History FanonDiscontinuity / Music

* While most Music/TheRollingStones fans agree everything up to 1972's ''Music/ExileOnMainSt'' is essential (save for maybe two exceptions, see below) it gets messy after that. The band's no-frills blues rock was rapidly going out of style on top-40 radio in the mid-'70s (replaced by the rise of flashy, highly-produced studio rock and the emerging disco genre), leaving them in a precarious place. Not sure what to do, they played it safe by continuing their usual sound with the subsequent albums ''Music/GoatsHeadSoup'' and ''Music/ItsOnlyRockNRoll''. While both hit #1 on the Billboard 200, none of the singles made the top 10 (save for the out-of-character ballad "Angie" from the former), shocking compared to their previous decade of success. It was then they started pivoting towards a more top-40 friendly sound, and the discontinuity begins. The fans fall like this:
** ''Goats'' and ''Only'' mark the end of the Stones as a great rock band; they are mediocre filler albums where the band spins its wheels and goes nowhere. They never recovered.
** ''Goats'' and ''Only'' are worthy, if a bit boring, additions to the Stones catalogue, but nothing after that because they leaned into pop pandering.
** 1976's ''Music/BlackAndBlue'' was a successful display of radio accessibility without sacrificing their usual sound. They sold out after that.
** They must have been doing ''somethng'' right with 1978's ''Music/SomeGirls'', because it netted their last #1 hit, "Miss You", and hey, it's catchy! This was their last album with credibility.

** 1981's ''Music/TattooYou'' is the last album where they ''tried'' to keep true to their roots, at least on a few tracks. It's all downhill from here.
** After that much smaller subsets come in. Some will accept the more-reviled stuff between ''Tattoo'' and 1989's ''Music/SteelWheels''. But fans willing to defend anything post-''Wheels'' are hard to find, save for some love to singles like "Anybody Seen My Baby?", "Don't Stop", and "Doom and Gloom".

** ''Goats'' and ''Only'' are just the band spinning its wheels and they never recovered.
** ''Goats'' and ''Only'' are worthy additions to the Stones catalogue, but nothing after that.
** 1976's ''Music/BlackAndBlue'' was a successful fusion of their usual sound and more radio-acessible stuff. They sold out after that.

** 1981's ''Music/TattooYou'' is the last truly "good" album, even though it's seen as inferior to everything before it.
** After that much smaller subsets come in. Some will accept the more-reviled stuff between ''Tattoo'' and up to 1989's ''Music/SteelWheels''. But fans willing to defend anything post-''Wheels'' are hard to find, save for some love to singles like "Anybody Seen My Baby?", "Don't Stop", and "Doom and Gloom"

* Some fans of Music/TheRollingStones ignore their misguided flings with psychedelia, ''Music/BetweenTheButtons'' (except for Music/FrankZappa) and ''Music/TheirSatanicMajestiesRequest''.
** Depending on how they feel about the band "selling out" for more Top 40-adjacent material, others accept everything up to either ''Music/BlackAndBlue'' (their first "radio-friendly" album), ''Music/SomeGirls'' (that netted their last #1 hit, "Miss You"), ''Music/EmotionalRescue'' (that is regarded as a continuation of ''Some Girls''), or ''Music/TattooYou'' (which many think is the last truly "great" Stones album). It's a much smaller subset, but others will accept the more-reviled stuff between ''Tattoo'' and up to ''Music/SteelWheels''. But everyone, even their staunchest supporters, agree that TheNineties and after were not kind to them and overlook anything post-'89.

* Most fans of Music/TheRollingStones ignore ''Music/BetweenTheButtons'' (except for Music/FrankZappa) and ''Music/TheirSatanicMajestiesRequest''. Others stop after ''Music/SteelWheels''.

* For some Music/KateBush fans, her second album was ''Never For Ever'', having only released a single called "Wow" between ''The Kick Inside'' and the aforementioned album. And "Wow" ''certainly'' didn't come from any album called ''Lion Heart''.

