Music Reviews
Myley Cyrus - 7 thing
For a young artist, miley cyrus is pretty talented, she can act and sing. First time I thought that she can’t sing, but after her song, I think its good enough though I don’t like her behaviour, her song is goog enough to listen. Like this one, seven things.
This song …
Them Crooked Vultures - Self titled (Album)
Music fans were excited when they heard Queens of the Stone Age’s lead guitarist and vocalist Josh Homme would be joining forces with Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters (and formerly Nirvana) and former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones to form a super group known as Them Crooked …
The Flaming Lips - Ode To C.C. Part I (Song)
Ode To C.C. (Part 1) is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their second release, Oh My Gawd. I will say right now that this track is not a traditional song by any means and I find it to be quite a disappointing song on the …
“Playas Only” (2005): R. Kelly ft. The Game
R. Kelly ft. The Game
“Playas Only”
TP-3: Reloaded
Jive Records
It looks like R. Kelly is no longer trapped in the closet in this second single and music video from his solo album, “TP-3: Reloaded”. Here, he teams up with a rapper who (quite possibly) stole his name from a 1997 David …
Muse - Hysteria (Song)
Hysteria is a track by Muse which appears on Absolution. One thing I will say about Hysteria before really getting into the review, and probably something you will agree with me, is that once you start listening to the song, the rhythms which start the song and stay throughout …
Ozzy Osbourne: No More Tears
No More Tears is my favorite solo album by Ozzy Osbourne.I love every song on the album with all of my heart’s content.The reason mainly is Zakk Wylde’s guitar playing.However, I feel like they captured Ozzy’s voice and desire in a very mature time in his life.The overall feel …
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 …
Album : Protest The Hero - Scurrilous (2011)
No band in the last few years has been the center of so much debate as Protest the Hero. On one side of the fence there is the haters that will not give them a fair go bacuae they have some ties with the metal-core landscape. But on the …
Bone Thugs N Harmony: Creepin On Ah Come Up
Bone Thugs N Harmony’s Creepin On Ah Come up album is a hip hop classic and one of the best rap albums I have ever heard. From the intro with the devil laughing to the haunting singing of Bone Thugs, this album delivers the thug style. The hit song …
Bossa Nova Stories by Eliane Elias
I don’t know how to say this, but I’m so in love with jazz music lately. Especially after I’ve listened to Bossa Nova Stories by Eliane Elias. I do not realize that Jazz music, or rather Bossa Nova could be really attractive and seductive. It makes me …
Weak (1992): SWV
Artist: SWV
Video: “Weak”
Album: It’s About Time
Label: RCA Records
Director: Lionel C. Martin
“Weak” is the third single and music video from SWV’s debut album “It’s About Time”, following “Right Here” and “I’m So Into You”. Once again helmed by music video director Lionel C. Martin (who is this guy, the Hype …
Rhythm of My Heart by Rod Stewart
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 …
Girlfriend by Avril Lavinge
Girlfriend by avril lavinge is a song about a girl trying to get other girls guys to date her and make them break up over the matter. Why you wonder she would do that well it’s because that’s is how life goes and she is only doing it out …
Pink God Is a DJ Single
I like the God Is a DJ single from Pink. There was a time when I would play it several times a day. Now, I only play it every now and then. The reason I am hooked to it is its dancy tune. It …
Eli Young Band - Level
Level was an entertaining album filled with possible radio hits and chart toppers. There simple lyrics about women and typical country stories make it easy to sing along and a perfect background for a party setting. I have personally seen this band live and there CD to …
The Flaming Lips - The Magician Vs. The Headache (Song)
The Magician Vs. The Headache is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their album Hit To Death In The Future Head. In terms of the sound on this track, the band goes with a moderate tempo which works well enough. The verse of the track is …
Opera Arias by Yu Qiang Dai on CD
This tenor is off the chart! I saw Yu Qiang Dai perform with the Los Angeles Opera in Puccini’s opera Turandot and immediately after I purchased his first CD. He has a powerful, rich voice and is an equal to a younger Pavarotti. This Chinese-born tenor sang Nessun Dorma …
Animal Collective - Ahhh Good Country (Song)
Ahhh Good Country is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their second release, Danse Manatee. Opening up with a synthesizer intro that drags on for about two minutes, Ahhh Good Country then goes on in this instrumental fashion for about another minute before the vocal performance finally …
