1: The Miracle and the Sleeper ", which was released on the band's 1992 breakthrough album, Images and Words, and is followed by the 2005 album " Octavarium ".

The band's American breakthrough came with the third album, Travelling Without Moving in 1996, which yielded two big hits, " Virtual Insanity " and " Cosmic Girl ".

1983 saw the release of Speaking in Tongues, a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's only American Top 10 hit, " Burning Down the House ".

The Beach Boys are probably the best example of this trend-within two years of the band's commercial breakthrough, group leader Brian Wilson had taken over from his father Murry, and he was sole producer of all their recordings between 1963 and 1967.

The band's breakthrough single " Sex Type Thing " polarized critics with its lyrics, some interpreting it as advocacy of date rape.

After the Kinks obtained a recording contract in early 1964, Davies emerged as the chief songwriter and de facto leader of the band, especially after the band's breakthrough success with his early composition " You Really Got Me ", which was released as the band's third single in August of that year.

" Fire Water Burn " played a major role in the slow build of interest that ultimately led to the band's mainstream breakthrough.

The band's commercial breakthrough was the 1997 album Urban Hymns, one of the best-selling albums in UK Chart history, and the single " Bitter Sweet Symphony ", which became a worldwide hit.

Daltrey's Townshend-inspired stuttering expression of youthful anger, frustration and arrogance in the band's breakthrough single, " My Generation ", captured the revolutionary feeling of the 1960s for many young people around the world and became the band's trademark.

" Allmusic editor Jason Ankeny viewed the album as the band's artistic breakthrough and " ticket to the big leagues ", calling it " an incendiary and insidious set which bridges the gap between the noisy aggression of the band's early releases and the soulful swagger of their later work.

The band's breakthrough success, At Fillmore East was released in July 1971.

With the breakthrough of alternative rock in the early 1990s, In on the Kill Taker ; released on June 30, 1993, became the group's first record to enter the Billboard album charts, received critical praise from Spin, TIME magazine and Rolling Stone, sold 180, 000 copies in its first week of release and subsequently became the band's breakthrough album.

Superunknown became the band's breakthrough album.

The 1997 album, The Lonesome Crowded West, ( also recorded at Moon Studios, by Scott Swayze ) turned out to serve as the band's breakthrough.

The album marked the first of many times the band worked with engineer Terry Manning which proved a successful combination as the release was the band's first commercial breakthrough.

Two more albums – Invitations and Out of This World – were recorded in 1982 and 1983, resulting in several more chart hits, and paving the way for the next major breakthrough in the band's career.

By 1992 the band's success in Japan made an international breakthrough appear likely, leading to an American record contract with Atlantic Records and the renaming of the band from X to X Japan, in order to distinguish from the American punk group X.

This album is considered the band's commercial breakthrough.

Its first single, " One Week " became the band's breakthrough single in the U. S. market by hitting # 1 ( selling over 5 million copies ).

Released in 2005, A Beautiful Lie was the band's mainstream breakthrough.

Co-writer Billy Steinberg came up with the title after Susanna Hoffs told him about the band's visit to Graceland, Elvis Presley's estate in Memphis, Tennessee.

" Uncle Willie ", former Residents fan club president, wrote in his book Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide to The Residents that, while searching through the band's archives, he came across " a suite named ' The Ballad of Stuffed Trigger '," but not a complete album.

The 1979 double album Tusk produced three more US top-20 hits (" Tusk ", which is also the band's first " conceptual " music video, " Sara ", and Christine's " Think About Me "), but it came nowhere near to matching the success of the Rumours album.

Goldkette recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company, whose musical director, Eddie King, objected to Beiderbecke's hot-jazz style of soloing ; it wasn't copacetic with the commercial obligations that came with the band's recording contract.

The band's drummer Roger Taylor commented ; " We never thought we would tour again, Paul came along by chance and we seemed to have a chemistry.

He is credited for the initial discovery of the sequencer technique, introduced on Phaedra, that came to define the band's music.

Phaedra was one of the first commercial albums to feature sequencers and came to define much more than just the band's own sound.

Turner came up with the introduction and first verse, the band collaborated on the rest with Brenston, the band's saxophonist, on vocals.

A minor controversy came to light when Paul Leary of the Butthole Surfers revealed on Marcy Playground's website forum that the cover art for Shapeshifter had originally been conceptualized and commissioned by Leary for his band's aborted After the Astronaut album.

The band's first release came in 1999 with the Natural Compression EP, which had been recorded at Marmalade Studios in Wellington, with friend and Shihad drummer Tom Larkin producing.

", finally came out in January 1984, however the band's line-up had disintegrated a couple of months earlier.

Next came the band's 1987 release Into The Woods, which Been referred to as his favorite album.

Tensions came to a head and Danzig announced to the audience that it would be the band's final show.

" Additionally, Love cited a conversation with her mother as being the primary inspiration for the band's name: " the name came from my mom.

This came to a head in 1991 when during an interview with Steve Lamacq, Richey Edwards would confirm the band's position by carving " 4real " into his arm with a razor blade.

The band's first big break came in 1996 when Kris attended a show at the club Bogart's in Cincinnati, where Jasin passed one of the band's demo tapes to a roadie from the band.

With the band's newfound fame and success came numerous problems.

It was during this time that the band's trademark plaid clothing came to be.

The band's full length debut, Sunburn, came out in 1998.

The band's strongest commercial success came between the early 1980s and the early 1990s.

In the 90s, the meteoric rise of Mamonas Assassinas, which sold more than 3 million copies of its only CD ( a record, by Brazilian standards ) came to a tragic end when the band's plane crashed, killing all five members of the band, the pilot and the co-pilot.

The band's name came from the cover of the Grateful Dead's album From the Mars Hotel.