Thom Yorke - The Eraser

The Eraser is the debut solo album by Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke, released on 10 July 2006. The album debuted at #3 on the UK Albums Chart and at #2 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, selling over 90,000 copies in its first week. Critical reception to the album was generally positive. The Eraser was nominated for both the Mercury Music Prize and the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2007.

The song 'Analyse' is featured in the ending credits of the film, The Prestige.

The Eraser was produced, arranged and engineered by Nigel Godrich. The title track, "The Eraser" was co-written with Radiohead memberJonny Greenwood, and is based on piano chords (namely C6/9 and D6/9). Yorke revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone, that the piano parts played by Greenwood were recorded on a dictaphone at his house; "A year and a half later, I had to own up that I had sampled them, cut them into a different order and made them into a song [laughs]. Is that all right? Sorry, Jonny

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Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night

We Are the Night is the sixth studio album by English electronica duo The Chemical Brothers, first released on 27 June 2007. The record entered the UK Albums Chart at #1. It also debuted at #65 on the Billboard 200. It was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry

The album won the Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 50th Grammy Awards, making The Chemical Brothers the only artist to win this award more than once.

Used throughout the album is the nostalgic technique of sampling old sounds The Chemical Brothers used on other albums. For example the song "We Are the Night" uses a direct sample from "The Sunshine Underground" from Surrender.

The album also includes samples of outside sources. The title track "We Are the Night" incorporates samples from "Decimazione Amanti" byRiz Ortolani and a reading of Ode to D.A. Levy by Bill Bissett.[6] "A Modern Midnight's Conversation" uses a sample from Barbara & Ernie's recording of "Listen to Your Heart".

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John Cougar (John Mellencamp) - American Fool

American Fool is the sixth album by John Mellencamp, released under the stage name John Cougar in 1982. This was Mellencamp's last album to be released under the name John Cougar. His next album, Uh-Huh, would be released under the name John Cougar Mellencamp. According to a 1983 article in the Toledo Blade, the song "Danger List" originated when Mellencamp heard his guitarist Larry Crane playing some chords in a basement rehearsal room. "I turned on the tape recorder and sang 30 verses," Mellencamp explained. "I just made them up. Then I went and weeded out the ones I didn't like."

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Feist - Let It Die

Let It Die is the second album by Canadian singer-songwriter Feist. It was recorded in Paris during 2002 and 2003 and released in 2004. The album is considered a combination of jazz, bossa nova and indie rock.

Let It Die was welcomed as one of the best Canadian pop albums of 2004, and collected three Juno Award nominations in 2005 —winning Best Alternative Album and Best New Artist. Let It Die was nominated once again in the 2006 Juno Awards; this time for "Inside and Out" asSingle of the Year.

Let It Die has attracted a significant international audience. The album was originally divided into original compositions on the first half andcover versions on the second, though a reissue later in 2004 added a further original composition as the penultimate track.

The single "Mushaboom" is a pun on sh-boom as a refrain, and the Mushaboom, the Canadian coastal community east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the province where Feist was born. The song was used in a Lacoste commercial.

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Backstreet Boys - This Is Us

Backstreet Boys - This Is Us

Año: 2009

Genero: Pop

This Is Us is the seventh studio album from American pop band Backstreet Boys. It is their second album since becoming a four-piece band and was released on September 30, 2009^[1] in Japan through Sony Music Japan, October 5, 2009 in the UK through RCA, and October 6 in the US through Jive Records.

On the album, the group have reunited with previous collaborator and producer Max Martin (responsible for the previous hit "I Want It That Way") to try and create their best record since their 1999 worldwide smash hit album Millennium.^[2] They worked with Ryan Tedder, Claude Kelly, Jim Jonsin and T-Pain amongst others for the album as well.^[3]

The album debuted at number 9 on the US Billboard 200 making the boyband the first group since Sade to have their first seven albums reach top 10 on the chart.^[4] RedOne produced the album's lead single "Straight Through My Heart" was released in August/September 2009 and reached number 1 in Taiwan, number 3 in Japan, 19 in Canada, 72 in the UK, and 18 on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

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Backstreet Boys - Unbreakable

Backstreet Boys - Unbreakable

Año: 2007

Genero: Pop

In July 2007, it was announced that the Backstreet Boys would release a new album on October 30, 2007,^[2] their first album of new material in two years. Rumoured titles of the album included End to Beginning^[3] and Motivation before Brian Littrell and A.J. McLean confirmed on August 13, 2007 that the title of the album would be Unbreakable. Producers include Dan Muckala, who produced the band's 2005 hit single "Incomplete", and Rob Wells.^[2] It is the first Backstreet Boys album that former member Kevin Richardson is not involved in, as he had left the group in June the previous year.^[4]

In an interview with INROCK magazine, Brian Littrell said the album would include various music styles, combining their earlier late-1990s sound with their more recent guitar-driven pop rock sound.^[5] The Boys themselves co-wrote five tracks on this album (including "Intro").

On October 2, 2007, the tracks, "Unmistakable" and "Something That I Already Know" were released on Promosquad and RateTheMusic. The next day, a Japanese radio station leaked the intro of the album, along with the track, "Everything But Mine".

The closing track of the album, "Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon", is broken into two different parts. The first part leads off the album, and is a one minute a cappella version of the chorus, listed as "Intro" on the record. The second part closes out the album, and is about three and half minutes in length. Commencing with only a piano, the song then adds a live drum beat and orchestral instruments, followed by an electric guitar solo and atmospheric harmonies. All four members co-wrote the song and hailed it as the best song in the album.

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Backstreet Boys- Never Gone

Backstreet Boys - Never Gone

Año: 2005

Genero: Pop

Never Gone was the eagerly awaited comeback album by US vocal group Backstreet Boys. Originally to be released in 2004, the release date was pushed back to June 14, 2005 for unknown reasons. The album varies musically from their previous albums, with a rock sound to the album. Unlike previous albums, the album featured only live instruments.

The album's first single is "Incomplete", and is followed by "Just Want You To Know". The third single worldwide is "I Still...". Other songs are "Weird World", "Beautiful Woman" and "Climbing The Walls". Never Gone has been certified as a platinum record in the U.S. It sold 293,000 copies during its first week of availability, and debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200. In Japan, it sold 528,000 copies and was second biggest western artist's album for 2005.

Never Gone was also released as a DualDisc. The DualDisc version features the music video for "Incomplete" and a short documentary showing the making of the video. It was also released in a CD and DVD double-disc edition.

This is the final album that former member Kevin Richardson had involvement in, as one year after this album came out, he left to pursue other interests.

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