Flogging Molly - What’s Left Of The Flag (Song)
What’s Left Of The Flag is a song by Flogging Molly which appears on their record Drunken Lullabies. The vocals waste no time coming into this track as they start right away simultaneously with a violin part as well as an acoustic guitar strumming a simple pattern in the …
Weezer - Holiday (Song)
Holiday is a song by Weezer which appears on their self-titled debut record, otherwise known as The Blue Album. Opening up with an interesting lead guitar line accompanied by the rest of the band, Rivers Cuomo comes in with the vocals after this brief intro with a vocal delivery …
Lungs by Florence and the Machine
It has been a while since I have been pleasantly surprised by a musician or a band, which is why I was so happy to discover Florence and the Machine. Much like so many good musicians over the years, Florence Welch hails from the UK and brings …
Telephone Music Video by Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is known for being one of the most innovative and provocative artists of this generation. She seems to have revolutionized the industry in a mere matter of months. It isn’t simply about how strange she seems to be in the way she dresses and acts. It is …
Yyz by Rush
As Rush went into the 80’s their sounded changed a quite bit since they started out in the 1980’s. One of the songs they are most known for is the instrumental YYZ off the Moving Pictures album. The song has a really odd timing at the intro but it’t …
Animal Collective - Lion In A Coma (Song)
Lion In A Coma is a song by Animal Collective and the ninth song to appear on their 2009 record Merriweather Post Pavilion. Immediately opening up with a bouncy rhythm, Lion In A Coma has an undeniable lighthearted sound to it right from the start. The vocal performance …
Deftones
The Deftones released their fourth album the self titled Deftones, in May of 2003, the album was produced by Terry Date and The Deftones. Hexagram is the band in their classic style, the perfect mix of loud and mellow. Needles And Pins has a darker feel that reminds me …
UFO-Try Me (song)
The song Try Me is a ballad by the english hard rock melodic band UFO. It is off the album Lights out released in 1977 and in my opinion one of the bands best ballads along with Love to Love. The song starts out with a piano intro …
Ancestors : Neptune With Fire
I think that the Ancestors would a band with folk metal genre. Arrangement simple logic, Neptune is the god of the sea, which in the title of this album, in contrast with fire, so, Ancestors is a group with the genre of folk metal proud of the values of …
Nirvana-Greatest Hits CD
Honestly, if you’re a fan of Nirvana, you probably already have all their other CDs, so there’s no particular reason to buy this one unless you’re a stickler for owning every version of a song ever recorded. The one advantage to this CD is that it’s great for …
Like a surgeon by Weird Al Yankovick
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 …
Baduizm by Erykah Badu
Looking at the CD cover of Baduizm by Erykah Badu, I am totally amazed. There is no close singer like Erykah Badu and I think her image is totally unique and very original. She is unpretentious and there are just so many good things about this CD album.
To …
The Flaming Lips - Shaved Gorilla (Song)
Shaved Gorilla is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their third record, Telepathic Suicide. Opening up with a sampling of what sounds like a classic Disney film, Shaved Gorilla opens up with a very lighthearted mood and innocent sound. Once this opening sampling ends, a moderately …
“The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” soundtrack CD
Although I’m not usually a film music buff, I decided to buy the CD of “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” soundtrack for the Bat for Lashes and Florence and the Machine songs. Still, while I was expecting to limit my listening to these two tracks, possibly finding a third or …
Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy
Dichotomy was released in 2008 and produced by Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad. The name Dichotomy fits really well as the sound on the album are two opposites merged together, they do this really well, this album is less emotionless then Physics of fire, that was a good …
It’s All About U (1996): SWV
Artist: SWV
Video: “It’s All About U”
Album: New Beginning
Label: RCA Records
Director: Kevin Bray
“It’s All About U” is the third and final single and music video from SWV’s second album titled “New Beginning”, following their predecessors, “You’re The One” and “Use Your Heart”. Out of these three pre-Shiny Suit Era music …
The Right Stuff By The New Kids On The Block
So the Old Kids On The Block are back, and I am just as excited about it as any woman in their late twenties up to the forties. I figured it was time to review the song, You Got It (The right stuff), the right way.
