Music Reviews
The Flaming Lips - Oh, My Pregnant Head (Song)
Oh, My Pregnant Head is a song by The Flaming Lips and the third song on their album Transmissions From The Satellite Heart. Returning to a more melodic sound, the track opens up with a somewhat relaxing tone which Coyne really reinforces when he comes in with the vocals. …
Enslaved (Band)
I can’t say that I’m very keen on listening to most black metal music, as the sound and sometimes the lyrics just does not appeal to me. However, when I discovered the black metal band Enslaved some years ago when listening to an online metal radio station, I became …
C’Beyohn 1st Class, The Keep It Cool Collection (CD)
If you are at all on the underground scene in Atlanta, GA, you probably have run into this young artist. Once a member of the group, the Fresh Air Foundation, this artist has figured out a way to bring balance back to hip-hop while exhibiting his own …
Titanic: A New Musical - Original Broadway Cast Recording CD
I saw a performance from Titanic: A New Musical on TV and was hooked. It might have been on Rosie O’Donnell’s old talk show, but whatever it was, I thought the performance was solid. Plus, as a student of the Titantic, I had to get this CD …
Kanye West - Dark Fantasy (Song)
Dark Fantasy is a song by Kanye West and is the opening track to his most recent album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Opening up with a female voice and a spoken word section, the track gradually transitions into the bulk of the song with West coming in with …
Road House soundtrack CD
Road House was an action adventure film from the late 1980’s which starred Patrick Swayze as a philosophical bouncer named Dalton. This review focuses on the musical soundtrack for this Zen-like movie.
I’ll start with my favorite tracks, which naturally are the two songs which Swayze sings. Both …
Alabama: For the Record - Number One Hits CD
The Alabama: For the Record - Number One Hits CD celebrates the country music group Alabama. It’s also called 41 because they’ve had an amazing 41 hit records. It’s a wonder compilation of songs that range from upbeat to the ballad and culls the best from those …
The Beatles - The White Album (Side II)
Overview - Side II of The White Album continues with the mix of Lennon and McCartney compositions, but also includes one by Harrison as well and even one by Starr. Similar to side I, this side of the album has a lot of melodic songs to it but also …
Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation
Overview - Crown Of Creation, Jefferson Airplane’s fourth effort, is primarily a pretty upbeat record with both energetic and melodic songs. The album features vocal performances by Slick, Balin, Kaukonen, and Kantner so it’s a very
nice mix whether they’re singing alone, which is good, or whether they’re singing together, …
Dirt by Alice in Chains (album)
Marking the 19th anniversary of Alice in Chain’s “Dirt”, it is only fitting to pay it tribute and praise for what it did for many fans of the band, and many people who were introduced to them through that album. This album had many very dark tones, battling many …
Adelitas Way (Self-Named Album)
Adelitas Way is a rock band.They released their first album in 2009, with a self-titled name.Their style of music is at the same time strong and somwhat delicated.Their fastest songs still ahve a very melodic tone.They can keep a very low tone when playing a fast song, one carachteristic …
End Of An Ear music shop Austin TX
If you love music, as I do, you will regularly be hunting down not only brand new music, but looking for the older stuff, too. hey, I am not too proud to say that I own a turn table and can listen to actual records! A lot of my …
Bob Dylan And The Grateful Dead - Dylan And The Dead
Overview - Dylan And The Dead, a collaborative live album featuring the songs of Bob Dylan backed by The Grateful Dead, is an album whose concept or idea just sounds brilliant to me. Both Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead are two of my favorite artists of all time …
Don’t Forget To Remember Me by Carrie Underwood
Sweet song, this is; Don’t Forget To Remember Me by Carrie Underwood. I enjoyed myself listening to this song pretty much each time and when I watch the music video, I know understand why Carrie was chosen by the judges or rather, the viewers out there in American Idol. …
