Albums Quote by Randy Bachman

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we…

— Thom Yorke

We had two songs online before the album was out, people were already making assumptions about what kind of band we were and what…

— Ryan Ross

I wanted to give the songs a run for their money, to see if they stood on their own without a lot of accoutrements.…

— Annie E. Clark

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I…

— Buzz Osborne

We just wanted to make a really good second album.

— Fab Moretti

The success of the first album was almost an anomaly, and it could remain a fantastic anomaly. It was not crafted for commercial success.…

— Christine and the Queens

There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached…

— Jason Molina

All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

— Erik Parker

In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make…

— Dave Grohl

I think we weren't afraid of kind of pushing the boundaries in terms of how an album could collectively sound.

— Calum Hood

The first album didn't become successful until the second was practically written.

— Dolores O'Riordan