* Whenever a ProgressiveRock group releases an album that is more "commercial" and less "progressive," there are always legions of progressive rock fans to deny its existence. Examples include [[Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer ELP's]] ''Love Beach'', anything by Music/{{Genesis}} after ''Duke'', Music/{{Yes}}'s entire Music/TrevorRabin era, and any Music/GentleGiant studio album released after ''Interview''.
** With Music/{{Genesis}}, some fans go even further and deny everything after ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'', the last album with Music/PeterGabriel. Some are a little more generous and include ''Music/ATrickOfTheTail'' and ''Music/WindAndWuthering'' in the list of accepted albums, since the band still had Music/SteveHackett, and the music, stylistically, wasn't too different from their previous albums. In contrast, some fans refuse to acknowledge ''Calling All Stations'', the one album the band released after Music/PhilCollins left the band. In a sense, the band itself kind of does this, as [[CanonDiscontinuity they didn't include any songs from that album]] on their recent reunion tour.

* Music/BlackSabbath -- where to begin? Only the Ozzy albums exist, only the Dio albums exist, only the Ozzy and Dio albums exist, only the albums with Geezer on bass (which includes all the Dio and Ozzy plus a couple of others). Or everything but ''Never Say Die'', ''Technical Ecstasy'' (which [[OldShame never happened]]), ''Seventh Star'' (which was only ever intended to be an Iommi solo album, and sounds nothing like Sabbath, but the studio [[ExecutiveMeddling strong-armed]] him into using the more recognizable name), and ''Forbidden'' (which presents the already highly controversial [[ReplacementScrappy Tony Martin]]-fronted version of the band at their absolute worst). Also, some include the ''Devil You Know'' album by "Heaven & Hell" to be part of the Black Sabbath discography. (''Music/{{Paranoid}}'' obviously exists, but the cover art, which was hated by everyone [[ExecutiveMeddling including the band]] from day one, does not.)

* According to a lot of old-school electronic music aficionados, Music/TangerineDream have only ever made four studio albums: ''Phaedra'', ''Rubycon'', ''Stratosfear'' and the ''Film/{{Sorcerer}}'' soundtrack. These are [[NoTrueScotsman their only true]] Berlin School/Kosmische Musik albums.[[note]]Up until ''Atem'', they were a {{krautrock}} band like so many others. On their next album, ''Cyclone'', they committed the utterly heretical atrocities of including vocals with lyrics and, even worse, ''composing'' their music, i.e. doing some planning ahead instead of just improvising into the blue. They essentially turned into a pop group.[[/note]]

*** There are a good many fans of Music/JohnLennon's solo career who outright deny the existence of his musical collaboration with Music/YokoOno. Their first three joint albums, ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo1TwoVirgins'', ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo2LifeWithTheLions'' and ''Music/WeddingAlbum'' are experimental AvantGardeMusic, NoiseRock and LeaveTheCameraRunning recordings that are downright unlistenable more than once for the most part. The only one of their albums that is usually acknowledged is ''Music/DoubleFantasy'', but that might only be due to the fact that it was the last album Lennon recorded before his death. It could probably go without saying that almost everyone has tried to repress the memory of a certain woman standing next to him, shrieking. To many people the phrase Music/YokoOno is "nothing but gibberish I can't hear you Lalalalala". And when you hear her OneWomanWail, it's not hard to discern her as attention seeking noise pollution.

** Some Music/IronMaiden fans tend to consider anything produced by the band ''without'' Music/BruceDickinson fronting the band to be sub-par, although most do recognize Paul [=Di'Anno=]'s work on the first two albums.

* Many fans of Music/{{Metallica}} insist that they released nothing after that bus crash. Others say that their recording career ended immediately before the Black Album, or immediately after it. The tiny fraction of fans left insist that they went on to make four more albums after this, but when faced with a copy of ''St. Anger'' (or, God forbid, ''Lulu''), go into violent conniptions.
** And another small group of Metallica fans pretends that there was an eleven-year period where they didn't record any new studio albums: specifically, the eleven years between ''[=ReLoad=]'' and ''Death Magnetic''. All they did during that time was get a new bassist and put out a live CD and a cover album. Do not tell them otherwise.
*** It's actually faster to note the number of albums that AREN'T considered CanonDisContinuity by any number of fans, right down to the people who thought ''Music/RideTheLightning'' of all albums was selling out because of "Fade to Black".

