It reflects on the story, as two friends-who seem to be at the top-drift away from each other and begin to despise each other, mirroring the bandmates ' turbulent relationship and eventual splitting of the band shortly after the album's release.

During the album's pre-production, Gabriel was contacted by filmmaker William Friedkin ( at the time enjoying success with The Exorcist ), about a possible film project after Friedkin read Gabriel's short story on the sleeve of the Genesis Live album.

The widespread story regarding the origin of the album's title, that the truck involved in Duane's fatal motorcycle accident was a peach truck, is not correct ; the truck involved was a flatbed lumber truck.

The songs tell the story of a character that Jon created, called Set Abominae, who also appears on the album's front cover.

The band found it harder to consolidate on their previous successes in the US, however, and lost out on more airplay at home when their record company took the decision to withdraw the album's planned third single Medicine in September 1997, putting out an entirely false press story that the lyrics could be interpreted as a critique of the then recently deceased Diana, Princess of Wales.

The title's meaning as well as the album's concept is based on there being " three sides to every story ", representing " He, She, and They ".

The album's cover showed a four-member group and its liner notes contained an elaborate back story, penned by Christian, which posited one Ritchie Burns as the founder and leader of the band.

The album's story casts Del in the role of Deltron Zero, a disillusioned mech soldier and interplanetary computer prodigy rebelling against a 31st century New World Order.

As with other songs on The Wall, " Empty Spaces " tells a segment of the story of Pink, the album's protagonist.

This album's working title was ' Ezekial's Wheel ', after the Biblical story that may or may not reference an early visitation by UFOs.

" The Thin Ice " can be seen as the introduction to his story, since the previous song, the album's opening track " In The Flesh?

" is chronologically placed later in the album's narrative, and then the story is begun via flashback.

As with the other songs on The Wall, " Goodbye Cruel World " tells a segment of the story of Pink, the album's protagonist.

The album's inner sleeve recounts this story.

" PopMatters called it " as riveting and moving as everyone says it is " and it " may be the album's most startling personal horror story ( though it's also a song of hope and gratitude )".

Although the album's story line involves the adventures of a paraplegic boy in Tsarist Russia, Dailor told Metal Hammer that many of the songs are fantasy narratives involving him saving his sister from death.

The album's thematic structure revolved around their lives as adolescents in Belleville ; examples are songs about wanting to avoid factory work and songs about fearing a potential Persian Gulf War military draft.

The album, and cover were influenced by popular disaster movies around the time of the album's release in 1998, primarily Armageddon and Deep Impact.

Cam ' ron announced that the Diplomat album's release will take place around Christmas 2010.

" Santa Claus Is Watching You " is a re-recording of Stevens ' 1960's pop single and was re-issued as a country single around the time of the album's release and was made into a popular music video.

The album's lyrics centered around comedic material and boasting.

The album's name and lyrical concept were revealed on January 29, 2011 in an interview by DJ JC Green of Metal Messiah Radio's " Heavy Metal Thunder " show with Russell Allen: the follow-up to Paradise Lost will be titled Iconoclast and will have its lyrics centered around " machines taking over everything and all this technology we put our society into pretty much being our demise.

Despite the album's poor sound quality and virtually inexistent label promotion, it created enough controversy around the group to allow them get signed by Cat Music, one of the largest Romanian record labels, paving their way to national superstardom.

The album's themes revolve around death and judgement, and reveal that the fate determined by the Riddle Box can be found by looking deep within yourself, and can be changed with righteous actions.

Borland contributed the other half of the album's title when the band was standing around at a truck stop, looking at bottles of flavored water, and Borland joked that the truck stop didn't have hot dog or meat-flavored water.

In April 2010, Billy Corgan commented on the album's reception, stating that: " I think the fan response at the time was very positive, as the fans who were around at the time seemed to like Machina II better than Machina I.

However, the popularity of glam metal was on a decline around the time of the album's release due to the rising popularity of the alternative rock / grunge movement.

Kimball had recorded vocals for some of the album's tracks prior to his termination ; sources differ on how many-Kimball says most of the album, whereas David Paich and Steve Lukather say around 3 or 4 songs.

The album's sales have been driven not only by its popularity with Hawaiian audiences but by its popularity in the mainland United States and around the world, particularly the track " Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World ," which has been licensed for use in movies ( Finding Forrester, Meet Joe Black, 50 First Dates, Fred Claus, Hubble 3D, Son of the Mask ) television shows ( ER, Cold Case, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Life On Mars, Glee ), and commercials ( eToys ).

