The album's subject matter was largely centered on Love's tumultuous life between 2003 and 2007, and featured a polished folk-rock sound with much more acoustic work than previous Hole albums.

He has appeared as a featured artist on many other songs and albums, having collaborated with artists such as Janet Jackson, Kool Moe Dee, The Dope Poet Society, Run-DMC, Ice Cube, Rage Against The Machine, Anthrax, John Mellencamp and many others.

His albums also became more popular, and he was featured on ABC-TV's The Eddy Arnold Show during the summer of 1956 ; as well as on Country Music Jubilee in 1957 and 58 ( by then renamed Jubilee USA ).

Its soundtrack album, Christiane F. ( 1981 ), featured much material from his Berlin Trilogy albums.

His love of rock music led Marrow to use electric guitar in the instrumentation of his hip hop albums in order to provide his songs with edge and power, and to make his raps harder ; he used the fusion of rock and hip hop of Rick Rubin-produced acts like Beastie Boys, Run-DMC and LL Cool J, which featured rock samples in their songs.

Presence, released in March 1976, marked a change in the Led Zeppelin sound towards more straightforward, guitar-based jams, departing from the acoustic ballads and intricate arrangements featured on their previous albums.

The album, which featured intermixed lyrics and background tracks from both artists ' previous albums, debuted in November 2004.

Mead was featured on two record albums published by Folkways Records.

1996 saw the appearance of two notable albums: Smoochy, which fused pop and electronica with bossa nova and other South American forms, and 1996, which featured a number of previously released pieces arranged for solo piano, accompanied with violin and cello.

Three more albums followed: 1985's Little Creatures ( which featured the hit singles " And She Was " and " Road to Nowhere "), 1986's True Stories ( Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne's musical comedy film, in which the band also appeared ), and 1988's Naked.

" The album, which also included long-time fan favorite " Tom Traubert's Blues ( Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen )", featured jazz drummer Shelly Manne and was, like his previous albums, heavily influenced by jazz.

" Swordfishtrombones also introduced instruments such as bagpipes (" Town with No Cheer ") and marimba (" Shore Leave ") to Waits ' repertoire, as well as pump organs, percussion ( sometimes reminiscent of the music of Harry Partch ), horn sections ( often featuring Ralph Carney playing in the style of brass bands or soul music ), experimental guitar, and obsolete instruments ( many of Waits ' albums have featured a damaged, unpredictable Chamberlin, and more recent albums have included the little-used Stroh violin ).

Simon reported that he was often asked about the distinctive horn sections featured so effectively on the first two albums: people wanted to know how they had achieved such memorable sounds.

There were many semi-legitimate and compilation albums to follow, the most official of which was Next Plateau's The B-Sides Companion, which featured a new song, some unreleased 1989 songs recorded for a second Next Plateau LP and most of the group's classic singles, albeit in newly remixed form.

The album, Take Away / The Lure of Salvage, featured dub reconstructions of music from the preceding XTC albums.

The two albums have almost identical covers: Ono's featured a photo of her leaning on Lennon, and Lennon's had a photo of him leaning on Ono.

Quintela would go on to co-write many songs with her that would be featured on subsequent Fleetwood Mac albums.

Heretofore, their albums featured a distinctive " No Synthesisers!

Most of Tangerine Dream's albums are entirely instrumental — two albums that prominently featured lyrics, Cyclone ( 1978 ) and Tyger ( 1987 ) were met with disapproval from some fans.

Warriors ( 1983 ) further developed Numan's jazz-influenced style and featured contributions from avant-garde musician Bill Nelson ( who fell out with Numan during recording and chose to be uncredited as the album's co-producer ) and saxophonist Dick Morrissey ( who would play on most of Numan's albums until 1991 ).

* Fitzgerald recorded three Verve studio albums with Armstrong, two albums of standards ( 1956's Ella and Louis and 1957's Ella and Louis Again ), and a third album featured music from the Gershwin musical Porgy and Bess.

Beginning with Duke, Genesis albums have featured artwork designed by Bill Smith Studios.