Animal Collective - Also Frightened (Song)
Also Frightened is a song by Animal Collective and is the third song to appear on their album Merriweather Post Pavilion. Opening up with a brief instrumental section, a chorus of voices soon join in the mix to create a very full vocal sound that certainly helps lead the …
Anberlin: Blueprints For The Black Market
This was the first band that I ever started listening to and this was probably the first CD I have ever purchased. I am really glad that I did buy it. It was just a random choice when I bought this CD. I thought the CD cover looked cool …
Out of Eden Music
The first time I heard Out of Eden was when I was in grade school. I received it as a free gift from some pastors at my church. To express my instant love for the music, my twin and I continually created dances and gymnastics routines to …
Green Day - Before The Lobotomy (Song)
Before The Lobotomy is a song by Green Day which appears on their album 21st Century Breakdown. The song starts off with a clean guitar riff that has a pretty melancholy tone to it and just a sad tone overall. Once Armstrong comes in with the very melodic vocal …
The Bees by Lee Ann Womack
The bees sang by Lee Ann Womack is a wonderful song. I have only heard it a couple of times but it is a really good song. It’s pretty and a country song but a little more upbeat than most country songs. I like singing to it and I …
Nine Inch Nails - Into The Void (Song)
Into The Void is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album The Fragile. The song starts off with some synthesizers which give the track that eerie sound associated with Nine Inch Nails but not exactly a dark feel. A drum rhythm comes into the track …
GHS Electric Boomers guitar strings
This is a review for GHS Electric Boomers guitar strings. These have been around since 1964 and have been a standard in the industry. The great thing about these is the price and consistency of the strings. I’ve been through every brand of string you could imagine and I’m …
The Beatles - Wait (Song)
Wait is a song by The Beatles which appears on their record Rubber Soul. The track opens up with the vocals coming first before the rest of the instrumentation coming in to join the vocals on the song. Though a listener can certainly hear the unique sound of the …
Timbaland feat. Katy Perry - If I Ever See You Again (Music)
I love Timbaland, and he’s always so sensual and melodramatic sometimes when it comes to his songs but they’re really wholesome, and when I heard Katy Perry was going to sing her too I was very ecstatic as I love her, and although they might have come off as …
Megadeth Anthology : Set The World Afire
Megadeth is Dave Mustaine. Everybody in the metal scene knew that he the one who helped Metallica and how he got kick from it. From that he always try to beat Metallica but luck is not in his side. Apart from being a one time junkie Dave Mustaine is …
Epica - Design Your Universe (Album)
Released on October 16, 2009, Design Your Universe is the fifth studio album from the Dutch Symphonic Metal band Epica. It managed to continue the “A New Age Dawn” saga, introduced in the 2005 album “Consign To Oblivion”.
On the overall, it’s the band’s best album so far. It features …
Metallica - Sweet Amber (Song)
Sweet Amber is one of the tracks which appears on arguably Metallica’s worst record, St. Anger. Although I do sound very pessimistic just from the opening line of the review, I want to make it clear that St. Anger just wasn’t a good album at all. I know that …
The Canadian Brass: The Canadian Brass Go For Baroque CD
I’d forgotten I had The Canadian Brass: The Canadian Brass Go For Baroque CD to be honest. Now that’s not a bad sign about how I feel about it; it was just buried beneath a large stack of other CDs and remained hidden in a sense.
This was actually …
Sunoh Album
Lucky Ali is one of the good soulful composer than we have in Indipop world. His debut album Sunoh (which means ‘listen’) is a nice collection of melodic songs. There are songs on different subjects, and all of them have been blended beautifully by soulful melodic music. Ali has …
Rosie O’Donnell: A Rosie Christmas CD
The Rosie O’Donnell: A Rosie Christmas CD is really a pleasant surprise with all kinds of holiday songs sung by a crazy group of people. Some of these duets with Rosie you would think would be a disaster and yet they work surprisingly well.
