Music Reviews
The Beatles - The White Album (Side I)
Overview - Side I of The White Album, The Beatles’ ninth effort, is a very nice mix of McCartney and Lennon compositions, even one by Harrison which covers a lot of different ground as far as feel, lyrics, vocals, and music. While McCartney’s songs are a bit more on …
Hope for Haiti Now
Like millions of other people, I watched the Hope for Haiti Now telethon hosted and organized by George Clooney last Friday, and unlike so many other worthy causes, the music lineup in this show blew me away. Not only was it an international lineup of music superstars singing for …
Ocean Avenue (Album by Yellowcard)
Ocean Avenue is Yellowcard’s most successful album.
This is the album where their music started to sound like their newer albums.The music has gotten slower and more arranged.The violin lines are more present.
This is my personal best for them.The reason is that this one the songs are still quite raw …
Do Ya Thang - Rihanna song
First off, I have never been completely hooked on Rihanna and her music before, well, before this song. Her whole new cd, “Talk That Talk” is the greatest cd ever. The whole album is so catchy. And this song is totally one of my favorite songs on the album. …
Animal by Ke$ha
There are certain recording artists whose music is criticized by many of the people who consider their own taste in music to be very well refined. Ke$ha so happens to be one of those artists. As a pop star, she has found a lot of success, but she has …
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
It was during the summer of 2007. I walked into the library that was about 10 minutes from my uncle’s apartment. I went to the CD section and decided to try out some music that I hadn’t really listened to before. That’s when I saw the girl on the …
Frank Kelly’s Christmas Countdown
This is The Twelve Days of Christmas with a dark British spin. It starts off with harmless gifts being sent from a female friend to this British comedic genius. First she sends the usual gift of a partridge in a pear tree. Second was two turtle doves who had …
It’s Time For A Love Revolution (Lenny Kravitz)
This is a good new cd. It is Lenny Kravitz’s newest cd. Compared to Lenny Kravitz’s other cd’s, such as Baptism, and the Lenny Kravitz Greatest Hits, this is nothing. With his other cd’s compared to other cd’s he has to many slow songs. By slow, I mean a …
Country Music Band Lonestar
Lonestar is a country band that puts out one hit after the other. It has been a band that I have enjoyed for many years now. They came on the scene with songs like “Walking in Memphis”, “My Front Porch Looking In” and “Not a Day Goes By”. I …
The Rolling Stones - Ain’t Too Proud To Beg (Song)
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg is a cover which is performed by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album It’s Only Rock —˜N Roll. I’m not familiar with The Temptations’ original version of this song but we’ll see how The Stones’ version of this track goes. The track …
Z-Man Dope or Dog Food CD
IF Z-Man is part of the Hieroglyphics extended family, then he is one the outer, outer branches of the family tree. He actually is part of the Hiero crew, but not an immediate member, but signed to their label, Hiero Imperium. Z-Man’s lyrics are in a league of …
Madonna : Hard Candy
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 …
Disintegration, 1989 Album by The Cure
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 …
AC/DC Back In Black
Back In Black is AC/DC’s most popular album to date.It is the debut of front man Brian Johnson.This album follows a very simple formula that soul’s intent is to rock your socks off.Back In Black succeeds in driving home the rhythm and offering great guitar playing.Angus Young is the …
Bob Dylan - Time Passes Slowly (Song)
Time Passes Slowly is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album New Morning. This track opens up with a piano which gradually builds up and somewhat reminded me of jazz if it would’ve continued, but unfortunately it doesn’t go on for too long. Dylan comes in …
Television’s Greatest Hits - Volume 5: The 60’s and 70’s CD
Television’s Greatest Hits - Volume 5: The 60’s and 70’s is a collection of 65 TV themes on CD. Talk about fun. This CD transports the listening back in time to visit with old friends in all genres of television. A minute ago I listened to …
The Osmonds: 21 Hits CD
The Osmonds: 21 Hits CD was released in 1995 by Curb Records and is a celebration of five singing Osmond brothers. The liner notes are nothing special and is less than what Donny Osmond got for his 25 Hits CD put out the same year. Somehow, that …
The Strokes - Room On Fire
