No One is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which is the ninth song on their newest release, Knife Man. Opening up with a simplistic drum rhythm and some other subtle instruments playing along, the vocals soon come into the track and the vocal delivery surprisingly has a blues-sound …

Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) is the newest song written by Muse which was written for the purposes of being on the soundtrack for the upcoming Twilight film, which I do not keep up with so I do not know the name. Neutron Star Collision starts out in …

Days is one of The Kinks’ most well known and well loved songs. Like most of the band’s most successful hits, it was written by Ray Davies, who later went on to have quite a prolific career as a solo artist. Days came out in 1968, and did fairly …

I Got The Blues is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Sticky Fingers. The song starts off with a clean guitar riff which actually goes on for a pretty fair amount of time and it has a very melancholy tone to it which certainly …

Like a surgeon by Weird Al Yankovick is a parody of like a virgin by Madonna. Like a surgeon is so devilishly funny I can’t believe weird al wrote it. It’s all about a guy who just got through med school and became a surgeon. I went …

This pedal allows you to control nearly every imaginable aspect of your tremolo sound. You can choose between 3 different circuitry sounds: Opto (mid-60s American amplifiers), Bias (late 50’s British amplifiers), and Pan (pans signal back and forth between a left and right output[GOOD FEATURE TO HAVE!!!]). Each circuit …

Closing Time was the very first album from Tom Waits, one of the most noted and acclaimed songwriters in American history. Since its release, Waits has spent more than thirty years making some of the most innovative and original music in the world today. However, when Closing Time …

I generally do not listen to classical forms of music a lot, but on a rare occasion I will listen to the music of select singers and musicians. One of these people is the English born singer Sarah Brightman. There are so many things that I like about her …

Fates Warning is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their album No Prayer For The Dying. The track starts off with a clean guitar part with a melodic lead played over it which is a nice start to the track and actually not a way that Iron …

If You Can’t Rock Me is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album It’s Only Rock —˜N Roll. The track starts off with a distorted guitar rhythm along with a very brief lead being played over it. Jagger abruptly enters in with the vocals but …

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 …

R. Kelly
“Step In The Name of Love (Remix)”
Chocolate Factory
Jive Records
“Step In The Name of Love (Remix)” follows “Ignition (Remix)”, “Snake”, and “Thoia Thoing” as the fourth and final single and music video from his solo album “Chocolate Factory”. All throughout the videos for his “Chocolate Factory” album, R. Kelly …

Taylor Swift has become wildly successful in just a matter of years. In high school, I barely knew her name. Now, she is all over the Billboard charts and wins tons of awards at every single music awards show you can think of. Taylor Swift puts a twist on …

Bassists look for the same things when they buy a bass guitar: beefy tone, comfortable feel, great versatility, and of course, a killer look! I had all of these things in mind when I went searching for a new bass guitar. I have recently become busy with …

Jay-Z
“Dead Presidents”
Reasonable Doubt
Roc-A-Fella Records
Director: Abdul Malik Abbott
Jay-Z returned after his debut single and music video “In My Lifetime” about a year later with his very first album titled “Reasonable Doubt”. This is the first single and music video from that album, “Dead Presidents”. The song concerns the underworld of …

I believe in getting the compilations of the individual albums from the artists, they are better than the individual albums. The best assortments come with the “Best Of” series. Now this collection has the very well known tracks from Randy Crawford from Give Me The Night to Everything Must …

Capital G is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album Year Zero. The track opens up with a heavy drum and synthesizer rhythm before Reznor comes in with the vocals of the track which I’ve always liked. Sometime I’ve had a problem with Year Zero …

This Gone with the Wind soundtrack CD is labeled as ‘The New Recording of Max Steiner’s Classic’. It was done with LaserLight Digital technology. It has one big plus and one big minus in my book.
The big plus is that this music is as wonderful as ever. …

Don’t take the girl by Tim McGraw is about a boy not wanting his dad taking the girl but as he gets older he falls in love with this little girl he didn’t want to go fishing with him when he was younger. He then wants the girl to …

I love avril Lavigne so much since she came up first time with the single complicated and skater boy in her first album let go, so do in the second album under my skin. Her songs feels so rock.
But in the third album the best damn thing, I feel …

I love Coldplay. They have this style that no other band has. Chris Martin’s voice is so unique that when you hear him singing, you instantly know that it’s him. Before I bought this album, I would often listen to “Yellow” and “The Scientist”. The album X&Y has so …

I really like the song ‘reflection’ from Christina Aguilera. This song is the first single from Christina Aguilerafor about maybe nine or ten years ago, but I still love this song. ‘reflection’ is also become the soundtrack from the animation movie ‘Mulan’. The lyrics is very describe the movie, …

Make out club by gym class heros on the paper cut chronicles is a song about how a guy has made out with so many girls and he is telling all his buddies about all the girls he has ever made out with. He brings up every girl because …

Mind is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their self-titled debut album. The track starts off with a very quiet introduction which is led purely by bass until an eerie guitar also comes in along with Tankian joining in with a whisper. Overall, the …

Rolling Papers is Wiz Khalifa’s big debut album. He released a few of the songs as singles before the release of the CD. That made it feel like I had already heard about half of the songs before he released it. The problem with that was that he had …