Two quick notes. The …
Eric Clapton - Wonderful tonight (Song)
Wonderful tonight by Eric Clapton is one of the best love songs ever. It has very simple lyrics about a couple that is going to a party, she is dressing up and he is just watching her and admiring how beautiful she is. It is nothing special, it is …
Adele’s song “Could of Had it All”
Adele has been a performer on shows like, “Dancing With the Stars”, and her songs have been used by contestans on American Idol as well as flooding the radio with her one of a kind voice. She isa very talented artist with powerful songs that I, and I’m …
Rush CD
I’ve been a huge fan of the rock band Rush since their Moving Pictures album back in 1981. So far I’ve collected all their albums and will usually listen to them all at least once a year. Their musical progression has always been a drawing point for …
Back To Black by Amy Winehouse
What do you guys think of Back To Black by Amy Winehouse? As for me personally, I think that album by Amy this time round is kind of better. But only if she could change her image for a bit, to make it better or some sort, it …
MGMT - Weekend Wars (Song)
Weekend Wars is the second track off of MGMT’s second release, Oracular Spectacular. When I first started listening to MGMT, Weekend Wars was one of the first tracks to really jump out at me. I will say that compared to Time To Pretend, Weekend Wars changes much more, and …
Country Comforts by artist Keith Urban
There’s nothing like a feel good country song. I love the song Country Comforts. I first heard it when Rod Stewart sang it and I loved that version. I wasn’t even beginning to love it until I heard Keith Urban’s version. He has a wonderful voice that fits perfectly …
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions — Bruce Springsteen
In 2006, Bruce Springsteen released We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, an outstanding collection of traditional songs either written by Pete Seeger or recorded by him early in his career. This CD of traditional folk songs and spirituals, with the combination of Springsteen, an wonderful group of supporting musicians, …
Nirvana Incesticide
Incesticide is the third release by Nirvana it is a compilation album released in 1992, 6 of the songs were previously unreleased, most of the songs were recorded before Nevermind, most of the b sides were for compilation albums, E.P. albums, and singles, the album is a good addition …
Justin Timberlake’s new style of music
Personaly I don’t really like his new music style. I have preferred his old album and his first debut album on his own. Justified was more towards when he was with Britney Spears and the break up.
Now with his new album and his long term relationship with Cameron Diaz …
Iron Maiden - Infinite Dreams (Song)
Infinite Dreams is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. The track starts off in a melodic fashion being led by a guitar solo before leading into the verse of the track. Although the track is pretty laid-back during the …
American Idiot album by Green Day
The American Idiot album sparked up alot of controversy because of its political messages. Many people think they won’t like it because of this. However, if just once you listen to the album, you will immediately change your mind.
While the first three songs (American Idiot, Jesus of …
Metallica - Damage, Inc.
Overview —“ Damage, Inc. the final song on Metallica’s third record, Master Of Puppets, opens up with a layer of bass lines before giving way to one final thrash assault for this record. In a sense this song is pretty similar to the structure of Battery except Damage Inc. …
Three Wooden Crosses
Three Wooden Crosses is a country music song sung and made famous by Randy Travis. It is a song about four people from different backgrounds that take a bus ride in which three of them die. The fourth one was a hooker and does not quite understand why she …
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Overview - Magical Mystery Tour is an album to contain some of The Beatles’ better known songs and even one of my favorite songs of their whole career. Magical Mystery Tour incorporates the use of a lot of extra musicians to bring instruments such as violins, cellos, trumpets, flutes, …
Goodies by Ciara featuring Petey Pablo
Goodies by Ciara featuring Petey Pablo is a song I like a lot because it makes me want to dance and it also talks about it is hard for a guy to get the goodies from a girl because some of us are not going to give it up …
Bob Dylan - As I Went Out One Morning (Song)
As I Went Out One Morning is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album John Wesley Harding. The song opens up with a harmonica along with a bass which provides the main rhythm of the track. Dylan comes in with the song along with a drum …
Survivor - Remix (2001): Destiny’s Child ft. Da Brat
Artist: Destiny’s Child ft. Da Brat
Video: Survivor (Remix)
Album: Survivor
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Darren Grant
This is the remix to Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor” single and music video off of their third album of the same name. Well, just like their remix video for “Jumpin’, Jumpin’”, I really don’t quite see what is …
Aceyalone Magnificant City CD
Aceyalone is one talented Rapper. Being one of the legendary members of the multi-talented group Living Legends and the Freestyle Fellowship, Aceyalone has paid his dues in the music scene, and has emerged as one of the top rappers in the West Coast Hip Hop scene.
With that out of …
Ashton 5-string bass guitar (musical instrument)
Recently I got myself a 5-string bass guitar and it`s a brand called Ashton which is the first time that I`ve heard of it and it`s also the first time that I`m going to use an unpopular brand of bass guitar.
This instrument is a product of Ashton Music, an …
Green Day - Uptight (Song)
Uptight is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Nimrod. The track starts off with a quick bass line accompanied with a drum rhythm and a slight guitar part as well. Armstrong comes in pretty quickly with the vocals singing in sort of a delicate and …
The Fragile, 1999 Album by Nine Inch Nails
This record is magnificent, it is brilliant. The Fragile is definitely one of the most interesting music albums I have ever come across. The previous NIN album was good, but this record, The Fragile has many features which are absent on The Downward Spiral. It has a lot more …
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