The first time that I saw or even heard of the rapper “Lil’ Mama” was a few years ago when she released her first hit song “Lip Gloss”. Even though I was not interested in hip hop music, rap and most of the mainstream music around that particular time …

The Sun is a song by The Flaming lips and the third track to appear on their album Hit To Death In The Future Head. Opening up with a melodic introduction, Coyne comes in with the vocals of the track which start out promising again. Although not a wonderful …

I like all the songs from Fergie, its so good to listen and sing, and the most its really represent all my feeling. Like in this song, ‘All That I Got’, everytime I listen to this song, my heart feels so undescrible, happy, full of love, have spirit, fragile, …

Now I have never been known to be a proper fan of rock music, but recently I came across a Dire Straits album, titled —˜Brothers In Arms’, that somehow enticed me to pop it in and give it a listen, purely because of the profound title and I was …

I was browsing through some of my old CDs, and I came across The Purple Tape by Lisa Loeb. It’s been awhile since I listened to it, so I put it on to listen. I remember Lisa Loeb, with her specky image, and a sort of like a …

Lil Wayne is one of the most popular rappers out on the markets right now, but is he really that good? I will admit that some of his songs have a good beat, and sound pretty good, but the majority of them are absolutely horrendous. He has turned from …

Feel that fire by Dierks Bentley is a song that is beautiful in a lot of ways because it talks about how this guy knows that his girl needs to feel that fire. This song mainly talks about this one girl and what she wants but in my opinion …

It was during the summer of 2007. I walked into the library that was about 10 minutes from my uncle’s apartment. I went to the CD section and decided to try out some music that I hadn’t really listened to before. That’s when I saw the girl on the …

Overview - Fear Of The Dark, Iron Maiden’s ninth effort, follows with the traditional standards I have for an Iron Maiden album: great vocal performance, excellent guitar riffs, harmonies, and solos, and just great songwriting in general. Most of Fear Of The Dark follows through on these standards aside …

One of the biggest hits off the Appetite for Destruction, or the debut album by Guns N’ Roses was the epic tune tune Nightrain. I think the band did a good job of releasing this song as a single. It is one of those songs that you can identify …

In The Flowers is a song by Animal Collective and is the opening track on their record Merriweather Post Pavilion. Opening up gradually, In The Flowers starts out with random noises here and there before a more definitive rhythm is established in the song for the vocals to come …

This album of five songs is a diamond. I got a copy of it rather early in my music-listening career, when I was about thirteen years old. The guy who sold me this record was insisting: If you liked the King Crimson album In the Wake of Poseidon, you …

R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 20″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
Chapter 20 of “Trapped in the Closet” brings the story back to the elderly couple as Rosie the nosy neighbor is seen reading her bible at home (this series is just full of ‘black people cliches’, now isn’t it?) when her …

During the fall of 1994, I remember hearing Juicy by the Notorious B.I.G. on the radio and I found the song to be very catch especially the hook that was being sung by up and coming R&B trio Total. As a result, I was very intrigued and decided to …

Siva is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins and is the second song on their debut release, Gish. Opening up with a rhythm guitar riff in the left channel, the riff soon goes on in both channels and the remaining instrumentation of the band enters as well. Right away, …

Aaliyah
“MIss You”
I Care 4 U
Blackground/Virgin
Director: Darren Grant
“Miss You” is a beautiful R&B ballad released as the first single and music video off of Aaliyah’s first posthumous album after her death titled “I Care 4 U”. Darren Grant, a music video director who collaborated with Aaliyah on quite a number …

Overview - Side III of The Wall is, in my opinion, the strongest side of the entire album. The one thing about this side of the album is that it’s extremely dominated by Waters on lead vocals whereas on the previous sides it was at least a slightly better …

The Weeknd is definitely one of the most popular hitmaker right now. In case you are not familiar with his name, he was the one responsible for the huge hits “Can’t Feel My Face” and “The Hills” which were streaming giants when they were released. He also contributed to …

In Rainbows that was recently released to CD earlier this year. I am a huge Radiohead fan and was very interested to see in which direction they were going to go with this album. I was expecting anything.
The album as a whole is beautiful. Both guitarists use a very …

Keep Holding On by Avril Lavinge is a song that is a beautiful ballad. This song is sad but it gives some people hope when they know someone else is willing to stay with them through any thing. I love this song for the hope it fills you with …

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 …

I have listened to country music all of my life and in today’s market of sell out sounds, this album is a breath of fresh air! Not one to be molded, Trisha stays true to her heart, album after album.
From the opening track, Ms. Yearwood makes evident …

Most know Zack de la Rocha as the vocalist of the well known political rap-metal band Rage Against The Machine. Only some know him as the former front-man of Inside Out, a lesser known hardcore punk band, as well. During their somewhat-short time as a band, Inside Out released …

Angel by Shaggy is a beautiful song that I like to listen to a lot. I got introduced to this song from my friend in North Carolina who used to live right across from me. I liked going over to her house a lot when I lived right across …

Seeing the name of Guy Sigsworth as a producer of Alanis Morissette album, titled Flavors Of Entanglement, I had felt worried. Alanis will lose in style, remember that Guy has been working on albums for artists such as Björk, Madonna or Britney Spears. But after hearing the 11 tracks …