For us those who are old enough to catch the tail-end of 80’s rock, rock icons Guns N’ Roses are definitely something we can be nostalgic about. Hard-core fans definitely miss the music of unique guitar sounds, equally unique and incredible song structure and craftsmanship and wildcat howls …

I am so in love with this P.S. I Love You Soundtrack. It is so romantic and I enjoy listening to it like so, so much. There are lots of amazing sounds totally and some tracks which I love so much would be In The Beginning, Fortress and …

(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To is a song by Weezer which appears on their album Raditude. The song opens up with a catchy acoustic guitar riff which serves as the main riff of the song before a catchy drum pattern and Cuomo’s …

The Unforgiven would be the one song on The Black Album which I would define as being extremely musically mature and once again shows an excellent example of Metallica continuing to progress as excellent songwriters. The lyrics to this song deal with this person cutting himself off from society …

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 …

I first was acquainted with Taylor Swift’s music through her single You Belong with Me. I kept hearing it over the radio and I thought it was a catchy song. I am no teenybopper but somehow it was not long before the single appealed to me. …

Alicia Keys is a phenomenal artist specializing in the R&B genre of music. One of my favourite songs from her is “You don’t know my name” from her “The Diary of Alicia Keys” album.
I personally wasn’t hooked on the song when I first heard it over MTV but I …

Miracle On 42nd Street is a song by the Flaming Lips and the sixth track on their third studio album, Telepathic Surgery. Opening up with random samples, Miracle On 42nd Street establishes its rhythm fairly gradually with a bass guitar part entering the track in a progressive fashion. Although …

Futureal is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their album Virtual XI. The song opens up with a pretty energetic guitar riff which works pretty well and would seem to lead nicely into the first verse. Harris’ bass has a very nice heavy tone as well which …

Usually i wouldnt bother reviewing a greatest hits cd but this one particulaly tickled my fancy.
Lets face the Chili Peppers have had one hell of a career and an absolute bag full of hits. I Myself am a HUGE Peppers fan but i am going to be 100% honest …

Tears for Fears is one of the biggest 1980’s acts of all time. This duo had so many hits. But many of them are very obscure. (How’s that for an oxymoron?) The biggest hit of theirs to date has to be “Head Over Heels.” …

If you were ask my husband what kind of music do I listen to, he would tell you, —˜Soundtracks and Disney music.’ I listen to a great variety of music, but a great deal of that music is Soundtracks and Disney. There is something about the power and the …

Two-Headed Boy is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel and is the fourth song to appear on their record In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. I will admit right away that I’m personally more familiar with Andrew Jackson Jihad’s cover of this song as I heard their cover quite …

Bruce Dickinson is the lead singer of Iron Maiden, but aside that he has also made a name for himself as a Solo Artists over the years releasing many powerful and unique metal albums, similar in sound to his band, Iron Maiden, but different in a sense of originality …

Universe is a song by Scars On Broadway which appears on their debut record, Scars On Broadway. Universe opens with an electric guitar riff which I would describe as sort of a driving lead which goes nicely into a drum pattern played by Dolmayan before picking up in terms …

Overview - Barrett, the second solo record of Syd Barrett, is more stripped down songwriting - basically the exact opposite of his work in Pink Floyd. While in Pink Floyd Barrett worked a lot with very frantic and chaotic psychedelic music, but this album really isn’t like that at …

Bruce Springsteen’s Greatest Hits CD definitely contains some great songs: ‘Born to Run’, ‘Thunder Road’, and ‘Atlantic City’ among them. It also includes the first release of the awesome ‘This Hard Land’. I am a huge Bruce fan, so it almost pains me to say that this collection should …

Sugar Magnolia is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their record American Beauty. Sugar Magnolia opens up with a bouncy sounding rhythm which has an extremely lighthearted tone to it and you can certainly tell that this song will be a lot better than an average …

Overview —“ Poprocks And Coke is a music video from the album International Superhits, a record released by Green Day that primarily contained the singles that they had released through their career and also two previously unreleased songs, this being one of the two. I’m unfamiliar with this song …

This thing is a beast plan and simple. More then enough power to rattle dishes in the china cabinet.
I was looking to upgrade from my Crate GX-130C to a tube amp. Short of selling limbs to get a Mesa or Engl head, I came across the Bugera.
They were …

Overview —“ Holy Wars—¦ The Punishment Due, the lead off track of Megadeth’s most acclaimed record, Rust In Peace, is only one of nine examples of why this album is praised to highly. Although not the only reason why this album was so good, but definitely one of the …

I really had a difficult time to understand what the first stanza means because I was really baffled on what the singer is trying to tell his audience. But when I played the song again and again, that is what I have understood because I can’t clearly get how …

I have mixed feelings about the X-Factor finalists Hero song. I appreciate that it was all for a very good cause with all money raised going to Help The Heroes, but this is done each year in some format or another and whilst I appreciate the sentiment, I do …

One Of My Lies is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Kerplunk. The track starts out with a pretty raw sounding three-chord guitar riff before the bass and drums join in. Something I like about the sound thus far is that the production really isn’t …

This song is the new upcoming single for new pop artist, Kesha. This
song is a total love song. The lyrics are cute, and simple. The song
is about a girl, who is so in love with a guy and she feels addicted
to his love like a drug. This is a …