Music Reviews
Come On Over by Shania Twain
I have always enjoyed and admired Shania Twain’s beauty. Her CD album years before, entitled Come On Over by Shania Twain was the first time that made me having a total admiration for her brunette beauty. She looks so awesome and is indeed so super gorgeous. And …
Darrell Worley-I just came back from a war
The song “I just came back from a war” is sung by Darrell Worley. It is about a soldier trying to catch up on old times with a group of friends and how he has changed sinse comeing back from a war where he was not appreciated. This song …
Sledding With Tigers - The Hill Sheep (Album)
The Hill Sheep is the second album released by Sledding With Tigers. Although I will say that some of the tracks on this album felt similar to some of the songs that were present on the band’s debut release, No Randy No, I can thankfully say that this album …
Singer Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart isn’t the most handsome of guys, but he does have a unique voice that tends to draw me in at every turn. His voice does sound a bit scratchy but that is what makes his recordings so great. Rod Stewart has enjoyed great success as a singer …
My Love Essential Collection by Celine Dion
Of course the voice that sang the popular “Titanic” theme song is one of my favorites so I always find ways and means to purchase Celine Dion’s CD’s. One of my favorites is My Love Essential Collection by Celine Dion. This is a wonderful collection of songs which were …
The Rolling Stones - I Wanna Be Your Man (Song)
I Wanna Be Your Man is a cover of a Beatles song performed by The Rolling Stones. Generally when I review covers I’m not all that familiar with the original version of the song but in this case I know the cover and I know the original as well …
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It (Music Video)
Overview —“ Down In It, the first single and music video released by Nine Inch Nails for their debut record, Pretty Hate Machine, takes the chaos of the song and matches it with a video. Although this sounds appealing, at least to me, the execution in the music video …
Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)
When many people my age hear the name Engelbert Humperdinck, they usually dont know that it is the name of a popular singer, or they might even confuse it with the name of a long dead German composer. However, I have been fascinated with his music for as long …
Green Day - Waiting (Music Video)
Overview —“ Waiting, the third music video released by Green Day in promotion of their album Warning would have to be what I would consider an unneeded music video. The song Waiting itself is a pretty mediocre song in my opinion and the music video would have to fall …
Fast-Fret
One way you can recognize a guitar player is by checking the person’s fingertips for wounds caused by strings. There are several factors that make strings rust, such as proximity to the sea, sweat, humidity and storage. Whichever reason, the fact is that oxidized strings hurt the flesh much …
The potion
The Potion by Ludacris is a song that has an awesome beginning and I like it a lot. The songs words are a little bit weird but me and my friends love it. The song is most definitely different than most. This song is off of step up 2 …
Greatest Hits by Earth Wind & Fire
Remember this band, Earth Wind & Fire? Well, I do and my dad was putting on this CD album the other day while we were having a picnic lunch together as a family. The title is Greatest Hits by Earth Wind & Fire. Super cool, I tell …
“Move Along” Album by The All American Rejects
“Move Along” by the All American Rejects is just an average album. To be quite honest, I kind of wish that I had not spent the money on this song. My overall opinion of this album is that there are a few good songs on the album but the …
The Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway (Song)
Alabama Getaway is a song by The Grateful Dead which is the opening track of their record Go To Heaven. The song opens up with a very energetic guitar lead which somewhat reminds of Chuck Berry although it certainly has the sound of The Dead. Garcia comes in quickly …
The Grateful Dead - Anthem Of The Sun
Overview - Anthem Of The Sun, the second album by The Grateful Dead, departs from the simplistic songwriting that The Dead showcased on their self-titled debut album and departs into more experimental and complex songs. Most of these songs contain varying moods and energies just within the song itself …
“Save the Last Dance for Me” Single by Michael Buble
Imagine Frank Sinatra being reborn as a college boy in the 21st century, and you will have a fair picture of what singer Michael Buble is all about. I think he has a French last name, although he was born in Burnaby, Canada instead of the Quebecois region …
Kid Cudi - Day N Nite (Song)
