Just the fact that that Europe album 'The Final Countdown' came out in 1986 and 'Rad' came out in 1986... I'm starting to think that maybe 1986 is my favorite year, of all time!
'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.
For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.
By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.
I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.
I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.
The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.
The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.
I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.
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