* According to many Music/{{Oasis}} fans, they only recorded two albums, "[[Music/BeHereNow Don't Go Away]]" was a stand-alone single, and they were on a reunion tour at the time they broke up in 2009. This is especially in regards to ''Be Here Now'' (even if certain reviewers consider that, beyond the overblown production, there are standout tracks, such as the aforementioned "Don't Go Away," the one song on the album that was universally praised by critics). An example of this was when a survey was done asking 100 fans which twenty songs should appear on the "best of" compilation album, there were ''no songs'' (even obvious choices) that featured on everyone's list. No songs from ''Be Here Now'' appeared on ''Stop the Clocks'' (the aforementioned "best of" collection) anyway, not even "Don't Go Away".

* Gogol Bordello seem to have disowned their first two albums, Voi-La Intruder and Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony because they hadn't really "found their sound" until Gypsy Punks (album number three). Which is too bad, 'cause those first two albums are still pretty good.

* Music/SimpleMinds: It is pretty accurate to say that most fans ignore the band's two CoverAlbum s "Neon Lights" and "Searching For The Lost Boys". Other albums - particularly those from 1991's Real Life through to 2005's Black And White 050505 - can be divisive. Many were annoyed about Searching For The Lost Boys (which was a bonus disc to Graffiti Soul), because the band had previously said they had enough original music for a double album. As for Neon Lights, it is seen as representing the band's nadir as an unsuccessful attempt at combining their 70s influences with modern dance influences, sounding nothing at all like what Simple Minds were known for.

* Many Music/MarilynManson fans refuse to acknowledge the group got back together, and happily ignore any albums released after their 2003-2006 hiatus (''Eat Me Drink Me'' and ''The High End of Low''). Other Manson fans, for that matter, refuse to acknowledge any album after ''Music/MechanicalAnimals'' (the previous two mentioned, plus ''Music/HolyWoodInTheShadowOfTheValleyOfDeath'' and ''Golden Age of Grotesque'').

* Many Music/GreenDay fans would like to pretend ''Music/TwentyFirstCenturyBreakdown'' doesn't exist. The previous album ''Music/AmericanIdiot'' [[BrokenBase splits the base]], and others will tell you that Green Day ceased to exist after ''Music/{{Dookie}}''.

* Ask a metalhead their opinion on Suicide Silence. If you immediately aren't given a look of disgust and spat upon, ask about ''The Black Crown''. You wont be able to wash the bile off you for weeks.

* Music/{{Black Sabbath}} -- where to begin? Only the Ozzy albums exist, only the Dio albums exist, only the Ozzy and Dio albums exist, only the albums with Geezer on bass (which includes all the Dio and Ozzy plus a couple of others). Or everything but ''Never Say Die'', ''Technical Ecstasy'' (which [[OldShame never happened]]), ''Seventh Star'' (which was only ever intended to be an Iommi solo album, and sounds nothing like Sabbath, but the studio [[ExecutiveMeddling strong-armed]] him into using the more recognizable name), and ''Forbidden'' (which presents the already highly controversial [[ReplacementScrappy Tony Martin]]-fronted version of the band at their absolute worst). Also, some include the ''Devil You Know'' album by "Heaven & Hell" to be part of the Black Sabbath discography. (''Music/{{Paranoid}}'' obviously exists, but the cover art, which was hated by everyone [[ExecutiveMeddling including the band]] from day one, does not.)

* According to a lot of old-school electronic music aficionados, Music/TangerineDream have only ever made four studio albums: ''Phaedra'', ''Rubycon'', ''Stratosfear'' and the ''Sorcerer'' soundtrack. These are [[NoTrueScotsman their only true]] Berlin School/Kosmische Musik albums.[[note]]Up until ''Atem'', they were a {{krautrock}} band like so many others. On their next album, ''Cyclone'', they committed the utterly heretical atrocities of including vocals with lyrics and, even worse, ''composing'' their music, i.e. doing some planning ahead instead of just improvising into the blue. They essentially turned into a pop group.[[/note]]

