‘I’ve Seen It All’ is a song interpreted by Bjork in duet with Thom Yorke and is part of the musical ‘Dancer in the Dark’, directed by Lars von Trier. I must admit I liked the whole movie but the song has touched my heart more than anything …

High Time is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their album Workingman’s Dead. The song opens up with a simple acoustic guitar pattern which Garcia sings along with in a very melodic fashion. The song seems to have a little bit of country influence on the …

Lil’ Kim ft. Da Brat, Missy Elliott, Angie Martinez, and Lisa Lopes
“Not Tonight (Remix)”
Hardcore
Atlantic/Bad Boy
Director: Lance “Un” Rivera
Wow, Lil’ Kim went from rapping up and down escalators with Puff Daddy in “No Time”, dancing and rapping around in rooms that change colors with Lil’ Cease in “Crush On You”, …

Overview - And Justice For All, Metallica’s fourth effort is yet another album filled with thrash metal and what I would consider their angriest and most aggressive, angriest, and most technical album to date. This album is also the first without original bassist, Cliff Burton who was killed in …

Musicnotes.com is an awesome website for anyone looking for sheet music. You install I small program (musicnote player) on your computer and then you can download the sheet music digital. Most songs cost between $4-$6. You print out the pages and then off you go. …

Overview - S&M, a collaboration between Metallica and The San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Kamen, is a unique and creative mix of Metallica songs being accompanied by an orchestra. Metallica songs on their own carry an extreme amount of energy and intensity to them, and if you were …

For me, Reba McEntire: Greatest Hits, Volume Two CD is worth it just for the first track, which is Does He Love You, the duet that became a smash hit with Reba and vocalist Linda Davis. This essentially launched Linda into her own career. It’s one powerful, …

I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet) is a song by the White Stripes which appears on their album, Get Behind Me Satan. What I like about this song is that it’s extremely stripped down so you really get a sense of what Jack White’s voice sounds like …

Ever since I first heard about them “Alice in Chains” has been one of my favourite bands, and whenever I listen to them, I regret the fact that I never knew about them in the nineties even though I was a little girl. Therefore when I discovered their old …

This is probably the best album I have heard in a long time. It is pretty rare that I buy full albums anymore, since getting single songs is so much less expensive and makes my itunes playlist a whole lot less messy. But I had to get the …

Changing Of The Guards is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album Street Legal. The track opens up with an organ part along with a steady drum and bass rhythm before Dylan comes in with the background vocals. Something to note about this track is that …

Jay-Z ft. Foxy Brown
“Ain’t No Playa”
Reasonable Doubt
Roc-A-Fella Records
“Ain’t No Playa” is the second single and music video from Jay-Z’s debut album “Reasonable Doubt”, following “Dead Presidents”. It is also on the soundtrack for the 1996 Eddie Murphy comedy film “The Nutty Professor” (because you know there ain’t no playa …

Suffer is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins and is the sixth track on their debut record, Gish. Opening up with a simple drum rhythm, the remaining instrumentation soon joins in the mix as well as Corgan’s vocals. For some reason, I’m slightly reminded of The End, a song …

My favorite genre of music is alternative, and one of my most favorite bands ever is Coldplay. Their songs are often my soundtracks to the things I do everyday. I have a favorite Coldplay song for when I feel sad, when I’m running, when I’m driving, before …

Lil’ Kim
“Lighters Up”
The Naked Truth
Queen Bee Entertainment/Atlantic Records
Well, I was right about the Lil’ Kim trends which I mentioned a few reviews ago (the one for “The Jump Off”). An album every three years with only two music videos and singles (with the exception of her first album “Hardcore” …

Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy is one of the bands greatest accomplishments. The mellow blues styling mixed with the energetic rock and roll makes for a truly enjoyable and uplifting musical experience. Not only is every song perfectly orchestrated, but the overall flow of the CD and …

The Living Toys is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their second release, Danse Manatee. Opening up instrumentally, vocals do not join the mix until around the two minute mark which allows the band to establish a fairly melodic atmosphere which is one of the first times …

Overview —“ The Formation of Damnation, the latest album released by Testament is the first new material released by the band since The Gathering, released nine years previous. This album also marks Alex Skolnick’s return to the band, one huge reason why the guitar riffs on this album are …

This is the second album by the Canadian metal band 3 Inches Of Blood and the first on Roadrunner Records it was released in September of 2004 and produced by Neil Kernon. The style of the band could be compared to Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, and other classic metal …

Is it me, or is Pussycat Dolls sounding more mellow by the day..? I can’t help to say that, and it is quite evident when I listened to the tracks in Doll Domination by Pussycat Dolls. They are sounding normal by the day and the tunes are not …

A Baby For Pree is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel and is the fourth song on their debut album, On Avery Island. In contrast to the previous couple of songs on this record, the instrumentation on A Baby For Pree is incredibly stripped down and has a much …

You could not classify Novembre’s “Materia” as metal, nor heavy metal. Though Novembre have a background that is colored in Metal, on “Materia” they embrace their softer side while including traces of their metal history.
Novembre could somewhat be classified as similar to bands like Opeth, Katatonia, and even at …

Best I ever had by Gary Allan is a song that is sad but I like it any how. This song talks about how this guy is realizing that the girl that he wants is just the best he ever had but it is sad in the way she …

Zombie By The Cranberries By Andrew Jackson Jihad is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their most recent studio record, Knife Man. Opening up with a quick acoustic guitar rhythm, the sound reminds me a bit more of the sound that the band would have had …

The Steve Vai Morley wah 2 is the efficient pedal for adding those wah effects that Vai the virtuoso himself used on his records as well.This wah has two selectable footswitches the Bad Horsie mode and the counter mode, for your own wah tone that you can create with …

