Music Reviews
The Rolling Stones - In Another Land (Song)
In Another Land is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Their Satanic Majesties Request As with most of this record, the sound on this track is primarily very psychedelic which is a sound that I personally love. The track opens up with a harpsichord …
The Resistance by Muse (CD)
I have been a fan of Muse for a little over two years. Until recently, my favorite CD of theirs was Black Holes and Revelations. Now, they have proven that they can even top that!
The Resistance is a great CD for any Muse fan to have for a mumber …
Soft Rock 103.5Qm FM Radio Station in Surrey, Canada
I spent the whole day listening to 103.5 Qm FM on Friday, January 1, 2010. I had listened to this station before many times, but this date was very special. The DJs were just busy dishing out their top 50 countdowns, which I found quite irresistible at …
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. …
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses Tune Up for Austin City Limits
House of Blues Dallas, TX 10/7/2010
After a fun set from local troubadour, Scott Copeland, the sold out HOB audience anxiously anticipated the headliner: Ryan Bingham and The Dead Horses. As they took the stage, the crowd broke into frenzy.
Fresh off the release of their 3rd album and with …
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk (Song)
A-Punk is a song by Vampire Weekend which appears on their self-titled debut record. As with more Vampire Weekend songs, the track opens up with a very light-hearted guitar riff which simply radiates with feelings of youthfulness and playfulness. The vocals soon come in with the first verse and …
Twilight the Soundtrack
I must say that Twilight the Soundtrack is quite the rave for me nowadays. The songs featured inside are all quite catchy and you have nice beats, fast ones, kind of melodramatic tunes and sometimes kind of rock sounding. Including in the rock tunes and other beats would …
Animal Collective - Bluish (Song)
Bluish is a song by Animal Collective and the sixth track on their release Merriweather Post Pavilion. Though the song opens up somewhat empty, the track then moves into a synthesizer-led part which makes me feel almost as if I’m listening to a far more psychedelic version of MGMT, …
Mastodon Leviathan CD
American Metal heads Mastodon have created a style that is all their own.
Their first album, “Remission” blew everyone away with their raw, crunching and meat grinding riffs, explosive solos, throaty vocals and amazingly complex yet hard hitting drums. The sound quality was a little shoddy, but it mattered not. …
Busta Rhymes - The Body Rock (song)
“The Body Rock” appears off of Busta Rhymes album When Disaster Strikes. It is the 17th track off of the absolute stellar album, often criticized as being his best. This is kind of crazy considering that there are 19 tracks all together. It’s nearly impossible to release such a …
Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia (Song)
I said in my review of American Idiot that everything with Green Day is simple and basic. Well, Jesus Of Suburbia makes me look like an idiot with this statement. I will admit that the majority of tracks on American Idiot are indeed quite simple and basic, this album …
The One I Gave My Heart To (1997): Aaliyah
Aaliyah
“The One I Gave My Heart To”
One In A Million
Blackground/Atlantic
Director: Darren Grant
Aaliyah tops it out with the sixth and final single and video from her second album, “One In A Million”, titled “The One I Gave My Heart To”. This song is a love ballad compared to the others …
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Paranoid is Black Sabbath’s second album released in 1970 under Vertigo Records in the UK and distributed by Warner Bros in the US. The band recorded the album the same year as their last album with the same producer Rodger Bain. The song Paranoid was recorded at the last …
Help Somebody by Vanzant
Vanzant is a little rough around the edges but Help Somebody is an excellent song about how to live your life. He talks about how he was taught by his grandparents how to live a right life. He has a great message in this song that is upbeat with …
Chad Smith Signature Snare
In my band we have played about 10 shows in 2010. We always bring the enregy and our drummer is probably the hardest hitting drummer that we have had. Due to his high velocity powerful drumming, it was about time to get a new snare drum. I could …
Just to see you smile by Tim McGraw
Just to see you smile is one of Tim McGraws many great songs. It is about a boy who quits his job so he can be with a girl. It seems a bit foolish to quit a job, but I guess it shows his dedication to the girl that …
Velvet Revolver-Contraband CD
I have to admit that I was skeptical when I heard that Scott Weiland, former lead singer of alternative/grunge rock band Stone Temple Pilots, was teaming up with the band members of Guns’n’Roses to form this supergroup. But this project brings out the best of both worlds. …
Falling Down (song) by Avril Lavigne
The meaning of this song is very deep. It takes me a thousand times before I could be able to get the meaning. I am not sure if Avril is the song writer of this song, but if she is, then she deserves to be applauded for writing this …
Metallica - Dyers Eve (Song)
Dyers Eve has to be one of Metallica’s most aggressive and angry songs, not just on Justice but on any of their nine records. For those of you who heard Master Of Puppets, if for some reason then you haven’t then go listen to it now, you’ll recognize that …
Lonely Pup by Adam Faith
I love this song and first heard it a few years back at Christmas time from a CD comprising of 101 Christmas songs. Little did I know it was sung back in 1960! But the song itself is so cute and I was hooked immediately when I heard it.
