Music Reviews
Metallica - Killing Time (Song)
Killing Time is a cover performed and recorded by Metallica for their record Garage, Inc. I believe that the original version of this song is done by a band known as Sweet Savage, if I remember correctly, but I don’t know their version all that well to be honest …
Album: Led Zeppelin IV- Led Zeppelin (1971)
Sometimes I think to judge an album; you need to see how it holds up in comparison to similar albums from a similar time, as well as seeing how it ranks against some very different albums from other periods in time. Led Zeppelin IV is an album that will …
Green Day - St. Jimmy (Song)
After listening to Boulevard Of Broken Dreams and Are We The Waiting, I just have to say that St. Jimmy could not have come at a better time on the track listing. Whereas the previous two aforementioned songs are honestly just boring pieces of music which are predictable and …
Arthur Lewis blues
You don’t often find authentic blues but now that there are sites like Myspace and Indie911 you can find all kinds of artists.
I happened along Arthur Lewis on Indie 911. His artist page is: http://www.indie911.com/arthur-louis.
He has a feel to him that isn’t fake or pushed. It sounds more realistic …
Green Day - Stuck With Me (Music Video)
Overview —“ Stuck With Me, the second music video released for Green Day’s album Insomniac is definitely an interesting concept for a video and I personally love the music video of this song, but I’ll explain the video itself later. The song seems to deal with feeling out of …
Animal Collective - Street Flash (Song)
Street Flash is a song by Animal Collective and is the second track on their 2008 EP, Water Curses. Opening up lightly, the instrumentation on this track is pretty stripped down at the beginning as was the case with the preceding track. The interplay between the few instruments on …
Behemoth : At the Arena ov Aion - Live Apostasy
Band with a genre of extreme metal, usually have a live album, which represents an intensive tour of the band’s career. Behemoth, as we know, has never released the album Live audio officially, but the album Live to be included in the compilation boxset Historica which only 3,000 copies …
“Feelin’ It” (1997): Jay-Z ft. Mecca
Jay-Z ft. Mecca
“Feelin’ It”
Reasonable Doubt
Roc-A-Fella Records
“Feelin’ It” is the final single and music video from Jay-Z’s debut album “Reasonable Doubt”, it follows “Dead Presidents”, “Ain’t No Playa”, and “Can’t Knock The Hustle”. This time, Jay-Z decides to sample “Pastures” by a jazz music artist named Ahmad Jamal. Jay-Z is …
Lonesome Crowded West, 1997 Album by Modest Mouse
I think that this is not a very good full length album for a band like Modest Mouse. I remember how I first started listening to it after I listened to their first full length album, and I did not enjoy this record at all. It was because I …
Animal Collective - Banshee Beat (Song)
Banshee Beat is a song by Animal Collective and the sixth track on their release Feels. Banshee Beat continues to drive the album in a more melodic direction as the preceding track, Bees, as well as an earlier track, Flesh Canoe, did. I should mention that Banshee Beat is …
The Acacia Strain - The Dead Walk
This is a review for the hardcore band named The Acacia Strain for their The Dead Walk full length release. It was released in 2006 by Prosthetic Records. The CD has 11 tracks on it:
1. Sarin: The End
2. Burn Face
3. 4×4
4. As If Set Afire
5. Angry Mob Justice
6. Whoa! …
Nine Heavens by Niyaz: A Heavenly Collection of World and Trance Music
Nine Heavens, the second album by Niyaz, a group comprised of former Vas vocal Azam Ali, instrumentalist Loga Ramin Torkian, and DJ Carmen Rizzo, is an ecstatic 2-CD compilation. The first of these contains 9 electronically mixed songs, and the second repeats the same songs except one in an …
Hole band
Hole was a mostly female hard rock band that was popular in the mid to late nineties to early 2000s. It contains one of my favourite female hard rock singers, Courtney Love, who acted as the vocalist for Hole.