Following the album's release, Fleshcrawl played a few shows around central Europe with bands such as Carnal Forge, Dismember, Enslaved, and Jungle Rot, and also played several metal festivals including the Protzen and Queens of Metal Open Air festivals.

Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, a friend and former bandmate of Scott's, joined Failure around the time of the album's release.

The album's cover features three scantily-clad versions of RuPaul, and the back cover features her legs with panties around the ankles ; these are the " three ho's ".

Keyboardist Darren Wharton also quit around the time of this album's release.

His fifth album, In ogni senso ( In Every Sense ), released in April 1990, attracted more than two hundred journalists from around the world to the album's press conference launch in Venice.

The album's themes revolve almost exclusively around the trials and tribulations of success in Hollywood, California ; a theme which had previously been explored in the band's single " Fallen Angel " from their second album Open Up And Say ... Ahh !.

The album also dabbles with New Wave, a genre that was emerging in Britain around the time of the album's recording.

Their second album, 2005's 2nd W, released not even ten months after their first album, contained an even balance of new W originals and more Showa period classic J-pop cover songs, many of them topically centering around the end of the duo's teenage years ( Kago turned 17 a month before the album's release ; Tsuji would turn 18 that June ).

Reviewing the album's double CD incarnation for Allmusic, Sean Westergaard wrote, " Frank Zappa [...] was one of the finest and most underappreciated guitarists around.

The album's structure was based around the concept of the musical octave.

He explains the album's concept in its liner notes: " The album is based around my interpretations of the musical characteristics of the wives of Henry VIII.

The album's original songs were the result of a very productive songwriting partnership between Parsons and Hillman, who were sharing a bachelor pad in LA during this period.

The announcement of the album's release included a press photo featuring the phrase " British Image 1 " spraypainted behind the band ( who were dressed in a mixture of mod and skinhead attire ) and a mastiff-breed dog.

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 ).

Despite the album's official title, which emphasised group identity, studio efforts on The Beatles captured the work of four increasingly individualised artists who frequently found themselves at odds.

The album's sleeve was designed by Richard Hamilton, a notable pop artist who had organised a Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Tate Gallery the previous year.

* The New Rolling Stone Album Guide praises the album but maintains that it has " loads of self-indulgent filler ," identifying " Revolution # 9 " in particular as " justly maligned ," and suggests that listeners in the CD era, who can program digital players to skip over unwanted tracks, may have an advantage over the album's original audience.

Wilson, who had recorded the album's instrumentation with The Wrecking Crew, then gathered with The Beach Boys to record vocal overdubs, following their return from a tour of Japan.

Adrian Utley, who co-produced the album with Portishead ( and who played on 9 of the tracks and co-wrote 8 ), became an official band member shortly after the album's release.

Mizuguchi would write all of the album's lyrics and contribute melodic ideas to Tami, who would them work on the tracks in the studio.

Young, Stills and Furay would all record demos for the album, but Greene and Stone, who had installed themselves as the album's producers, deemed Young's voice " too weird " and assigned lead vocals on the majority of Young's songs to Furay.

The use of a DJ for two of the album's tracks, the first single " Extra Ordinary " and " Recognize ," marked a departure for the band, who hadn't previously employed a DJ before.

The Vandals maintained a close friendship with fellow Orange County band No Doubt, who covered the album's title track " Oi to the World " for a Christmas compilation in 1997.

Biscuits was replaced by Joey Castillo, who made his first public appearance as a member of Danzig at an in-store signing the day of the fourth album's release.

Original guitarist Mark Kanabrocki, who had written most of the first album's songs, left the band before it was recorded and appears only on the record release issued from CBGB called Off the Board.

The " Voices Carry " single peaked at number eight on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, and is said to have been inspired by an argument between Mann and Hausman, who had broken off a relationship before the album's release.

Justin Ferreira ( who replaced De La Garza ) was on drums for the recording, but left before the album's release to join the Orange County band Takota and subsequently is listed as an additional musician on the CD.

Their 1981 album High ' n ' Dry was produced by Robert John " Mutt " Lange, who helped them begin to define their style, and the album's stand out track " Bringin ' On the Heartbreak " became one of the first metal videos played on MTV in 1982.

The Ultimate Sin is the first and only Osbourne album to feature bassist Phil Soussan ( who wrote the album's U. S. hit single " Shot in the Dark ") and the first to feature drummer Randy Castillo, who had previously played in Lita Ford's band.

The album's title track portrays a Vietnam veteran who turns into a drug dealer.

With the album's critical acclaim and their steady touring, the band attained a cult following and was courted by several major labels who wanted to sign them.