The …
Metallica - My Friend Of Misery (Song)
I’m aware that I’ve been stating that many of the songs on The Black Album seem to be driven much more by Hetfield’s voice rather than the music itself, but I believe My Friend Of Misery is an exception to this. Whereas many of the previous tracks on this …
The Flaming Lips - Felt Good To Burn (Song)
Felt Good To Burn is a song by the Flaming Lips which appears on their record Hit To Death In The Future Head. The song opens up with the vocals coming in pretty much immediately and accompanied by a tambourine and some other instrumentation which unfortunately doesn’t leave much …
Yousou’Ndou
Yousou’Ndou has proved very capable of being an ambassador of Africa. He is a great African musician who started his musical career at the age of twelve years and has subsequently improved tremendously in the musical world. One cannot waite to appreciate the works of Yousou’Ndou the senegalese …
Metallica And Lou Reed - Frustration (Song)
Frustration is a song by Metallica and Lou Reed and is the seventh on their collaboration album Lulu. Opening up with an intro which is more eerie than it is melodic, Metallica soon comes in with a riff which has a wonderful rhythm to it and is one that …
Let me go by three doors down
Let me go by three doors down is about how this guy tells this girl to let him go because he don’t know how to really love her. She is in his thoughts but he don’t know how to let her in. this song is a sad song in …
Jonas Brothers
I like these guys. I am so glad to hear how they’ve matured from album to album. Please don’t hesitate to pick up their new album; it may surprise you. The lyrics are more mature; they’ve gone away from the teeny bopper-ish phase, which I couldn’t stand, to this …
Frank Sinatra - My Way - Single
Of all the tracks in the world that can inspire, especially if you feel you have been through a rough patch at some time in your life, then Frank Sinatra, My Way, just seems to sum everything up for you.
The song does mention quite a few things, so as …
The Rolling Stones - It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll (Song)
It’s Only Rock —˜N Roll (But I Like It) is a track by The Rolling Stones and the title track to their record It’s Only Rock —˜N Roll. This track opens up in a pretty laid-back way and the rhythm is pretty relaxed and the first verse of the …
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Overview —“ South Of Heaven, the fourth album released by Slayer, definitely slowed things down after the extremely thrash driven Reign In Blood. I know that when people tend to think of slayer they think of extremely heavy metal, but more importantly, they think of extremely fast metal. When …
Behind the Big Orange Curtain featurette
The Behind the Big Orange Curtain featurette shows the beginning of the Josh Groban Awake concert from Salt Lake City, Utah. I love seeing this behind the scenes look. I’m very interested by seeing how concepts come together and what goes in to making a production come …
Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar (Music Video)
Overview —“ After watching the extremely emotional and powerful music video for Turn The Page, part of me wanted to watch a video that was like that and had the same effect on me and part of me wanted a fun video just to balance it out. On Whiskey …
Tool
Sometimes I just get sick of listening to bands like Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Metro Station, Paramore, or any other of those kind of pop rock bands. Just like with a meal, I want something with substance. Sometimes I want to hear lyrics that address serious …
Fox On The Run By Ace Frehley
On the new Ace Frehley record Anamoly their are a bunch of good tracks that the Ex guitarist layed down and did some vocals on that were very original. Although hes not much of a singer and he used vocal processing live I still think his melodic phrasing and …
Soundgarden: Ultramega OK
Wow! I can’t say that word enough when it comes to Soundgarden’s debut album, Ultramega OK. The band that blew the door down with this powerful, 13 track album. If you’re into rock at all, then this is the album to start your collection with.
