Music Reviews
Someday (1990): Mariah Carey
Artist: Mariah Carey
Video: Someday
Album: Mariah Carey
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Larry Jordan
“Someday” is the third music video and single from Mariah Carey’s very first self-titled album, following the previous singles and music videos which are “Vision of Love” and “Love Takes Time”. This time, Mariah Carey teams up with director Larry …
Sandara Park and 2ne1
I am not a korean, I am just one of the many filipino fans of the rising star korean girl pop group 2ne1. One reason why I like this group is because of Sandara Park who is now using the name Dara when she joined 2ne1.
I am really …
Bob Dylan - Masters Of War (Song)
Masters Of War is one of the earlier tracks on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and I still remember this as being the first Bob Dylan song to truly catch my attention and get me into his songwriting. I remember that I had heard some of Dylan’s music, mostly just …
Happy Day by Kim Walker: Music
The song started out with a fast beat of the drum as Kim Walker started to sing the introduction of the song Happy Day. I was really impressed on the way her voice was. Not that high toned pitch but her voice was more of an alto to soprano. …
One step closer (song by, u2)
U2 is an Irish rock band and I decided I would give one of their Cd’s “How to dismantle and atomic bomb” a listen since I haven’t listened it for a while and I am in the mood to hear some of their music. One step closer is one …
Weezer - Only In Dreams (song)
“Only In Dreams” is the closing song off of the fantastic debut album of Weezer. This such a good song to close an equally good album. To my knowledge it is also the longest song ever recorded by Weezer, although I admit I haven’t really dabbled into any of …
MGMT - Come On Christmas (Song)
Come On Christmas is a track by the neo-psychedelic rock band hailing from New York, MGMT. This song comes from their first record back before they were on a major label entitled Climbing To New Lows. Opening up with a heavy synthesizer, the track immediately has a recognizable sound …
Kerplunk Green Day CD
I bought Kerplunk a few years ago, wanting to explore more of Green Day’s earlier music. And I’m very glad I did. Years later, I still listen to the CD and enjoy the wonderful music on it.
Released in 1992, I believe that Kerplunk has a different vibe to many …
Lil Wayne’s album “Rebirth”
Lil Wayne’s Rebirth album has caused an amazing amount of controversy in the world of rap and metal. Without judging the sudden genre change, I do not recommend buying the album. Only few select songs are worth listening to. I have to say that the only song I would …
Megadeth - Losing My Senses (Song)
Losing My Senses is a song by Megadeth which appears on their album The World Needs A Hero. The track starts off with Mustaine immediately singing along with a guitar riff which has a nice flowing sound to it I suppose. Mustaine and this guitar go on for quite …
Joshua Bell Sibelius & Goldmark Violin Concertos, Esa-Pekka Salonen
As a classical enthusiast and performer myself, I have a large CD library with around nine or ten recordings of the infamous, devilishly difficult Sibelius Violin Concerto. Joshua Bell is one of my favorite violinists, and a friend gave me a CD of him playing the Sibelius and …
Finnish Metal Band, Children of Bodom - I Worship Chaos (2015)
Children of Bodom originated in Espoo, Finland. The drummer, Jaska Raatikainen and high school friend front man Alexi Laiho started the band as young teens. Their project was first named Inearthed, but soon changed the name to Children of Bodom.
The band had this fascination with the murders that occurred …
C’Beyohn 1st Class, The Keep It Cool Collection (CD)
If you are at all on the underground scene in Atlanta, GA, you probably have run into this young artist. Once a member of the group, the Fresh Air Foundation, this artist has figured out a way to bring balance back to hip-hop while exhibiting his own …
Faith No More - Just a Man (Song)
“Just a Man” is a song by Faith No More. This appears as the 14th track on Faith No More’s album “King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime”. I find this song to be truly fantastic, considering that it isn’t even a single.