In their sophomore effort “Room on Fire”, The Strokes pick up about where things left off. Carrying over from their first album, Gordon Rafael’s decidedly low-fi production (a la Magnetic Fields, Guided By Voices) blends Julian Casablanca’s vocals over the ever-present dueling guitars of Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond, …
Women And Children First album by Van Halen
The album that real defines Heavy Rock N Roll for me is the Album Women And Children First by Van Halen. You can really tell it is going to be an awesome experience listening to it just by the album art work that displays the whole band and the …
Rush Moving Pictures
A great album that gave Rush its 80s style, sound and looks was the release of Moving Pictures. This album features a more radio friendly format with Hits such as Tom Sawyer co written by Max Webster. It originated from a soundcheck jam when Geddy Lee was messing around …
Niyaz: Amazing Sufi-blended New Age Music Album
Niyaz is a fortunate discovery I stumbled upon when listening to random playlists on Pandora Internet Radio. After hearing the mystical new age song titled Ghazal, I decided to buy both the albums they released since 2005. The group consists of vocalist and dulcimer player Azam Ali (with Iranian …
E.T. by Katy Perry featuring Kanye West Music Video
I have to be honest. I was not a big fan of Katy Perry’s newest music video for E.T. featuring Kanye West. My problem with this music video is that it falls into the trap that a lot of music videos fall into these days. It is way too …
Bartender by Rehab
Bartender is a fun song that most people will love. Even if you don’t usually like this kind of music, it is just a completely fun song that will make you laugh at the thought of doing such a thing. I love this song although the language is rather …
Radiohead’s Creep Video
An incredibly moving and well laid symbolic interpretation of the song ‘Creep’ by Radiohead. I was blown away by the quality of the flash movie, but more than this (and you will have to wait until the end to see what I mean if you haven’t seen it before), …
Adele - Hello (Song )
The Queen is BACK. I repeat, the QUEEN is back!
No other singer took the storm the way Adele did when she surprised released her post-21 song, “Hello”.
I know everyone knows Adele’s name ever since 21 became a global phenomenon a few years ago. Songs like “Rolling in the Deep”, …
Green Day - East Jesus Nowhere (Song)
East Jesus Nowhere is a track by Green Day for their record 21st Century Breakdown. The song opens up with some various noise from sources of media like the radio and television before leading into the main track of the song which starts out with just a clean guitar …
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
‘The Devil Went Down To Georgia’ by Charlie Daniels is a fast beat country music song. It has some of the more traditional instruments, like a fiddle, that are rarely used in country music today. Charlie Daniels and his band perform this song with such ease …
Coldworker : The Contaminated Void
The band was formed in the city of Orebro in Sweden by Joel Fornbrant (vocals), Anders Bertilsson (guitar), Daniel Schrider (guitarist) , Oskar Palsson (bass), and Anders Jakobson (drums). A mix of personnel all-star of the genre of Thrash, DeathMetal, and Grindcore. They then released, debut album, The Contaminated …
Eminem:Curtain Call cd
If you are unaware of who Eminem is you should know he is a rapper who is signed to Dr. Dre under Aftermath Records. He is famous for hits like �My Name Is�, �Lose Yourself� and �Stan� to name just a few. Well the concept behind �Curtain Call� is …
Radiohead - The Tourist (Song)
The Tourist is a song by Radiohead which is the final track on their album OK Computer. I will say right now that I believe OK Computer is Radiohead’s best work, along with Kid A, so the final track does bear some weight on the album as a whole. …
Santamental by Steve Lukather and friends
Backing by musicians such as Slash, Steve Vai, Eddie Van Halen, Greg Bissonette, Simon Phillips, Sammy Davis Jr. and Lenny Castro, there is no reason for you to feel scared listening to the roar of guitars played by Steve Lukather and his friends.This album is dominated by …
Downtown (1993): SWV
Artist: SWV
Video: “Downtown”
Album: It’s About Time
Label: RCA Records
“Downtown” is the fourth single and music video off of SWV’s “It’s About Time” debut album, following “Right Here” (as well as “Right Here - Human Nature Mix”), “I’m So Into You”, and “Weak”. “Downtown” is filled with both sexual and sensual …
My World 2.0- Justin Bieber (Album)
