I have most recently developed an attatchment to another song that starts off with a slow,flowing, and a tune created by an acoustic guitar. This may seem tedious to an audience who is exposed to almost a million songs that is written about a “sappy” moment in our lives. …

The world music awards was an average music show to watch, it was not anything out of the ordinary, i really expected more than what they showed for the night.
One of my favorite performances was the opening act which was Rhianna , she came out as usual …

Artist: Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals
Like a lot of people said reviving Beatles’ song is such a scary thing because not only you need to make a good rendition but also the tendency to ruin an already perfect song.
True in fact that I have heard lots of Beatles’ …

Head Like A Hole is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their debut album, Pretty Hate Machine. The track opens up with some industrial sound effects before a drum pattern comes in which gives the song a solid rhythm. Soon enough a synthesizer comes in over …

Overview —“ Side I of Rubber Soul, The Beatles’ sixth studio album, definitely showcases quite a bit of development as songwriters, from both Lennon and McCartney, and well even Harrison I suppose. McCartney’s contributions to this side of the record seemed as if they’d be lighthearted at first, just …

Overview - Blonde On Blonde, Bob Dylan’s seventh effort, is the first of Dylan’s albums to follow his commercially successful album, Like A Rolling Stone. After listening to Like A Rolling Stone I honestly wondered how Dylan would ever top that masterpiece, and to this day I don’t believe …

A song off the album Only By The Night by Kings Of Leon that I really enjoy is the track Crawl. the track starts off with the screech and feedback off the guitars. The band comes in with a heavy drum beat and that awesome bass line that …

Into The Lungs Of Hell is a song by Megadeth which appears on their record So Far, So Good… So What. Something to note about this track before we begin is that it’s an instrumental so if you aren’t typically a person who enjoys those, this wouldn’t be a …

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 …

Perversions Of Pain is a song by Slayer which appears on their record Diabolus In Musica. The track starts off with a fairly moderate tempo with chords which have a dissonant sound to them before the main riff of the song comes in along with the pounding drum rhythm. …

Aaron Lewis is the lead singer and acoustic guitar player of the band known as Staind. I have seen Aaron Lewis Live in concert, and I can say that he is an absolute Genius when it comes to music. His writing skills are amazing, and he actually told us …

Lil Wayne’s third album The Carter 3 was the most anticipated rap album of the year. Lil wayne has made himself into one of the biggest rappers in the world. His Carter series albums have been considered classics. Along with his solo albums, his mixtapes are also considered classic …

Fight Test is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their record Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. The song opens up with an echo-like effect and also sets up an atmosphere as if you’re in a huge arena of people watching a “fight test”, as the name …

I recently bought an awesome live music dvd from Best buy. It was a Use your Illusion 1 & 2 concert by Guns N’ Roses from Tokyo, Japan and this dvd came with the full 26 song concert on two disks. I really like this concert because it is …

Use The Man is a song by Megadeth which appears on their record Cryptic Writings. The song opens up with Mustaine singing right away along with an acoustic guitar strumming some chords as the lead guitar comes in and out throughout the intro along with the drum beat and …

One alternative song from the 90’s that wedged in my mind. It became the official soundtrack of the movie Empire Records. The movie was weird, even the casts, that is why I will not forget about this song. Gin Blossom is an American rock band that popularly sang Hey …

You’re all I have is another good hit from Snow Patrol, and like Chasing cars, arguably Snow Patrols most famous hit, the lead singer, Gary Lightbody has a voice which is somewhat appealing. In most of the songs, the lyrics involve Mr Lightbody asking somebody for something, almost pleading. …

“Slaves of Pain” is the sixth song on the thrash masterpiece “Beneath the Remains” by Sepultura. In my personal and humble opinion, this is the best song on the entire album. This song alone showcases almost everything Sepultura has to offer at that point and time in their career. …

The Album believe by Justin Bieber was the turning point in his career. This album was intended to show the singer leaving his childhood, sweet school romance styled music behind, and into a life of a teen/adult. Though many people were unsure this would work, I have to Personally …

The way I am by Eminem is an awesome song that is a confusing rap to me. This song has a lot of cuss words in it but I still love this song because it talks about how a person to this guy is anything and everything that other …

The fact that JLS were chosen to do the Children In Need Song for 2010 shows how popular they have become. I think it was a lovely type of ballad that they did and another example that they have more than one string to their bow. It’s also easy …

Live At Woodstock is probably the best recording of Jimi Hendrix live behind Band Of Gypsys.This is pretty much the reason most people have heard about him through the generations.His cherished rendition of The Star Spangled Banner is as beautiful as it is distinctive.However, you will find a special …

Ride The Lightning, the title track of Metallica’s second release, is a song where I believe you can hear some aspects of Kill —˜Em All blended with some new aspects from Ride The Lightning. The reason I say this is because the music to …

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 …

One of my favorite CDs now is The String Quartet Tribute to KISS. I love this CD for so many reasons. It combines a great band (KISS) with a string quartet that is so good. One chance at listening to this CD and chances are you …

Overview —“ Black Sabbath, the self titled debut album of arguably the most influential and also the first heavy metal band of all time is one of the albums that I personally consider started it all. The chemistry of the four members of Black Sabbath: Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, …

