Don’t Tread On Me, another one of the more aggressive songs from The Black Album, isn’t exactly a song which I enjoy too much, and ironically, James Hetfield supports this. Don’t Tread On Me isn’t a terrible song, but it does sound slightly forced in my opinion and it …

Days is one of The Kinks’ most well known and well loved songs. Like most of the band’s most successful hits, it was written by Ray Davies, who later went on to have quite a prolific career as a solo artist. Days came out in 1968, and did fairly …

For You Blue is the penultimate track on The Beatle’s final record, Let It Be. To be honest, For You Blue was a song which I never used to listen to at all. In fact, after a long time of not listening to the song, I had completely forgotten …

Little Maggie is a traditional song which is arranged and performed for his album Good As I Been To You. The track opens up with an acoustic guitar pattern which seems to have a nice move to it. Dylan comes in with the vocals in a somewhat deep tone …

Planet Telex is a song by Radiohead which appears on their second album, The Bends. Opening up with some noise effects, the normal instrumentation comes in quickly enough but also has an effect over it which gives it a delayed and reverberated type of sound. Yorke’s vocals come into …

I have known Moby as a well respected electronica musician who has been in the music business since the early nineties. His music climax, in my opinion, was this very album, “Play” (1999). (In fact, this album saved his career!) I have listened to this album since about 2005 …

This is just another one of Carrie Underwood’s amazing songs. By far, she is the best American Idol there ever was and the most successful. This song didn’t get very big on the radio but got big in my heart. I can’t quite relate to the subject of the …

I have always been upset that I missed Woodstock and missed most of the 60’s. I have been jealous of those people who lived through that decade of peace, love and rock and roll. My music tastes, and sometimes even my taste in fashion and lifestyle have trended toward …

Dillon Francis is one of the biggest DJ’s in electronic music right now, and his style is extremely diverse. Money Sucks, Friends Rule is his first full-length album, and it is an excellent debut. It shows off his diverse style as a DJ and showcases his wide variety of …

Surf Wax America is a song by Weezer which appears on their self-titled debut record, otherwise known as The Blue Album. The track opens up with a nice guitar pattern before Cuomo comes in with the vocal delivery of the track and focuses on lyrics which all relate to …

The Downward Spiral is the title track for a record released by Nine Inch Nails. The track starts off with just some noise in the background which gradually grows louder and certainly helps in creating a very dark and eerie mood which is really just rampant throughout this entire …

Rising from the ashes of Boston rock group The Umpteens, former front man Don Lennon has crafted a collection of songs marking his debut cult-classic album “Maniac”. Sharing the same surname as a former Beatle, although it may be a pseudonym, it is certain he would have made John …

You need not be a die hard Mary J. Blige fan to appreciate some the rare gems on her albums. On the “Mary” album released in 1999, there is one song in particular that really caught my ear. It’s called “Beautiful Ones” (not to be confused with …

Agnes is one of those recording artists that did not pop up until very recently, but one that I have been very pleasantly surprised by. To me, she looks so much like Leona Lewis and she has a great voice just like Leona Lewis. There is something about her …

Coldplay is a British band specializing in the Alternative rock genre.
One of my favourite songs from them is named “What If” from their X & Y album release.
I like how this song begins with a piano playing and the singer, Chris Martin, immediately begins to sing after the first …

When I first heard this song, I felt like I was going to cry. The music’s beat was just like you’re in a dream and you don’t know if it’s a happy song or a sad song because it’s such a happy song that you don’t ever want it …

When it comes to dark jazz, the average listener tends to think of the melancholic and sedative performances of the likes of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, perhaps even Miles Davis in his addiction years. But what most don’t realize is that, as a genre, dark jazz had never fully …

Overview —“ Peace Sells, another music video and single released by Megadeth for their second effort, Peace Sells—¦ But Whose Buying, showcases the band continuing on with an aggressive tone, but more mature lyrics on this track compared to the previous single, Wake Up Dead. Peace Sells is one …

Shaved Gorilla is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their third record, Telepathic Suicide. Opening up with a sampling of what sounds like a classic Disney film, Shaved Gorilla opens up with a very lighthearted mood and innocent sound. Once this opening sampling ends, a moderately …

Suck is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their EP Broken. Suck starts off with a fairly slow to moderate tempo with synthesizers having the main rhythm which gives the track that very characteristic industrial and eerie tone which has become associated with Nine Inch Nails. …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Sweet Dreams”
Album: I Am… Sasha Fierce
Label: Columbia
Director: Adria Petty
Beyonce ditches the black and white cinematography formula for color once again ( as she did for “Halo”). I’m not sure if a dream with Beyonce would be a nightmare or a sweet dream, it depends - If it …

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”, …

Ai Otsuka is a very famous jpop singer in Japan. She’s been signed to avex trax and is known for her songs such as Planetarium (a song from a famous drama called Hana Yori Dango), or Sakuranbo.
My favourite songs by Ai Otsuka are “Daisuki dayo” which means “I love …

Out of all the Star Trek movie soundtracks, I consider this to be my favorite one with perhaps the only exception being Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The reason I enjoy this soundtrack so very much is because much of the music is incredibly rich and well crafted. …

Some things never go out of style and Elton John is one of them. Elton John quickly soared to number one spots on the charts in the 1970’s and kept making those hits spanning a very long career. I love Elton John’s music but not his attitude so much. …

Welcome To Paradise, one of Green Day’s most well known songs is a track which appears on Dookie. Aside from the tracks which are on American Idiot then I’d actually probably say that Welcome To Paradise, or Longview, would be the most well known Green Day song, and with …