I am not sure if the reason the band is …
Green Day - When I Come Around (Music Video)
Overview —“ When I Come Around, the second music video released by Green Day also comes off of their third album Dookie. The song itself isn’t too bad, it’s not really one of my favorites off of Dookie but I do think it’s a good song, but I’ll admit …
“I Believe I Can Fly” (1996): R. Kelly
R. Kelly
“I Believe I Can Fly”
“Space Jam” Soundtrack
Jive Records
Director: Hype Williams
R. Kelly decides to put away the sex-me-up attitude and persona for a little while and does a PG gig for a change. Seriously, I would love to know who on planet Earth thought R. Kelly and “Space Jam” …
Iron Maiden - Children Of The Damned (Song)
Children Of The Damned is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their album The Number Of The Beast. Opening up in a very melodic fashion, Children Of The Damned features a nice interplay between a clean guitar pattern mixed with some very nice bass fills from …
Michael Jackson’s History:Past,Present and Future,Book 1
The death of Michael Jackson has sparked huge interest in his career over the last few years.However for any serious music fan, the artist has been in artistic decline since the release of his Thriller album in 1984.
The album History was one of the most hyped comeback albums in …
The Circus by Take That
Take That fans, brace yourselves for yet another CD album by one of the most awesome of all time band. The Circus by Take That is their new album and I have to say that they have really revamped their looks and this is a refreshing comeback for them.
I …
Kanye West Album Graduation
The Kanye West graduation album is his third solo studio album. It also was the biggest album release of his career. Kanye West is a master producer and a great rapper. He has never put out any material that I have not liked. He has won many grammy’s in …
Eminem-Curtain Call
Eminem- Curtain Call (The Hits)
Is it just me or is Eminem always supposedly retiring from the hip hop scene only to come back with yet another release? Well, not that I’m complaining of course, The more music from this rap genius the better as far as I’m concerned! This …
The Underdog Project - Summer Jam
This song from Underdog Project is not a new song, but I always miss this song to listen again and again. Though this song is becoming hits in 2001, until now, I feel that this music in this song is always fresh.
This song is can be a party song …
Pink Floyd - Money (Song)
Money is track a track by Pink Floyd which appears on their iconic album, The Dark Side Of The Moon. I say that the album itself is iconic but I’d also say that this track, along with many others on that album, has also become iconic in rock and …
Led Zeppelin 2
Led Zeppelin 2 is the album that made each member of the band a true celebrity.I still hear a song off this album nearly everyday on my local classic rock station.I love the fact that each musician plays an important part to the sound of this album as a …
Sublime - Krs-One (Song)
Krs-One is a song by Sublime and the twentieth song on their first release, 40 Oz. To Freedom. Opening with an acoustic guitar pattern, Nowell comes in with the vocals of the track and sings with a tone that actually sounds significantly different than any of his other deliveries …
The Doors
After the release of their self titled debut album The Doors went on to become legendary.The band held a simple formula for mind expanding performances.Ray Manzerak’s creepy organ playing will always define the world in which Jim Morrison was able to poetically paint.This album is a landmark and very …
Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes (2017 Song)
I never really knew I have been missing Sam Smith’s identifiable voice until I heard him again recently with a brand new song. I used to hear most of his songs on radios, on Spotify playlists particularly “Pop Ballads”, on being sung by everyone in karaoke because of their …
Jagged Little Pill album by Alanis Morrissette
One of my favorite albums of all time is Alanis Morrissette’s first internationally-released album, Jagged Little Pill. This was the album which sky-rocketed her to fame and which won her the Album of the Year Grammy in 1996.
I was a tween at that time, and this …
Megadeth - Holy Wars… The Punishment Due (Music Video)
Overview —“ Holy Wars—¦ The Punishment Due, the lead off track of Megadeth’s most acclaimed record, Rust In Peace, is only one of nine examples of why this album is praised to highly. Although not the only reason why this album was so good, but definitely one of the …
Randy Crawford (musician)
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 …
Death Cab For Cutie - Different Names For The Same Thing (Song)
Different Names For The Same Thing is a song by Death Cab For Cutie which appears on their record Plans. The song opens up with a piano-led introduction which then gives way to the vocal performance which seems to have some effect on it which makes it seem slightly …
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
This CD collection, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is definitely amazing. Lauryn Hill is simply a Diva in her own right and with her very unique voice, the finished product of this album is simply satisfying for me. Her huge success first started with the track “Killing Me …
Slash-By The Sword (song)
One of my new favorite songs off of the new Slash album is By the Sword. The track features Wolfmother singer and guitarist Andrew Stockdale. I think Slash did a good job on having him sing for this song. It really fits his style as a rock vocalist …
