Music Reviews
Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsies
Overview - Band Of Gypsys, a live album by Jimi Hendrix, features Jimi Hendrix along with two new musicians: Buddy Miles on drums and vocals and Billy Cox on bass and backing vocals. Personally, after listening to the first two of The Jimi Hendrix Experience records, Band Of …
The Beatles - Octopus’s Garden (Song)
Octopus’s Garden is a song by The Beatles which appears on one of their final records, Abbey Road. As you can tell from the title, the track may not come off as the most serious of tracks and it certainly isn’t but you’ll be able to tell this from …
Green Day - See The Light (Song)
See The Light is the final track on Green Day’s most recent studio release, 21st Century Breakdown. See The Light starts off with the same acoustic guitar pattern which 21st Century Breakdown, the track, started off with but the tempo is a bit faster I believe. Interesting how Song …
Animal Collective - For Reverend Green (Song)
For Reverend Green is a song by Animal Collective and is the fourth track to appear on their album Strawberry Jam. Personally, I enjoy the way For Reverend Green opens up because it starts out pretty empty and then gradually has more and more instruments join the mix before …
JYJ The Beginning album
Released in October 2010, the South Korean trio JYJ’s long-awaited all-English was met with explosive power, receiving a total of more than 520,000 preorders. I was one them, and one of the lucky ones to get a copy of the Limited Edition (only 99,999 in the world), which contains …
Song: Pick ‘Em Up, Lay ‘Em Down by singer Toby Keith
Pick ‘Em Up, Lay ‘Em Down by Toby Keith is the complete opposite of what we have been used to hearing from Toby Keith throughout his career. The song is about a man who doesn’t just go play around with whatever woman comes along and then forget about her. …
Yamaha Electronic Keyboard
Electronic keyboards are good fun, we decided to invest in one and started looking closely at all the keyboards advertised on the Amazon website. We found the Yamaha YTP200 a reasonably priced keyboard at £56
The whole family are music lovers and keyboard music would be great to use for …
Bruce Springsteen Greatest Hits
Bruce Springsteen’s Greatest Hits CD definitely contains some great songs: ‘Born to Run’, ‘Thunder Road’, and ‘Atlantic City’ among them. It also includes the first release of the awesome ‘This Hard Land’. I am a huge Bruce fan, so it almost pains me to say that this collection should …
Animal Collective - Visiting Friends (Song)
Visiting Friends is a song by Animal Collective and is the seventh track on their record Sung Tongs. Something I’ll point out immediately is that Visiting Friends is the longest track on the record and clocks in at just over twelve and a half minutes. Opening up with some …
Album : Hell In The Club - Let The Games Begin
The melodic rock genre has been privvy to somewhat of a mass resurgence over the last six or seven years, and it seems that it’s almost gaining enough steam to be as popular as it was in the Eighties. Sure some countries are yet to fully embrace the style, …
Delain’s the Gathering Song
I am a very huge fan of bands like Nightwish, Within Temptation and other Symphonic Metal bands, and I am warming up to another band called Delain. What started my interest in Delain was this song called “The Gathering”. As a huge Nightwish fan, I was introduced to it …
Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
The Best Damn Thing? Does this album really live up to that ambitious title? Well, in a word, no. Not in my opinion. But that’s a bit unfair of me because of several things. I’m not an Avril fan to be honest, I can’t seem to get along with …
Michael Heart, We Will not Go Down
I loved this song when I heard this at first. I downloaded this song after I heard this song at the television. I felt very satisfied after downloading this song. This is a great song!!This song has a meaning that is in the narrative about the struggle of the …
Slash-(I Hold On) song
A song that I really like off the new Slash album released a year ago is the track I hold on. This song features vocals by Kid Rock and of course the guitar arrangements were written and played by Slash. This song starts by fading in and getting …
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man (Album)
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 …
Feels Like Home by Norah Jones
Norah Jones darted quickly in about two years, beginning from an unknown club she became very famous. This new artist to get almost all the awards. Her voice produces 8 million USD in sales of her albums, she also won a Grammy in 2001. Jones started her album entitled …
Chasing Dixie
Everyone - I’m excited to review a new music group that includes Alaina Whitaker, Andrea Young, and Erin James; yup, Alaina is the Alaina from American Idol ! I wouldn’t compare them to the Dixie Chicks; though they have a similar name and numbers in the group. Alaina has …
Korn Follow The Leader
On Korn’s 1998 third album they hired Tod Mcfarlane to do the album artwork, the have a number of guest musicians including Fred Durst, Ice Cube, Tre Hardson of Pharcyde. The hidden track at the end of the album there is a cover of the Cheech and Chong song …
Queen - This Could Be Heaven - Single
This seemed to be quite a heartfelt song from Freddie and Queen. His vocals seem quite relaxed certainly at the start but you can feel him building.