*** There are a good many fans of Music/TheBeatles who outright deny that Music/JohnLennon had a subsequent solo career. His first three solo albums, ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo1TwoVirgins'', ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo2LifeWithTheLions'' and ''Music/WeddingAlbum'' are experimental AvantGardeMusic, NoiseRock and LeaveTheCameraRunning recordings with Music/YokoOno that are downright unlistenable more than once for the most part. Perhaps one or two of his albums are acknowledged, but even then they are marred by the fact that he did not include his best singles on them ("Instant Karma!," "Merry X-Mas War is Over," and "Give Peace a Chance" most egregiously). Even his fans are likely to deny albums like ''Music/{{Imagine}}'' (with the title track and "Jealous Guy" being stand-alone songs), ''Some Time in New York City'', ''Music/MindGames'', ''Walls and Bridges'', and ''Rock 'n' Roll'' (again, like ''Imagine'', with a stand-alone track called "Stand by Me"). It could probably go without saying that almost everyone has tried to repress the memory of a certain woman standing next to him, shrieking. To many people the phrase Music/YokoOno is "nothing but gibberish I can't hear you Lalalalala". And when you hear her OneWomanWail on ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo1TwoVirgins'' or on side 1 of ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo2LifeWithTheLions'' it's not hard to discern her as attention seeking noise pollution.

* Fans of Music/BuddyHolly will generally agree that the Crickets broke up once he left.

* Plenty of fans of Music/TheBeachBoys wish that ''Music/{{Smile}}'' saw the light of day. Another group considers ''Music/PetSounds'' their last album (with "Good Vibrations" and "Kokomo" released as standalone singles), and another group is only comfortable with the Beach Boys who recorded songs about girls, cars and surfing.

** There's a very small number of fans who think Speak and Spell and A Broken Frame only happened.

* Fans of Music/SeanCombs and Music/LedZeppelin unanimously insist that "Come With Me", Combs and Jimmy Page's "Kashmir"-sampling collaboration for the ''Film/Godzilla1998'' soundtrack, never happened.

* Music/REOSpeedwagon: To some, the band ceased to exist after ''Nine Lives''. The band's [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks sound]] [[NewSoundAlbum underwent a drastic shift]] in 1980 with ''Hi-Infidelity'', becoming more mainstream and radio-friendly. To others, ''Hi-Infidelity'' or ''Wheels Are Turnin''' was their last album.

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* In a case of CanonDiscontinuity [[CreatorBacklash by the artist himself]], Noel Gallagher tries to forget Music/{{Oasis}}' third album, ''Music/BeHereNow'', which he describes as "a bunch of guys, on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck." Even if reviewers consider that, beyond the overblown production, there are standout tracks.
** Liam, on the other hand, likes it. The fans are [[BrokenBase split down the middle]] not only with regard to BHN but with every one of their albums except the first two. When a survey was done asking 100 fans which twenty songs should appear on the "best of" compilation album, there were ''no songs'' (even obvious choices) that featured on everyone's list. No songs from ''Be Here Now'' appeared on ''Stop the Clocks'' (the aforementioned "best of" collection) anyway. Not even "Don't Go Away," the one song on the album that was universally praised by critics. (Noel considered including "'D'You Know What I Mean," but felt [[EpicRocking its length]] ruined the pacing. When another best of appeared, the drugs and backlash seemingly had their effect on Noel, given that in his liner notes he states that has no memory of writing or recording "Stand By Me")
** And once the band was over, [[TheBandMinusTheFace Beady Eye]] tried to forget its existence, not playing any Oasis material in concerts (unlike Noel).

* In a case of CanonDiscontinuity [[CreatorBacklash by the artist himself]], Noel Gallagher tries to forget Music/{{Oasis}}' third album, ''Be Here Now'', which he describes as "a bunch of guys, on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck." Even if reviewers consider that, beyond the overblown production, there are standout tracks.
** Liam, on the other hand, likes it. The fans are [[BrokenBase split down the middle]] not only with regard to BHN but with every one of their albums except the first two. When a survey was done asking 100 fans which twenty songs should appear on the "best of" compilation album, there were ''no songs'' (even obvious choices) that featured on everyone's list. No songs from ''Be Here Now'' appeared on ''Stop the Clocks'' (the aforementioned "best of" collection) anyway. Not even "Don't Go Away," the one song on the album that was universally praised by critics. (Noel considered including "'D'You Know What I Mean," but felt [[EpicRocking its length]] ruined the pacing.)