With powerful and meaningful songs …
Toby Mac’s “City on Our Knees” Song
The first time I heard the song “City on Our Knees” by Toby Mac it was on the ending scenes from the movie “Grace Card”. Not only does the song bring to light some deep emotions that everyone feels when listening to a song that is meaningful to them, …
The Doors - Back Door Man (Song)
Back Door Man is a song which appears on The Doors’ self-titled debut record which is a cover of a Willie Dixon track. What I simply have to praise about this song, even as it’s just about forty-five seconds in is that it has a very nice laid-back groove …
Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson : Two Men With The Blues
The album featured collaborations between trumpeter, Wynton Marsalis, and the Legendary Country Singers, Willie Nelson. They played blues songs, jazz and country. It should be noted, that besides the soft voice of Willie Nelson and the trumpet playing of Wynton Marsalis, the accompanist musicians also showed their greatness. Accompanist …
Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back To Life
Released in August of 1990 this album caused an uproar at it’s shocking album cover and gruesome brutal lyrics, this album was banned in Germany and shunned by MTV, they got absolutely no airplay and had no help promoting the album, and this hardly slowed the band down, this …
Megadeth - Sleepwalker (Song)
Sleepwalker is a song by Megadeth which appears on their record United Abominations. The track starts off with a very melodic clean guitar part as some subtle strings also join in during the background of the track before a distorted guitar starts to build up and comes in with …
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 …
Edwin McCain Songs
I have been married for 4 years now and before that was engaged for nine long years to the same man. All those years, some songs became a part of our love story. Most of these songs are just so amazing it speaks straight to the heart. Among …
Life after you by Brie Larson
Brie Larson’s song life after you is a song I like to listen to and I like to tell my friends to listen to it after their boy friends break up with them just because it says there can be life after you break up and you should not …
Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde (Music Video)
Overview —“ Just to make things clear right now, I’m reviewing the song and music video A Tout Le Monde from Youthanasia, not from United Abominations. So this is also the version to feature Mustaine singing by himself and not accompanied with Cristina Scabbia. I’ll admit that I’m more …
Kyuss - Caterpillar March (song)
“Caterpillar March” is the seventh song off of the stellar Kyuss album “Blues for the Red Sun” It is a rather short but powerful song, at only one minute and fifty six seconds in length. Despite being such a short song, “Caterpillar March” musters up more talent that can …
Tina Mark-Where I Belong
Tina Mark-Where I Belong
Tina Mark has an ordained an album in the last 10 years. And now herself imposed semiretirement is over and all of her fans are extremely excited about the fact. The long anticipated album where I belong is a true masterpiece And a True emotional …
Creep - Radiohead
There is something to be said for a song that seems to at first say one thing, through its music and lyrics, then completely changes up the tone of the entire song using a slight variation of those same lyrics and same music. It surprises you initially, then you …
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole (Music Video)
Overview —“ Head Like A Hole, the second music video and single released by Nine Inch Nails for their debut record Pretty Hate Machine goes in a similar direction as the music video for Down In It, but the execution and the overall is much better with Head Like …
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (Song)
Iron Maiden is a track by the band of the same name which appears on their self-titled debut record. If that was a bit confusing, I will just clarify and say the track name is Iron Maiden and is written by a band known as Iron Maiden which appears …
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