Day N Nite (Nightmare ) is a song by Kid Cudi which appears on his debut record Man ON the Moon: The End Of Day. Opening up with a light synthesized intro along with Kid Cudi doing a little bit of vocal work to establish a rhythm, the first …
Ludacris rapper
When I was younger and had a little more interest in R&B anmd rap music, the rapper Ludacris used to be one of my favourite rappers. However, these days even though I am not as interested in those two genres of music as I used to be, along with …
Hear Me Now by Secondhand Serenade
Hear Me Now is the third studio album by Secondhand Serenade, released on August 3rd. I was excited for this album, mainly because I’m a pretty big fan of Secondhand Serenade, and couldn’t wait for the release of the whole album. However, when hearing all 12 songs, I found …
Sublime - What Happened (Song)
What Happened is a song by Sublime and the fifteenth song to appear on their debut album entitled 40 Oz. To Freedom. Opening up with a clean guitar part, other instruments soon join in the mix as well and I must say that the percussion section does a nice …
Go the Distance by Michael Bolton
This song made me cry whenever it is playing. I am imagining myself included on the finalist of American Idol. They are showing my video on how was me on the first time I enter the idol stage until I got into final two. Of course, that is only …
Led Zeppelin: Over The Hills And Far Away
Led Zeppelin took a chance with this album by including a folk influence that features interesting acoustic guitar and musicianship.This was about the time Led Zeppelin truly started to progress from their already popular brand of music.Over The Hills And Far Away features a distinctive feel and sound that …
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
Phoenix is a newly popular band that had a song recently featured on a car commercial. This song, “1901″, became wildly popular and led to the band gaining a much larger fan base and gaining a lot of popularity. After hearing this song, I purchased every single one of …
Shadows fall the metal band
The Shadows fall band is all hype and I do not know what the big deal with them is. Shadows Falls really has no good songs out there and quit frankly at first they were all metal and than they thought they had talent so they tried to sound …
Take on Me by A-Ha
This song was released around 1984. There are so many versions of this song nowadays and I think all are equally good. The Irish boy band A1 has their own version of this song but this is originally sang by A-Ha. Each version is a bit different but equally …
Cream - Cat’s Squirrel (Song)
Cat’s Squirrel is a song by Cream which appears on their debut record, Fresh Cream. I should mention right now that this track is basically an instrumental (There is a very brief section with vocals, but they aren’t actual lyrics which is why I still consider this song to …
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Album)
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea is the second and most recent album released by Neutral Milk Hotel. One of my friends considered this to be in their top five albums of all time, so I will admit that I went into the listening of the record with slightly …
Lenny Kravitz (musician)
The first time I heard of the rockstar Lenny Kravitz was a couple years ago when I was in in my early years of high school. That was in the early two thousands, and I immediately feel in love with his number one hit at the time, “Again”. At …
Led Zeppelin - The Lemon Song (Song)
The Lemon Song is a track by Led Zeppelin which appears on their record Led Zeppelin II. The track starts off with a fairly slow riff coming from Page which sounds to be quite blues-rock influenced and the overall tempo of the song thus far seems to set up …
Tesla-The Great Radio Controversy(Album)
The Hard Rock band Tesla has always been one of my favorite bands and they were different then most of those glam bands in the Mid 80’s with not only their hard rock looks but with also their Blues/Hard Rock sound. One of the great albums by them …
Faith No More - Underwater Love (song)
Underwater Love is a song by the band Faith No More. This appears as the 7th track off of their hit album “The Real Thing. At the time Faith No More faced plenty of controversy with Red Hot Chili Peppers. For one they sound very similar, featuring prominent bass …
Erich Konzel: Symphonic Star Trek CD
Years ago, someone introduced me to the wonderful works of Erich Kunzel, director of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. He’s really quite good. Then the opportunity came along to enjoy Kunzel’s work along with a huge favorite of mine, Star Trek. With a spoken and dramatic introduction …
Vox AC15 CC
The Vox AC15 CC is a 15watt class A tube amp that is something of an amalagam of previous AC 15 models. The amp is fairly big, and very heavy, weighing something in the neighborhood of 80 pounds, but it’s still easier lugging around than a halfstack.
