Overview —“ Aerials, the first single released by System Of A Down for their second record, Toxicity, returns the band to very metaphorical lyrics and video that they introduced on certain singles, Spiders and Sugar in particular. I suppose that if System Of A Down were to have something …

While some might have negative opinions about Lady Gaga’s wardrobe, from her outrageous makeup to her flashy outfits and hair, there is no denying her talent in song. Her recent song, which has been played on American Idol and time and time again on the radio, called “On the …

Real music strikes again, in the form of something a tad different from India.Arie’s (India Simpson) previous albums. While the soul in her voice remains, embedded and improved upon, the origins of the music used are as diverse as Middle Eastern and as pop as Britney Spears. Ms. Simpson …

Apologize by timbaland ft. one republic is a sad song to me in some ways because it talks about how this person male or female it could be says to the other person male or female it could be it is too late to apologize. This song seems to …

“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 …

Aaliyah
“If Your Girl Only Knew”
One In A Million
Blackground/Atlantic
Aaliyah returned to the spotlight in 1996 with her second album, “One In A Million”, promoted by her debut single and video from the album, “If Your GIrl Only Knew”. This song and video is one quite funky jam which stands out …

Ride The lightning was Metallica’s sophomore effort.It came with a studio polishing that the first album lacked.However, the music was arranged with an intelligent quality and the overall thunder created a sound that was then unheard of.There is much debate as to which album is Metallica’s best but I …

Last Of The American Girls is a song by Green Day which appears on their latest record, 21st Century Breakdown. This song starts off with a bass line by Dirnt before Armstrong comes in with the vocals of the track with yet another vocal melody which works incredibly well …

Dilemma by Nelly and Kelly Rowland is about how much Nelly likes Kelly. This song is a love song if I have never even heard it and just read reviews about it I would figure that much out. This song is an awesome song in my book but that�s …

Foggy Notion is a song by The Velvet Underground which appears on their record VU. The track starts off with all of the instruments simultaneously in a rhythm which works very nicely to be honest and has a very good flow which seems to provide good ground for Reed …

It is a very good idea of the organizers or whoever they call to compile the 2nd version soundtrack title, High School Musical 2. I find arrangement truly amazing and this soundtrack is something that I always put on and listen to while cooking, doing some exercises or …

Disney soundtrack Bolt by John Powell rocks! And just one word to sum it: COOL. Filled me with suspense, fun and thrill. It befits an animated movie and my expectation from a soundtrack point of music contact to match a Disney animated movie is matched.
I must commend …

Opeth have always been a band of new beginnings, and on their fifth release “Blackwater Park”, they change it all up again.
Opeth are critically acclaimed for their re-invention of Death Metal back in the early Ninties. Fusing Folk and Death Metal and creating music that almost borders on the …

In the 1960’s, Patty Duke was one of the most successful teenagers in Hollywood. She performed this song, Funny Little Butterflies, in her movie, Billie. It comes from L. Crane, J. Gold, and B. Ross.
Funny Little Butterflies is a song about growing up. It’s a coming …

Ivy Boy is a song off of the album “Music of The Adventures of Pete and Pete”. Polaris was a side project involving members from the band Miracle Legion, writing songs for the hit show at the time “The Adventures of Pete and Pete”. Among these songs I find …

Getting Smaller, a song by Nine Inch Nails for their record With Teeth, is quite an aggressive song and certainly strikes me as one of Reznor’s better songs, at least for this record at least. Getting Smaller is a pretty straightforward track which wastes no time getting into the …

When I was younger back when I still somewhat interested in soca music, the soca music group Byron Lee and the Dragonaires were one of my favourite music groups. While I knew that the group originated in my homeland, unlike many other soca music groups, I recently found out …

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 …

How To Disappear Completely (And Never Be Found Again) is a song by Radiohead which appears on their record Kid A. Before I begin this review, I want to say that although this track may not be immediately appealing, I strongly recommend listening to it multiple times before making …

Aurore Rien is a tragic story. An american shoegaze band that only got to do two albums before they broke up as a band. A Split Penion Seraph was part of their first album and is in my opinion their most memorable. It has an hypnotic character, combining sweet …

Chris Norman may not exactly be a household name these days, but let me assure you that no matter who you are there is a good chance that you have heard at least one or two of his songs in your life. The main one would be LIVING NEXT …

Artist: Mariah Carey
Video: If It’s Over
Album: MTV Unplugged
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Larry Jordan
“If It’s Over” is the second and final single and music video from Mariah Carey’s MTV Unplugged album, following the Jackson Five reenactment with Trey Songz titled “I’ll Be There”. Once again, we are treated to compiled footage …

Neil Young is probaably one of the most famous artists in music today. Neil Young ha been around since the ’60’s and is one of the artist which I heard all the time growing up. My parents both love him and though I think that some of his songs …

Old Flame is a song by Arcade Fire which appears on their self-titled EP record. Opening up with an instrumental intro which centers around a guitar’s rhythm, the vocals enter the mix with a delivery that sounds characteristic to the typical vocal sound Arcade Fire would later develop and …

I am a huge fan of and specialist in KMFDM music. I have been listening to them for a very long time. I find their music very original, very special and characteristic to them. They created their own style, and they follow by it. But, on this album, this …