What he songs is very true. It’s as though he just can’t believe how people act on earth. What I do find interesting …
Mono : Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Cannot be denied that post rock band Japan, Mono, a post rock band for the genre’s leading that can be said now popular. A stunning live show, with a neoclassical music performance beautiful. New Albums,Hymn To The Immortal Wind also proves the fact it. Songs that appealed as in …
Bob Dylan - Black Crow Blues (Song)
Black Crow Blues is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on Another Side Of Bob Dylan. Unlike a lot of Dylan’s earlier works, this track isn’t driven primarily by an acoustic guitar and Dylan’s voice, it’s driven by a piano and Dylan’s voice. Although this may not seem …
Humbug, 2009 Album by Arctic Monkeys
I would not say that this album is superb but I think that it is quite good. It is definitely good enough for Arctic Monkeys. All the songs on this album are a lot more mature than the songs that the band used to perform on the previous albums. …
Huddersfield Choral Society- The hymns album
I myself do enjoy listening to several Christian hymns. Not always due to the fact that they are religious, but to the fact that I love the sounds of the music and the voices, it makes me very relaxed and calm. I have been looking all over the internet for …
1, 2 Step (2004): Ciara ft. Missy Elliott
Ciara ft. Missy Elliott
“1, 2 Step”
Goodies
LaFace Records
Director: Benny Boom
“1, 2 Step” is Ciara’s follow-up single and music video to “Goodies” off of the album of the same name, “Goodies”. The song is obviously inspired (extremely inspired, I might add) by 1980s electronic music. In the lyrics, Ciara often describes …
Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding
The Bleeding is Cannibal Corpse’s fourth album, and last to feature Chris Barnes on vocals, who is now the vocalist for Six Feet Under. The album was released in 1994 on Metal Blade Records, and produced by Scott Burns. The album is not as fast all the way through, …
American Idiot album by Green Day
The American Idiot album sparked up alot of controversy because of its political messages. Many people think they won’t like it because of this. However, if just once you listen to the album, you will immediately change your mind.
While the first three songs (American Idiot, Jesus of …
Album : Benjy Davis Project - Sincerely (2011)
I have only recently been introduced to the music of the Benjy Davis Project and have been really enjoying their honest pop-rock feel which is a bit like a cross between Counting Crows, Matchbox Twenty and another one of my favorites Will Hoge.
This new album of theirs is …
Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power
This is Pantera’s second album, the title comes from the movie The Exorcist. Released in 1992 and produced by Terry Date again, this album is far more aggressive than the last, tighter, darker, faster, and I don’t think it could have been much heavier. Mouth for war opens the …
Stumblin’ In
I came across a tune, from listening to an online radio station, called “Stumblin’ In”. It’s a duet from Suzie Quatro and Chris Norman. Both are known very well in North America, but widely known in Europe and Australia. This song captivated me as I heard it for the …
Judas Priest: British Steel
Judas Priest is a heavily Sabbath influenced band that carried on the tradition of the overall attitude present within the British brand of metal.Their significance ranks right up there with the other important pioneers of Heavy Metal.When British Steel was released a brought a new found interest in the …
The Rolling Stones - Rip This Joint (Song)
Rip This Joint is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Exile On Main Street. The song starts off with a pretty fast guitar part before the song builds up even further and Jagger comes in with a very quick vocal delivery, from the start …
Beat the Devils Tattoo 2010 Album by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Even though I am a fan of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and listened to some of their albums as soon as they were released, which was certainly the case with their 2003 album Take Them On, On Your Own, and their 2005 album Howl, I actually missed the release …
Always by Nelson Rangell
If you love smooth jazz, then I suggest that you get “Always”, an album by saxophonist Nelson Rangell. It is soulful and romantic, just the kind of album you’d want to listen to with your spouse or significant other on a quiet evening when you finally get a …
The Jimi Hendrix Experirence - Little Miss Lover (Song)
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 …
Victory: Puff Daddy ft. Busta Rhymes and Notorious B.I.G.
