Dean Martin (1917-95), —˜the Master of Cool’, one of the top all-round United states performers and participant of the —˜Rat Pack’, which also composed Honest Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, was best known as a musician, though he was also a comic and acting professional, celebrity of the …

I was talking with a friend of mine about Cranberries albums, and he asked me, which one is the odd one? The one that doesn’t fit. Well, it certainly is “To The Faithful Departed”. While “No Need ” was a natural evolution from “Everybody “, this album is the unnatural …

Travelling Riverside Blues, and no that is not a typo of “traveling”, is a cover performed by Led Zeppelin which appears on their record Coda. Just as a note, this track is not included on the original version of this album but was placed on the CD version …

One of the songs that I’ve recently heard by the band Avenged Sevenfold is the song, So Far Away. I like this song because it is a tribute to the drummer who passed away about a year ago. It starts off with a slow acoustic guitar being strummed …

Oh, how I loved Paul Anka for decades. Then he dumped his wife after decades of marriage and five kids (at least five, could have been six — my brain doesn’t recall). As much as I love his music, I look at him now and I just groan. …

Dolly Pardon sings ‘I will Always Love You’ the best of any performer I have heard do that song. It is such a sweet melody that makes you just want to cry when you hear it . It makes you want to tell them to go on and be …

This is the first time that I have ever really heard something fast by John Legend. I absolutely love this song, and did the first time that I heard it. Usually I don’t like songs with this particular tempo. The tempo has been used a …

Zombie By The Cranberries By Andrew Jackson Jihad is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their most recent studio record, Knife Man. Opening up with a quick acoustic guitar rhythm, the sound reminds me a bit more of the sound that the band would have had …

The band Blue Oyster cult has a really big 80s hit off their album The Revölution by Night in 1983. It was the largest single off that album. This song was featured on a poor selling Cult album but I really like it because it fits the time of …

Beginning To See The Light is a song by The Velvet Underground which appears on their album of the same name. The track opens up with a guitar riff and Lou Reed wasting no time with the accompanying vocals joining in immediately as well. Reed’s vocal melody throughout the …

Jay-Z
“Who You Wit”
“Sprung” Motion Picture Soundtrack
Warner Bros. Records/Qwest Records
Jay-Z’s song “Who You Wit” is a single off of the motion picture soundtrack for the 1997 romantic comedy film “Sprung”. The song samples Jeff Lorber Fusion’s “Night Love”. The music video has one of the main cast members from the …

Serious is the opening song of Scars On Broadway’s self-titled debut record. As this being the first record, some fans were not sure what to expect from Daron Malakian, whether he’d go with the sound that he had in System Of A Down or whether he’d go in a …

Artist: Mase ft. Blackstreet
Video: “Get Ready”
Album: Double Up
Director: Hype Williams.
“Get Ready” is the first single and music video off of Mase’s second album “Double Up” and it is perhaps the best song and video he did ever since “Feel So Good” (is it no surprise that both videos are …

Lupe Fiesco is a conscious rapper who got his start on ‘Touch the Sky’ by Kanye West. Since then he has been compared to Mos Def and Common and declared one of the most talented artists in Rap today. This is probably because Fiesco chooses to stay away from …

When I was in high school, I liked listening to Garth Brooks, among others. But, I haven’t really listened to any of his classic songs until recently; when my wife bought me his Ultimate Hits Collection for our anniversary. Now it’s all I listen to.
I haven’t had a chance …

Losfer Words (Big —˜Orra) is an instrumental by Iron Maiden which appears on their album Powerslave. I can’t speak with absolute certainty but I believe this is one of the very few Iron Maiden instrumentals, the only other one to come to mind right now is Transylvania and I …

Knife Man is a 2011 album release by Andrew Jackson Jihad. The one thing that really stuck out to me about Knife Man after going through a couple listens of the record was that the band really chooses to embrace different sounds throughout the album. Though the traditional and …

For anyone who is a fan of electronic based music, you’ve come to the right place. The Faint is one of those bands that quite easily gets you off your feet, and makes you wonder why you’re itching to dance. These Omaha natives have been on Saddle Creek for …

Of all the current young male singers, Josh Groban is the one that I admire the most. He has an impressive career, which I can only suppose was not easy. The lights apparently started shining on him when music producer David Foster first noticed his unique gift, …

Need some song to make you cheer up again? Listen this song and you will dance automatically. Especially for you who like R&B and rap song.
Like usually, Nelly always bring an interesting rap song, in this song Party People, Nelly take Fergie to colaborete with him. With Fergie, …

If I had to quickly sum up the song “Jesus of Suburbia” by Green Day, I would have to say that it is a teen angst anthem surrounding the lives lived by most suburban teens.
The song was featured on the “American Idiot” rock opera album and has spawned a …

As The World Turns is a song by Eminem which appears on his album The Slim Shady LP. As the opening rhythm comes in, Eminem does a good job of utilizing both a rhythm vocal track and a lead vocal song throughout the very start in the song but …

No wonder why Michael Learns to Rock wins the heart of many Asian fans. They play rock songs but they kinda do their music in moderation, but the quality is never in moderation. Let me explain. It is safe to say, their rock is somewhat …

