Music Reviews
It Girl (Single)- Jason Derulo
This is one of my favorite songs at the moment. As an artist, Jason Derulo is catching my eye more and more with every song he realeases. He is what I consider a matured Justin Bieber, his songs are really matured but they are still cute songs about that …
El Camino 2011 Album by The Black Keys
The Black Keys are really hot right now. And I feel sorry that I happened to find out about this band only along with everybody else, during the wave, the tsunami of their breaking into the mainstream, and not earlier than that.
El Camino is a great album, and I …
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 …
Muse - Sing For Absolution (Song)
Sing For Absolution, a track by Muse is certainly the newest Muse track which I find myself currently hooked on. What I will say right now is that the song has an excellent build up throughout the song and demonstrates a nice blend and balance of a more melodic …
Billy’s Christmas Wish by Red Sovine
Billy’s Christmas Wish by Red Sovine is one of the few Christmas songs that makes me want to cry every time I hear it because of how it talks about a poor boy that has run away. This song is about a boy who’s dad is in jail and …
Shelter Of Your Love by Jimmy Cliff
Even though I like all genres of music, I have not had the opportunity to hear much reggae until I was watching the movie “Cocktail” starring Tom Cruise. There was a love scene between his character and Elizabeth Shue at an amazing waterfall and that is where I first heard …
The White Stripes - You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket (Song)
You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket is a song by the White Stripes which appears on their album Elephant. Opening up with an acoustic guitar pattern, Jack White comes in with a delicate and gentle vocal delivery for his first vocal delivery in the track. I should mention right …
The Dark Knight Original Soundtrack
Burton’s movies, while not perfect adaptations of Batman, did get quite a bit right. Burton did have a solid understanding of the dynamics between characters. It’s true Joker did not really kill Bruce’s parents, but I understand why they set it up that way. While he …
Epiphone Les Paul Special 2 guitar
I love to play my guitars everyday and I could play all day long. I just can’t live without my guitars. I am doing a review on the Les Paul Special 2. This guitar is $150 at Guitar Center. To be honest, the Special 2 is a good guitar …
Muse - Uprising (Song)
Uprising, a very recent single released by Muse for their latest record The Resistance, has an extremely catchy vocal melody along with excellent lyrics and musical parts to go with it. Uprising starts out with a very space-like vibe and sound due to the synthesizer and the bass riff …
Debarge (music group)
It was my mother who first told me about the R&B music group “Debarge” even though I had heard their music playing sometimes on the radio over the years. I was familiar with a few of their songs, and while I had heard them playing, I just was not …
Primus - Jerry Was a Race Car Driver (song)
“Jerry Was a Race Car Driver” happens to be one of the more popular Primus songs. This song shows up on their 1991 album “Sailing the Seas of Cheese” as track number 5. Although it isn’t technically Primus first single ever (that goes to their song John the Fisherman) …
Best Days of Your Life by Kellie Pickler
Kellie Pickler pokes fun at a man who has dropped her for someone else only to realize that life isn’t as great as he thought it was going to be with the new girl. It is an awesome song for women who have been treated in exactly this same …
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Over the years, Michael Jackson was become more well-known for his eccentricities than for his music.