Live Your Life (T.I. featuring Rihanna)
I first heard this song on an awards show. And now I’m hearing it all the time on the radio. And at first I was a bit apprehensive about a song like this. But I realized that I actually like the personalities of both …
Howl 2005 Album by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
I think that Howl is a very strong album. This is an album, which has a very high emphasis on songs. By that I mean that, with many artists, they would have 10 or 15 songs on an album, and all the songs would sound very similar to each …
Bob Dylan - It Hurts Me Too (Song)
It Hurts Me Too is a traditional song arranged and performed by Bob Dylan and appearing on his album Self Portrait. I’m slightly familiar with The Grateful Dead version of this track so it’ll be interesting to hear how Dylan interpreted it. Dylan unfortunately starts out with a not …
You Reign by Citipointe Live
The song started with the introduction of choir who sand the first note with the accompaniment of soft keyboard sound. You can hear the great blending of the song as the lead vocalist Becky Lucas started to sing at the second intro of the song and then the instruments …
Pantera Far Beyond Driven
This album was released in 1994 on East west records and produced by Terry Date. The album features a controversial image of a man being drilled into his forehead, the album’s original artwork depicted a person being drilled in the anus and had to be changed to the drillbit …
Muse - Soldier’s Poem (Song)
Soldier’s Poem is a track by Muse which appears on Black Holes and Revelations. One thing about Soldier’s Poem is that Muse really wastes no time in this song since the track is only about two minutes long yet Muse still puts a lot of material in it. The …
Cam’ron : S.D.E.cd
After I heard the first Cam’ron cd title “Confessions Of Fire” I decided to listen to the next Cam’ron cd which was titled “S.D.E.” because I believed it would be at least as good as his first cd. However, I was very dissapointed when I got this cd, he …
Queens Of The Stone Age Lullabies To Paralyze
After the Success of the band last album this left them with more freedom on Lullabies, they got rid of Nick Oliveri, this is unfortunate but doesn’t slow the band down any, Troy Van Leeuwen of A perfect Circle fame (among many other bands he’s been in), Joey Castillo …
Victory: Puff Daddy ft. Busta Rhymes and Notorious B.I.G.
Puff Daddy ft. Busta Rhymes and Notorious B.I.G.
“Victory”
No Way Out
Bad Boy Records
Director: Marcus Nispel
Sometimes, the only way to make a music video into anything that is remotely interesting is to incorporate a concept from a cool movie into it, even if that means making the music video itself a …
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987 Album by The Cure)
I do not like this album by the Cure, and it is probably not going to be easy to explain why, because one could find numerous reasons to like this album, one could mention various facts and features of this album which make it better and stronger than the …
The Strokes - Room On Fire
In their sophomore effort “Room on Fire”, The Strokes pick up about where things left off. Carrying over from their first album, Gordon Rafael’s decidedly low-fi production (a la Magnetic Fields, Guided By Voices) blends Julian Casablanca’s vocals over the ever-present dueling guitars of Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond, …
Sarah Brightman (singer)
I generally do not listen to classical forms of music a lot, but on a rare occasion I will listen to the music of select singers and musicians. One of these people is the English born singer Sarah Brightman. There are so many things that I like about her …
Animal Collective - Winters Love (Song)
Winters Love is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their record Sung Tongs. Split into two unique sections, Winters Love first opens up with an instrumental section led by an acoustic guitar pattern (Though there is some vocal humming over the top of this) before going into …
This Is My Town by Montgomery Gentry
This Is My Town is a song by Montgomery Gentry. It is about life in a small town and how everyone knows everyone. It talks about how most people used to be born and raised in a small town and never left or if they did it was for …
MGMT - Congratulations (Song)
Congratulations is the third album released by MGMT and their most recent effort thus far. Though I know the band has received some criticism for changing their overall sound on this record in comparison to Oracular Spectacular, I still feel that Congratulations is overall a very good record. To …
Dirty Dancing soundtrack CD
Dirty Dancing is a feel-good movie starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. The love between those characters and the transformation of all the characters shines through in the Dirty Dancing soundtrack CD as well. Both were smash hits with audiences around the world.
The CD gets us dancing …
Ruby (song by, Kaiser Chiefs)
The Kaiser Chiefs is a band hailing from the United Kingdom. I first was introduced to their music by a friend of mine from England back in 2005. Their first album; Employment, was a hit with me. I liked all their songs on that release and then came Yours …
Without You by Mariah Carey
I love the entrance of the song, Without You by Mariah Carey. It goes by “No I can’t forget this evening…..” I think that’s truly classic and this song will always has a special place in my heart. No doubt about it. I didn’t know who …
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