I’m mainly a dancer, but I’ve been offered to write songs on albums this year, and that’s really cool. I never thought I’d get to do that. It’s out of my comfort zone, but I loved having that input. It makes you feel more involved, when you have that creative control.
I’ve had a great luxury in my career in that I became a very successful songwriter, which made it unnecessary for me to have to just consistently crank out albums and run off on tour for the sake of supporting myself.
I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
I’ve established a certain voice over my albums. It can be an obstacle, but in the end, I think it’s a strength, because I can build upon that voice, which is ultimately very much mine.
I’m not really rocking with mixtapes no more. EPs and albums – that’s it.
There were times when I was just listening to albums for the hype of it. Some albums, I would just put it on in my car, and me and my friends would just drive, that we’d wild out to, get arrested to.
I wasn’t a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
I grew up with ‘best-of’ cassettes. My first Smiths record was ‘Hatful Of Hollow,’ and I had hits albums by Elton John and The Cars.
I put a lot in my mixtapes, but I definitely put a lot into my albums as well.
My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
I have always maintained that it’s not the quantity of work, but the quality that should speak. I have maintained the same for my music albums, too. I have always released them after a gap of two to three years.
Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.
In my solo work on my own albums, I have used voice synthesizers and vocoders quite a lot in connection with orchestral instruments.
I’ve made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I’ve made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I’m proud of what I’ve done. In fact it’s been a good ride.
I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it’s evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
I’ve tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.
I don’t know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like, 15, 16, I’ll probably have 10 albums out by that time.
Every week, I’m faced with, and aware of, 10-14 different reviewable albums that, in a perfect world, I’d be able to pop a review out of. But I’m just one person who, while maintaining my sanity, can only do 5-6 reviews per week.
Tactically, technically, physically, mentally he was the best. A lot of things that I learnt was from Pele’s sticker albums: how to head, how to shoot the ball. It was like a step-by-step guide. I learnt from Pele as a kid.
Our intent with Led Zeppelin was not to get caught up in the singles’ market, but to make albums where you could really flex your muscles – your musical intellect, if you like – and challenge yourself.
In albums like ‘What is Love’ and ‘TT,’ we were bright and full of energy.
I don’t know EDM artists or the albums. At first I thought it was all just one guy, some DJ called EDM.
People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‘How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?’ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.
I love bodies of work and albums and stuff like that.
One of my favorite albums is Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, ‘At the Gate of Horn.’ It was a really dynamic album, almost like The Beatles, and way before its time… around 1960 or so.
‘Love Letter’ is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album – and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album – it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
You got people that come in, one album, two albums, and they’re gone. A lot of people couldn’t take the break I took and come back into the game, and people be checking for them.
From when I was 18 I had an eight-album plan and I think I would love to make eight albums.
For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
Bands are actively seeking more film involvement – because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone.
I’ve made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It’s melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
I think it’s a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
The Pavarotti and Galway albums were a lot of fun because I got to work with two of the best ‘voices’ in the world.
Albums are great but for an artist like me, I don’t think albums are the way to go.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
I’ve done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I’m onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.
There is a conception about me that I am a playback singer and I sing for albums or for films only, but my roots are in bhajans. Even when I was in school, I used to win competitions for ghazals and bhajans.
I love ‘Treasure.’ It’s one of my favourite albums.
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.
When I was growing up on Loch Lomondside, one of the first albums I ever bought was Marley’s ‘Uprising.’ I guess that would have been 1980 – just before he died.
I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
I try to be careful to not just say it’s a greatest hits show because we’ve also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums.
Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
I don’t have too many plans filled out. I know I want to keep doing more music. I’ve got a couple of albums worth of songs I’d like to put it out there. As far as movies, I just want to continue how I’ve been doing it: working with terrific people is certainly on my agenda, and then doing stories that interest me.
Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one’s ever done that.
The Midwest isn’t somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
It’s arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn’t do any business and sold a million albums.
I really believe in albums, even though some people believe the year of the album has passed. I love singular pop songs or tracks, but what really affects me most deeply is if there’s an hour of music or 45 minutes of music that flows really well and tells a story.
But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It’s very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.
My kids don’t really buy albums. They buy singles.
Our business has changed so much. Do people even want albums, or do they just buy singles now? You sort of feel like you’re the last guy manufacturing VCRs… but I really like albums, and so I like doing them. I’ll be the last one making them, even when no one’s buying them.
I knew ‘Hurt’ way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, ‘Downward Spiral’ was one of my favorite albums.
I’ll say one of my all time favorite albums would have to be Willie Hutch, ‘The Mack.’
Somehow, German just vanished at some point. We already started at an early stage to translate our albums, and at some point, we started to write only in English.
When the ‘greats of all-time’ put out their first albums, it wasn’t a thousand features on it. And I’m one of the greats in my eyes.
It involved a lot of trust, but I love Bobby Harlow, and I loved the albums that he made.
I’ve gotten to meet Sara Bareilles a couple of times. I’m just a such a massive fan of hers, from her albums to ‘Waitress’ to everything that she does. To be a fan of somebody and then find out that they have a good heart and are kind is really heartwarming.
There have been albums I’ve recorded in the past that have had success, and then there have been ones I’ve had extreme faith in, and they ended up as commercial failures.