The Right Stuff grabs …
Wounds In The Way by Rachelle Ferrell
From the first chord of the acoustic guitar, the sultry voice, and the overall sensual mood, one would believe “Wounds in the Way” was a sad love song. But after hearing the song during its second play, you’ll come to see that is not the case: “Wounds in the Way” …
Ke$ha: Take it off song
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 …
Insomniac by Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias is my favorite singer, and I love all of his songs. I have all of his sings, and I was waiting for a long time for this album called “Insomniac” to release. And when it got released in the mid June of 2007, I was pretty much …
Celine Dion-Falling Into You CD
The tracks on this CD are some of the best works of Celine Dion’s career. This is the best collection of songs ever put together on any CD. From the ever powerful “It’s all coming back to me now” that is literally thunderous, to the title track “Falling into …
Liverpool 8
After 40 years of the legendary group The Beatles, declared dissolved, one personnel from the Beatles, Ringo Starr, did not want to give up the competition in the music industry. While in the Beatles, he was only acting as a drummer, Starr
also has a great contribution as his friends, …
GZA - Duel of the Iron Mic (song)
“Duel of the Iron Mic” appears off of GZA debut album “Liquid Swords”. For those of you whom are unfamiliar, GZA is part of super group Wu-Tang Clan. In the early 90’s it was safe to say that the Wu-Tang Clan had a respectable ensemble of members in their …
The Flaming Lips - When You Smile (Song)
When You Smile is a song by the Flaming Lips which appears on their album Clouds Taste Metallic. Opening up with a free atmosphere, a couple guitars can be heard coming in and out of the track with effects on them which gives them a very light and airy …
Dio: Holy Diver
Dio’s Holy Diver is among the most important metal albums of all time.Ronnie’s vocals soar with amazing beauty and depth.He is a great front man for any band.Even though I like his work with Black Sabbath much more than solo it still does nothing to change the fact that …
suds in the bucket
Suds in the bucket by Sara Evans is a song about how this girl after she turned eighteen left home and went with her boyfriend to where she wanted to go. Everybody thought she was a good little girl and now that she left they were all shocked. It …
Stampeders Canada Day Concert
I have been a huge fan of the 1970’s Canadian rock band, The Stampeders my whole life. My parents loved them before I was born, so I grew up listening to them, and for the last 5 years I have been blessed to see them each year at the …
Fox On The Run By Ace Frehley
On the new Ace Frehley record Anamoly their are a bunch of good tracks that the Ex guitarist layed down and did some vocals on that were very original. Although hes not much of a singer and he used vocal processing live I still think his melodic phrasing and …
System Of A Down - Toxicity (Music Video)
Overview —“ Toxicity, a third music video released by System Of A Down for their second album of the same name is pretty much a performance music video but it has a few twists thrown into it. Rather than be a straight performance video, certain sections of this music …
Daughtry- Leave This Town (Album)
Daughtry has come such a long way from his first appearance on American Idol years ago, and this album definitely shows how far hes come. Overall its a great album with not one song i dislike. Thats how you know an albums good, when you can listen through …
Funeral by Arcade Fire
This truly is an astonishing debut. Arcade Fire are a group of ten canadian musicians led by Win Butler and his wife Regine. They include amongst their ranks, pianists, violinist and harp players. Clearly this is not your average rock group and yet when they play live, they invest …
Day 26
It has been quite some time since Diddy and Bad Boy have released a decent R&B album. With the loss of artists like Faith Evans and 112, many wondered if Bad Boy would ever regain its success of the mid 90’s. With his latest effort, making the …
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