Puff Daddy ft. Busta Rhymes and Notorious B.I.G.
“Victory”
No Way Out
Bad Boy Records
Director: Marcus Nispel
Sometimes, the only way to make a music video into anything that is remotely interesting is to incorporate a concept from a cool movie into it, even if that means making the music video itself a …
Placebo’s Album “Battle For the Sun”
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 …
Shure Wireless PG24 wireless microphone
One of the things I bought online for my band awhile back is the PG24 wireless microphone by Shure. Since Im a guitarist, a very big part of the band is singing back up vocals and being able to sing harmonies with power and more volume I needed a …
“Break” by Three Days Grace Music Video
“Break” is a song by Three Days Grace on the album Life Starts Now.
The video is set in four rooms for each of the four band members. I like this video and the concept. The members of the band are separated by four rooms and each has their …
Soundgarden: Flower
Soundgarden’s Flower is an aboslute must-have for any Garden fan, or any fan of rock music! The single contains two other fantasic songs: Toy Box and Head injury.
Released in ‘88, this three-track mini super album from Soundgarden is an absolute classic. Chris Cornell’s voice rips through the speakers, …
System Of A Down - Science (Song)
Science is a song which is by System Of A Down and appears on their second record, Toxicity. The track opens up with sort of a galloping guitar riff which plays on natural harmonics and leads into the heavy main rhythm of the track which has an excellent groove …
Fall (Single) Clay Walker
I came across this song while I was doing some music hunting on youtube. I had never heard of Clay Walker before this song, but now I cannot get enough of him and his music. This song is one of my favorite songs at moment. It is an absolutely …
The Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One (Song)
I Am One is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins and the first song on their debut album, Gish. Opening with a drum rhythm, a bass guitar soon joins in the mix of the track before the rhythm guitar comes in and gives the track a fairly dark alternative …
Animal Collective - On A Highway (Song)
On A Highway is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their EP release entitled Fall Be Kind. Opening up instrumentally, On A Highway takes about a minute to establish a mood before Tare comes in with the vocals for the song. The issue that I have with …
Metallica - All Within My Hands (Song)
All Within My Hands is a song by Metallica which appears on their record St. Anger. The song opens up with a fast tempo and the unfortunate drum tone that Lars Ulrich had throughout this entire album. Nevertheless, Hetfield’s riff can slightly make up for it, despite its …
Paul Anka: A Body of Work CD
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. …
Animal Collective - The Purple Bottle (Song)
The Purple Bottle is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their album Feels. For those of you who were disappointed with the very relaxed sound present throughout the previous track, Flesh Canoe, The Purple Bottle will not disappoint. Opening up with an energetic percussive section, the band …
Adelitas Way (Self-Named Album)
Adelitas Way is a rock band.They released their first album in 2009, with a self-titled name.Their style of music is at the same time strong and somwhat delicated.Their fastest songs still ahve a very melodic tone.They can keep a very low tone when playing a fast song, one carachteristic …
Godsmack-The Other Side (Acoustic)
Long time listeners of Godsmack beware! Godsmack has released an acoustic album.
The tranquility of the album from beginning to end is not to be surpassed. From the opening track, “Running Blind”, Godsmack delivers a powerful punch delivered in a soothing form.
“Re-Align” continues this near-perfection album with a …
The Flaming Lips - U.F.O. Story (Song)
U.F.O. Story is a song by the Flaming Lips which appears on their third studio record, Telepathic Surgery. The track opens up with a recording of someone talking about their experience seeing a U.F.O. which goes fittingly with the title of the track, but this does get dragged out …
It Stops Today by Colbie Caillat
The song It Stops Today has become my signature song and it is sung by one of my favorite singers, Colbie Caillat. I first heard this song after a break up and it spoke volumes as to where I was in my life. I had always depended on others …
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