Foolish game is the most my favorite song from Jewel. Though this song is not become hits anymore but it could be my soundtrack of my life ever.
This song is slow and can categorize in ballad song. The lyrics is tell about a girl who think that her boyfriend …

I’ve Got A Feeling is a song by The Beatles which appears on their final record, Let It Be. The song starts off with a nice guitar riff before McCartney comes in with a pretty tame vocal delivery, tame in comparison to the delivery that he reaches by the …

“Scumbag Blues” is the 6th track off of super group Them Crooked Vultures debut album. The group was conceived by Josh Homme, whom also is credited for vocals and guitar. Dave Grohl plays drums, you may know him from Foo Fighters or Nirvana. John Paul Jones plays bass, which …

Must Be The Ganja is a song written by Eminem which appears on his album Relapse. To begin with an overview of the album and my general thoughts on it, I felt that it was certainly a shift in the overall sound and songwriting for Eminem compared to his …

Hot Love Drama is a song by MGMT which appears on their debut record, Climbing To New Lows. If you read my review on MGMT’s previous track, Money To Burn, then you’ll have seen that my main complaint against that track was that it felt like it lacked energy, …

I am a huge fan of music that has a distinct eighties vibe to it, not least of which music actually made in the eighties. There is just something about the use of cheesy synths and rhythm inspired pop base lines that just keeps me listening without question. For …

I will admit that when I heard the first few bits of Give Me Novacaine I was a bit worried that it was going to be another track to sound extremely similar to previous songs like Boulevard Of Broken Dreams and Are We The Waiting, thankfully I was wrong. …

Besides their other huge album Cherry pie. The 80’s Glam Rock band Warrant also achieved alot of success with the Album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich. This album had huge power Ballad hits like Sometimes She Cries and Heaven that mostly had a big following with the younger women. …

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 …

Miss You is a song by Foster The People which appears on their debut album, Torches. The track opens up with a heavily synthesized introduction which has a definitive rhythm and sets up an interesting atmosphere for what may follow. The vocals come in with a delivery which …

Recently I came across a song on the radio that I have not been able to get out of my head. Usually, it is not my sort of genre of music type, and I go for more of the classic rock or modern rock sort of songs, but this …

Let’s all be real, only teens and fangirls went crazy for One Direction. In reality, nobody takes their music seriously. They have been releasing numerous radio-candy songs but they’re all bad in quality. Not that radio-candy songs are automatically bad (see Katy Perry), but their songs have been tryhard …

This CD — Hank Jones: If You Were Mine — is for the people who have influenced the singer. If you read the liner jacket for nothing else, read the bit about Tony Bennett. I was absolutely laughing at loud at the notation there. It’s priceless.
This …

“I Know Somethin (Bout You)” is a rather interesting song. It appears on Alice In Chains album “Facelift”. What makes this song so interesting is that it doesn’t really have that Alice in Chains feel to it, except for in the chorus. It actually sounds like it could be …

Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand is a song by The Who which appears on their album The Who Sell Out. Opening up with a lighthearted hand, a gentle vocal harmony enters the track for the first verse. Though the verse doesn’t go on for very long, I have …

As a longtime fan of progressive/experimental music, I often gravitate towards sound patterns that seem to buck the norm, and stand out as truly not heard in mainstream music. Closure in Moscow usually does a pretty decent job of creating songs that sound as though they were never meant …

Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield is a song about a girl trying to write a story about her life but she can’t seem to get the words down on paper about her life. This song is so poetic that it inspires me to write poetry every time I here this …

Sum 41 is a fairly good Canadian Punk Rock band and this is their first album, and for a first album it’s actually fairly good in my opinion with some really good and memorable songs. I am not a hardcore fan of this band like I am some other …

Cuckoo Cuckoo is a song by Animal Collective and is the penultimate track on their album Strawberry Jam. Opening up with an introduction which initially has a somewhat confusing sound, the band establishes a firmer structure after around a minute where a piano carries the rhythm and the vocals …

The Great Destroyer is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album Year Zero. The song starts out with a synthesizer and an electric drumkid which gives the song a pretty artificial sound to be hoenst, and not exactly in a good way. Reznor comes in …

I bought this CD, Now 71 by Various Artists the other day and boy is it good. I enjoyed myself tremendously and there are just loads of nice songs like from my favorite band; Coldplay, and The Verve.
There is a little mix of here and there; alternative …

I recently rediscovered the grunge and hard rock band called “Pearl Jam”. They were one of my favourite bands in the early 2000s when I first started discovering my love for hard rock music and bands such as Creed, and Lifehouse. These days, I’ve begun to do some re-exploring …

The band Killswitch Engage is an awesome band! I love the hardcore beats these guys play. They are one of the best metal bands out there. They hail from Western MA and are freaking awesome.
I love their songs and the best song that they have out is their song …

Ocean Avenue is Yellowcard’s most successful album.
This is the album where their music started to sound like their newer albums.The music has gotten slower and more arranged.The violin lines are more present.
This is my personal best for them.The reason is that this one the songs are still quite raw …