One of my live dvd concerts I own is You Gotta Move!! by Aerosmith. It was an originally an A&E special that turned into a DVD a few months after it aired on TV. This concert is a really good concert, but I wouldn’t call it much of a …

The 21st century began with great news on the music world with the incarnation of some hard rock supergroups like “A Perfect Circle”, “Velvet Revolver” and “Audioslave”. This last one was created on 2001, when the remaining members of Rage Against the Machine (after Zack de la Rocha left …

I am quite sure that people were all into the hype of Alicia Keys As I Am album before the release date. The kick ass track “No One” was destroying the airwaves all over the world in anticipation of the Album release. Was it all hype? That was the …

Albums of the 11th Madonna released, could be described as an ambitious project from Madonna. 12 songs with up-beat tempo, many include elements of hip-hop, although still strong in the style of Madonna. Perhaps collaboration with Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams, and Nate “Danja” Hills, will bring a fresh …

The Album: Reflections by After 7 from Sony Songs Inc., was released in 1995. Featuring some memorable tracks that made the love process go alot easier. Throwing this CD in especially on a rainy night with that special someone, or even if you have just lose that someone, you …

The craziness that is Asia; remains to captivate me to this day from when I first heard one of their songs called “Heat of the Moment.” It’s one of those one hit wonder bands from the eighties that turned out to be way more talented and enjoyable than the …

This album is a very interesting form of musical art. This is one of the deepest and pompous albums that have ever been recorded. There is a song called The Same Deep Water as You on this album, and I think that the concept of depth is really crucial …

Radiohead’s new album The King of Limbs was released this morning by surprise instead of Saturday. It seemed as though this enigmatic album popped out of nowhere. It starts out with a track called “Bloom” it begins with a blur of sampled piano, blipping synth, and a cool dark …

Dying Days is a song by The Screaming Trees. This song can be found on their album “Dust” and their greatest hits album. I find it kind of ironic that the Screaming Trees have a greatest hits album because they really seem to be an underrated band. Nevertheless I …

The Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill soundtrack CD is one of my favorites. This Disney movie starred Patrick Swayze as the legendary Pecos Bill, and it’s full of magic and adventure. The music expresses the wonder of heroes and the growing up of a …

Ebin is a song by Sublime which appears on their debut record 40 Oz. To Freedom. Opening up with a nice bass line, Nowell comes in with a vocal performance which at first seems more like fast spoken word. Although this didn’t win me over initially, Nowell soon starts …

You Were Always On My Mind by Willie Nelson is a very smooth melody song. This is one song I like to listen to while my husband is watching football on TV. It helps to drown out the noise in the background and relaxes my mind from all of …

Wrath is the sixth studio album by Lamb Of God, if you count Burn The Priest, released on February 24th 2009 produced by Josh Wilbur. The band has stated the used less distortion, they also didn’t seem to branch out much in style, the songs are good and heavy …

I want to hold your hand by the Beatles is a love song that any guy should play for their girl. It tells a girl how much her boy friend really loves her in a lot of ways. This song is an old song in some ways and a …

Take it off: this is one of my favorite songs off of Kesha’s debut
album, animal. When I first listened to the song, i didn’t like it because the beat of the song is electric sounding. It reminds you of some of the Veronica songs but after awhile I got …

“Plush” is to date The Stone Temple Pilots biggest hit. Although it appears as the second single released from their 1992 debut album “Core”, it happens to be the bands most notable song. That’s saying a lot considering the bands decently long career and all the heckling and criticism …

Overview
Following the release of their EP Continued Silence, Imagine Dragons followed up on a strong note with their full length album Night Visions. The album, containing work featured on their previous EP as well as some brand new tracks heard for the first time on Night Visions, is packed …

Overview —“ Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, the first and only album put out by The Sex Pistols, is an album that I am now just starting to see why is considered so influential and why The Sex Pistols are so highly praised. Before re-listening to …

Am I Evil is a cover performed by Metallica which appears on their album full of covers, Garage Inc. The song is originally by a band called Diamond and I’m somewhat familiar with the original, I can say that Metallica pretty much stays true to the cover although I …

Ciara like a boy is about how what would happen if the rules changed up and the girls act just like the guys and the guys act like the girls. Would that work, I don’t think so but that is how lots of guys act. They are players and …

I love this song and first heard it a few years back at Christmas time from a CD comprising of 101 Christmas songs. Little did I know it was sung back in 1960! But the song itself is so cute and I was hooked immediately when I heard it.
The …

Released August 25, 1975 Born to Run was Springsteen’s third album and was what could be argued his “make or break” album. His two previous albums, “Greetings from Asbury Park N.J” and “The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle” had brought him critical acclaim and his local …

Before the album was released, a few years ago, Motley Crue fans have so long waited for this group to return to the reunion. I am sure, this group would know what the fans wanted. Therefore, Motley Crue have returned with the album Red, White & Crue. This album …

R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 17″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
Oh boy oh boy, here we are at Chapter 17 of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet” saga, or should I say “Trapped in the Restaurant”? Because that’s where we’ve been for the past four episodes (Episode 14, Episode 15, Episode …

This Dishwalla song is from the 2002 album, Opaline. Out of all the songs on this album (one of them is “Angels and Devils”) Every Little Thing is the best and I’m not saying for this album only but with all of the songs they have ever done. When …