One of the worst songs that van halen made in the pre David Lee Roth era is The Full Bug. This song was featured on the Diver Down as most likely a filler to reach the time needed for the record to be released. Although the album showcases some …

I have never really been a huge fan of Beyonce’s. But I am at least glad that she is breaking from some of that choppy singing that she does. In this song, she muses over the possibility of what it would be like if she were the …

Tiny Dancer by Elton John is a beautiful song to which every time I listen to it the song still amazes me how soft and beautiful the words are sung. This guy has an awesome voice which lures me to sleep almost every night because that’s how much I …

Jay-Z ft. Gwen Dickey
“Wishing on a Star”
In My Lifetime, Volume 1
Roc-A-Fella Records
“Wishing on a Star” is a little known single and music video that can only be found on the United Kingdom release of his second album “In My Lifetime, Volume 1″. No wonder it’s so little known because …

If you have been listening to top 40 radio, you have no doubt heard about Miley Cyrus! This is Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter, who has made millions for the Walt Disney Company. I have to say, I kinda like her. The music isn’t overly pop filled with nonsense, it’s …

“Tonight She Comes” was a previously unreleased song by the band The Cars. The song appeared on their 1985 Greatest Hits album. Just the thought that they knew the song would be a hit, and the nerve to put it on a “Greatest Hits” album is just amazing. How …

The Florida Death Metal band Cannibal Corpse’s 1991 follow up to the 1990 classic death metal album Eaten Back To Life ups the ante. This time around the album cover is even more shocking, (by the name of the album you can take a good guess as to what …

Aaliyah ft. Missy Elliot and Timbaland
“Hot Like Fire”
One In A Million
Blackground/Atlantic
Director: Lance “Un” Rivera
Aaliyah follows up “4 Page Letter” with “Hot Like Fire” and, man, I will tell you right now, I have never ever seen so much red and…well… fire ever before in a video than this one …

Nessun Dorma, the Italian Opera song recently sung by Paul Potts sounds oddly emotional. Even though I am English and cannot understand the lyrics Paul Potts is singing I feel touched when listening to it, passionate for some reason.
The violins playing in the background are soothing and relaxing. …

In the midst of the golden years of Sludge Metal, pioneering Sludge band Eyehategod released their explosive, grinding debut, “In The Name Of Suffering”- a masterpiece that created Eyehategod place in the history and sound of Sludge Metal for the rest of its existence.
A sloppy, slow-paced mess of ultra-low …

Lil Wayne is one of the most popular rappers out on the markets right now, but is he really that good? I will admit that some of his songs have a good beat, and sound pretty good, but the majority of them are absolutely horrendous. He has turned from …

Overview —“ Appetite For Destruction, the debut album released by Guns N’ Roses is hailed as one of the greatest debut albums ever released by a band, and after listening to this album multiple times and continuing to enjoy it, I can understand why. It’s interesting to me because …

I am sure that people who were already grown up and alive in 2004 and 2005 must have heard some songs from this album. The songs on this record became very popular, and as a result of the success of their debut album, the band itself acquired stardom. And, …

Overview —“ Paranoid, the second album released by Black Sabbath expands on the direction they introduced with their debut album and they somehow take that infamous dark sound and make it even better. Personally I thought that the debut album was extremely strong and innovative but Paranoid took this …

Between the Buried and Me (BTBAM) is a progressive metalcore band. Yeah that’s right, that —˜shouty angry’ music your dad really hates, but with more spice and flavour. To someone not used to this sort of music I can see it being a challenge to listen to, with dissonance, …

First and foremost, I have to admit that I have not listened to this CD as much as I have the previous two. It is not because it’s bad. It’s just not my taste in music.
I will say that the music does match the much darker tone …

East 1999 Eternal is one of the best albums ever created. And it is the best album recorded by rap group Bone Thugs N Harmony. They have a very magickal and sinister sound on this album. I really enjoyed the fast paces raps and haunting vocals they used on …

Crush is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins which appears on their first record, Gish. Opening up with a nice melodic atmosphere, the band establishes possibly the most interesting sound I’ve heard thus far on the record. Though the parts are simple, the interplay among the different instruments is …

Alan Jackson is a singer and songwriter that has been around for a number of years. I am proud to say that I have several of his albums with ” Like Red On A Rose” being on of my favorites. As a bit of a romantic and a female …

Stoner-Hate is a track by Scars On Broadway which appears on their self-titled debut record. Preceding Stoner-Hate in the track listing is Exploding/Reloading and I suppose the best way I could describe Stoner-Hate right now is that it’s a far more aggressive version of the previous song, and I …

P. Diddy ft. Usher and Loon
“I Need A Girl, Part One”
The Saga Continues…/We Invented The Remix
Bad Boy Entertainment
“I Need A Girl, Part One” serves as a third single and music video from P. Diddy’s third album “The Saga Continues…”, following “Let’s Get It”, “Bad Boy For Life”, and “Diddy”, …

Throughout the ages, humanity has relied on music. In Africa, it was a form of communication, and in 1930’s America, it was a way to escape the economic troubles of the day. However, being a good musician is truly difficult, so finding …

This is Pantera’s second album, the title comes from the movie The Exorcist. Released in 1992 and produced by Terry Date again, this album is far more aggressive than the last, tighter, darker, faster, and I don’t think it could have been much heavier. Mouth for war opens the …

Jonny Horton sings the song North To Alaska. I like this song because it talks about something I have always wanted to do. I have thought about moving to Alaska for about twenty years now. I even went so far as to find land for sale in Alaska. I …

Daddy’s Hands was recorded by Holly Dunn in 1986. It was an instant hit around the country. It is a story about a woman who realizes after he father’s death exactly what was in daddy’s hands. They lyrics more than hint at the fact that daddy was too busy …