as fun, as the band's previous studio releases ", while Catherine P. Lewis of The Washington Post noted that, although several live tracks reduced the album's strength, " there are still enough charming nuggets to make this album less disposable than the typical rarities compilation ".

" Huey of Allmusic cited the Doc at the Radar Station as being " generally acclaimed as the strongest album of his comeback, and by some as his best since Trout Mask Replica ", " even if the Captain's voice isn't quite what it once was, Doc at the Radar Station is an excellent, focused consolidation of Beefheart's past and then-present ".

The album was met with generally positive reviews, although it was not reviewed as widely as the band's first two efforts.

The album title was derived from the two-volume book of the same name by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, whose works generally deal with themes such as existential despair, angst, death, and God.

The eventual solo album, Brian Wilson, was released in July 1988, to generally favorable reviews and in its wake came a faux memoir, Wouldn't It Be Nice-My Own Story, published in 1990.

Since the 1990s, many of the popular, longer-lasting album series also get their own collected " omnibus " editions, or intégrales, with each intégrale book generally containing between two and four original albums, and often several inédits, material that hasn't been published in albums before, as well.

The album received generally favourable reviews from critics and debuted at the top of the UK charts, staying at that position for two weeks.

Never released as a single in U. S. and generally unknown upon its initial album release, " Rosalita " began to get FM radio airplay when an advance version of " Born to Run " was given out to rock radio stations.

Critical reception of the album has generally been positive.

The album Margerine Eclipse followed in 2004 with generally positive reviews, and peaked at number 174 on the US Billboard 200.

PiL's second album is generally regarded as their best, as well as one of the most influential albums of the post-punk era.

Media reception was generally lukewarm, with Rolling Stone describing the album as " frantic, faceless, fake-sexy R & B.

" Nevertheless Afrodisiac became a moderate seller: While the album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, selling only 416, 000 copies to date, it generally failed to chart or sell noticeably outside the United States.