Maintaining the same members for over forty years, ZZ Top has released 15 studio albums and are among the most popular rock groups, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, half of this figure concerning the United States alone.

ZZ Top's grueling Afterburner World Tour lasted well into 1987, which also saw the release of The ZZ Top Sixpack, a three-disc collection of ZZ Top's albums from 1970 to 1981, with the exception of Degüello.

In 1990, 21 contemporary bands — including R. E. M., ZZ Top, Richard Lloyd, David Leonard, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Primal Scream — recorded covers of Elevators songs on Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, one of the first tribute albums, in what would become a fad.

The album is much heavier than some previous ZZ albums and offers the kind of raw down and dirty music any true rock or blues fan can appreciate.

The album was nominated in the top 100 Australian albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine and the title track " At First Sight " remains a bona fide Australian classic.

Production credits include albums by Lisa Phenix, Johnny Reliable, Shadrach, Jason Todd Herring, Matt Nightingale, The Strawmen, Perry and the Poorboys, Steve Scott, First Strike, and Love Coma.

In 1957, he recorded the classic quartet albums First Place and Blue Trombone, with Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers and Max Roach.

Spot had already recorded many of the Damaged tracks with Dez Cadena on vocals ( as well as Keith Morris and Ron Reyes ) and felt that the band's sound was ruined with the two guitar line-up ( these versions can be heard on the albums Everything Went Black and The First Four Years ).

During the supposed hiatus, Hole released two retrospective albums: firstly, their second EP, titled The First Session ( 1997 ), which was composed of a complete version of the band's first recording session at Rudy's Rising Star in Los Angeles in March 1990, some of which had been bootlegged widely years prior.

Following the release of First and Last and Always, produced by David M. Allen ( producer of albums such as The Cure's Disintegration, but not to be confused with the bass player of Gang of Four — also a record producer ), Marx split from the band in the middle of a supporting tour, citing inability to continue working with Eldritch.

In 2001, Brett returned to the band and Bad Religion once again signed to Epitaph Records, releasing four more albums: The Process of Belief in 2002, The Empire Strikes First in 2004, New Maps of Hell in 2007, and The Dissent of Man in 2010.

Containing the singles " Stand " which featured the Los Angeles First A. M. E. Church Choir on backing vocals, " Until You Suffer Some ( Fire And Ice )" and " Body Talk ", the album received generally positive reviews and did go Gold, but following the arrival of grunge sales were sluggish compared with the first three albums, selling only 2 million copies worldwide.

Both albums, Abominog and Head First, updated the band's sound and generated a brief, newfound interest in Uriah Heep among younger heavy metal fans.

In 1989, RCA deleted all of Rogers ' solo albums soon after he signed back to Reprise, where he used to record when he was a rock artist with his former group, The First Edition.

First and last issues of the Zevon albums Stand in the Fire and The Envoy were released on March 27, 2007 by Rhino Records alongside a Rhino re-issue of Excitable Boy, with the three Cd's having four unreleased bonus tracks each.

Bad Religion has since released three more albums: The Empire Strikes First ( 2004 ), New Maps of Hell ( 2007 ) and The Dissent of Man ( 2010 ).

Now as a six piece, Bad Religion recorded and released the albums The Process of Belief ( 2002 ), The Empire Strikes First ( 2004 ), New Maps of Hell ( 2007 ) and The Dissent of Man ( 2010 ).

Tardi has produced many antiwar graphic novels and comics, mainly focusing on the collective European trauma of the First World War, and the pitfalls of patriotism spawned several albums ( Adieu Brindavoine, C ' était la guerre des tranchées, Le trou d ' obus, Putain de Guerre ...).

Although his early 1970s jazz albums Red Clay, First Light, Straight Life, and Sky Dive were particularly well received and considered among his best work, the albums he recorded later in the decade were attacked by critics for their commercialism.

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DoCo has released three albums: DoCo ★ First, DoCo ☆ Second, and DoCo Original Karaoke.

In 2000, Morse provided vocals for the song " The First Man On Earth " on The Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer, one of Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Ayreon albums.

He has released three solo albums: First Chud ( 1985 ), Mall to Mars ( 1997 ), and Demo-licious.

In 2002, Rhino Records released the deluxe, limited edition 4-CD box set First Time in a Long Time, which collects Fanny's first four studio albums plus live recordings, outtakes, and promotional items.

After recording albums with Goodman and John Abercrombie ( ECM session Timeless with Jack DeJohnette ) in 1974, Hammer's solo career began with the release of The First Seven Days ( 1975 ).

Let's Get It Right the First Time, a faux-live album recorded late in 1997, was co-released by Megaforce Records and the band's new, self-run label Rake Records the following year as a stopgap between albums.

In 2006, the group re-formed with new drummer Matt Sherrod and have since released two further albums, which have both reached number one on Australia's Album Chart.

She recorded a series of bluegrass-inspired albums, beginning with The Grass Is Blue ( 1999 ), winning a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and Little Sparrow ( 2001 ), with its cover of Collective Soul's " Shine " winning a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

Don McLean has continued to record new material including River of Love in 1995 on Curb Records and, more recently, the albums You've Got to Share, Don McLean Sings Marty Robbins and The Western Album on his own Don McLean Music label.

In 1972 Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Originally a member of Stetsasonic, he produced tracks on hip-hop albums such as 3rd Bass ' 1989 debut album The Cactus Album and De La Soul's first three albums.

* The Worst ... Album in the World ... Ever ... EVER !, a parody of the long string of compilation albums released in the UK since the 1990s called The Best ( genre ) Album in the world ever !.

Propelled by the success of their first single " It's Been Awhile ", the album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top 200 Album charts, selling 716, 000 albums in its first week.

Two albums that show substantive jazz influence were available commercially at record stores: 2001's The Rainbow Children, and the 2003 instrumental record N. E. W. S which was nominated for a Best Pop Instrumental Album Grammy Award.

Interviewed for the Beatles Anthology, Starr said that he now felt that it should have been released as two separate albums ( that he appropriately named The White Album and The Whiter Album ).

Although it has been their only hit single in the U. S., the band has maintained critical respect and, to a lesser extent, commercial viability through albums such as 1999's The Soft Bulletin ( which was NME magazine's Album of the Year ) and 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

This song can be found on the following albums: Best Movie Album in the World ... Ever!

Of Switchfoot's first three albums, Learning to Breathe was the most successful, being certified gold by the RIAA, and receiving a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Gospel Album.

Alexander left the band in 1996, replaced by Bryan " Brain " Mantia, and Primus went on to record the original theme song for the TV show South Park and two more albums, Brown Album and Antipop, before declaring a hiatus in 2000.

Usually the album's title is made of the main title, genre and maybe issue number ( so albums would include The Best Ibiza Album in the World ... Ever !, The Best Rock Album in the World ... Ever!

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Several successful albums followed, such as Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Alone and The Bill Evans Album, among others.

In 1993, the group resumed playing live concerts ; later Steely Dan released two albums of new material, the first of which earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

In some cases this proves to be popular enough to spawn a series of cover albums being released for a band, either under a consistent branding such as the two Black Sabbath Nativity in Black cover albums and the industrial themed " Blackest Album " cover albums of Metallica songs, or in the form of releases from a number of different companies cashing in on the trend such as the many Metallica cover albums released in the late 1990s and early 2000s.