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 ".

Parton's soundtrack album from her own 1992 film, Straight Talk, however was less successful, though her 1993 album Slow Dancing with the Moon won critical acclaim, and did well on the charts, reaching No. 4 on the country albums charts, and No. 16 on the Billboard 200 albums charts.

At the peak of Bruce Springsteen's megastardom following the Born in the U. S. A. album and Born in the U. S. A. Tour in the mid-1980s, there were no less than five Springsteen fanzines circulating at the same time in the UK alone, and many others elsewhere.

Despite the less than spectacular response to the Chris Gaines project, Brooks gained his first – and only – US Top 40 pop single in " Lost in You ", the first single from the album.

The album is considered less inspired than its predecessor, but it is notable for the Parsons-Hillman-Leadon song " Older Guys " and for its take on Jagger and Richards ' " Wild Horses "— the first recording released of this famous song.

' Forever Changes ' is like a horizontal slice of Los Angeles in 1967, when LA rivalled London as the centre of pop music. On this album, you can hear Tim Buckley's folk-meets-jazz, the Doors ' brooding rock with its arty leanings, Buffalo Springfield's folk / pop, early signs of LA's less mannered psychedelia and even a smidgin of the sheer pop prettiness of the likes of the Turtles and the Monkees.

Their next album, the heavier Huevos, came out less than six months afterward, in late summer of 1987.

McDaniels also released a solo album, ' Checks Thugs and Rock N Roll ', which was slightly less successful.

In 1999, the Come on Over album was remixed for the European market as a pop album with less country instrumentation and actually gave her the big breakthrough in Europe she and her producer husband ( Robert John " Mutt " Lange ) were looking for.

During this period The Residents were conspicuously less prolific than they previously had been, with only an outtakes compilation Residue of the Residents, a collaborative album with Ralph labelmates Renaldo and the Loaf and a brief edited version of Vileness Fats with a newly recorded soundtrack being the only major releases from this period.

Much of the material upon their first album had been performed regularly at The Casbah, and the band were able to record this album in the space of less than two weeks.

One month prior to the release of this third album, in April 1981, the Undertones embarked on their ' Positive Touch tour '; this tour saw the band perform a total of 36 gigs across the UK mainland in the space of less than two months.

The album was not as successful as her debut, partly due to the album's less " poppy " sound ,< ref name = folklore >

The subsequent single-only release " Shakespeare's Sister " reached number 26 on the UK Singles Chart, although the only single taken from the album, " That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore ", was less successful, barely making the top 50.

The subsequent album, Winners, was self-produced by the brothers and released in July 1981, but was less successful, going only as high as number 48 on the Billboard 200.

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 ".

Musically, the album was slower with less distortion and more emotion.

The album was, for the most part, faster and less ballad-focused than Isola, and also mildly experimental with drum-machines and electronics.

( Producer Frank Zappa was then able to record most of the album in less than five hours.

September 1999 saw the release of Coverkill, an album consisting entirely of cover versions from bands that were especially influential to Overkill, such as Black Sabbath ( featured no less than three times ), Kiss, Motörhead, Manowar, and The Ramones.

All these developments can be traced to the previous Beatles for Sale, where they were less obvious because that album had been recorded more hastily, lacked chart hits and contained many cover versions.

After releasing the " No Guru " album, Morrison's music appeared less gritty and more adult contemporary with the well-received 1987 album, Poetic Champions Compose, considered to be one of his recording highlights of the 1980s.

* Conspiracy ( King Diamond album ), by the heavy metal band

* Chimera ( Aria album ), а 2001 album by Russian heavy metal band Aria

Raleigh, North Carolina heavy metal band Alesana is scheduled to release a concept album, A Place Where the Sun Is Silent, during October 2011.

Baltimore, MD heavy metal band Periphery plans to release a concept album entitled Juggernaut in late 2012.

Making extensive use of live instruments, the album was Bowie's exit from heavy electronica.

Although the biggest hit on the album ( and ELO's biggest hit overall ) was the rock song " Don't Bring Me Down ", the album was noted for its heavy disco influence.

* 1970 – Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.

He co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count, which he introduced in his 1991 album O. G.

The album further developed ideas established on their debut album, creating a work with a direct sound that was " heavy and hard, brutal and direct " and which would be highly influential and frequently imitated.

This approach has been seen as exemplified in the fourth album, particularly on " Stairway to Heaven ", which begins with acoustic guitar and recorder and ends with drums and heavy electric sounds.

In 1984 they followed the largely synthesised single " Thieves Like Us " with the heavy guitar-drum-bass rumble of " Murder ", a not-too-distant cousin of " Ecstasy " from the Power, Corruption & Lies album.

* The Phoenix ( Mastercastle album ), the Italian heavy metal band's debut album

Pope Clement VIII appears as one of dramatis personae in the album The Metal Opera ( 2000 ) by German heavy metal band Avantasia, where he plays vital role in the fantasy-styled plot.

* Phobos ( album ), a 1997 album by Canadian heavy metal band Voivod

That year, the group released Rift packaged as a concept album and with heavy promotion from Elektra including artwork by David Welker.

Rush's music style has changed over the years, beginning with blues-inspired heavy metal on their first album, then encompassing hard rock, progressive rock, and a period with heavy use of synthesizers.

Following quickly on the heels of Fly By Night, the band released Caress of Steel ( 1975 ), a five-track hard rock / heavy metal album featuring two extended multi-chapter songs, " The Necromancer " and " The Fountain of Lamneth.

L. A .' s N. W. A., on their landmark 1988 album Straight Outta Compton, showed heavy influences from Tougher Than Leather-era Run – D. M. C., and Chicano rap act Cypress Hill were definitely influenced by Run – D. M. C.

* The Finnish heavy metal band Amorphis has a song called Sampo on their 2009 album " Skyforger ".