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for being too heavy and dark. They gave the band the choice to either record another album, or they would be released from their contract. The band decided to return to the studio again and recorded a third album,
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record was really all about. It was speaking against the sort of lucidity that we all seem to get hypnotized into by relying on the media to make up our tastes and our flavors of the minute for us so much.
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837:"In a Perfect World"
500:"Kiss Me When I Cry"
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332:Los Angeles
1235:Categories
1193:Imaginator
1077:2012-07-06
1040:References
973:Production
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645:Donnie Vie
513:Jack Ponti
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901:Musicians
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869:M. Nelson
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665:"Tell Me"
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312:Aerosmith
229:in 1998.
227:Fuel 2000
145:Fuel 2000
112:Hard rock
54:1998 (US)
426:"On/Off"
153:Producer
59:Recorded
49:Released
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1103:Popdose
688:"Greed"
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304:Geffen
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