I remember in the late nineteen nineties and early two thousands I had begun to discover pop rock. I was still very young, not even a teenager as yet and so I didn’t know where to get new music especially new music from the pop rock genre since that …

Mary J. Blige is a real great crooner. She sings from her heart and whenever I hear her sing, I know she sings sincerely as well and takes real care in her songs and the makings of it.
I have this particular CD album from her titled, Growing …

This is it, unlike the last couple Led Zeppelin set this one has single every Led Zeppelin studio album in a convenient box set, 10 cd’s and 9 albums, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin III Zoso (Led Zeppelin IV), Houses Of The Holy, Presence, Physical Graffiti, In …

Anonymous does not play music like Faith No More like the previous albums. Kevin Rutmanis absence of a bass player, able to change the concept of music that normally hard, even though the age of the personnel are old enough. Tomahawk lowered the tempo in playing music? Tomahawk …

All by myself is another good song by Celine Dion. This song is about a person who never cares about love and who used to think that love is for fun but realize that it is sad to be alone.I always hear this song too many Music Bars. This …

Britney Spears has started out her career at a very young age. It was clear that she was always driven and determined to succeed. Her first gig was as a singer in the very successful show at the time The Mikey Mouse Club. Later on she kept on …

How you remind me by Nickelback is a song I like a lot because the words stand out to me when ever I listen to it. It’s like I can relate to what the singer is trying to say in his song. My friend on the other hand told …

Wish You Were Here, the title track of Pink Floyd’s record Wish You Were Here is an example of one of the best songs I believe that Pink Floyd has written throughout their entire career. Wish You Were Here is driven primarily simply by vocals and an acoustic guitar, …

A Time To Love(A Time 2 Love) was released by Stevie Wonder in 2005 and won him a Grammy Award in 2006.It contains fifteen tracks and I think it is an absolutely amazing album.Very smooth,melodious and mellow,I believe it is what true RnB should sound like.The standout tracks include …

I don’t know how I can exactly describe it but when I listen to Sarah Brightman’s song, it seems you are immersed in very cold water. As if the water has ice all over. Her voice is …

I was waiting for you release by Tom Waits for a very long time. And I was very happy when it finally came. I really did not believe that Tom Waits is going to release another album and you can imagine how surprised and pleasantly surprised in the first …

This album was released back in 1999, and is one of my favourite Albums done by the Aussie band. The boys had started being in a band back in 1994 when they were young teenagers and has had a few heavier hard rocking albums before this one. I find …

One could find many reasons to criticize this album, probably, but I personally do like it though. I first got acquainted with KMFDM by their post-millennial albums, and then I got to listen to this, which could be considered its first true complete album, even though there were two …

I saw this music video after the CMT Music Awards. I didn’t think I was going to like it but since it won an award, I figured I would listen to it and see if it really deserved it. I had wanted Carrie Underwood to win for “Cowboy Casanova”. …

Elysian Fields is a song by Megadeth which appears on their album Youthanasia. The track opens up with some brief noise before leading way to a heavy guitar riff with Mustaine singing over it in his characteristic Mustaine snarl. The guitar riff on this song isn’t exactly thrash metal …

Garth Brooks does a song called If Tomorrow Never Comes. This is a soft spoken song that talks about all the what if’s, when it comes to the future. It talks about losing loved ones and never telling them how you really feel before they died and not …

Overview - Band Of Gypsys, a live album by Jimi Hendrix, features Jimi Hendrix along with two new musicians: Buddy Miles on drums and vocals and Billy Cox on bass and backing vocals. Personally, after listening to the first two of The Jimi Hendrix Experience records, Band Of …

The song Six Days On The Road which is sung by Red Sovine is about a truck driver who wants to get home to see his family. It reminds me of my husband when he worked on a construction crew in Washington DC a few years ago. He worked …

Overview - The Final Cut, Pink Floyd’s final record with Roger Waters, is truly an album that’s dominated by Waters himself. He sings lead on every track except one, where Gilmour sings lead on, and to be honest - just about every track on here is carried by him …

“Good Morning Revival” is the 2007 album from pop-punk band Good Charlotte.It is very different to their previous 3 albums in that it introduces a new Dance sound into Good Charlotte’s normal snotty teen pop-punk sound.Fans of Good Charlotte’s earlier work (I would be one of them)may be disappointed …

“Bleed” is the third track off of Meshuggah’s 2008 album Obzen. Technically I believe it is a single off the album but I’m not quite sure. I do know that the song kicks major butt and that they do in fact have a music video for it. So going …

Erich Kunzel: Star Tracks II CD is a very nice compilation of various science fiction compositions. Kunzel and his Cincinnati Pops Orchestra are so good at conveying the spirit and excitement of the TV shows and/or movies the selections are from.
There are several pieces from the Star Trek …

Artist: Beyonce ft. Missy Elliott, MC Lyte, and Free
Video: “Fighting Temptation”
Album: “The Fighting Temptations”: Music from the Motion Picture
Label: Columbia
Director: Antti Jokinen
“Fighting Temptation” is a single and music video off of the official motion picture soundtrack for the 2003 film starring Beyonce Knowles and Cuba Gooding, Jr. called “The …

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 …

Electronic keyboards are good fun, we decided to invest in one and started looking closely at all the keyboards advertised on the Amazon website. We found the Yamaha YTP200 a reasonably priced keyboard at £56
The whole family are music lovers and keyboard music would be great to use for …