Music Reviews
Digital UnderGround: Sex Packets CD
Sex Packets is a classic rap album. It is probably the album that made Digital Underground famous. With songs like the Humpty Dance, and Freaks of the Industry. These songs were both cool and funny at the same time. Sex Packets brings a new style and image to rap music. …
Metallica - The Judas Kiss (Song)
The Judas Kiss, a second track on Death Magnetic which seems to be a fan favorite (along with All Nightmare Long) is yet another choice which I can easily understand. For the fans who remember the original Mission Metallica trailer, they’ll remember that the trailer contained a vocal section …
21 questions by 50 cent
50 cent twenty one questions is about how this guy is in love with a girl and he asks her questions and he hopes she has answers for them. He is going into jail and he hopes she sticks by him. That is why he is asking these questions. …
Vienna Teng (Dreaming Through the Noise)
Vienna Teng is an independent singer from San Francisco, USA. She has been selling independent records for a few years, and details to purchase her albums are on her official website: http://www.viennateng.com
Vienna’s latest album is titled ‘Dreaming through the Noise’. Just from the title, it’s easy to tell it …
Kanye West “Love Lockdown”
I recently had the opportunity to listen to the song “Love Lockdown” by the famed rapper Kanye West. If you aren’t already familiar with Mr. West’s material go get yourself a copy of his other albums “The College Dropout” or “The Graduation”. Kanye West is usually known for his …
Billy Talent The Album
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 …
The Who Tommy
This is The Who’s fourth album, Tommy, a 1969 double album, (a single album on cd) a concept album or “rock opera” about a deaf dumb and blind kid, the album tells the story of Tommy, Tommy’s father is an airforce pilot who goes missing in WWI before he …
Over It (song) from Katharine McPhee
One of my favorite songs and one I suggested with my friend who was suffering from a break up with her boyfriend. Over it is a song about moving on with confidence. She is trying her man to believe that she can stand up after a fall. This song …
Tiger In Your Tank by MonkeyJunk
I am a big fan of many types of music, so I would describe my musical taste as eclectic. I love rock, some pop, classical, alternative, rhythm and blues, jazz, soul, and gospel. A lot of the mixed CDs that I mix myself from my iTunes downloads or from …
Nine Inch Nails - Into The Void (Song)
Into The Void is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album The Fragile. The song starts off with some synthesizers which give the track that eerie sound associated with Nine Inch Nails but not exactly a dark feel. A drum rhythm comes into the track …
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Overview - Iron Maiden, the self titled album of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, is the band’s first effort and one of two efforts to feature singer Paul Di’Anno before being replaced by Bruce Dickinson. The main thing that I always associate Iron Maiden with is guitar …
Three Libras - A Perfect Circle
Slower music is a divisive topic among my friends and I, as well as many people within the rock community. Personally, I do not mind a slower song from singers or bands typically known for being more hardcore, but there are a lot of people out there who see …
Kyuss - And The Circus Leaves Town (album)
“And The Circus Leaves Town” is the final Kyuss album to be released before their breakup. Although the band is now back together again, it no longer has all of the original members, most notably Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri. Both critics and fans alike seem to harbor mixed …
It’s All About U (1996): SWV
Artist: SWV
Video: “It’s All About U”
Album: New Beginning
Label: RCA Records
Director: Kevin Bray
“It’s All About U” is the third and final single and music video from SWV’s second album titled “New Beginning”, following their predecessors, “You’re The One” and “Use Your Heart”. Out of these three pre-Shiny Suit Era music …
Bob Dylan - Solid Rock (Song)
Solid Rock is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album Saved. The track opens up in a very rock driven fashion with a generic guitar riff accompanied by a simple guitar rhythm. Dylan quickly comes in with the vocals in a pretty energetic delivery so I’ll …
Vandoren Clarinet Lip Protectors
The Vandoren Clarinet Lip Protector is a long sheet of special wax paper than you can cut into pieces. After cutting, simply fold them into the desired shape for your mouth and place it onto your lower teeth. It protects against sharp teeth stabbing the inner lips.
