Music Reviews
“Freaks, Faggots, Drunks, And Junkies” by GG Allin (LP, 1988)
By the late 80’s, GG Allin’s music has become obsessed with murder, necrophilia, sex, drugs, and et cetera anti-social themes. His voice has become a heavily distorted yell, making his vocals sound like a 60 year smoker yelling. The recording quality has decreased to the point that some songs …
Metallica - Through The Never (Song)
Through The Never, another one of the more aggressive songs on The Black Album, isn’t obviously as good as songs from the first four records, but nevertheless another pretty solid track, similar to Holier Than Thou in that respect. Although the vocal melody is pretty catchy on this track …
Type O Negative The Best Of Type O Negative
This is a greatest hits collection of songs from Type O Negative. The album was hastily thrown together and released with a generic album cover, and without the consent of the band, Roadrunner Records had the right to do it, so they did. This collection could be the reason …
The Heart of Chicago 1967-1997
The Heart of Chicago released on the 30th anniversary since the time this group was formed in 1967. Composition with 16 songs that consist of 14 songs taken from previous albums and the 2 new songs that is The Only One and Here In My Heart. For the Chicago …
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Overview - Abbey Road, The Beatles’ penultimate effort, is a very nice collection and mix of tracks which compliment each other very nicely - particularly on the second half of the record where transitions from song to song just flow very well. Abbey Road has some of The Beatles’ …
Ashes Divide Keep Telling Myself Its Alright
This is Ashes Divide’s debut album released in 2008 produced by Danny Lohner and Billy Howerdel. Ashes Divide was originally going to be Billy Howerdel’s side project outside of A Perfect Circle, originally he wasn’t going to be the vocalist, he decided to step up and do vocals as …
Donna Summer (singer)
One singer whose songs I have always been familiar with, is the singer Donna Summer. This came about as a result of two main reasons. The first was that I have heard her songs playing on the radio over the years and liked them, and the second reason is …
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - House Burning Down (Song)
House Burning Down is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience which appears on their record Electric Ladyland. The song opens up with an incredibly dramatic yet emotional sounding lead guitar solo from Jimi Hendrix before transitioning into the bulk of the song with a groovy rhythm and energetic …
All That You Cant Leave Behind 2000 Album by U2
Well, I remember how I bought this album for sure. I was on a special occasion, visiting the capital city with my mom. I was about 12 years old, and the special occasion was to buy a new sound system, the sound system I had been giving no life …
Will Young’s ‘Let it Go’
Will Young’s album Let it Go, which was released in UK, is an impressive set of songs that really do show his full singing talents, especially This Is Who I Am, which was featured as an iTunes Exclusive bonus track.
The album features the songs, Changes - 4:00, Grace - …
Jagged Little Pill Album
Alanis Morrisette’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ album is by far one of the most popular and enduring albums to have debuted in the mid to late 90s.
The album is one of the most recognizable pop girl angst albums ever written. ‘Jagged Little Pill’ features the strong “in your face” song, …
ABBA Gold CD
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 …
Johnny Cash
I own every Johnny Cash CD, and have a huge signed photograph of him blown up on my wall. I have been a huge fan of his for many years now, and will continue to be even now after he has passed away. The legacy lives on in his …
Scars On Broadway - Chemicals (Song)
Chemicals is a track by Scars On Broadway which is on their self-titled debut record. I’ll say right now that although I like the song itself, I’m not a huge fan of the studio version and would certainly recommend a live version over the studio version. Throughout this entire …
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Overview - Magical Mystery Tour is an album to contain some of The Beatles’ better known songs and even one of my favorite songs of their whole career. Magical Mystery Tour incorporates the use of a lot of extra musicians to bring instruments such as violins, cellos, trumpets, flutes, …
Country Music Singer Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton is so much more than just a country music singer. She is an actress and all around fun and happy person that deserves all the wonderful things that she has in her life. She is an endearing person who has been known for her rather large bosom …
Rosie O’Donnell: A Rosie Christmas CD
The Rosie O’Donnell: A Rosie Christmas CD is really a pleasant surprise with all kinds of holiday songs sung by a crazy group of people. Some of these duets with Rosie you would think would be a disaster and yet they work surprisingly well.
Two quick notes. The …
Music to Your Ears: A Collection of Holiday Music CD
Music to Your Ears: A Collection of Holiday Music is a CD from Sony Music. It is full of Christmas selections which are orchestral in nature. I do have moments when I love to listen to classical, but usually Christmas isn’t one of them. For the …
Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
Overview - Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, the debut album by Jefferson Airplane, is an album that really isn’t all that similar to their later work, although this does happen quite a bit with debut albums. If you’re associating Jefferson Airplane with psychedelic rock, which isn’t a problem, then this …
Stevie Wonder A Time 2 Love
A Time To Love(A Time 2 Love) was released by Stevie Wonder in 2005 and won him a Grammy Award in 2006.It contains fifteen tracks and I think it is an absolutely amazing album.Very smooth,melodious and mellow,I believe it is what true RnB should sound like.The standout tracks include …
Pink Floyd Dark Side of The Moon
Pink Floyd released Dark Side Of The Moon on March 17, 1973 inside the Continental United States.It remains today one of the most beloved and mysterious albums ever released.It still averages incredible sales and continues to have a large fan based following due to philosophical themes, intricate musical composition, …
Green Day - Redundant (Music Video)
Overview —“ Redundant, the third music video released by Green Day for promotion of their album Nimrod makes commentary on the routine that society has fallen into and how the citizens in it have fallen asleep, although I make it seem more critical than it actually is. I’ve read …
Mingus Moves
The older, more powerful. This Predicate is feasible given, for a bass player who has great ability like Charles Mingus. Album under the title Mingus Moves (1973), has been released again. This is because public demand for jazz musicians were known eccentric. This album is a jazz album …
Album : Deicide - To Hell With God (2011)
My journey to discovering the all-out death metal assault that is DEICIDE was a long and winding one.. I’ll cut it short and just say that when i was pretty young i was introduced to AC/DC, and from there was always searching for the next heaviest thing and went …
Boy, U2 Album
This album occupies a special part in my heart. Every time I listen to it I am making a trip down memory lane, recalling the time when I was twelve-year old pre-pubescent Boy. This is why I try not to listen to it too often, to keep this album …
The Beatles - Good Morning, Good Morning (Song)
Good Morning, Good Morning is a song by The Beatles which appears on their album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The track opens up with a very lighthearted rhythm which honestly reminds of sort of a faster and fuller sounding version of the rhythm for Being For The …
Two Steps From Hell (artist)
The artist Two Steps From Hell was created circa 2006 by Thomas J. Bergeson and Nick Pheonix. I would most likely compare their sound to the likes of Hans Zimmer, Audiomachine, and Immediate Music. It’s mostly dramatic/ intense music for stuff like movie trailers.
