My kids think I’m old school because I mostly prefer country music now days. However every now and them I shock them when I listen to songs like ‘Stair Way to Heaven’ by Led Zeppelin. What they don�t realize is I was a kid once too. That I …

I love the movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, so naturally I adore the soundtrack from this musical as well. I remember seeing this in the theaters when it came out, and I went on multiple occasions. Dick Van Dyke stars, and he shows such zest, and tenderness, …

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. …

I was really impressed with this two-man band - or should I say, the one man, one woman band. HoneyHoney is comprised of two members and two members only (with the exception of an additional musician or so on stage i.e. a drummer). For some reason, usually …

Jay-Z ft. Pharrell
“Blue Magic”
American Gangster
Roc-A-Fella Records/Island Def Jam
Director: Hype Williams
“Blue Magic” is the first single and music video off of Jay-Z’s tenth album titled “American Gangster” which contains music that was inspired by the Ridley Scott film “American Gangster” (2007). Jay-Z reunites with the Jedi Master Yoda of music …

Overview - The Number Of The Beast, Iron Maiden’s third effort and first with vocalist Bruce Dickinson (To replace Paul Di’Anno), merges excellent songwriting with excellent guitarwork. As I ended by last review on Killers by saying on their debut record they had excellent songwriting and on Killers they …

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. …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Ring The Alarm”
Album: B-Day
Label: Columbia
Director: Sophie Muller
Uh-oh, somebody ticked Beyonce off. “Ring The Alarm” is the second single and music video from Beyonce’s second album titled “B-Day”, following the previous debut single “Deja Vu”. “Ring The Alarm” depicts a threatened Beyonce Knowles who is upset about her …

Overview - Barrett, the second solo record of Syd Barrett, is more stripped down songwriting - basically the exact opposite of his work in Pink Floyd. While in Pink Floyd Barrett worked a lot with very frantic and chaotic psychedelic music, but this album really isn’t like that at …

This is a heavy metal genre, and my brother have a lot of CDs like this, or other CD albums from the popular band, Metallica.
This CD Album could be bought for about $15, and the songs inside are somewhat metal to me, and there’s not really a special track …

Overview - Let It Be, the final studio album of The Beatles, is made up more of melodic tracks rather than just traditional rock songs, although there are still some of those on here, mixed with some great songwriting and excellent vocal delivery. For me, there aren’t too many …

The Hank Jones: That Old Feeling CD is available on the singer’s website and as the label indicates is a collection of music set to “the gentle ballad sounds of Hank Jones.” Now Hank Jones might not be a household name everywhere in the world, but he’s a …

I am not a korean, I am just one of the many filipino fans of the rising star korean girl pop group 2ne1. One reason why I like this group is because of Sandara Park who is now using the name Dara when she joined 2ne1.
I am really …

Eminem also known as Marshall Mathers and by his alter ego Slim Shady is back. After issues with drugs such valium and other prescription pills, Em is ready to make a print on the rap game with his latest albums hitting those issues about his troubles with relapsing. Best …

Overview - Side II of The Wall by Pink Floyd is a huge improvement after side I, which wasn’t terrible but at the same time it didn’t really make me too eager to hear the rest of the album. Side II just had better songwriting overall, and although there …

Before I review this album, it is important to mention that I don’t typically listen to this style of music. I’m a metalhead and also listen to a lot of gothic music, but every once in a while I’ll end up listening to something completely unexpected and far outside …

Ciara ft. Petey Pablo
“Goodies”
Goodies
LaFace Records
Director: Benny Boom
Newcomer R&B female singer Ciara blows it up with her first single and music video, “Goodies”, an interesting combination of crunk and R&B. The song refers to virginity and female empowerment. The female refuses to be an object as a complex beat booms …

Overview - Killers, the second album by Iron maiden and last to feature Paul Di’Anno, expands on some of the more technical sides that they introduced on their self titled debut album and also incorporates more use of harmony, a crucial aspect of their music that Maiden became known …

I was listening to the radio today and heard Kelly Clarkson’s version of “To Make You Feel My Love” and fell in love with it. I love the song to begin with but her voice is great for this song. She really seems to feel it when she sings …

Soundgarden’s Flower is an aboslute must-have for any Garden fan, or any fan of rock music! The single contains two other fantasic songs: Toy Box and Head injury.
Released in ‘88, this three-track mini super album from Soundgarden is an absolute classic. Chris Cornell’s voice rips through the speakers, …

One of the best songs I ever heard. This side of Katy Perry, which is somewhat serious, is very surprising. Katy Perry is a bold artist writing songs about realities in life. One of these songs is Thinking of You.
Its lyrics talks about losing a loved one and the …

Masters Of War is one of the earlier tracks on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and I still remember this as being the first Bob Dylan song to truly catch my attention and get me into his songwriting. I remember that I had heard some of Dylan’s music, mostly just …

Chris Cagle is a country singer who always sings very different topics, like ones you wouldn’t really think to sing about. This song is about doing things to impress girls. And I like it because a lot of is true when it comes to men and woman. Men do …

Lulu is a collaboration between Metallica and Lou Reed. An odd collaboration to say the least, the lyrics to Lulu are based on a play, but the track listing oddly doesn’t follow the story in any chronological order which makes me feel as if this isn’t a concept album. …

I recently purchased the new slash album from walmart because I thought it would be cool to have and interesting to see what kind of music slash is making nowadays. At first I thought it was going to be an ok album but it is actually better than I …