“Just a Man” has a very …
Everybody Plays the Fool by The Main Ingredient
“Everybody Plays the Fool” by The Main Ingredient is easily one of my favorite songs of all time. From the first time I heard it on the radio, the song clicked with me. It is so very true to the way love works that it causes me to tear …
Live & Loud by Ozzy Osbourne
Live & Loud by Ozzy Osbourne album is definitely a good one and a blast at that. I love listening to this album track so much that whenever I go for a ride in the car or something. And sometimes during my late nights, I do listen …
Tomorrow (Single) - Chris Young
Before I heard this song I was not a huge country music fan, but this song proved to me how beautiful and relaxing country music is to listen to. I first heard it on the radio flipping through channels, it sounded good at the line on I landed on …
Chiodos - Bone Palace Ballet
I recently purchased the new CD, Bone Palace Ballet, by hardcore veterans Chiodos on Equal Vision Record. Their sophomore release takes the band to new levels, and really shows us how the band has grown and matured. The songs are …
TOn A Clear Day You Can See Forever soundtrack CD
Barbra Streisand and Yves Montand starred in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, a quirky but really fun movie about a woman with a few unique abilities. It’s also about reincarnation. This is the soundtrack CD from the movie. It’s been digitally remastered and …
My best friend by Tim McGraw
My best friend is a song by Tim McGraw. It talks about a husband and wife that have a great relationship.
It idealizes how a great marriage should be if it is going to last through the sea of times. It talks about people and things and the way they …
Green Day - Homecoming (Song)
Homecoming, the second musical epic of this album along with Jesus Of Suburbia, is honestly just as good as Jesus Of Suburbia in my opinion. I praise both of these tracks heavily, not so much because the parts themselves are brilliant but because the whole song is very well …
New Kids on the Block : The Block
After about two decades did not release an album, in 2008, New Kids on the Block released an album titled The Block. New Kids on the Block could be the beginning of the era of boy bands of the decade 80. Since the appearance of this group, many boy …
Back Here by BBMak
This UK Band, singing their hit single titled, Back Here is one of the best songs ever sung by this band. And this band is none other than BBMak. I don’t know whether the BB and the Mak should be close or separated, but that’s more or less …
Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Song)
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, pretty much the second half of Holiday, serves as an excellent contrast to Holiday which I will explain. It’s been said that the two songs are meant to be looked as basically one piece of music where Holiday is the party and Boulevard Of Broken …
Radiohead - Electioneering (Song)
Electioneering is a song by Radiohead which appears on their third record OK Computer. I’m going to say right away that Electioneering truly isn’t like the rest of the songs on OK Computer, or really like many of the songs by Radiohead for that matter. This isn’t to say …
Sade live performance DVD set
I really love my music and one of the artists that really stand out for me is Sade. I think she is one of the greatest musicians plying her trade in the entertainment world and I really rate her to be in a class of her own.
I went to …
Can’t Let Go (1991): Mariah Carey
Artist: Mariah Carey
Video: Can’t Let Go
Album: Emotions
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Jim Sonzero
“Can’t Let Go” is the second single and music video from Mariah Carey’s second album titled “Emotions”, following the title track single and music video “Emotions”. Helming a the music video director’s chair this time around is Jim Sonzero …
Mamma Mia! Movie Soundtrack (UK)
Mamma Mia the Movie Soundtrack
Mamma Mia! Is indeed one of the most popular musicals in history, with its brilliant casts, and above all fantastic catchy songs. But now to everyone’s dream it was turned into the fastest selling motion picture in UK History! Selling more DVD copies than the …
Money Maker by Ludacris with Pharrell
Money Maker by Ludacris with Pharrell is a nice song that I like listening to and dancing to. It has a good beat to the song and I just love dancing to the song. To most this song is a dirty song and it is but it also can …
Fast Cars (song by, U2)
U2 is an Irish rick band and they brought out an album a while back named “How to dismantle and atomic bomb.” Interesting title if I do say so myself.
I bought the album for one of the songs in particular but other songs from it has grown on …
Barbra Streisand: One Voice CD
When released, Barbra Streisand: One Voice CD got a lot of attention and for good reason. It’s not everyday that this amazing singer gives a concert. This was back in 1987, before her big concert tours of the 90’s. Barbra gave a concert in her backyard, …
Bone Thugs “Ressurection” cd
The Bone Thugs “Ressurection” cd is one which was long awaited by Bone Thugs fan when the group announced that they had broken up in 1999. It was thought that the cd would never come out but this was not the case, Ressurection was released IN 2000 to awaiting …
Butterfly (song) by Mariah Carey
Butterfly is one of the greatest hits from the 90’s. A single coming from Mariah Carey included in her studio album, Mariah. I was first year in college when I heard it playing in the radio. The song sounds sad and serious. Hearing this song when you are alone …
That’s Right (2007): Ciara ft. Lil’ Jon
Ciara ft. Lil’ Jon
“That’s Right”
Ciara: The Evolution
LaFace Records
Director: The Fat Cats
Ciara brings us yet another song about female empowerment, this one being about a woman telling her boyfriend that she doesn’t want to let him ruin her fun in exchange for his selfish needs. Boo-hoo. The name of the …
Slayer - 213 (Song)
213 is a song by Slayer which appears on their album Divine Intervention. The song opens up with a clean guitar playing an extremely eerie riff, although you know that if Slayer has a clean guitar, then the riff is obviously going to have a dark and eerie mood …
Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies (Album)
Not usually my cup of tea this. It’s more a bitter dark and strong coffee that you could stand a spoon up in … I really dislike the taste of coffee.
