Marty Sampson has a very husky voice in singing this song All I Need Is You. I really like the song because of the wonderful message and the composition of it was also amazing.
He also leads the guitar as he sings although you can obviously hear from Marty’s voice …

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 …

After the very successful album War, released in 1983, U2 have managed to release another great record so quickly afterwards. I think that this album, The Unforgettable Fire was an album which escalated their skill and level as musicians. I think that this 1984 album demonstrated how much and …

This album is amazing. Even though the two previous Pixies records were really good, this one was even better in some crucial respects. I think that what this album turned out to be is simply unpredictable, if you look at what the previous records were. There must have been …

I was listening to a TV channel called, “Music Choice” when my ears happened upon the sounds of Lacuna Coil. I believe the first song of theirs I heard was called “Swamped”. I loved the raunchy voice of the girl who sings lead vocals, and the melodic notes of …

Overview - Houses Of The Holy, Led Zeppelin’s fifth effort, is an album filled with songs that all have something unique about each one of them, a crucial reason as to why I enjoy this album so much. A lot of times bands can put out an album filled …

Here I Go is a song by Syd Barrett which appears on his first solo record, The Madcap Laughs. The song starts off with some simple guitar chords which Barrett sings over in somewhat of a gloomy manner, but still retaining that sort of lighthearted feel from Barrett. Once …

Tik Tok is the debut single by American singer Kesha. It is an electro pop dance track. It has a nice sound but since the date i first heard, i realized that she inspired of Lady Gaga too much especially inspired of her song Just Dance. The lyrics and …

I’ve loved Barbra Streisand my entire life and never have I seen her happier than when she married James Brolin a decade or so ago. In ways, she’s been almost giddy, and as a fan, that’s fun to see. As Barbra says in the liner jacket for …

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. …

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 …

This is your typical hill billy and redneck song. It is quite obvious that the character in the song is a hardcore redneck. There is this girl who pulls up to his gas station with a Hollywood license plate and she wants directions to the interstate. So he gives …

Elvis Presley’s album Almost In Love is just another example of the King of Rock at his finest. If you’re anything like me, you appreciate all great music. And there’s none so great as Elvis.
Almost In Love features ten great tracks from this legend. Released in 1970, It contains …

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, …

“In the end , it doesn’t really matter”. from the song In the end by Linkin Park. This song became popular when I was in 3rd year highschool. This is the song, that made me become a fan of Linkin Park. I have heard songs from them before “In …

Sara Bareilles is such a lovely lady, and her voice is angelic. There’s something in her cold voice that is so soothing and ethereal. Like every time I listen to her voice, I almost always get shrills and goosebumps because it’s just so beautiful.
In case you don’t know her, …

Sun King is a song by The Beatles which appears on their album Abbey Road. The track opens up with a clean guitar riff which has a very nice melodic feel to it as the other instruments gradually join in to create a very calming and mellow atmosphere. The …

“Simon and Garfunkel” is the name of an American folk rock music duo who rose to popularity in the nineteen sixties. Although I am not old enough to know what the nineteen sixties, the nineteen seventies or even the nineteen eighties for that matter were like, I am quite …

I discovered Melanie Martinez one week ago, when a music site recommended her music to me, and in my astonishing surprise, I was immediately immersed into her child-influenced sound.
Dollhouse is the first song she released off her debut album entitled “Crybaby”.
The song is basically about a faulty family hidden …

Aenima is the title track for a record released by Tool. The track starts off with a heavy sounding guitar rhythm which leads into a very nice and heavy sounding rhythm once the bass and drums come in. The verse of the song is actually led by a bass …

As I Went Out One Morning is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album John Wesley Harding. The song opens up with a harmonica along with a bass which provides the main rhythm of the track. Dylan comes in with the song along with a drum …

At first, I was going to write a bad review for Placebo’s new track “Battle For the Sun” off the album of the same name. Then I took a chance to hear it for a second time. It wasn’t as bad as the first time I’d heard it when I …

I was hearing this song on the radio for quite some time and of course it was only natural that it was the song on my last-song-syndrome and I had downloaded this on Limewire and was really enjoying this tune. Nelly did another great job singing this music and …

The Elvis Presley: Elvis The Alternate Aloha CD is the recording of the dress rehearsal for the famous Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii TV concert. Well, it sort of is. The liner jacket actually gets very specific on how this digital recording was put together, and it’s both …

Pink Floyd has been my favorite band since I was a teenager in the 1980s. Throughout the years, this band has produced so many beautiful and melodic sounds. I can recall so many times where my friends and I have just made a night out of mellowing out to …

I first heard Never Let Go on the local radio airwaves here and I was instantly hooked to it. It has a nice conscious reggae beat to it and of course you just can’t match or beat the voices of these reggae artists. At least it seems so when …

Jay-Z
“In My Lifetime”
Payday Records
Jay-Z made his debut with this single and music video “In My Lifetime” which isn’t from any particular album. This was released about a year before his first album came out. “In My Lifetime” is basically a rags-to-riches stylized music video (if you’ve seen the one …

