Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: Jumpin Jumpin
Album: The Writings On The Wall
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Joseph Kahn
“Jumpin’, Jumpin’” is the fourth single and music video from Destiny’s Child’s second album titled “The Writings On The Wall”, following the previous singles, “Bills, Bills, Bills”, “Bug-a-Boo”, and “Say My Name”. Interestingly enough, this was …

Jay-Z ft. Frody, Gotti, and Niela
“20 Bag Shorty”
The Projects Presents: Balhers Forever
AV8 Records/BMG
“20 Bag Shorty” is a single and music video from Jay-Z off of a compilation rap album called “The Projects Presents: Balhers Forever”. Jay-Z plays a ghost in this music video, no not literally, just as much …

I was surprised that I had never heard of the apparently popular R&B singer Randy Crawford until my parents were given one of her CDs a few years ago by a friend of my family. This was because I am also sure that I have never heard any of …

From the moment I first heard “All About the Bass” more than a year ago, I instantly fell in love with Meghan Trainor. She gave something that not only reminded me of the 80’s but also the fact that she’s a newcomer, and with a concept that she’s trying …

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 …

Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: 8 Days of Christmas
Album: 8 Days of Christmas
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Sanaa Hamri
“8 Days of Christmas” is a promotional single and music video off of Destiny Child’s 2001 Christmas album of the same name. Directed by Sanaa Hamri (who also directed “Nasty Girl” for them), the music …

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 …

You Can’t Always Get What You Want is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Let It Be. This song is pretty well known just because of how often it’s played on the radio, but I’ll go through it anyway. The song opens up with …

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 …

Off of the new self titled album by Stone Temple Pilots, theres a track that I favor the most on this album. It’s the fifth track of this album called Dare if You Dare. This song is has a moderate tempo feel with a little bit of …

Ciara ft. Young Jeezy
“Never Ever”
Fantasy Ride
LaFace Records
Director: Chris Robinson
Ciara takes a softer approach with “Never Ever”, the follow-up single and music video to “Go Girl” from her third album, “Fantasy Ride”. The melody of the song and nature of the video is almost similar to “And I” from her …

As a lover of contemporary Christian music, I sometimes have trouble deciding which CDs to choose. There’s Christian pop and even Christian rap these days, but when I buy a CD I usually end up liking half the songs by the artist in question and not the other half. …

I really love Raggaeton music and in my country, Daddy Yankee is hot, damn hot I tell you. I have this CD called Barrio Fino by Daddy Yankee and there are quite a lot of catchy songs. There are 20 over songs and all of them are certainly …

Brian Wilson’s Grammy Award winning album “SMiLE” set the bar quite high for the aging Beach Boy. Doubtless, Wilson is past his prime, is somewhat obsolete, and indeed, sometimes sounds quite tired on “SMiLE”’s follow-up album “That Lucky Old Sun”.
“That Lucky Old Sun” takes its title from the titular …

Lil’ Kim ft. Puff Daddy
“No Time”
Hardcore
Atlantic/Bad Boy
In the booming years of Puff Daddy’s record label, Bad Boy Records, he was still putting his marketing niche together and churning out hits together at the same time as he continuously found the new talent and signed them up. By 1996, they …

Billy Talent The Album
This self-titled album was also the debut album for Canadian band Billy Talent. The album is about 45 minutes long and I bought it for about $10. I think this is the greatest of their three albums. It has the brash, harsh punk sound which seems …

P. Diddy ft. Christina Aguilera
“Tell Me”
Press Play
Bad Boy Entertainment
Director: Erik White
We begin a totally empty white living room that only has the latest stereo equipment on the market in there (i.e. Panasonic Plasma TV, an LC2 Grand Comfort Petite Model Armchair, and so forth). A sexy female assistant asks …

Slave is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Tattoo You. Slave starts off with a drum rhythm played on its own before the guitar riff comes in and out of the track and seems to have somewhat of a blues sound to it, the …

2 Pac is probably the best and most famous rapper who ever lived. He is a rap legend who can never be matched by any living rapper. I really admired him because he had deep lyrics that people could relate to. He always has a great sense of passion in …

While I have listened to many meditation music in the past, I highly recommend Brain Sync - Guided Meditation because of its quality. The good thing is, the CD comes with two versions - one with instructions which you can follow as you go along, and the other one …

Released in November of 2005 (6 months after Mezmerize)as the second part of a two disc album recorded in the same studio sessions, the artwork like Mezmerize was painted by Daron’s father to give the album an abstract look and feel. The Digipak cardboard case fits into Mezmerize to …

The song, Can We Talk by Code Red is a fantastic song. This song is a cover version and it is extremely nice and upbeat. Code Red is a British boy band but I think they are non-existent already.
If I’m not mistaken, they only manage to …

“Only In Dreams” is the closing song off of the fantastic debut album of Weezer. This such a good song to close an equally good album. To my knowledge it is also the longest song ever recorded by Weezer, although I admit I haven’t really dabbled into any of …

I’m just like any other Linkin Park fan; I loved Hybrid Theory and Meteora, I had mixed feelings for Minutes To Midnight, and the other two releases — the names escape me — are forgettable, although some of their songs were catchy enough to be memorable. The Hunting Party, …