However, if there was ever a time when his self-proclaimed ‘King of Pop’ status was justified, the Thriller era was it. Jackson’s 1982 album release ‘Thriller’ was one of the largest commercial successes …
Radiohead - Karma Police (Song)
Karma Police is a song by Radiohead which appears on their album OK Computer. I believe Karma Police is one of the better known Radiohead songs, and I must say that I believe there is good reason for this. The song opens up with in a fairly moderate tempo …
Back To Black-music album by Amy Winehouse
Music is always in the background wherever I’m at. I find it vital to a relaxed, yet fun atmosphere. That said, I like all kinds of music also. About the only stuff you’re not gonna hear around me is heavy rap, heavy metal, or heavy elevator …
System Of A Down - Mr. Jack (Song)
Mr. Jack is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their third record, Steal This Album. The track opens up with a dark guitar part along with some slight background effects and drums which overall gives a sort of eerie vibe, particularly when a second lead …
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 1″ (2005): R. Kelly
R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 1″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
“Trapped in the Closet, Part 1″ is not only the first single and music video from R. Kelly’s seventh solo album “TP-3: Reloaded”, it is an ongoing narrative of sorts, a story revolving around a one night stand that spans off …
Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton is a person that I admire for his musical abilities such as song writing, singing and instrument playing. Eric Clapton has produced so many albums over the years, and he has played in a number of bands such as The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek And The …
Insomnium - Across the Dark
The much awaited fourth album, ‘Across the Dark’, by Finnish melodic death metal outfit, Insomnium finally hit the US streets mid-September last year. I for one, couldn’t wait to get hold of my copy, having been a close follower of this band since their sounds first gripped me, dating …
Adele - 25 (Album)
Adele comes back with a very strong effort to follow her 30 million selling album 21. Following her age as basis for her album titles (19, 21), her highly-anticipated 3rd studio record is a continuation to that, 25. While 21 focuses on heartbreak tunes, 25 is definitely about making …
Polaris - Ivy Boy (Song)
Ivy Boy is a song off of the album “Music of The Adventures of Pete and Pete”. Polaris was a side project involving members from the band Miracle Legion, writing songs for the hit show at the time “The Adventures of Pete and Pete”. Among these songs I find …
Hell Rell : For The Hell Of It cd
Hell Rell is a Harlem, NY born artist and member of The Diplomats he is signed to Cam’ron and was released from jail last year after serving two years for prior crimes.While in jail Diplomat records managed to create a buzz for this artist and keep it going …
Bon Jovi - Always - Single
Jon Bon Jovi is not everyones cup of tea, but I think he has released some absolute classics and this was one that lived with me for a long time and still probably does.
In Always, I have no idea if he is singing about an actual experience of his …
Plain White Ts band
When I first heard about the band Plain White Ts I was a bit hesitant to listen to their music as I usually am with a lot of these young, modern and popular bands. This is because I think that many of these bands seem to have a very …
Don’t matter by Akon
Don’t matter by Akon is a song about how a guy and a girl are together but nobody wants them to be together. This song is my favorite but Akon is a nut now. This song is about a relationship the guy and the girl want to last …
Animal Collective - Two Corvettes (Song)
Two Corvettes is a song by Animal Collective and is the third track on their third studio release, Campfire Songs. Transitioning out of Doggy, Two Corvettes fluidly opens with a vocal section packed by the acoustic guitar tone that has been present throughout the album thus far. Like the …
Coldplay - Yellow (Song)
Yellow is a song by Coldplay which appears on their record Parachutes. Opening up with a melodic guitar pattern, the track soon gives way to a slightly more electric guitar lead, but the song still manages to maintain it’s very melodic feel and sound to it. Chris Martin comes …
50 cent : Get Rich Or Die Trying cd
50 cent is a Rap star who is signed to Eminem and Dr. Dre on Aftermath Records and he has given the world such hits as ‘Wanksta’, ‘P.I.M.P.’ and �Heat�. I have been a 50 cent fan since 1997 and so when he signed his record deal I …
You’re all I have (Snow Patrol)
You’re all I have is another good hit from Snow Patrol, and like Chasing cars, arguably Snow Patrols most famous hit, the lead singer, Gary Lightbody has a voice which is somewhat appealing. In most of the songs, the lyrics involve Mr Lightbody asking somebody for something, almost pleading. …
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 …
Metallica - The Call Of Ktulu (Song)
The Call Of Ktulu, the first instrumental by Metallica, is the second track on Ride The Lightning where I feel Metallica truly prove that they’re a lot more than simply a thrash band, these musicians certainly knew what they were doing (The first song I felt this with was …
Tori Amos - Curtain Call
If you haven’t heard of Tori Amos, you have missed out on one of the most original, incredible and absolutely riveting female alternative performers in the last half century.
