I was/am a big No Doubt fan. I’m from the camp that enjoyed Gwen’s pink hair days (even though, yes, it signified a troubled rift between her and then-boyfriend Gavin Rossdale). “Return of Saturn” is my favorite album of theirs and I play it when I’m feeling especially nostalgic… …

Let It Be Me is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Self Portrait. The track starts off with a nice acoustic guitar part along with a piano which reminds me of The Rolling Stones for some reason, although not to any major extent. Unfortunately, the …

Nirvana was one of the most famous rock bands in the nineteen nineties. I believe that the band could be considered as the Michael Jacksons of grunge rock music as at the time, their weighty lyrics and heavy sludge sound begun to cause a revolution with popular rock music. …

Overview - Go To Heaven, The Grateful Dead’s eleventh effort, is unfortunately an album that I’d have to say is average at absolute best, probably even worse than that to be honest. The opening track made me pretty hopeful for the rest of the album since it carries a …

When I was much younger, one of my favourite singers was the woman Tina Turner. These days, I still appreciate her and her music, but my appreciation just is not as strong as it was back in the day.
There were several things I had admired about this performer …

Jay-Z
“Anything”
The Truth
Roc-A-Fella Records
“Anything” is a single and music video by Jay-Z that is found, not on his fourth album “Volume 3… The Life and Times of Shawn Carter”, but on Beanie Sigel’s 1999 album “The Truth”, but it does follow after Jay-Z’s previous music video “Do It Again (Put …

Overview —“ Fuel, probably the most aggressive and fastest songs from either Load of Reload, is the opening track to Reload. I have to admit that I feel bad to the people who started to listen to Reload and then heard this track as the first song and then …

In the nineteen nineties, there was a revolution of club and electronic dance music. There were groups that I can remember had a number of hits and of course there were one or two one hit wonders, some of whom I’m still trying to find. However, the group La …

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 …

A couple of years ago Coldplay was possibly one of the most popular alternative rock bands around the world, but even then I didn’t really like them because I was into much more hardcore music at the time. It took me a couple more years and the decline in …

Jay-Z
“Excuse Me Miss”
The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse
Roc-A-Fella Records
Director: Little X
Jay-Z teams up with music video director Little X for the second single and music video called “Excuse Me Miss” from his seventh album “The Blueprint 2: The Gift and The Curse”. Following the previous “03′ Bonnie …

I sat and listened to all of these tracks, all twelve of them. Almost fifty minutes of my life was put into this album just so I could write a review. I could have used these fifty minutes playing some Xbox 360 game, gaining achievement points. In these fifty …

“I Gave You Power” is the 4th track off of Nas 1996 album “It Was Written”. Although this song isn’t technically a single, it is one of the more well known tracks off of “It Was Written”. This is one of the best songs to exemplify just how well …

Private Ave is a song by Green Day which appears on their record Kerplunk. The song starts off with a repetitive guitar riff along with a slight lead over it before Armstrong comes in with the vocals for the verse. One problem I have thus far with the …

You may have heard their pervasive song “Sugar We’re Goin’ Down” or seen its inventive “teen with antlers” video. And recently the follow-up single “Dance, Dance” is hitting the airwaves, with another imaginative video evocative of the troubled teen years. I decided to purchase their CD after …

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. …

‘Unwritten’ is the most my favorite song from Natasha Beddingfield. Everytime I listen this song, my feeling always happy and feel fresh to doing everything. This is a song that very good to declare as a happy spirit theme song for me.
The lyrics is very match with the music, …

This is probably one of the most heartbreaking, tear-wrenching songs I have ever heard. It is based on a true story, and one of Tay’s rare songs that doesn’t sing about boys and one-sided love. It tells of a young mother’s groundbreaking sorrow of losing her beloved youngest son …

I’ve honestly never listened to any of Jessica Simpson’s songs. But, I have seen her in movies. And, after some time, she has actually started winning me over a bit.
Some will criticize her as being a stereotypical dumb blonde. If that were the case, then how is it she’s …

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 …

MFEO by Kavana is very catchy and I used to listen to this particular track over and over again after I came back from school.
I even bought Kavana’s single of MFEO. Yes, such was my craziness during those times and I would smile whenever I think about …

Back in the nineteen nineties when I was a child, Anita Baker’s songs would play a lot on the radio. Since they would play so often, I ended up disliking her music then, and also thinking of it as being boring. However, it has only been recently since I …

For me personally there are many ways in which this album is a highlight for the career of the band. I think that there are so many songs on it that are good, and I think that the guys are not making any serious mistakes on this album, and …

Overview —“ Head Like A Hole, the second music video and single released by Nine Inch Nails for their debut record Pretty Hate Machine goes in a similar direction as the music video for Down In It, but the execution and the overall is much better with Head Like …

The Collector is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album With Teeth. The track opens up with a very simple drum pattern which is prominent throughout the song and is soon joined by an equally simple bass rhythm. Despite the simplicity that Reznor has going …

Greyhoundredux is a song by MGMT which appears on their first record, Climbing To New Lows. What’s interesting about Greyhoundredux is that it’s an instrumental track which surprised me to be honest. I mentioned in my review of Honey Bunny that you really can’t expect a young new band …

