The 1996 release Illadelph Halflife was the group's first album to break the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart, spurred in part by MTV's airplay of the video for " What They Do " ( a parody of rap video clichés ) and " Clones ", which was their first single to reach the top five on the rap charts.

* 1996: Illadelph Halflife

* Illadelph Halflife ( DGC / Geffen, 1996 )

!, Illadelph Halflife and Things Fall Apart ).

In addition to recording their own albums, they have toured with and sung background vocals for The Roots ( Illadelph Halflife, Things Fall Apart ; Martinez appeared on Game Theory ).

The studio album only had ten songs on it, but a future release included the five songs from the Halflife EP.

American releases append the Halflife EP to this album.

The first Halflife is a Marvel Comics supervillain.

The first Halflife is an extraterrestrial with the ability to age any living being, through touching, halfway to the point that he or she would eventually die of old age, through their full life span ( one would presume " remaining " lifespan, thus stealing half of their life ).

Often referred to in the book Dead on my Feet, part of the Halflife series by Wm.

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 ".

In October 1996, in support of Test For Echo, the band embarked on a North American tour, the band's first without an opening act and dubbed " An Evening with Rush ".

Wild Mood Swings, finally released in 1996, was poorly received compared with previous albums and marked the end of the band's commercial peak.

In the summer of 1996, Overkill appeared on Volume 2 of Century Media's " Legends Of Metal – A Tribute To Judas Priest " compilation, to which they contributed ' Tyrant ', heavily adapted to the band's own style.

The band's 1996 album Emperor Tomato Ketchup, their " high-water mark " according to critic Joshua Klein, was a critical success and underground hit.

In 1996 the Misfits Box Set was released, containing nearly all of the band's Danzig-era material recorded from 1977 to 1983 ( with the exception of Walk Among Us ).

The band's appearance on the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards fueled reunion speculation.

Come Find Yourself, the band's first album, was released in the summer of 1996 by Capitol Records and followed their single, " The Grave And The Constant " ( UK # 72 ), which was released a month earlier, into the UK Charts.

Despite the reported hiatus and Love's acting career, the band recorded and released a cover of Fleetwood Mac's " Gold Dust Woman " for The Crow: City of Angels ( 1996 ), the band's first studio song to feature Melissa Auf der Maur on bass.

The Kung Fu label had grown since its founding in 1996 and was well-positioned to provide the recording, marketing, and touring support the band's popularity now necessitated, including marketing and touring opportunities in Japan.

In 1996 K-tel released a CD called The Best of Mott the Hoople purporting to be re-recordings of the band's hits and new songs by Hunter and Ronson.

Because Kung Fu Records itself had been formed in 1996 and was at this point still a small label, the original pressing of the album was somewhat limited and it remained relatively obscure for several years ( the band's major studio albums at this time were being released by Nitro Records ).

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.

" Pro-Test ", the band's first music video since 1996, was rather different than any of their previous video work ( featuring a showdown between rival b-boys and goths breakdancing / krumping crews on a sidewalk in Los Angeles ).

Hester performed with Crowded House at the band's farewell concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in 1996.

Some of the tracks on Twinlights and Otherness were versions of songs from the band's eighth album, Milk and Kisses ( 1996 ).

The collection is a complete record of the band's appearances on UK radio programs from 1983 to 1996, with rare and unreleased material included.

The disc was remixed and remastered, with 4 bonus tracks from their 1996 demo tape added, and the album was repackaged with new artwork and a feature length DVD documentary about the band's early days.

The band's final album was Reject All American ( 1996 ).

Today, after the band's demise in 1985, and the death of Rio Reiser in 1996, Ton Steine Scherben have retained a cult following and popularity in the related scenes.

In autumn of 2004, Placebo's singles collection Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996 – 2004 was released ( on both CD and as a DVD featuring the band's videos ).

Much of the album anticipates the directions taken by Dio in his eponymous solo band's next two records, Strange Highways ( 1994 ) and Angry Machines ( 1996 ).

Widely acclaimed as the band's first break out album Ass Cobra ( 1996 ), Jello Biafra would later comment that it was one of the best punk albums of the ' 90s.

In the spring of 1996, he was contacted by Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley, who informed Van Zandt that he was interested in recording and releasing an album for him on the band's Ecstatic Peace label, funded by Geffen.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

The Grateful Dead released part of this concert as Volume 30 of the band's Dick's Picks concert album series.

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in 1964 in San Francisco, California, to Linda Carroll, now a psychotherapist, and Hank Harrison, a publisher who had some association with the Grateful Dead ; consequently, Love was included in a group picture on the back of the band's album Aoxomoxoa ( 1969 ).

In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.

" Machine Gun ", the instrumental title track from the band's debut album, became a staple at American sporting events, and is similarly featured in many films, including Boogie Nights and Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

At Capitol's behest, the band's name was changed to Crowded House, which alluded to the lack of space at the West Hollywood apartment they shared during the recording of the album Crowded House.

As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up.

The album was released in June 2010, in time for the band's appearance at the West Coast Blues & Roots Festival near Perth, Western Australia.

A new compilation album, The Very Very Best of Crowded House, was released in October 2010 to celebrate the band's 25th anniversary.

No mention of this album has been made on the band's official website or Twitter page, which suggests that they are not involved with its release.

Bassist Nick Seymour, who is also an artist, designed or co-designed all of the band's album covers and interior artwork.

The album was played as two continuous pieces of music on the two sides of the vinyl and produced the band's two biggest hit singles, " Kayleigh " and " Lavender ".

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 ".

Although it did not achieve the same levels of commercial success as the band's later releases ( it reached # 73 on the Billboard 200 ), it has been hailed by many fans and critics as Dream Theater's masterpiece and the band's defining album.

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

Also in 1979 Rhino Records released Devotees, a tribute album, containing a set of covers of the band's songs interspersed with renditions of popular songs in Devo's style.

After Wood's departure following the band's debut record, Lynne wrote and arranged all of the group's original compositions and produced every album.

For the band's fourth album, Eldorado, A Symphony, a concept album about a daydreamer, Lynne stopped overdubbing strings and hired an orchestra and choir instead.

The new logo appeared on most of the band's album covers in various forms.

It would be the band's final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT.