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 …

If you have ever had to pack up and leave the only home you have ever known, then you know just what this song is about. You know how it feels to walk away from your loved ones, to say goodbye to the people that have been there all …

Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: Bills, Bills, Bills
Album: The Writings On The Wall
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Darren Grant
Ah yes, this was the era of ‘male-bashing’. First, TLC came onto the scene with “No Scrubs” in early 1999 and then a whole bunch of similar sounds followed shortly after - “Where My Girls …

Tool’s Aenema is what Tool did with Undertow, done better this time around, I had never seen album packaging like this, and still to this day haven’t, when you turn the cover you can see an eye move around, another picture show California, turning the cover you see it …

On The Way Down by Ryan Cabrera is about this guy thanking this girl who saves him when he is feeling super down. This girl helped him see that life is good on the out side and the inside if he just looks and what made him see that …

Make You Feel My Love is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Time Out Of Mind. The song starts off with a melodic piano part which Dylan sings over nearly immediately with the tone that is pretty much all throughout Time Out Of Mind. To …

I’m not sure why I have the Alan Jackson: When Somebody Loves You CD. I don’t remember buying it, but I just found it, still in its wrapping to be truthful, so however I got it, I’ve never listened to it until this evening. Very strange to …

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 …

I’m a fan eversince of Ms. Regine Velasquez the Asia’s songbird and with that I really really loved to play her songs whenever I’m at home or while driving because it inspires me all the time and it brings back memories as well. She launched a new album produced …

KISS - DYNASTY
The last ‘big’ KISS album and the beginning of the end for the band. (Peter Criss doesn’t even play drums here…anton Fig fills in although he never received credit)
Alot of coplaints on this album dealt with KISS going ‘disco’ with the inclusion of I WAS MADE FOR …

An epic song off the Use your illusion record that is definetely worth listening to is the song Coma. this is their longest song peaking at 10 minutes and thirteen seconds. This song is written exclusively by Slash and Axl Rose. Axl really sings cool lyrics that are almost …

This movie, at the time, was the scariest movie I had ever seen, but I was also like twelve years old when I watched it. I have watched it again since then and I realize how stupid it really is. Maybe the second time just isn’t as scary, but …

Another talented person in my eyes would be Tracy Chapman. You just need to listen to Our Bright Future by Tracy Chapman to know that she is a real singer and the real deal. Most of her songs are about life and love in general and sometimes about …

U2 is an Irish rock band and one of their CD goes by the name of “How to dismantle an atomic bomb.” I decided to pull it out of my music collection and give it a listen, since I was in the mood to hear some of their music. …

Hung Overture is a song by Sledding With Tigers and appears as the fifth track on the band’s second album, The Hill Sheep. In the previous track on the record, Ten Fourty-Five, I noted that there were several sections where the instruments were actually completely empty from the track …

Gigolo Aunt is a song by Syd Barrett which appears on his second solo record, Barrett. Gigolo Aunt starts out with a very brief guitar riff before leading into the main rhythm and part of the song which is led by a grooving bass line along with a nice …

Wrathchild is a track by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Killers. Keep in mind that Killers was still an album where Iron Maiden had Paul Di’anno rather than Bruce Dickinson so the vocals on this track lean far more towards a punk sound rather than an operatic …

It’s You is a song by Animal Collective and the first track to open their 2005 EP, Prospect Hummer. Opening up with the vocals of Vashti Bunyan who is present throughout the record, Animal Collective establish a sound which reminds me of the melodic sounds heard all throughout Campfire …

If you have been listening to top 40 radio, you have no doubt heard about Miley Cyrus! This is Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter, who has made millions for the Walt Disney Company. I have to say, I kinda like her. The music isn’t overly pop filled with nonsense, it’s …

The Album believe by Justin Bieber was the turning point in his career. This album was intended to show the singer leaving his childhood, sweet school romance styled music behind, and into a life of a teen/adult. Though many people were unsure this would work, I have to Personally …

Britney Spears has started out her career at a very young age. It was clear that she was always driven and determined to succeed. Her first gig was as a singer in the very successful show at the time The Mikey Mouse Club. Later on she kept on …

Rodney Adkins is a country singer and I enjoy most of his songs. The most current song on the radio is entitled “Cleaning This Gun”
It is one of the most entertaining and amusing songs that I have heard in a long time.
The song is about a young …

When Yer Twenty Two is a song by The Flaming Lips and the penultimate track to appear on their sixth studio release, Transmissions From The Satellite Heart. What I like right from the start of this track is that both the bass and drums are given a chance to …

Ballad Of Hollis Brown is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record The Times, They Are A-Changin’. Right from the first few guitar parts of this track, you can hear sort of a dark mood to the track and I’ll say right now that this sound …

Artist: Mariah Carey
Video: There’s Got To Be A Way
Album: Mariah Carey
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Larry Jordan
“There’s Got To Be A Way” is the fifth and final single and music video from Mariah Carey’s first self-titled album, following the previous singles and music videos which are “Vision of Love”, “Love Takes …