Blowin’ In The Wind, one of Bob Dylan’s most famous and ionic songs throughout his extremely lengthy career proves to certainly meet it’s reputation as the track itself is just great. As with most early Bob Dylan, or rather most Bob Dylan for that matter, the track isn’t driven …

Wow! What can I say? This music video in my opinion is one of the best music videos I’ve ever seen. It’s just so unique and fun and it’s everything. First of all, WOW! I could never in a million years thought that this would be the type of …

Overview —“ King Nothing, the final music video released by Metallica for their album Load, continues to the band’s original trend of shifting between clips of them playing the song and then a story to explain and accompany the lyrics to the song. Despite the similarity in structure and …

Wal-Mart parking lot by Chris Cagle Is a song that reminds me so much of my town right now because that is all there is to do here. They shut down the skating rink so that leaves us Wal-Mart. It�s fun to listen to this song and know …

This is one of my theme songs at the moment. This song is contagious and once you hear it, it is stuck in your head for quite a while. I could care less because this song represents incredible music that is hard to get the words to describe. I …

Cowboys From Hell is the bands Fifth album and second to feature vocalist Phil Anselmo. The album was released in 1990 on Atco Records and produced by Terry Date. Fans consider this the bands first real studio album as previous albums had been glam metal. Cowboys From Hell is …

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 …

My Girls is a song by Animal Collective and the second track on their 2009 release, Merriweather Post Pavilion. Opening up with an upbeat and happy sounding synthesized intro, My Girls is one of the most accessible Animal Collective tracks ever put out so if you’re a listener just …

When I heard californication the album I thought it was the best that the Red hot chili peppers could do. I thought it was amazing, the songs were fantastic, beautifully played, with deep lyrics and some real insight into the band. And then By the way was released and …

King is a song by Weezer which appears on their self-titled record, otherwise known as The Red Album. Like other songs on The Red Album such as Cold Dark World or Thought I Knew, King isn’t a song sung by Weezer’s lead vocalist, Rivers Cuomo. Because of this, King …

Subterranean Homesick Alien is a song by Radiohead which appears on their record OK Computer. The track opens up with an interesting rhythm guitar pattern before a lead guitar part begins to play over it and also some background noises gives a listener the impression like they’re in space, …

The Who’s sixth album, a double album released in 1974, this is a concept album based on a schizophrenic teenager named Jimmy, the album looks back over several days of events that leads the boy to his current gloom. A really interesting album by the who, Jimmy has four …

I do not like this album by the Cure, and it is probably not going to be easy to explain why, because one could find numerous reasons to like this album, one could mention various facts and features of this album which make it better and stronger than the …

Since I started to listen to music on my iPod, I started to get into many songs by Abba, Mainly because i heard them at parties and on the radio etc. I concluded that I liked the music so much that I went and downloaded Gold by Abba. This to …

When The Trickster Starts A-Poking (Bordello Kind Of Guy) is a song by Gogol Bordello which appears as the first track on their album Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony. The song opens up with a pretty frantic accordion introduction which certainly would give a listener a feel for Gogol …

I had never heard of this group until one fateful night, I was using my monthly music allotment on itunes, and I heard 30 seconds of one of their songs and love them. They are pure pop, which I just love … they’re not trying to be something they …

I can remember when I was still a child in the nineteen nineties and electronic dance music was very popular. I can remember certain music groups in particular had multiple hits such as La Bouche and others had maybe about one or two and I don’t remember hearing …

Overview - Anthem Of The Sun, the second album by The Grateful Dead, departs from the simplistic songwriting that The Dead showcased on their self-titled debut album and departs into more experimental and complex songs. Most of these songs contain varying moods and energies just within the song itself …

Overview —“ Stuck With Me, the second music video released for Green Day’s album Insomniac is definitely an interesting concept for a video and I personally love the music video of this song, but I’ll explain the video itself later. The song seems to deal with feeling out of …

This album is a remarkable work of art. There is an atmosphere on this record which is unparalleled. If the previous U2 album was brilliant, this album is post-brilliant. The previous album, Achtung Baby is a collection of very strong tracks, whereas this album feels more effortless and easy. …

Fast Car is a folk rock song from Tracy Chapman from her self titled album. I first thought that Tracy is a woman but when I saw her face in the net I have doubts if she is really a woman. Even in the internet, people are being confused …

Untitled is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel and is the penultimate track on their second release, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. Something I should point out about this song is that it’s an instrumental, but ever since listening to The Fool, another instrumental earlier on this record, …

4 Minutes by Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake is not that bad. It also has Timbaland featuring in it as well. For my local radio station, is busy blaring this tune most of the time. I must say that there is a perfect combination for these 2, including …

Incesticide is the third release by Nirvana it is a compilation album released in 1992, 6 of the songs were previously unreleased, most of the songs were recorded before Nevermind, most of the b sides were for compilation albums, E.P. albums, and singles, the album is a good addition …

This album continues where the last one left off. The Coral continue their slightly tinny sounding, modern pastiche of sixties music, which works a treat. I loved it from the first song ‘In the Forest’, right through to the last, every songs a winner. Slightly darker …

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 …

Overview —“ Hypnotize, the title track and first single and music video released by System Of A Down for their second half of the double album, Mezmerize/Hypnotize, takes on another political stance by the band while incorporating lyrics from just daily life and regular events. I just find it …