“Horsemen of the Invisible” appears on the Secret Chiefs 3 album “Book M”. Now for those of you who are open to new music, I highly recommend checking this band out. They are incredibly talented and incorporate a ton of different instruments, from your standard guitars, bass, drums and …

The song, “How Beautiful” by Twila Paris is a gorgeous song about the beauty of Christ, and His love for us as He gave His life for us. As a song to listen to, I love it. I listen to it and sing along with it. …

Pilot Can At The Queer Of God is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their album Transmissions From The Satellite Heart. Although the opening riff of the track has a surprisingly heavy feel to it, Coyne surprisingly comes in with a vocal delivery which works with …

It is impossible to put together all the great hits of this fantastic and flamboyant British singer. It is impossible. It is impossible because there is not enough space on two Cd’s for it.
Elton John is one of the geniuses of the pop music of the past 30 years, …

We Care is a song by MGMT, a modern psychedelic band hailing from Brooklyn, New York. We Care is the first “real” song on the album, since Come On Christmas came before it and that track is primarily just an opening for the album. The song opens up with …

Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) is a track by Green Day which is extremely well known just because of how many times it’s been played on the radio or featured in various television spots, most notably the finale of Seinfeld. Now sometimes when a track is extremely well …

I have always been a gigantic fan of orchestral music, so breaking out of the classical composer oriented soundtrack variety is somewhat refreshing, especially because of the cinematic sound that permeates Globus’s debut album, “Epicon”. Needless to say, I was impressed with it and would certainly like to hear …

Heresy, one of the darkest sounding Nine Inch Nails tracks throughout their entire discography, is a track which appears on what is considered the band’s best work, The Downward Spiral. I just finished reviewing the track Only which I reviewed as being pretty eerie but not so much of …

Three years does not make Hoobastank experienced many changes, at least from their style of music. ForNever, the four albums that came after Every Man For Himself in 2006, seemed to be a repetition of this band. My Turn, the first single released on October 13, 2008, is the …

Artist: SWV
Video: “Downtown”
Album: It’s About Time
Label: RCA Records
“Downtown” is the fourth single and music video off of SWV’s “It’s About Time” debut album, following “Right Here” (as well as “Right Here - Human Nature Mix”), “I’m So Into You”, and “Weak”. “Downtown” is filled with both sexual and sensual …

“Hey now! Hey now!. This is what dreams are made of”, from a movie soundtrack Lizzie Maguire is the song that inspired me to reach my dreams. Many people said that its okay to think of something impossible, or sometimes what we cal “dreaming”, because its just a dream …

Grave Plott is a newly formed rap group from Kansas consisting of 2 horrorcore MCs: Killa C and Liquid Assassin. Their debut album was released in 2008, but only now I had the time and curiosity to listen it. The boys are signed to Strange Music, Tech N9ne’s label, …

Paper Planes by M.I.A. is a song that I like a lot. Paper Planes is a song you can not pass up and the song is just fantastic. The words make very little sense to a lot of people but not to me. The song talks about how this …

I never usually pay much attention to American Idol, especially these days when I have a lot more things to do, and because it just does not capture my attention anymore. Therefore, the only time I might know who wins another season or if it is even still going …

My wife were watching our nightly episode of the show Destination Truth on Netflix Instant Watch last night and, when it was done, realized it wasn’t even 9 yet. Since it was too early to go to bed, we looked for something else to watch.
At first, I thought we …

Like You by Bow Wow featuring Ciara is a song about how this guy and girl still like each other and do things but are not dating. It’s like that is how a lot of relationships are now days. This song to me is kind of sad in the …

Overview - The Grateful Dead, the debut album of the band of the same name, introduces the band’s ability to write catchy songs and their ability to apply their style to a wide range of covers. The one word I can describe this album with is energetic. The energy …

With her video, “Single Ladies: Put A Ring On It” attracting over 45,000,000 views on YouTube, it’s no reason why Beyonce Knowles is securing her spot as the number one “Diva” on the music charts. I tried to ask myself why the video was so important, so I watched …

Artist: Mase
Video: “Feel So Good”
Album: Harlem World
Director: Hype Williams
Ah yes, the good old shiny suit days of Hip Hop and R&B. “Feel So Good” was the first official single and music video from Mase off of his debut album “Harlem World”, it is perhaps the best music video off …

The first time that I heard this song was by the original artists, The Rolling Stones, as the theme song for the popular 80’s television series, ‘Tour of Duty’. Ever since then, I have loved this song and heard it both recorded and performed by a number of different …

Lateralus is an unrelenting journey into the psyche of originality.Their expression is so beyond words that it’s quite humbling trying to find decent adjectives,nouns, or verbs to piece together to form a description.This music is cerebral, profound, and full of artistic vision.This band succeeds at truly experimenting with sonic …

Little Miss Lover is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience which appears on the album Axis: Bold As Love. The track starts out with a moving drum pattern by Mitchell before Hendrix comes in with the vocal line and guitar part which flows extremely well with the drum …

I am really touch by the song entitled ‘Home’ by the band Daughtry. I only heard it from Chris Daughtry’s performance in American Idol.
Honestly, I am touched by the song. I was once in a strange country and I really feel homesick. It is totally difficult being alone and …