Rejoyce is a song by Jefferson Airplane which appears on their record After Bathing At Baxter’s. Just as a note, the title of this track is spelled as “rejoyce” rather than “rejoice” to pay homage to writer James Joyce, the author of Ulysses. The song starts off with a …

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 …

Overview —“ Spiders, a music video released by System Of A Down for promotion of their debut self titled album is a song and a music video that I’ll admit I really didn’t like at first. I’ll admit that I’m still not really a big fan of the music …

Taking Chances seemed very appropriate as the album title was taken by Celine Dion. By presenting some old songs and some new songs, which differ with the type of songs that had been sung. Dion to make a change. Since her last album, A New
Day Has Come in 2002, …

Jay-Z
“D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”
The Blueprint 3
Roc-A-Fella Records
Director: Philip Andelman
Jay-Z finally speaks out about today’s crappy music! Thank God. “Death of Auto-Tune” aka “D.O.A.” is the first single and music video from his latest album (to be released this coming Fall) titled “The Blueprint 3″. Jay-Z is back with a …

It is probably not very often to encounter for a band like the Cure to be criticized, or even to not be praised, but I think that some of their albums are not very good, and this one, their 1979 debut Three Imaginary Boys is such a record.
I think …

Rod Stewart is one of my all time favorite artists. He has had a very diverse career and Rhythm of My Heart is one of his best songs as far as I am concerned. Some of his songs have gone a bit out of style and yet others will …

Yahoo! Music, through the Yahoo! search engine, offers free music listening. There are paid options, too. But the free version offers music through online radio stations according to your taste of music: anything from christian, pop, 1970’s, country, rock, pop,etc..
What makes this wonderful is that while you’re online, …

N-A-S those are the letter that spell greatness. Illmatic is regarded by some as one of the greatest albums of all time. To understand how great this album is you would have to take a look at how Nas started his career. At 17 Years old he was already …

The Great Destroyer is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album Year Zero. The song starts out with a synthesizer and an electric drumkid which gives the song a pretty artificial sound to be hoenst, and not exactly in a good way. Reznor comes in …

When I was much younger back in the nineteen nineties, the hip hop and soul singer Brandy used to be one of my favourite singers. However, as I grew and found out more about the person she was, from what I had seen of her on reality TV more …

The Hypnotize Album is the last album that System of a Down released before going on indefinite hiatus. I am not sure when the band will be back, but luckily this was one hell of an album to release before leaving.
Attack is the first song on the album. Immediately …

The Crystal Ship is a song by The Doors which appears on their self-titled debut record. The song starts off with Morrison singing a few words before the rest of the band joins in with him. His vocal tone on this track is extremely melodic and has that very …

Now let’s not kid ourselves, shall we? Justin Timberlake is basically one of the most recognizable pop star this century. I’m not familiar with most of his work when he was with N’Sync and his pre-2010’s solo work but his comeback this decade is just phenomenal. He is getting …

After the difficulties which arose with To The Faithful Departed, The Cranberries decided to call it quits for a while, they returned to their long-neglected families, had those breaks they really really needed, since the beginnining of their career. This is pretty much the background story to Bury The …

I Walk the Line is a song performed by Johnny Cash. In 1956 is when he recorded this song for Sun Records. It was a top seller of course because it was a song about the heart and people could relate to it in their own lives. It is …

Overview —“ Lonely Day, a second single and music video released by System Of A Down for Hypnotize, the second half of their double album, Mezmerize/Hypnotize, is a track which is primarily led from start to finish by Daron Malakian. All throughout Mezmerize and Hypnotize, Malakian had began to …

Contrasting with the preceding track, Fade To Black, Trapped Under Ice is an extremely aggressive Metallica track which I’m sure is pleasing to those listeners who criticized Fade To Black. The lyrics to Trapped Under Ice deal with basically a helpless, and quite dangerous, …

I don’t really like Jay Z as a rapper. I never liked his flow style or voice. But I do have to say I do like his diss songs and his hardcore lyrics. I don’t really like his commercial songs though. As a business man I have to respect him. …

Apples And Oranges is a single by Pink Floyd which is one of their earlier singles and is written by original member Syd Barrett. The track starts off with a guitar part which has a strong effect on it which gives an odd sound to the instrument before Barrett …

The band Lamb of God is one of the best metal bands ever and you should check them out. I love their songs, most of them anyways but one the best songs I have heard from them is a relatively new song by them and its called everything to …

I’m a great believer that it’s the little things in life that make us who we are. Little signposts that send us off in different directions. This is the album that played a big part in changing my life.
I’m 16, just bought this strange album with a …

I got this bass as my first instrument. All i can say is wow. it is beautiful. It is simple and perfect for learning on. The structural integrity of this bass is so amazing for how cheap it was. Its great for a beginner that trying to figure out …

I think I am in love with a young man from hawaii with a guitar, a vintage quiff and a sweet serenade. I love him and his album, this album is positive it makes me as a woman feel good about myself, it makes me smile and it makes …