* Peter Gabriel ( 1977 album ), one of four albums named Peter Gabriel, often referred to as " Car " because of the photograph on the album cover

These albums ( except the last ) were also known for using contemporary paintings as cover art, featuring the work of Joan Miró on Time Further Out, Franz Kline on Time in Outer Space, and Sam Francis on Time Changes.

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.

While they did not release any albums during this period, Devo recorded a number of songs for various films and compilations since their reunion, including a cover of the Nine Inch Nails hit, " Head Like a Hole " for the film Supercop.

In addition to the original albums, two compilation albums have been released: Double Hipness ( 2000 ), a collection of early tracks with the 1993 reunion demos ; and Singles ( 2004 ), an extended version of Popera-The Singles Collection which caught up with post-1990 material and included the cover of Bowie's " Boys Keep Swinging ".

" The album Blue Valentine ( 1978 ) displayed Waits's biggest musical departure to date, with much more focus on electric guitar and keyboards than on previous albums and hardly any strings ( with the exception of album-opener " Somewhere " — a cover of Leonard Bernstein's song from West Side Story — and " Kentucky Avenue ") for a darker, more blues-oriented sound.

In the same year, Waits contributed a cover of Cole Porter's " It's All Right with Me " to Red Hot + Blue, the first in the series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization — one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business — which sold over a million copies worldwide.

The group had hoped to cover a number of different artists, but only two albums from this period saw completion and release-1984's George and James ( dedicated to George Gershwin and James Brown ) and 1986's Stars & Hank Forever: The American Composers Series ( featuring tributes to Hank Williams and John Philip Sousa ).

In 1989, A & M released The Best of Tim Curry on CD and cassette, featuring songs from his albums ( including a live version of " Alan ") and a previously unreleased song, a live cover version of Bob Dylan's " Simple Twist of Fate ".

Though primarily an albums artist, several of Baez ' singles have charted and the first being her 1965 cover of Phil Ochs ' " There but for Fortune ", which became a mid-level chart hit in the U. S. and a top-ten single in the United Kingdom.

During and following Star Trek, Nimoy also released five albums of vocal recordings on Dot Records, including Trek-related songs such as " Highly Illogical ", and cover versions of popular tunes, such as " Proud Mary ".

Then Disc 2 of the album contains songs that have not been released officially on an album, or were rejected demos on prior albums, as well as an acoustic version of " A Certain Shade of Green ," and a cover of the Prince song " Let's Go Crazy.

Asia's set included only " An Extraordinary Life " from Phoenix, the rest of the songs coming from the first two albums plus one cover each from The Buggles (" Video Killed the Radio Star " with Wetton on lead vocals and Downes on vocoder ), King Crimson (" The Court of the Crimson King ", which was recorded by a previous incarnation of that band with Greg Lake on lead vocals ) and Emerson, Lake & Palmer (" Fanfare for the Common Man ").

Denver recorded two more albums in 1970, Take Me to Tomorrow and Whose Garden Was This, including a mix of songs he had written and cover versions of other artists ' compositions.

and issued re-released versions of the albums with new cover art and bonus tracks taken from singles and EPs.

Additionally, Elric and Stormbringer are featured on the cover art for all four albums.

To date, Overkill has released 16 studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums and an album of cover songs.

The reason for this was due to a union rule stating that either new artwork had to be made for overseas albums or the original cover was to be photographed.

The cover art of the album suggested the existence of a number of other Rutles albums including Tragical History Tour and Let It Rot.

Todd McFarlane is also the cartoonist responsible for the cover art of the albums Ten Thousand Fists, released in September 2005 and Indestructible, released June 2008 by metal band Disturbed, and the art in their single " Land of Confusion ", as well as that of metal band Iced Earth's 1996 Spawn-based concept album The Dark Saga and Korn's third studio album Follow the Leader, which was released in 1998.

All Cannibal Corpse albums up to ( and including ) Tomb of the Mutilated were banned upon release from being sold or displayed in Germany due to their graphic cover art and disturbing lyrics ; the band was also forbidden to play any songs from those albums while touring in Germany.

Many Lost Dogs albums include at least one or two cover songs.