The song Are You Up There has long been one that I’ve enjoyed and loved ever since I first heard it, which, being a big time fan of The Osmonds, has been a very long time. Written by the brothers themselves, Are You Up There asks a question …

Cosmic Charlie is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their record Aoxomoxoa. The track starts off with various guitars playing simultaneously, along with the bass, which has a nice sound and builds up very well for the verse of the track. Garcia comes in with a …

Soothing Sanctuary by David & Steve Gordon is really a superb collection of calming and soothing instrumental tracks that effectively separate me from all my headaches, all my worries, and carry me off to a state of serenity and peace. This audio CD is perfect for listening whenever I …

If I assess this album now, trying to figure out its worth more objectively, I probably would have a more sober opinion of it. But even after the passage of so many years, I still find it almost impossible to have an analytical, cold view of this album, because …

Holiday is a song by Weezer which appears on their self-titled debut record, otherwise known as The Blue Album. Opening up with an interesting lead guitar line accompanied by the rest of the band, Rivers Cuomo comes in with the vocals after this brief intro with a vocal delivery …

If you have ever seen the new line up of Guns N’ Roses, you may know a guitarist by the name of Richard Fortus. I recently saw the band live and they sounded amazing. Axl Rose was late as usual, but it was amazing to see them and …

Staring At Sound/With You (Reprise) is a song by The Flaming Lips and either the penultimate or final track on the band’s debut album, Hear It Is. While most copies of this album will have this song as the final track, early copies feature a bonus track entitled Summertime …

A great song by the band Guns N’ Roses off the Use your Illusion 2 album is the song Breakdown. It is a 7 minute song that opens up with a cool Axl Rose signature style whistle intro with banjo played by Slash and then it goes into a …

Gotta Get Away is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Out Of Our Heads. The track opens up with a fairly slow rhythm where each of the instruments join in the track pretty quickly along with Jagger’s vocals as well. I wouldn’t say that …

R. Kelly
“Happy People”
Happy People/U Saved Me
Jive Records
“Happy People” is the first single and music video from the R. Kelly double album “Happy People/U Saved Me” whose album cover looks like something out of an H&M clothing ad, I might say. Anyway, …

Lady Gaga’s new album “Born This way,” tells her fans to be comfortable and to love themselves for who they really are. On May 23, places like Amazon, Best buy and Itunes went flooded with 1.1 millions sales on the release of Lady Gaga’s new album “Born This way,” …

I actually like this album a lot. As far as Slipknot is concerned, I wasn’t that very impressed by the album that was called Volume 3 The Subliminal Verses. I thought that that music was not very effective on that album. On All Hope Is Gone Slipknot are complete …

Mother’s Little Helper is a song by the Rolling Stones which appears on Aftermath. The music isn’t anything too special on this track but the reason why I enjoy this track is because of Jagger’s vocal performance and the lyrics to this song as well which basically create a …

This album catapulted the band to worldwide fame, but I personally do not find the album all the strong. I think that this album has a very deep discrepancy between the different songs on it. Some of the songs are impressive and deserved to become the hits that they …

Sainthood is Tegan and Sara’s most recently released studio album. As a fun fact, it features the first two tracks ever that both twins collaborated to write, namely “Hell” and “The Cure.” The album is a throwback to their earlier work, sort of like a mix between So Jealous …

I lucked up on Ebay and found this electric acoustic guitar for $49. Imagine how shocked I was at seeing this price on a piece of musical equipment. Not only that, the guitar came with a mini electric amplifier. Now, here’s the catch: the shipping …

Paper Planes by M.I.A. is a song that I like a lot. Paper Planes is a song you can not pass up and the song is just fantastic. The words make very little sense to a lot of people but not to me. The song talks about how this …

I am sure that some people might not understand the beauty of the music on this album but I personally do find beauty in this music and below I will try to explain why the nine songs that were released by Sonic Youth in 1983 are attractive to me …

Overview —“ Spiders, a music video released by System Of A Down for promotion of their debut self titled album is a song and a music video that I’ll admit I really didn’t like at first. I’ll admit that I’m still not really a big fan of the music …

Utada Hikaru’s Apple and Cinnamon song is the right amount of song that makes you go through your daily life situations. You can listen to this when you are sad. You can listen to this when you are happy. You can also listen to this …

The Soodlum Tin Whistle or the Irish Tin Whistle as it is more commonly referred to is one of the oldest musical instruments used in Ireland. Still a favourite after all these years by top Irish and Celtic Musicians, the Tin Whistle can be viewed as a very small …

My aunt sent me this CD because she was given it for christmas, and absolutly hated it. i have to say, Im with my aunt on this one. i really like differnt music, i thought i really liked Fiona aple. i was very wrong. this CD is just…weird. I …

Empty Heart is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on the EP Five By Five. Empty Heart opens up with a guitar riff along with a simple moving drum rhythm which gives the track a pretty traditional rock and roll sound and this is only reinforced once …

Dance In The Dark is a song by Lady Gaga which appears on her album The Fame Monster. The track opens up with a fairly annoying introduction which unfortunately seems to remind me of the music of the 1980s. Gaga’s vocals come in soon enough with more of a …