Saturday’s Warrior is probably my favorite play ever because of the joy it invokes within the soul. That said, it was a play I went to a tad reluctantly at first, and then when I did go, I was wowed by it. I couldn’t wait to get …

The God That Failed is actually a song that I didn’t have a great memory of, probably because I never really listened to this song very much, but after listening to it again, it isn’t too bad of a song. The thing about The Black Album is that none …

R. Kelly
“Ignition (Remix)”
Chocolate Factory
Jive Records
Director: Billie Woodruff.
The director of the utmost ghetto R. Kelly video “Feeling On Yo’ Booty” returns here for an even more ghetto video “Ignition (Remix)”, the first single and music video from R. Kelly’s album “Chocolate Factory”. I guess R. Kelly finally realized his …

Unbroken Chain is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their album Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel. The song starts off in an incredibly melodic fashion which includes an acoustic guitar, a piano, and a very melodic bass line as well. Phil Lesh takes lead vocals …

Black Sabbath were the original doomsday musicians and their experiment with sound paved the way for what was to become Heavy Metal.Master Of Reality combines all the elements of a true metal band.Ironically, they are the creators so that task was rather easy for them.If you like dark themes …

Dusk And Her Embrace is Cradle of Filth’s second album released in 1996 on Music For Nations. Most of the album is Vampire themed, the vocals are nearly impossible to understand anyway though. The last track features Cronos from the band Venom. There was a limited edition version of …

I remember this seemed odd for a while, that Neil Diamond would do a holiday album since he’s Jewish. There was talk that since Barbra Streisand was doing another one, it somehow was okay for him to do one. I don’t recall the specifics much now, but …

I’m just a kid by simple plan is about how a kid feels all alone one night because no body is home and he wants to hear from his friends but none of them call him. I like to play this song when I am home alone and I …

Charlotte The Harlot is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their self-titled debut record. The track opens up with a lighthearted guitar riff, although the bass is more prominent in the mix, and the whole introduction has a very moving rhythm in my opinion. The song makes …

What’s Become Of The Baby is a track by The Grateful Dead which appears on their record Aoxomoxoa. I will say right now that this track is quite different sounding from a traditional song and very experimental. I suppose the best way I could preface this song is that …

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, …

Overview —“ Almost Honest, another music video and single released by Megadeth for their album Cryptic Writings is a song that seems to actually really remind me of Trust. I’ve read a bit on similarities between the two, but I have to say that I actually do agree and …

I very clearly remember the first time I heard “Vision of Love” on the radio. I heard those first few notes on my local radio station and stopped everything I was doing. I just listened. I remember thinking at first it was Whitney Houston but then …

At the time when I first listened to this record I was not impressed by it. The problem there was that by then I had already been rather closely familiar with the Nine Inch Nails albums The Downward Spiral and The Fragile. And compared to those albums, this album …

After listening to Boulevard Of Broken Dreams and Are We The Waiting, I just have to say that St. Jimmy could not have come at a better time on the track listing. Whereas the previous two aforementioned songs are honestly just boring pieces of music which are predictable and …

This song makes no sense, but then again, it’s being sung by a teenager who knows nothing really about love. Not only that, this song really annoying due to that fact that it’s hard on the ears. The majority of this song is repeating itself over and over again …

Faith Hill, beautiful wife of Tim Mcgraw and loving mother is also an amazing singer with a beautiful voice. She is gifted in more ways that any person has a right to be and she has what appears to be a lifelong marriage to her husband who is also …

Killing is my business…and business is good is the debut album by Megadeth released in 1985 after Mustaine departed from Metallica. The album is heavy, noticeably more so then future releases by the band, the lyrical matter is the darkest by Megadeth as well. As far as I know …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Suga Mama”
Album: B-Day
Label: Columbia
Director: Melina and Beyonce
Sporting a 1970s funk and soul theme, “Suga Mama” is predominantly filmed in black and white all throughout and begins with Beyonce donning one of her sexiest outfits yet, a 1950s masculine suit with form-fitting pants (mmm hmm, yep). She sits …

Hail to the Thief is a really good record. I personally see this album as a return to form for Radiohead after some slightly dodgy albums, like Kid A and Amnesiac, in particular Amnesiac. The problem with those two albums, from my personal point of view, is that, when …

Like A Rolling Stone, is a track which appears on the record which is considered to be Bob Dylan’s best throughout his entire career and also one of the greatest records in the history of rock and roll, Highway 61 Revisited. I want the stress that the reputation and …

I listened to Bittersweet World by Ashlee Simpson the other day and she does not sound like her sister at all. In fact, I thought it was another rendition of Avril Lavigne or something.
The album of this song is not that awesome. I sifted through the songs and …

Calling you by Blue October is a beautiful song to me because it is talking about a person who is surprised this other person to pick them to go out with them. This song is also wonderful in the way it is talking about a person who is …

It’s the way you make me feel is one of my favorite songs of the band Steps. I first saw this video in MTV and I really like it from the start. Since then I’ve always been a fan of steps and became even more upon hearing this song. …

Overview - Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel, the seventh album by The Grateful Dead, is an album that’s a lot more upbeat and energetic than their past three efforts: Wake Of The Flood, American Beauty, and Workingman’s Dead. On Wake Of The Flood, you could tell that the …