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 ".

In 1959, the Dave Brubeck Quartet recorded Time Out, an album their label was enthusiastic about but nonetheless hesitant to release.

While the Unicorn Records court injunction prevented the group from releasing a new studio album, they nonetheless continued to work on new material, and embarked on a period which would mark a pronounced change in the group's direction ( and that of underground music in general ).

In the 2004 edition of their album guide, Rolling Stone were less favourable, awarding the album two-and-a-half stars out of five, which was nonetheless an improvement from Dave Marsh's one star rating in the 1983 edition of the publication.

The album did not meet with as much critical acclaim as his debut, but nonetheless still included several hit singles.

Despite a somewhat tepid response to the album, Helloween nonetheless completed a successful world tour, highlighted by the return of classic songs such as " Starlight ", " Murderer ", " Keeper of the Seven Keys " and " How Many Tears " to the setlist.

The NME did not put it quite so strongly, but reported nonetheless that it was being talked of as " the greatest album ever made ".

They nonetheless continued studio work, while Munroe and Vanderhoof also completed the former's solo album.

DeJohnette himself, along with others, saw the sessions that brought about this album as unstructured and done in fragments but as innovative nonetheless: “ As the music was being played, as it was developing, Miles would get new ideas ... He ’ d do a take, and stop, and then get an idea from what had just gone on before, and elaborate on it ... The recording of Bitches Brew was a stream of creative musical energy.

Harland cited family obligations and a demanding career in not returning full time ; he has since been involved nonetheless, performing at a few concerts, and is featured as a vocalist on their most recent album Synthesizer ( although he would later rejoin the band full time ).

He nonetheless remained a prominent and recognizable voice in the band, serving as " mixdown producer " on the Brian-produced Love You album.

One Step Beyond was to be a fresh new direction for the band but nonetheless completely unsuccessful except for the songs written and sung by David Aguilar that were put in on the album from past recording sessions.

In theirs, Allmusic declared Red to be weaker than its two predecessors, but nonetheless a superlative work: " few intact groups could have gotten an album as good as Red together.

Diamond Rio has been one of few self-contained country bands to have followed the " rock band " route, each member playing their own instruments and singing their own vocals on all their albums themselves without any additional input from outside musicians ; starting with the One More Day album, however, some of their songs have occasionally featured accompaniment from a string section, but the actual band members still perform their own parts nonetheless.

Jenny Eliscu of Rolling Stone praised Aukerman's growth as a lyricist in several songs: " All is often underrated because of the strange pseudo-arty in-strumental tracks on its second half ; nonetheless, the album features three of the band's best songs, ' Cameage ,' ' Coolidge ,' and ' Clean Sheets.

The Turkish public remained interested in Koray's solo work nonetheless, and in 1973 his first album, Erkin Koray, was released.

nonetheless, Friendly periodically recreated the recordings of news events when such recordings didn't exist or were considered too chaotic to use on an album.

The album is not as widely acclaimed as the original Oxygène, but has been quite successful nonetheless, especially among fans.

The single version was edited to under 3 minutes, but nonetheless included a small amount of the piano solo that precedes it on the album.

Robert Christgau said the album is " Not as tuneful as some might wish " but is nonetheless " Even better than the debut ".

" Andy Hinds of Allmusic stated the album is " a modern heavy metal album that is both brutal and highly musical, traditional yet forward-thinking ", but criticized the placement of " Welcome to the Machine ", stating the song " is stylishly well-executed, but seems a tad out of place nonetheless.

This album is considered by some as more of a project than an actual solo album ; nonetheless it was well received.

After some personal arguments among the three crewmembers, de Spookrijders split up in 2003, after releasing their and final third album Hee ...

This application allows the user to completely arrange the whole album in their own personal way with over 15, 000 points of customization.

The resultant album, Crown Royal, was delayed due to the personal problems, and when it was finally released in 2001, it featured only three appearances by DMC.

She also said that the album will be very personal, like a diary.

After the first album, the band felt that demos for the second album ( on which Corner provided the guide vocals ) better suited his voice, especially in regard to the more raw, personal quality of the lyrics.

Alternative-country artist Robbie Fulks sings a wistful ode to " That Bangle Girl ", a song identified as one of his " personal favorites ", on his 2000 Very Best album.

Abnormally Attracted to Sin, admitted Amos, is a " personal album ", not a conceptual one, with the album exploring themes of power, boundaries, and the subjective view of sin.

Most of the album was recorded in Munich during the most turbulent period in the band's history, and Taylor and May lamented the new sound, with both being very critical of the influence Mercury's personal manager Paul Prenter had on the singer.

Their next album, 13 ( 1999 ) saw the band members experimenting with electronic and gospel music, and featured more personal lyrics from Albarn.

In an attempt to capitalize on his renewed success, WB Records released the album Negotiations and Love Songs in November 1988, a mixture of popular hits and personal favorites that covered Simon's entire career and became an enduring seller in his catalog.

Baez ' first album for A & M, Come from the Shadows, was recorded in Nashville, and included a number of more personal compositions, including " Love Song to a Stranger " and " Myths ", as well as work by Mimi Farina, John Lennon, and Anna Marly.

She later canceled the last twenty-one dates on a tour in support of her album due to " personal family problems ".

In overview, the works for the double album in this period were intended to be packaged in a plain brown wrapper, with a ' strictly personal ' over-stamp and addressed in a manner that could have connotations of drug content, pornographic or illicit material ; As per the small ads of the time ; " It comes to you in a plain brown wrapper ".

The Egerton Manuscript, originally an album containing Wyatt's personal selection of his poems and translations, preserves 123 texts, partly in the poet's hand.

The album was recorded in the band's personal studio in two months, and was mixed in another month.

Several other songs on the album, " Vanlose Stairway ", " She Gives Me Religion ", and the instrumental, " Scandinavia " show the presence of a new personal muse in his life: a Danish public relations agent, who would share Morrison's spiritual interests and serve as a steadying influence on him throughout most of the 1980s.

The album included personal stories and anecdotes about Richard Harris, Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson, Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, and Rosemary Clooney.

Baker left after their second record, Boces ( 1993 ), citing musical and personal disputes ; he later recorded an album as Shady.

Years later, in reflecting on the album, Keaggy would say that True Believer " is really the most unlike me of any album I ’ ve ever done, in my personal opinion.

Michael Gira announced on June 13, 2010, through the Young God Records page on Facebook and his personal Facebook account, that the next Swans album would be titled My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky.

In 1984 Norman recorded songs for Behind the Curtain, the as yet unreleased first album in a projected Second Trilogy, which he described as " a personal triptych.