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 …

I was listening to this album massively in my early teenage years. I was fourteen or fifteen at the time. And at the time my listening to this album was more an exception than the rule. At the time I was not into this kind of music at all. …

Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: Cater 2 U
Album: Destiny Fulfilled
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Jake Nava
“Cater 2 U” is the fourth single and music video from Destiny’s Child’s fourth and final album titled “Destiny Fulfilled”, following the previous hit singles and music videos - “Lose My Breath”, “Soldier”, and “Girl”. Filmed at Red …

The Hard Rock band Tesla has always been one of my favorite bands and they were different then most of those glam bands in the Mid 80’s with not only their hard rock looks but with also their Blues/Hard Rock sound. One of the great albums by them …

Church On Sunday is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Warning. The track starts off with a very brief drum part before leading into the traditional power-chords from Armstrong which Green Day has become associated with. Armstrong soon joins in with the vocals in a …

The Three Wishes soundtrack CD is from the original motion picture which starred Patrick Swayze. The music is composed and conducted by Cynthia Millar. There is a lot of whimsy and light staccato movements in the opening because movie is, in a sense, about magic and make …

As a beginner, I had no idea what kind of guitar to get. Target was selling a beginner’s kit that included an acoustic guitar, case, instructional DVD, and extra strings, as well as a small pack of picks. It retailed for $100 but was on sale for …

Out of all the Star Trek movie soundtracks, I consider this to be my favorite one with perhaps the only exception being Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The reason I enjoy this soundtrack so very much is because much of the music is incredibly rich and well crafted. …

This CD — Hank Jones: If You Were Mine — is for the people who have influenced the singer. If you read the liner jacket for nothing else, read the bit about Tony Bennett. I was absolutely laughing at loud at the notation there. It’s priceless.
This …

Honestly, the main reason I purchased the Twilight soundtrack was for Robert Pattinson’s song, “Never Think” and “Bella’s Lullaby” by Carter Burwell. Not only that, but there were a few songs I herd in the movie that I particularly liked. These songs included: “Supermassive Black Hole” by Muse, both …

As far as my musical taste goes, I would say that I am more of a soul, and rap type of guy, but there are always about four or five songs from all genres that I really enjoy and thus add to my collection.
Of all the genres though, I …

Althea is a song by The Greateful Dead which appears on their album Go To Heaven. The track opens up at a pretty moderate pace with Garcia soloing over a pretty laid-back rhythm to create a pretty nice sound. The music strikes me as very moving which makes it …

Flesh Canoe is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their album Feels. More melodic and relaxed than the two previous tracks on the album, Flesh Canoe goes into the vocal performance fairly quickly as with Grass, but it certainly has its own unique sound. Whereas Did You …

With The Lights out is a box set of unreleased material by Nirvana, 3 CD’s and a DVD, promising everything unreleased. The year after the release of this set an album Sliver, the best of the box was released, a collection of standouts with 2 unreleased songs not on …

Smoky Mountain Rain is a song where Ronnie Milsap is singing about a man who is headed for Los Angelis to pursue his dream when he changes his mind and heads back to the smoky mountains to his girl friend. Like many though she has decided to move on …

Broken, Beat, and Scarred, the third track off of Death Magnetic continues the pattern of songs which sound a lot closer to tracks which Metallica were writing during their earlier days, the 1980s and very early 1990s. Broken, Beat, and Scarred has somewhat of an eastern sound to it …

France was not always romantic as we think. Although the region is not an area of rock music popular such as Sweden or Germany in the internationally. Everything will change when Gojira present as the antithesis of fashion, perfume, and synth-pop. From Mars To Sirius contains twelve songs with …

The Lemon Song is a track by Led Zeppelin which appears on their record Led Zeppelin II. The track starts off with a fairly slow riff coming from Page which sounds to be quite blues-rock influenced and the overall tempo of the song thus far seems to set up …

Tool’s Lateralus is the band’s third studio album released in May of 2001, the artwork and album packaging is really cool and different from most as like most of Tool’s artwork, this features a plastic sleeve, inside the album there is a booklet of plastic pages detailing the human …

Break On Through (To The Other Side) is the first track which opens The Doors debut and self-titled record. I have to say that this track portrays The Doors at really not a bad representation and certainly a pretty good representation of at least the overall mood and vibe …

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 …

If You Need Me is a song which appears on The Rolling Stones’ EP, Five By Five. I’m aware that If You Need Me is a cover so I won’t really comment on the structure, lyrics, or anything like that but I will comment on the execution of the …

I love listening to music and my favorite kind is hair bands from the 1980’s. To me this the music from the ’80’s says something different than what artist are trying to say now. Music from the ’80’s has depth and style and every song sounds different, …

Hot Love Drama is a song by MGMT which appears on their debut record, Climbing To New Lows. If you read my review on MGMT’s previous track, Money To Burn, then you’ll have seen that my main complaint against that track was that it felt like it lacked energy, …

While Survivor may be known widely as that band who wrote EYE OF THE TIGER and BURNING HEART for the rocky movies, fans of the band like myself know that there is oh so much more to them than those two hits.
This self-titled album arrived in 1979 and …