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 ".

Alan Stivell's Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique ( perhaps the best-seller harp album in the world ), using mainly the bronze strung harp, and his tours, have brought the instrument into the ears and the love of many people.

" This is borne out by perhaps the most famous lines from the album, on the song " The Red Telephone ":

" I told ya the New York Dolls were the real thing ," he wrote, describing the album as " perhaps the best example of raw, thumb-your-nose-at-the-world, punk rock since the Rolling Stones ' Exile on Main Street.

Critic Steve Huey calls it " perhaps Tom Waits's most cohesive album ... a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental ' 80s classics to stunningly evocative — and often harrowing — effect ... Waits ' most affecting and powerful recording, even if it isn't his most accessible.

Many were left wondering if the latest in the Electronic Battle Weapon series were simply one off experiments or signal a new direction they could take with the new album, perhaps swaying from their genre defining big beat albums of the past.

Wire's debut album, Pink Flag ( 1977 ) – " perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk ", according to Allmusic – contains songs which are diverse in mood and style, but most use a minimalist punk approach, unorthodox structures, " Field Day For The Sundays ", for example, is only 28 seconds long.

The album featured the US and UK hit tunes " Dear Madam Barnum " and " The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead ", the latter bringing the band perhaps its greatest success after the early 1980s.

Others focus on a subtopic within their area of interest, perhaps 19th century postage stamps, milk bottle labels from Sussex, or Mongolian harnesses and tack. Stamp album used for collecting stamps

Progressive metal has also overlapped thrash metal-most famously perhaps with Dark Angel's swansong album Time Does Not Heal, which was famous for its sticker that said " 9 songs, 67 minutes, 246 riffs.

In 1981 the band cut perhaps their best-known album, East Side Story.

The original soundtrack album for The Caine Mutiny was never actually officially released, and hence it is one of the rarest in existence ; perhaps a dozen copies survive.

" The album received a favorable reception from fans with " its content quickly being exalted across the Metal underground as perhaps the very pinnacle of atmospheric Death Metal achievement.

Ian MacDonald, in his book Revolution in the Head, argues that The Beatles was the album in which the band's cryptic messages to its fan base became not merely vague but intentionally and perhaps dangerously open-ended, citing oblique passages in songs like " Glass Onion " ( e. g., " the walrus was Paul ") and " Piggies " (" what they need's a damn good whacking ").

Steve Turner, too, in his book A Hard Day's Write, maintains that, with this album, " The Beatles had perhaps laid themselves open to misinterpretation by mixing up the languages of poetry and nonsense.

By the time of the Civil War, album quilt inscriptions had become shorter and were more likely to include only the block maker's name, and perhaps his or her hometown or date.

( featuring a celebrated cover by Reid Miles ) is perhaps his best-known album.

Intended to be a pre-release to Behind the Curtain, the as yet unreleased first album in Norman's Second Trilogy, first mentioned in 1983, Tourniquet was described by Dougie Adam as " perhaps Larry's deepest, most articulate album ever ... even more hard hitting than ' Only Visiting This Planet ' or ' Stranded in Babylon '".

Parks is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Brian Wilson, and especially for his lyrical contributions to the Beach Boys album SMiLE and Wilson's 2008 solo project, " That Lucky Old Sun ".

One critic has written that Damaged was " perhaps the best album to emerge from the quagmire that was early -' 80s California punk ... the visceral, intensely physical presence of Damaged has yet to be equaled, although many bands have tried.

Lyrically, the album contains social commentary so harsh that CCM described it as " perhaps the most scathing ever put out by a Christian label.

In truth, a few songs sounded like solo efforts, while Lodge's " Survival ", Hayward's appropriate closing " The Day We Meet Again " and Pinder's lone final contribution and lead vocal, " One Step Into The Light " ( curiously as the band is depicted as doing so on the cover photo – where Pinder is perhaps significantly barely glimpsed at all and almost out of focus ) were all high points on the album.

However, the album was considerably more melodic than most thrash metal albums, perhaps a lasting influence of the bands punk past.

declared it " the most mature and perhaps best album of their career " and in retrospect it is still seen as " one of the most consistent and engaging albums in the group's lengthy catalog.