Album Quotes
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Dancing to the first album was more of a constant flow, the music was similarly paced, with much the same tempo all the way through the set. Myself and Keith tended to alternate on stage, and the performance was much more dance-based than theatrical. With the second album, Jilted, things got harder and the stage show became a lot more full-on. Each one of us had developed into identifiable personality on stage, and with that cam the theatrics, Keith in a strait-jacket, in the glass box, or the ball. Then we realised that we didn't need that, that we have a great live show without those dramatic extras. For example, Keith is now a compelling performer in his own right, he doesn't need the tricks.
Leeroy Thornhill
The Prodigy
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The main thing with my shows is that I'm professional but not highly polished. I don't like people to think they're just seeing an album in person.
Murray Head
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We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like we ever have an idea before we start - that would be too artificial. It all starts from just sitting in a room and playing.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
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'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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I'm just going to do music and when I feel like I've gotten enough music to put an album together then that's when I'm going to do it.
Ahmad Balshe
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There seems to be something pure in pulling from a place in time that's "innocent" and untouched by outward opinion. I wanted this album to have threads of my past to enrich the topics I wanted to address about aging.
Brooke Waggoner
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The vocal parts are really interesting because it's the first album that we - as a band - haven't been aware of what Thom's singing about. He didn't talk about his lyrics.
Ed O'Brien
Radiohead
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We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.
Robby Krieger
The Doors
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"
Bob Brookmeyer
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It made my career. I mean I'd had a few charted songs before, but when Urban Cowboy came out, hell, I got my first gold record, my first gold album, got a triple platinum album, a platinum album... It catapulted my career to what it has been for the last 35 years.
Johnny Lee
