Since the release of the band's self-titled debut album in March 1974, Rush has become known for its musicianship, complex compositions, and eclectic lyrical motifs drawing heavily on science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy.

** The Reformation ( album ), the band's 2011 self-titled debut album

The band's self-titled debut released in 1995.

They contributed two tracks to the influential Marty Thau Presents 2x5 compilation and their debut album, the self-titled Comateens, ( 1980 ) featured the band's bizarrely original compositions alongside covers of " Summer in the City " ( The Lovin ' Spoonful ), " TVC 15 " ( David Bowie ), and the theme song from TV's The Munsters.

" The band's self-titled sixth album Stone Temple Pilots was released on May 25, 2010, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

Particularly, the band Aerosmith was a large influence on the band collectively, with guitarist Dean DeLeo acknowledging the band's influence on songs such as " Huckleberry Crumble " off their self-titled record.

* The band Animal Logic recorded a song " Winds Of Santa Ana " appearing in the band's self-titled 1989 album.

" Their 1987 self-titled release was reviewed favorably by Rolling Stone magazine and produced " The Lust, the Flesh, the Eyes & the Pride of Life ," the band's biggest single to date.

The band's self-titled debut album hit the charts in 1969 and is widely credited as a catalyst for the heavy metal genre.

The band's self-titled album was recorded in the studio, which was built partly over a now defunct indoor swimming pool.

Following the mass success of the band's self-titled album, author Dick Porter wrote that the anticipation for a follow up was intense.

The band's self-titled debut album, Earth, Wind, Fire, was released in February 1971 to critical acclaim, as was November 1971's The Need of Love.

The band's self-titled debut album began selling copies again off of the success of Tragic Kingdom and reached total sales of over a quarter of a million copies.

re-issue, though reclaiming the original title of the band's debut LP, contained all of the same material as the previously issued 80 – 85 compilation, including their first EP, the Public Service EP ( with different versions of the songs Bad Religion, Slaves, and Drastic Actions than the self-titled EP ) and the " Back To The Known " EP.

However, a group shot of the band does appear on a poster in the background of both shots, bearing captions of the band and album name ( the same photograph previously appeared on the back cover of the band's self-titled album ).

The band's first official release was a self-titled vinyl record EP, now referred to as the Temptation EP.

Although their previous self-titled effort furthered dark themes and aggressive musicianship, Dogman marked a transitional point in the band's career with its considerably heavier sound than previous King's X records.

" Bell also contributed the song " Thought I Knew " to the band's 2008 self-titled album as well as " It's Easy ," an iTunes exclusive demo that serves as a bonus track to that album.

He is bandleader Gary Numan's uncle, and played on the band's self-titled debut album and on the highly successful Replicas, which featured the hit " Are ' Friends ' Electric ?".

The band's self-titled debut album was released on February 21, 2006, by Pinkett Smith's production company 100 % Women.

An early example of this is the song " Anthem " from the album The Book of Taliesyn ( 1968 ), but a more prominent example is the song " April " from the band's self-titled third album ( 1969 ).

Their second release, the Glimpse EP, came in 2000, and another EP, 2001's self-titled Trapt, served as the band's demo.

He has worked with 30 Seconds to Mars for the band's self-titled debut album.

" Straight Edge ," a song from the band's first EP, helped to inspire the straight edge movement.

In the time between the release of the band's second seven-inch EP and the Out of Step record, the band briefly split when guitarist Lyle Preslar moved to Illinois to attend college for a semester at Northwestern University, Preslar was a member of Big Black for a few tempestuous rehearsals.

MacKaye was allegedly skipping practice sessions towards the end of the band's career, and he wrote the lyrics to the songs on the Salad Days EP in the studio.

Upon signing with 4AD, eight tracks from the Purple Tape were selected for the Come On Pilgrim EP, the band's first release.

Meanwhile, in 2002 material from the band's original 17-track demo tape was released as an EP, Pixies, on Cooking Vinyl in the U. K. and SpinArt Records in the U. S .; Frank Black has also used these labels to release solo work and albums with The Catholics.

The band's first major-label release was 1997's six-track EP titled Enjoy Incubus, and was necessarily created so the band could represent a recording while touring with Korn in Europe.

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.

The band released their debut and best known single " 100, 000 Fireflies " in 1991, which was typical of the band's earlier career characterized by synthesized instrumentation by Merritt with lead vocals provided by Susan Anway ( and then by Stephin Merritt himself from The House of Tomorrow EP onwards ).

The band's first EP, To Mother, was composed of outtakes from Spanking Machine and was released in 1991 and received critical acclaim entering the independent charts and staying there for a thirteen weeks, ten of which the EP held the number one spot.

Though Wilson was present for the Dutch recordings, he yielded to his bibulous tendencies ( primarily hashish and hard cider ) and rarely participated, confining himself to work on " Funky Pretty " ( a collaboration with Mike Love and the band's manager, Jack Rieley ), a one-line sung intro to Al Jardine's " California Saga: California ", and " Mount Vernon and Fairway ( A Fairy Tale )", a children's narrative suite musically inspired by Randy Newman's Sail Away that was promptly rejected by the band ; eventually, Carl Wilson capitulated and ensured that the suite would be released as a bonus EP with the album.

This EP was briefly available on the band's official website but sold out shortly after it was put up for sale.

The band's last release of 2011 was a 12 " EP collaboration with Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band to be sold only at the band's annual New Years shows in Oklahoma City.

This album was followed by Love of Life ( recorded by Martin Bisi in 1992 ), and the EP single Love of Life / Amnesia, taking the group even farther into experimentation, and then The Great Annihilator ( 1995 ), considered to be one of the band's most accessible releases, possibly through being their most straightforward.

They released an EP My Dear Machine on the website NoiseTrade in 2008, the band's first official release since The Best of Sixpence None the Richer in 2004.

Hanson also released a five-song EP titled Stand Up, Stand Up that was available at shows and on the band's official website.

The band's next record was Sunny Sundae Smile, an EP released in March 1987 by Lazy Records, a label set up by The Primitives with their manager Wayne Morris.

Released as the EP You Made Me Realise, the release was the band's first to be largely well received by critics.

The material was released in the United Kingdom on 8 December 1967 as a six-track double EP on the Parlophone label ; in the United States the record, released on 27 November 1967, was an eleven-track LP created by Capitol Records, adding the band's 1967 single releases.

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.

Also in 1987, Jonathan Poneman provided $ 20, 000 in funding for Sub Pop to release the debut Soundgarden single " Hunted Down "/" Nothing to Say " in July 1987, followed by the band's first EP Screaming Life that October.

The album failed to live up to the expectations, commercial and otherwise, set by the band's previous releases, Spreading the Disease, Among the Living and the I'm the Man EP.