** Since the band was started by the collaboration of [[IAmTheBand Billy Corgan]] and James Iha, it's reasonable to consider a "Smashing Pumpkins" without the latter an InNameOnly side project, much like Music/{{Zwan}}.

* Fans of Music/{{REM}} are divided as to when the band split up. Some claim it was after they switched labels from IRS to Warner Brothers, and thus they didn't produce any albums past ''Music/{{Document}}''. Others claim that when drummer Bill Berry left, the rest of the band went as well so ''New Adventures in Hi-Fi'' was the last R.E.M. album produced. Many in the latter camp though agree that they recorded two reunion albums without Berry (''Accelerate'' and ''Collapse into Now'') before disbanding for real. Those who don't are among they great many who will also tell you that Michael Stipe never shaved his head, and that "Everybody Hurts" was the band's final single, saving themselves the humiliation of abandoning the mellow AlternativeRock roots that made them famous.

* Many Music/BillyJoel fans vehemently deny he was ever in an acid rock band named Music/{{Attila}} before becoming a successful solo artist. Others argue that his career started with ''Piano Man'' or ''Music/TheStrangerAlbum'', or that ''[[Music/StormFrontAlbum Storm Front]]'' consists of "We Didn't Start the Fire" (or "Leningrad") and nothing else.

* Many fans of Music/TheClash would prefer to believe that the band ended after 1982's ''Music/CombatRock'' album. The band's next three troubled years, which included a drastic reshuffle of personnel and the widely-panned 1985 ''Music/CutTheCrap'' album (most people agree that the song "This is England" is the album's only redeeming feature) were all just a bad dream.

* Many prefer to believe that ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' was the last album that Music/TheBeatles put out, rather than ''Music/LetItBe''. It helps that ''Abbey Road'' was the last album they recorded (''Let It Be'' was recorded earlier, but its release was delayed until after ''Abbey Road'') and is widely considered almost perfect, with several tracks clearly laid down by a band knowing they were at the end of the road and determined to go out on a high. ''Let It Be'' is widely disliked -- several fine tracks aside (this is still The Beatles we're talking about -- even their rubbish albums have great songs like "Across the Universe") -- for being a slapdash effort created when tensions between the band members had all but reached the breaking point, sabotaged (depending on your viewpoint, certainly if you're Music/PaulMcCartney) by a combination of over-production and spite, and released to get it out of the way and to have an album to go with the ''Film/LetItBe'' film.

* Less dedicated fans of Music/{{Queen}} would probably pretend ''Hot Space'' didn't exist, if it weren't for the fact that it contains "Under Pressure," one of the band's biggest hits.

** And if it's not ''Slang'' that they shelved, it's ''Adrenalize''. Or, to be more eloquent, "''Hysteria'' with Downs' Syndrome". Most people in general have a hard time believing the band continued making music after ''Hysteria''. The rest consider it to be a SellOut, and that the band ended with the loss of Rick Allen's left arm.

* Despite what the internet may tell you, Music/GraveDigger fans will helpfully inform you that the band never stooped so low as to change their name to Digger and release a pop metal album.

* "Rap fans refuse to acknowledge the album, mainly due to the ill-conceived 'gangsta' image makeover that accompanied it." The preceeding sentence applies equally to Music/MCHammer (''The Funky Headhunter''), Music/RunDMC (''Down With The King'') and Music/WillSmith (''Homebase'')[[note]]Smith's fans simply pretend "Summertime" was a stand-along single.[[/note]]

* Ever asked any Music/KatyPerry fans about her Christian albums as Katy Hudson? Thought so.

* We've gone this far and no mention has been made yet of Music/ElvisPresley? Well, you'd be wise if you chose not to mention ''Having Fun With Elvis on Stage'' to anybody, including the King himself and especially his biggest fans.

* Many Music/BillyJoel fans vehemently deny he was ever in an acid rock band named Music/{{Attila}} before becoming a successful solo artist.
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* Some Music/{{Madonna}} fans don't consider her 1992 controversial album ''Music/{{Erotica}}'' as canon, due to its sexual nature.

** Some fans would consider that the first ten albums as canon, ignoring ''Hard Candy'' and ''MDNA''.
** Some fans wouldn't consider ''American Life'' as canon, due to its anti-war nature.