The AC15 CC …
Twilight the Soundtrack
I must say that Twilight the Soundtrack is quite the rave for me nowadays. The songs featured inside are all quite catchy and you have nice beats, fast ones, kind of melodramatic tunes and sometimes kind of rock sounding. Including in the rock tunes and other beats would …
Green Day - Time Of Your Life (Music Video)
Overview —“ Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life), is the second music video released for Green Day’s record Nimrod. Time Of Your Life would probably have to be one of the most well known Green Day songs if not the absolute most well known one. I’m sure that even …
MXR Boost Line Driver
At my local MAE music store, I recently bought a new toy to add to my rig for my band. Since my band have been saying that my solos are often unaudible in the mix of our sound, I bought a Boost Line Driver by MXR. It was …
Metallica - Seek And Destroy (Song)
Seek And Destroy, the penultimate track off of Kill —˜Em All, has to be one of the most well known songs from Metallica throughout their whole career and certainly, along with The Four Horsemen, the most well known song off of Kill —˜Em All. …
Taylor Swift Concert
I attended the Taylor Swift concert on May 14th, 2010 at the Nassau Colesium in Long Island with my boyfriend. We bought the tickets after they were sold out from this website that basically buys and sells tickets for concerts. We ended up paying a total of like two …
Interpol - Our Love To Admire CD Album
Interpol fans awaited this release with much anticipation. Kings of all things austere, New York based Interpol have previously honed its taut guitar rock into an art form. I fear this album will disappoint eager disciples. This time around they’ve opted to minimize the drum and bass and replace …
Jennifer Lopez - Papi (Music Video)
Wow! What can I say? This music video in my opinion is one of the best music videos I’ve ever seen. It’s just so unique and fun and it’s everything. First of all, WOW! I could never in a million years thought that this would be the type of …
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (Album)
Strawberry Jam is an album released by Animal Collective to follow their prior record entitled Feels. To begin, I will say that after Animal Collective released Sung Tongs followed by Feels, they had quite an act to follow, but I can thankfully say that I think they did a …
Complicated Music Video of Avril Lavigne
Complicated is a single of Avril Lavigne from her debut album Let Go. The story is Avril and her band crash the mall. They are harassing shoppers and causing havoc inside the mall. Her male band mates tried the clothes for woman and Avril is describing it in these …
Church
Church by T-pain is a song that plays towards the begging of the movie step up 2 where they have the dance off between Tyler and Andy. It is a very cool song for the dance they do. I like the song because it talks about how this …
The Beatles - I Want To Tell You (Song)
I Want To Tell You is a song by The Beatles which appears on their album Revolver. Opening up with a lighthearted guitar riff that gradually fades into the song, other instrumentation also joins in which gives the track a whole sound before the vocals also come in with …
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Evil (Song)
Evil is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their album Can’t Maintain. The track opens up with a galloping-like guitar strumming pattern before the vocals pretty much immediately join in with a simple melody and a characteristic delivery. In the background of this track appears to …
Collapse Into Now, 2011 Album by REM
It was obvious that this was going to be the last album by the band and so there must have been a tremendous amount pressure on the musicians. They definitely did not want to disappoint such a big number of fans. Of course the fans will always have their …
Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals
This 1998 follow up to the successful 1996 album Antichrist Superstar features controversial album art depicting Marilyn Manson in a body suit with fake breasts, and glowing red eyes. Marilyn Manson started a rumor that he got breast implants, and people ate the rumor up. This may be my …
Billy Ray Cyrus: Shot Full of Love CD
Billy Ray Cyrus: Shot Full of Love CD is one of those CDs where it means so much more if you read the liner jacket notes. Cyrus wrote quite a long explanation for the inspiration behind the CD and several of the songs. It is a story …
Santa Claus is watching you
‘Santa Claus is watching you’ this is a parity song by Ray Stevens. It is based on what many people tell their children when they are little that Santa Claus can see you when you are good and bad so you need to be good all the time. It …
System Of A Down - Chop Suey (Music Video)
Overview —“ Chop Suey, another music video and single released by System Of A Down for their second record, Toxicity, is one of their more well known songs, and for good reason I’d say. The song has a lot of energy behind it yet it still has some softer …
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