Amos (real name Myra Ellen Amos) is the daughter of a preacher who was considered a piano prodigy and was admitted …
The Doors - Hello, I Love You (Song)
Hello, I Love You is a song by The Doors which appears on their album Waiting For The Sun. The track opens up with a quick drum burst before leading into the main rhythm which is certainly quite distinctive and unique and has come to be associated with The …
Sledding With Tigers - Sunshine (Song)
Sunshine is a song by Sledding With Tigers and is the fifth song on their first album, No Randy No. Transitioning fluidly out of Love Songs Are Dumb Songs, Sunshine opens up with a group of cynical lyrics sung by a chorus of voices. Personally, I’ll say right now …
ESP/LTD EC-1000 Deluxe Guitar
Overview - The LTD EC-1000 Deluxe guitar is overall an amazing guitar and one of the best guitars that I’ve ever played. Some models of this guitar come with Seymour Duncan pickups while others come with EMG pickups, for my review I will focus on a model with EMG …
Michael Buble’s “Crazy Love”
“Crazy Love” by Michael Buble is the latest album by a young man who has been quietly building a reputation as a modern-day Frank Sinatra. He draws upon a similar body of music and brings to it a freshness that it surprising in a canon which most observers would …
Billy Gilman: Classic Christmas CD
Billy Gilman is all grown up now, but back in 2000, he was still the young boy with a cute smile and a voice that hadn’t changed yet. That’s when we got Billy Gilman: Classic Christmas CD, a group of 12 delightful holiday carols, including a duet with …
Jason Mraz Mr ‘A-Z’
Jason Mraz is a singer/songwriter from San Diego has been releasing his second album Mr ‘A-Z’(taken from his last name Mraz). In his single of the album ‘Wordplay’ he shows about his selflessness when he said in the song “Im the wizard of oh and fa la la” indicating …
Animal Collective - Cuckoo Cuckoo (Song)
Cuckoo Cuckoo is a song by Animal Collective and is the penultimate track on their album Strawberry Jam. Opening up with an introduction which initially has a somewhat confusing sound, the band establishes a firmer structure after around a minute where a piano carries the rhythm and the vocals …
Don’t Tell Me by Avril Lavinge
Don’t Tell Me by Avril Lavinge is a song I like to listen to when a guy tries to tell me what to do and I tell him to go buzz the heck off. I hate guys who do that and my friends do to. All the guy wants …
Weezer - Getchoo (Song)
Getchoo is a song by Weezer which appears on their second record, Pinkerton. One thing I should say about Getchoo is that it’s characterized by a pretty rough and aggressive sound which is quite different from many of the songs on Weezer’s self-titled debut record, otherwise known as The …
California Gurls Video by Katy Perry
California Gurls video is sweet. It has a lot of candies, jelly, chocolate and sexy girls. According to my research, the video is inspired by the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland. Actually Katy looks like Alice that is wandering in Wonderland. I had fun …
“On the Edge” song by Lady Gaga
While some might have negative opinions about Lady Gaga’s wardrobe, from her outrageous makeup to her flashy outfits and hair, there is no denying her talent in song. Her recent song, which has been played on American Idol and time and time again on the radio, called “On the …
Madonna: True Blue
80s music had a distinctive sound to it, and no one was more pivotal in the 80’s then Madonna. She first sprang into the spotlight in the early 80s (83 I believe, with her first album) and by mid-80s was a household name. She has produced many albums, but …
Song: Maggie May by Singer Rod Stewart
Maggie May was one of the first big hits that Rod Stewart ever recorded and it is still just as popular today with those who remember when it was released and new generations of Rod Stewart fans. This is the ultimate Rod Stewart song and it essential to have …
Rush - Moving Pictures
Overview —“ Moving Pictures, the eighth album released by Rush, is my personal favorite Rush album and despite some problems and complaints I have with the album, I still think the songwriting is quite strong. I was never a huge fan of Geddy Lee’s vocals so that’s one obvious …
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds live at San Diego, September 16, 2008
Surfing on the web I found this blog that has the recording of the first date of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds North American tour of their latest recording ‘Dig!!!, Lazarus, Digg!!!’ The night was September 16, 2008, the venue was the 4th & B, at San Diego, …
The Beatles - Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (Song)
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite is a song written by The Beatles which appears on their album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. In terms of psychedelic music, the track which people think of when they hear the title of this record is obviously Lucy In The …
The Fuzz Box
Looking for a new place to practice with my band I jumped into Google (as usual). A place called the FuzzBox came up and took a look into their website. Not much there on the site but decided to go down and look anyway. It’s actually only five minuets …
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