* Several classical music fans insist that only the part of Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart's "Requiem" written by the composer himself before his AuthorExistenceFailure exists, and that it was never finished by his pupil. There are even musicologists that went as far as to attempt to finish the work themselves, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

** While ''Music/{{Xscape}}'' was a much better-regarded posthumous album than ''Michael'', you'll still run into the occasional group of fans who prefer to pretend it never happened, mainly because Jackson himself was a notorious perfectionist and never got to have the final say in the official versions of the songs on both posthumous albums thanks to them being, well, [[AuthorExistenceFailure posthumous albums.]]

* There is some debate over whether or not Music/ModestMussorgsky actually composed three operas. It's unanimous that one of them is ''Boris Godunov'', but some fans are leery of the fact that ''Khovanshchina'' and ''Sorochintsy Fair'' were incomplete due to AuthorExistenceFailure.

* Just ask a Music/{{Nirvana}} fan about their debut album, ''Music/{{Bleach}}'', or [[ThePeteBest Chad Channing]]. Thought so.

* Music/DaftPunk have released from one to four albums depending on who you talk to. To elaborate: their first album was the French house-style ''Homework''. Their second album, however, was the electropop ''Music/{{Discovery}}'', which caused some of their house fans to disown them but is now considered a career landmark. The pro forma third album, ''Human After All'', is the one most often discarded for sounding rushed, repetitive and incomplete. Whether or not the live album ''Alive 2007'' counts depends on how you view the first three (though review website Pitchfork admitted that ''Alive 2007'' did help to validate the existence of ''Human After All'').
** This does not count the first live album, ''Alive 1997'', which consists of songs from ''Homework''.

** Since the band was started by the collaboration of [[IAmTheBand Billy Corgan]] and James Iha, it's reasonable to consider a "Smashing Pumpkins" without the latter an InNameOnly SideProject, much like Music/{{Zwan}}.

** There are some who believe that 'Cryptic Writings' was the last 'classic' Megadeth album, ignore ''Risk'', and claim that everything afterward is a comeback album.

* According to a lot of Music/MyChemicalRomance fans, there is no such thing as [[Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys Danger Days]].
** According to a lot of other My Chemical Romance fans, their only two albums are Three Cheers and The Black Parade. That other one doesn't exist.
** According to a lot of fans, The Black Parade was the band's first album.

* Many Music/MarilynManson fans refuse to acknowledge the group got back together, and happily ignore any albums released after their 2003-2006 hiatus (''Eat Me Drink Me'' and ''The High End of Low''). Other Manson fans, for that matter, refuse to acknowledge any album after ''Music/MechanicalAnimals'' (the previous two mentioned, plus ''Music/HolyWoodInTheShadowOfTheValleyOfDeath'' and ''Golden Age of Grotesque''.

* There are Music/RedHotChiliPeppers fans who only acknowledge the EMI phase (pre-''Blood Sugar Sex Magik'') - and still, most (including the band) think the debut album is subpar. Some equally favor the WB period (and sometimes ''Mother's Milk'') but this is often because of the popularity of John Frusciante. Others deny that Dave Navarro was once in the band, and ''Stadium Arcadium'' is a really [[BrokenBase divisive]] album.
** Popular consensus is that ''Californication'' was their triumphant SwanSong.

* The popular-within-their-own-country band The Tragically Hip has a long discography (12 studio albums and counting...) that chronicles the evolution of and changes to their sound over the years. Many fans have gotten on and off the bandwagon along the way. For instance, there are some who prefer the grittier sounds of their first three albums, though most fans would have to include their hit-filled fourth album''Fully Completely'' among the canon (sometimes even to the extent of discounting everything else). After that it gets a little blurry. The next two or three albums get softer but still pack in the hits. Some fans draw the line of continuity after ''Phantom Power'' (1998) or ''In Between Evolution'' (2004). With most of band starting to release solo work/side projects around those points, it starts becoming personal preference as to what is and is not canon.

** Beefheart later relented over just one track on ''Music/BluesjeansAndMoonbeams'', saying that at least "Observatory Crest" was honest and roughly what he was trying to aim for on the album.