Upon first …
Bob Dylan - Lonesome Day Blues (Song)
Lonesome Day Blues is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album Love And Theft. As you can tell from the title, the track has a very blues-rock feel but I actually think that this works pretty well with Dylan on this song. Dylan’s vocal melody works …
Punk Rock Album All Killer No Filler, by Canadian band Sum 41
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 …
I Loved Her First by Heartland
I love this song so much that I want it played at my wedding. And that’s a pretty huge thing to say about a song. When I first looked at the title, I thought it was going to be about a man saying to another man that he had …
EMG-60 Guitar Pickup
Overview —“ As I have said in my past review of EMG pickups, it’s typically a brand that is associated with the metal genre due to past metal bands such as Metallica and Slayer using them, and then a lot of the modern bands using them as well. However, …
Orgy (electronic rock band)
My first real introduction to the electronic rock band Orgy was when I was around fourteen years old. While that was a couple years after their first studio album Candyass was released in 1998, they were still fairly popular amongst a lot of teens especially since their vocalist …
Nelly - Just a Dream
I was hearing this song on the radio for quite some time and of course it was only natural that it was the song on my last-song-syndrome and I had downloaded this on Limewire and was really enjoying this tune. Nelly did another great job singing this music and …
Muse - Unnatural Selection (Song)
Unnatural Selection is a track by Muse which appears on their most recent record, The Resistance. Unnatural Selection is one of the more guitar driven tracks on the entire album which is something that I enjoy a lot about it. One thing about The Resistance is that a lot …
White Zombie Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
This set is what man White Zombie fans have been waiting years for, I never thought it would happen, every White Zombie studio track ever released in a box set for $70, Gods on Voodoo moon, Pig Heaven, Psycho Head Blow Out, God Of Thunder, Soul Crusher, Make Them …
Weezer - Cold Dark World (Song)
Cold Dark World is a song by Weezer which appears on their self-titled record, otherwise known as The Red Album. Like some of the other songs on The Red Album, this track doesn’t feature Rivers Cuomo singing lead, so it doesn’t exactly have the characteristic power pop sound which …
Don’t Forget to Remember Me by Carrie Underwood (Song)
If you have ever had to pack up and leave the only home you have ever known, then you know just what this song is about. You know how it feels to walk away from your loved ones, to say goodbye to the people that have been there all …
The Rolling Stones - Mother’s Little Helper (Song)
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 …
In the end by Likin park
In the end by Likin park is a song that has an awesome beat to it and the words are a little bit freaky. I like the way the song starts out personally but the rest of the song is good too. In the begging of the song …
James Darren: Teenage Tears CD
I love James Darren. He’s in my top group of performers since childhood and I love his singing. I really don’t remember what I saw him in first, but he made an adorable Moondoggie, singing “Gidget” to Sandra Dee.
In his era of the teen idols, the late …
Bob Dylan - Watered-Down Love (Song)
Watered-Down Love is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Shot Of Love. The track starts out with a very upbeat sound, as do many of Dylan’s songs from his religious period, and Dylan sings in a melody which sounds unnaturally poppy in my opinion. To …
The Elements of Freedom Album by Alicia Keys
It has been quite a while since a singer has released an album with so many singles that I really, really like with the last such albums going back to Tamia’s self titled album, Puff Johnson’s ‘Miracle’ and Anita Baker’s ‘Caught up in a Rapture’.