This cd is a continuation of Justin Biebers other album, My World. Both cds are extremely good and what i love the most is they have the same feel, but not one song sounds the same on either album. They are all so unique. This album there is not …
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - I Don’t Live Today (Song)
I Don’t Live Today is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience which appears on their album Are You Experienced? The track opens up with an interesting play-off between a lead guitar line and an interesting drum pattern. Hendrix comes in with the vocal melody pretty much immediately and …
Britney Spears song Mannequin
For starters, I’m not a fan of pop music. But I am a dancer. So of course I’m inclined to dance to pop music every once in awhile. I picked up Britney Spear’s album “Circus” and the best song on there is clearly “Mannequin.” It’s …
Little Mix - Secret Love Song ft. Jason Derulo (2016 Song)
I’m not totally a fan of girl groups but something about this song caught my attention. I was originally browsing in Instagram when one of my friends posted a song that what I thought to be original. It had a caption “Secret Love Song” and I listened to it, …
Weezer - No Other One (Song)
No Other One is a song by Weezer which appears on their sophomore effort, Pinkerton. Though the very start of the track is pretty electric and upfront, the start of the verse calms down a bit and focuses on Rivers delivering the lyrics in a fairly melodic tone. Acting …
Pompeii by E.S. Posthumus
I discovered this song via Linkara’s trailer for his 2010 season of “Atop the Fourth Wall”. Someone on TGWTG’s forums was nice enough to post a link telling me what the title of the song was and now it’s in my iTunes library.
I’ve always enjoyed listening to movie …
Secret Heart by Curtis Stigers CD
Secret Heart performed by Curtis Stigers is a very good to excellent album performed in a male jazz singer style similar to Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Buble.
My favorite song was the familiar Days of Wine and Roses” that Stigers makes his own by using a more bouncy arrangement …
Home by the band Daughtry
I am really touch by the song entitled ‘Home’ by the band Daughtry. I only heard it from Chris Daughtry’s performance in American Idol.
Honestly, I am touched by the song. I was once in a strange country and I really feel homesick. It is totally difficult being alone and …
Do You Think I’m Sexy by Paris Hilton / Cher
This song, Do You Think I’m Sexy has 2 versions that I’ve listened to and I don’t really like both of these singers sounding. They are Paris Hilton and Cher. This song is actually a cover version which Paris did, but as for Cher, I might think this …
The Rolling Stones - In Another Land (Song)
In Another Land is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Their Satanic Majesties Request As with most of this record, the sound on this track is primarily very psychedelic which is a sound that I personally love. The track opens up with a harpsichord …
Dont Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult
A big hit from the band Blue Oyster Cult is their song Don’t Fear The Reaper off their Album Agents Of Fortune. I really like this song because I’ve always loved the story behind it which is about eternal love but many fans interpret the song as a murder …
MIA-Aurlar CD
Take some urban music, and give it a tribal undertone and you’ll have a good bit of the sound that is Aurlar. This is the first album by MIA, and its a doozy. When I first heard this album i was reminded of the type of world …
Falling Into You by Celine Dion
Way before the Titanic hit song, this Falling Into You by Celine Dion had already made its way into my heart and stayed put on it. Until now, during my boring days, I would listen to Celine on this album of hers. I so love Because You Loved …
Song: Let’s Make Love, Sung by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have been country music’s number one couple for many years now. They are well known for their music separately, but have recorded some songs together. This is one of the most amazing love songs ever recorded by the pair or by anyone in country …
Saving Jane (song, Girl Next Door)
Saving Jane is an alternative rock band which consists of five members, to my knowledge. The first song I ever heard from this band was called “Saving Jane”
I first heard this song on a local radio station and I think it relates very well to how many girls must …
Anberlin New Surrender CD
I have been waiting for this CD for a very long time and when my wait was finally over I went out and bought it at a special discounted price of $9.99. I have been a fan of this band for years and this CD is proof of why …
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