Suicide And Redemption, Metallica’s fourth instrumental of their career and penultimate track on Death Magnetic, is similar to The Unforgiven III in the sense that it has some truly brilliant parts but also some parts which just aren’t so good. I’ll start with my complaints against the track. My …

Brother Sport is a song by Animal Collective and the final track to appear on their 2009 release, Merriweather Post Pavilion. Opening up with a quick and lighthearted feel, the song immediately reminds me of Lion In A Coma because of this. Despite this, Brother Sport lacks the somewhat …

Artist: Mase ft. Puff Daddy
Video: “Looking At Me”
Album: Harlem World
Director: McG.
“Looking At Me” is the fourth and final single and music video from Mase’s debut album “Harlem World”, following in the line of singles and music videos that include “Feel So Good”, “What You Want”, and “24 Hours to …

Taylor Swift has become wildly successful in just a matter of years. In high school, I barely knew her name. Now, she is all over the Billboard charts and wins tons of awards at every single music awards show you can think of. Taylor Swift puts a twist on …

Gimme Shelter, the opening track to The Rolling Stones’ record Let It Bleed would have to be among my favorite Rolling Stones songs at the moment. In my opinion, just about everything on this track just comes together extremely nicely and overall the song is among their best, or …

Many rock metal lovers and slipknot fans is waiting for this song to be release, I first heard this song on Youtube.com this is a leak one because the album is not released yet. After various times repeating this song I essentially realize and being curious what’s the meaning …

Tool’s 10,000 days has been a welcome addition to my music collection, in early 2006 I picked this album up soon after it’s releases, the album packaging was immence, a digipak with 3d glasses and matching booklet, I have never been as impressed with album packaging as I was …

On Avery Island is an album by Neutral Milk Hotel and is the first LP released by the group. Up at this point in this career, the only music listeners could judge this band by appeared on their EP Everything Is. In comparison to the songs on that EP, …

The first time that I heard this song was by the original artists, The Rolling Stones, as the theme song for the popular 80’s television series, ‘Tour of Duty’. Ever since then, I have loved this song and heard it both recorded and performed by a number of different …

I Just Had To Die is a song by The Knife which appears on their self-titled record. The song opens up with a rhythm which is sort of interesting at first, but draws slightly annoying after a few repetitions in my opinion. In my opinion, the vocals could’ve been …

It has been a while since I have been pleasantly surprised by a musician or a band, which is why I was so happy to discover Florence and the Machine. Much like so many good musicians over the years, Florence Welch hails from the UK and brings …

Like You by Bow Wow featuring Ciara is a song about how this guy and girl still like each other and do things but are not dating. It’s like that is how a lot of relationships are now days. This song to me is kind of sad in the …

Little Dog is a song by Lou Reed and Metallica which is the eighth track on their collaboration album Lulu. Opening up with an acoustic guitar riff, the track takes on a very dark and eerie atmosphere right from the beginning which strikes me as a sound which Reed …

Iced Honey is a song by Lou Reed and Metallica which is the fifth track on their collaboration album Lulu. I’ll start out very positive and say that this is one of the better examples where Reed actually fits fairly well with the music behind him. The reason for …

“No Need To Argue” was a natural evolution from their previous album. The Cranberries recreated exactly what they’ve achieved on “Everybody ” except they did it on a different scale. Stronger, angrier, longer, the album has that self-confidence “Everybody ” lacked. Supposedly this mixture was the one which rocketed …

U2 is an Irish rick band and they brought out an album a while back named “How to dismantle and atomic bomb.” Interesting title if I do say so myself.
I bought the album for one of the songs in particular but other songs from it has grown on …

Heart Of Stone is a track by The Rolling Stones which appears on the album Out Of Our Heads. Right from the opening introduction of this track the rhythm is pretty much set up and you can tell right away that this track is going to be some type …

Not usually my cup of tea this. It’s more a bitter dark and strong coffee that you could stand a spoon up in … I really dislike the taste of coffee.
So it’s not something I would knowingly drink. Or, to cut the waffle (and terrible metaphor) short: It’s not …

Holy Wars… The Punishment Due is a song by Megadeth which appears on their record Rust In Peace. The track opens up with a very rapid guitar riff which the drums imitate to add an extremely heavy rhythm to the song. Mustaine wastes no time getting into this track …

Disciple is a song by Slayer which starts out with a somewhat slow rhythm in comparison to an average Slayer song to be honest. When Araya first came in I thought his vocal tone was going to be absolutely terrible, and although it seems slightly bad on this track, …

I first heard Taylor Swift’s “You Belong with Me” in my boyfriend’s iPod, and he was singing along with it like some lunatic so I just had to listen to it for myself to know what the hype was all about. Then wow, I was instantly hooked.
Personally I …

5446 That’s My Number/Ball And Chain is a song by Sublime and the sixth track on their debut record, 40 Oz. To Freedom. Starting out with one of the more recognizable sections from this record, this song opens up with a moderate tempo comprised of a classic reggae rhythm …

I am and will always be a huge fan of alternative music, and one of my favorite alternative bands ever is Bastille. And no, I don’t think they’re french or their band name is related to the famous french holiday, but I do believe they’re name is quite interesting, …

This album is a concept album of sorts, the theme being a desert radio station, Josh Homme drew inspiration for the album driving through the desert, he puts the listener in the car with him from LA to Mohave desert. This album features Dave Grohl (of the foo fighters …