Alicia Key’s latest offering, ‘The …
Panopticon black-metal band - Roads to the North album
Panopticon is a one-man black-metal band from Louisville, Kentucky. The band is sole member Austin Lunn, who in my opinion is an amazing multi-instrumentalist. In the album Roads to the North, Panopticon not only brings in your typical instruments (guitars, drums and vocals) that you find in a rock/metal …
Metallica - The Thorn Within (Song)
The Thorn Within is a song by Metallica which appears on their album Load, the first half of their double record made up of Load and Reload. The track starts off with a pretty slow pace with a distorted guitar riff with sort of a distorted blues lead coming …
Tetsuo Sakurai : Cartaz Do Brazil
We know Tetsuo Sakurai as a former Bassist and one of the legendary jazz band members who came from Japan, Casiopea. After leaving Casiopea and replaced by Yoshihiro Naruse, Sakurai is still active in the jazz music by performing a solo career. Style solo music career is usually not …
I Care 4 U (2002): Aaliyah
Aaliyah
“I Care 4 U”
Aaliyah
Blackground/Virgin
Director: LIttle X
I have to ask, why bother? Seriously, this has to be the worst Aaliyah music video ever, ever, ever made. This isn’t Aaliyah’s fault though because she was already dead at the time, it’s director Little X’s fault for not coming up with something …
Pearl Jam - Ten (1994)
I love this album. I never actually believed I’d like something by Pearl Jam, not because I consider them a weak band, but because their musical style left me cold. Some categorize it as alternative rock, although I’d much rather say that they’re just a good hard rock band …
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Overview - Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd’s seventh album which pays tribute to Syd Barrett, is basically a mix of three songs and two musical epics. After Dark Side Of The Moon, which was a bit more song based, Wish You Were Here still showcases the group strong …
Slayer - Haunting The Chapel (Song)
Haunting The Chapel is the title track for an EP released by the band Slayer. The track starts off with a quick, aggressive, and dark sounding guitar riff while an extremely heavy feel is reinforced by the bass and drums of the track. Thus far the guitar riffs each …
Titanic: A New Musical - Original Broadway Cast Recording CD
I saw a performance from Titanic: A New Musical on TV and was hooked. It might have been on Rosie O’Donnell’s old talk show, but whatever it was, I thought the performance was solid. Plus, as a student of the Titantic, I had to get this CD …
Band: Sabaton
Sabaton is a heavy metal band that mainly sings in the same type of style and speed as other bands like Iron Maiden, or Metallica. I don’t know why they aren’t heard of any more than they are.
Sabaton can …
Help Somebody by Vanzant
Vanzant is a little rough around the edges but Help Somebody is an excellent song about how to live your life. He talks about how he was taught by his grandparents how to live a right life. He has a great message in this song that is upbeat with …
Song: The Worst Pies in London From Sweeney Todd
The Worst Pies in London is one of the first songs on the Sweeney Todd soundtrack. In the original Broadway production, it was sung by Angela Lansbury. In the revival, it was sung by Patti Lapone, and in the movie it was sung by Helena Bonham Carter. The …
The Mung - The Splatter Sessions CD
I finally picked up The Mung’s Debut cd “The Splatter Sessions” a couple weeks ago after putting it off for so long.
I realised i should have listened to this alot sooner as this release really got my attention from the first track.
Clocking in at around 15 mins, The splatter sessions …
Nine Inch Nails - The Day The World Went Away (Song)
The Day The World Went Away is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album The Fragile. The track opens up with a very brooding and dark atmosphere created by a synthesizer and a sound that most Nine Inch Nails fans should be familiar with. After …
Cream - Fresh Cream
Overview - Fresh Cream, Cream’s debut album, is an album mixed with psychedelic rock and also blues rock, with a lot of great musicianship in between. All the members of Cream really impressed me on this album: Jack Bruce had some excellent basslines that really left me wanting to …
Download (2009): Lil’ Kim ft. T-Pain and Charlie Wilson
Lil’ Kim ft. T-Pain and Charlie Wilson
“Download”
Brookland Media/Federal Distribution/UMG
Director: RAGE
“Download” is the latest single and music video from Lil’ Kim, accompanied by Aqua-Voice, oops I meant T-Pain, and Charlie Wilson. The song borrows heavily from Zapp’s “Computer Love” and even mentions the phrase several times in the lyrics. T-Pain …
Many Funerals - Eisley
I have always loved a more poppy folk sound, and for the most part, the band Eisley fills that need nicely. While they normally make a radio friendly brand of garage folk, the song “Many Funerals” shows off their ability to make a more progressive sounding rock song with …
Michael Jackson Beat It
This is one the most appealing attitude song from Michael Jackson’s ( MJ) Album BAD. Michael Jackson has had got everything right in this one. MJ is known for his songs against apartheid, and he has consistently given an artistic expression to his bitter experience(s) through songs like …
Geoff Love: Western Themes CD
Quite honestly, I have no idea who Geoff Love is, but I assume he’s a band leader somewhere in the world. I had to get this CD, though, because it’s one of a handful I know of that includes the theme music to my all-time favorite western TV …
All Mixed Up by 311
I so love the song All Mixed Up by 311. Even though this is a song featured years back, I just could not forget the whole hype surrounding this song.
Truly awesome and I love the lyrics as well. Even though it laced at nothingness, the song …
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