I used to sing with the band. Well, I can say that I really enjoyed every moment that I am in front of so many people and it gives me so much confidence whenever people gave me a warm applause.
I sing a variety of songs, from 50’s …

If you want to know where to start listening to Sonic Youth, so that to get right to the heart of the band and understand who they are, there is a trilogy of consecutive albums which would do the job best of all. I mean the albums released in …

The Freedom Fest was a musical celebration held in Provo, Utah in 1999 and included a star cast. The opening number even includes Bob and Delores Hope. It’s called Hope of America and includes the song God Bless America. Now that gets the blood stirring from …

Thanks for the mmrs by fall out boy is a song about a guy having a one night stand with a girl and thanking her for the memories. That pretty much sums up the whole song for you. This song is on their cd from under the cork tree. …

Artist: Mariah Carey
Video: If It’s Over
Album: MTV Unplugged
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Larry Jordan
“If It’s Over” is the second and final single and music video from Mariah Carey’s MTV Unplugged album, following the Jackson Five reenactment with Trey Songz titled “I’ll Be There”. Once again, we are treated to compiled footage …

I saw this music video after the CMT Music Awards. I didn’t think I was going to like it but since it won an award, I figured I would listen to it and see if it really deserved it. I had wanted Carrie Underwood to win for “Cowboy Casanova”. …

Paramore’s latest album Riot was a total hit. This rock album has 14 songs on it. All different, some slow, some fast, some hard rock, some soft rock, all with a different meaning. It has For a pessimistic, im pretty optimistic, That’s what you get, Hallelujah, Misery business, when …

Overview —“ Side IV of Tommy wraps up the story of the character and closes the album, one brilliant piece of work. On first impression, I thought that Tommy had some nice tracks and had an interesting story, but after closer listen —“ this album is probably the best …

I thought myself over and over that I’m surely cursed. That’s because I was not into any of Korean boy-bands, moreover Tvxq that I thought they were good for nothing, but I guess I was wrong and (cursed) because lately I’ve been addicted and listening to their songs every …

With the Beatles catalog recently released in remastered form, the time is right to take another look at these albums and see how they hold up. In this review I’ll discuss the Beatles first album, “Please Please Me”.
With the song “Please Please Me” at number 1 on the UK …

Lily Of The West is a traditional song which is performed and recorded by Bob Dylan for his album entitled Dylan. The track starts off with an acoustic guitar strumming a chord pattern along with a steady bass line and drum pattern providing the main rhythm of the track …

Overview —“ Know Your Enemy, the first single and music video released by Green Day for their latest record 21st Century Breakdown features simple parts and structure yet still very catchy music in the song. I’ll admit that when I first heard Know Your Enemy, I really didn’t think …

This album is the pinnacle of Bob Dylan’s career.During this time he reinvented the way in which the public experiences popular music.His songwriting skills are without a doubt intense, humorous, porphetic, whimsical, and highly entertaining.I have never in my life heard a man’s voice that is completely distinctive and …

Oh, how I loved Paul Anka for decades. Then he dumped his wife after decades of marriage and five kids (at least five, could have been six — my brain doesn’t recall). As much as I love his music, I look at him now and I just groan. …

I bought Kerplunk a few years ago, wanting to explore more of Green Day’s earlier music. And I’m very glad I did. Years later, I still listen to the CD and enjoy the wonderful music on it.
Released in 1992, I believe that Kerplunk has a different vibe to many …

In The Flowers is a song by Animal Collective and is the opening track on their record Merriweather Post Pavilion. Opening up gradually, In The Flowers starts out with random noises here and there before a more definitive rhythm is established in the song for the vocals to come …

In my opinion, Alicia Keys is one of the most talented recording artists of my generation. She can sing, she can write, and she can play the piano. She can basically do it all. She has the sort of pure talent that makes her a great artist to see …

When I first heard of Katy Perry’s Firework, I thought it is just another teenage song and so I didn’t pay much attention to it. But yesterday, my brother showed me a video he made using that song, and I was moved by the lyrics. Contrary to what I …

Lip gloss by Lil Mamma is a song about how this girl is uncool and then her lip gloss gets her into the cool club because it’s cool. This song is awesome in some ways because it’s all about lip gloss and I don’t know any song that is …

Paramore is a relatively new emo band that has released multiple albums and received recognition for a few of their hit songs like “Crushcrushcrush” and “That’s What You Get”. A lot of their music is played in a retail store called Hollister and that is where a lot of …

Only The Good Die Young is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. This song opens up with a pretty quick guitar lead which has a very upbeat sound to it but it’s a pretty cool riff nonetheless, although I …

Susanne is a song by Weezer which appears on their self-titled debut record, otherwise known as the Blue Album. Opening with some guitar feedback and a simple drum rhythm, I get the feeling as if I’m listening to an old time song with Weezer adding their own electric influence …

Lil Wayne is one of the most popular rappers out on the markets right now, but is he really that good? I will admit that some of his songs have a good beat, and sound pretty good, but the majority of them are absolutely horrendous. He has turned from …

I was pleasantly surprised by the original motion picture soundtrack for the newly released Dear John film. It’s a movie that just recently came out on DVD and Blu-Ray, but it’s soundtrack has been around since it first came out in theaters. I wasn’t reminded to buy this soundtrack …

There is something to be said for a song that seems to at first say one thing, through its music and lyrics, then completely changes up the tone of the entire song using a slight variation of those same lyrics and same music. It surprises you initially, then you …