So it’s not something I would knowingly drink. Or, to cut the waffle (and terrible metaphor) short: It’s not …
“The World’s Greatest” (2001): R. Kelly
R. Kelly
“The World’s Greatest”
“Ali”: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The church choirs and the swelling ballad strings once again return in this latest “I Believe I Can Fly”-ish opus from none other than the signature emotional song candidate for tear-jerking ‘message’ movies (with the exception of 1996’s “Space Jam” which …
Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague
Evisceration Plague is the band’s 11th full length album, released on February 3 of 2009, the album features producer Erik Rutan and was released on Metal Blade Records. The overall feel of the album if extremely heavy, if you know the band very well you will know they usually …
Nine Inch Nails - The Day The World Went Away (Song)
The Day The World Went Away is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album The Fragile. The track opens up with a very brooding and dark atmosphere created by a synthesizer and a sound that most Nine Inch Nails fans should be familiar with. After …
Metallica And Lou Reed - Mistress Dread (Song)
Mistress Dread is a song by Metallica and Lou Reed which is the fourth track on their collaboration album Lulu. Similar to the previous track, Pumping Blood, Mistress Dread starts out with an incredibly melodic sound which I personally think should’ve been the type of sound Reed should have …
Alice in Chains
“Alice in Chains” was one of the biggest bands of the 1990s. Some people said that their music was grunge. However, I think that their music was much more than grunge, as some of those people only say that because the band originated in grunge rock capital of …
Victoria Shaw: Old Friends, New Memories CD
In truth, I’m not sure why I purchased Victoria Shaw: Old Friends, New Memories. I know she did a duet with Ty Herndon, who is one of my very favorite singers, and I might have been hoping to find him on this CD (he’s not). It’s possible …
Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock
Live At Woodstock is probably the best recording of Jimi Hendrix live behind Band Of Gypsys.This is pretty much the reason most people have heard about him through the generations.His cherished rendition of The Star Spangled Banner is as beautiful as it is distinctive.However, you will find a special …
Bob Dylan - Changing Of The Guards (Song)
Changing Of The Guards is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album Street Legal. The track opens up with an organ part along with a steady drum and bass rhythm before Dylan comes in with the background vocals. Something to note about this track is that …
The Ballads by Mariah Carey
I know that Mariah Carey has so many amazing and awesome songs in her albums over the years, but this one has a distinct specialness on its own. The Ballads by Mariah Carey is a compilaton of the ballad songs that she had done before and to have this …
Animal Collective - Seal Eyeing (Song)
Seal Eyeing is a song by Animal Collective and the final track on their EP Water Curses. Easily the most relaxing track on this record and one of Animal Collective’s most calming songs in general, Seal Eyeing places a pretty well balanced amount of focus on the music and …
The Weeknd - The Hills (Remixes) Song
When The Weeknd released his mega-hit “Earned It” earlier this year, (it was included in the elusive Fifty Shades soundtrack) I never really cared. In fact I hate that song, yes, until now. It wasn’t just my type of music and I was certainly surprised when everyone else I …
Bob Dylan - You’re Gonna Quit Me (Song)
You’re Gonna Quit Me is a cover performed by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Good As I Been To You. The track opens up with an acoustic guitar pattern which doesn’t exactly carry any major feel to it, but it seems to have somewhat of a folk …
System Of A Down - Lost In Hollywood (Song)
Lost In Hollywood, the final track of the first half of System Of A Down’s double record, Mezmerize/Hypnotize, is probably the track on this half of the record which I would consider to be the most powerful. What’s particularly significant about this track is that it really is Daron …
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