What I really like about their …
Coldplay (song, What If)
Coldplay is a British band specializing in the Alternative rock genre.
One of my favourite songs from them is named “What If” from their X & Y album release.
I like how this song begins with a piano playing and the singer, Chris Martin, immediately begins to sing after the first …
Sledding With Tigers - Sunshine (Song)
Sunshine is a song by Sledding With Tigers and is the fifth song on their first album, No Randy No. Transitioning fluidly out of Love Songs Are Dumb Songs, Sunshine opens up with a group of cynical lyrics sung by a chorus of voices. Personally, I’ll say right now …
The Flaming Lips - Frogs (Song)
Frogs is a song by The Flaming Lips and the penultimate track on their album Hit To Death In The Future Head. Opening up with a confusing and dissonant sound, the bass and drums enter the mix to give the song a somewhat more solid foundation. Though I’m surprised …
Daydream Nation, 1988 Album by Sonic Youth
It is difficult to overestimate the impact and quality of this record. The remarkable achievement that this record is should be considered in the context at which it was released. If an album like this was released in 1991, it would not have been a great album, but, as …
Music Video of Love Game by Lady Gaga
Love game is the third single of the album “The Fame” by Lady Gaga. It is an electropop song that is very successful in charts.
The music video is so scandalous that some channels banned it. I think this video is so amazing and joyful. I can feel the inspiration …
Scars On Broadway - Serious (Song)
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 …
CD KISS DYNASTY
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 …
+44 When Your Heart Stops Beating
When Blink 182 had their fallout and Tom Delonge went his way, Travis Barker, and Mark Hoppus went their way, and formed this band with a friend. When Your Heart Stops Beating is an impressive album, after the failure of Blink 182’s last album I thought they had …
The Rolling Stones - Love Is Strong (Song)
Love Is Strong is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Voodoo Lounge. The song starts off with a moderately-paced tempo and features the typical instrumentation of The Rolling Stones coming in simultaneously along with a harmonica lead as well. Jagger comes in with the …
Valveking 212 tube combo amp
Over the Holidays, one of my presents I received from my mom is the Valveking 212 tube combo amp. I was so excited to see what this amp had to offer, when I plugged it in along with my Ibanez RG 770DX guitar and I checked out the distortion …
Gojira : From Mars To Sirius
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 …
Goodies by Ciara featuring Petey Pablo
Goodies by Ciara featuring Petey Pablo is a song I like a lot because it makes me want to dance and it also talks about it is hard for a guy to get the goodies from a girl because some of us are not going to give it up …
The potion
The Potion by Ludacris is a song that has an awesome beginning and I like it a lot. The songs words are a little bit weird but me and my friends love it. The song is most definitely different than most. This song is off of step up 2 …
Little Woman song
On the surface, Little Woman is a very simple song that isn’t all the complex. That may be how it is even below the surface, but this song captured the hearts of young girls throughout the United States way back in 1969. It’s called bubblegum music because …
Green Day - In The End (Song)
In The End is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Dookie. The track starts off with a pretty quick riff along with each of the instruments as well as Armstrong’s vocals starting simultaneously. The song has that characteristic punk sound of the band led by …
With you by Chris Brown
With you by Chris Brown is a beautiful song about how a guy is really happy about his girl. He describes what she means to him in this song in so many words it’s beautiful. The reason I like this song so much is because of a friend of …
Bob Dylan - Blowin’ In The Wind (Song)
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 …
The Lumineers, 2012 Album by The Lumineers
I have never been a huge fan of folk music. I never was particularly interested in it even though of course I’m a huge music fan, and I do not mind any genres by themselves. But it was very rare that my heart would be drawn by itself to …
Animal Collective - De Soto De Son (Song)
De Soto De Son is a song by Animal Collective and is the final track on their third studio record, Campfire Songs. Making a fluid transition from the previous track, De Soto De Son begins with a simple acoustic guitar pattern which goes on for a while and then …
E-40
E-40 is a very talented rapper that is coming out of the Bay Area. He is one of the most famous rappers ever to come out of the Bay Area. I really like his fast and lyrical rap style. He is a really good business man as well. E-40 has …
Erich Kunzel: Star Tracks II CD
Erich Kunzel: Star Tracks II CD is a very nice compilation of various science fiction compositions. Kunzel and his Cincinnati Pops Orchestra are so good at conveying the spirit and excitement of the TV shows and/or movies the selections are from.
There are several pieces from the Star Trek …
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