Say what you will about her as a trainwreck of a celebrity - Courtney Love knows how to rock. There were always rumors and whispers that her band Hole was only ever popular because she’s most famous as the widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. But Love …

Rehab is the 4th track off of Downs debut album “NOLA”. Released in 1995, Down is a side project of the lead singer of Pantera - Phil Anselmo. “NOLA” made it on the Billboard top 200, reaching the 57 spot.
Rehab is a metal groove sounding song. It resembles and …

This song is a great example for all the parents out there. And I like how the lyrics convey a serious issue in a very comical way. A lot of parents don’t believe that the way they act and what they say affects their children. But it really does. …

A Song Dedicated To The Memory Of Stormy The Rabbit is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their album People That Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People. What I will say immediately about this track is that although I think the songwriting is just brilliant, …

In early 2007, there was news that Coldplay will release an album that will be different from the three previous albums. I was afraid, that this experiment will be a problem for Coldplay, who has become the leading band. However, after hearing that there are 10 songs on the …

I have seen a poem entitled “Footprints in the sand”. And I was able to hear an old version of it. If I am not mistaken, this is a Christian song which speaks about a man having a dream that he was walking with Christ. Then, he faced a …

Judas is a song by Cage The Elephant which appears on their self-titled debut record. The track opens up with the youthful energy of the band led by a distorted guitar before giving way to the vocal line and the instrumentation unfortunately seems to fade off into the background. …

I’m Looking Through You is a song by The Beatles which appears on their record Rubber Soul. Before I begin I want to stress right now that this is one of the many examples on Rubber Soul that certainly proved The Beatles were about to enter into a level …

The first time that I even heard of the band “Awolnation” was when someone I knew introduced me to their song “Sail”. Afterwards I haven’t heard much of them on neither the media nor anywhere else, but I still listen to their music from time to time.
In case …

Musicnotes.com is an awesome website for anyone looking for sheet music. You install I small program (musicnote player) on your computer and then you can download the sheet music digital. Most songs cost between $4-$6. You print out the pages and then off you go. …

Grass is a song by Animal Collective and is the second track on their album Feels. Opening up with an energetic guitar part similar to that which opened up Did You See The Words, Animal Collective waste absolutely no time in establishing a definitive rhythm and an excellent mood …

R. Kelly
“You Remind Me of Something”
R.
Jive/Zomba Recordings
R. Kelly kicks off the first single and music video from his second solo effort, the self-titled “R.”. This song is called “You Remind Me of Something” and has probably one of the most memorable music videos from the R&B heartthrob. There’s hummers, …

Escape, one of the final tracks for Muse’s debut record Showbiz, is yet another one of Muse’s tracks which I’ve been listening to a lot recently along with Apocalypse Please. The first few bits of Escape open up with a very melodic sound with Bellamy leading the track …

Without question, not Eminems best track and yet it remains a classic, why? Because My Name Is was the track that seemed to really announce Eminem on the world stage.
It wasn’t his first song or from his first album but it was the one that captured peoples attention and …

I bought a cheap but good deal electric guitar, Lyon by Washburn. Black, nicely finished and very neat. There’s no pickguard and the dots on the fretboard is on the top and kind of invisible because it’s so small. The guitar itself looks like Washburn OX11 …

Isha Bina is a fantastic melody song from the Hindi movie Taal. The movie is directed by Subhash Ghai. The song casts are Akshay Khanna and Aishwarya Rai. A.R.Rehman composed the music for this song. The song sung by Sonu Nigam and Sujatha. …

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 …

Overview —“ Side II of The Who Sell Out isn’t extremely different from side I, or at least I don’t think so, and it just isn’t quite as good. This isn’t to say that side II isn’t good though, some tracks on here still have some great parts to …

Meet Your Master is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album Year Zero. The track opens up with a very heavy synthesizer rhythm which certainly gives the song a definite electronic feel. Another synthesizer soon joins in which provides a lead for the song, if …

To Live Is To Die, the third instrumental released by Metallica, is unfortunately a track which I define as having a truly brilliant middle melodic section, one of Metallica’s greatest sections throughout their career, but for the most part is just a lot of boring rhythms without much progress …

I was never really a fan of the singer Billy Joel until only a few years ago. This might have been because a certain radio station personality would play his songs too regularly for me to appreciate them at the time.
Billy Joel is one singer whose history I …

The band’s eight studio album and second on Virgin Records, the second without Brian Welch, and the first without drummer David Silveria. The band used Terry Bozzio, Brooks Wackerman and Jon Davis on drums. The band Re-Recording most of The Matrix’s tracks for the album, weeding them out entirely. …

This review is for the original motion picture soundtrack of Red Dawn which starred Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and others back in the mid-eighties. The music on the CD was composed and conducted by Basil Poledouris.
Red Dawn is about the Russians invading America creating essentially …

Overview - Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan’s fifth effort, is a record that is split up into two unique sides: one electric, one acoustic. This concept is a new idea by Dylan and this is the first record where he’s actually backed by a band rather than …

Jay-Z ft. Babyface and Foxy Brown
“(Always Be My) Sunshine”
In My Lifetime, Volume 1
Roc-A-Fella Records
Director: Hype Williams
“(Always Be My) Sunshine” is the first single and music video from Jay-Z’s second album “In My Lifetime, Volume 1″ which follows the previous album “Reasonable Doubt”. Welcome to the Shiny Suit era of …