At first, I didn’t like this song because it sounded kind of stupid. But after I heard it a few times, I really started liking it, mostly because I could relate to it. It is featuring Hayley Williams, someone I have never heard of before but she is a …

Up From The Skies is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience which appears on their album Axis: Bold As Love. The track starts off with an interesting rhythm on drums by Mitch Mitchell and a wah-wah riff on guitar from Hendrix along with his vocals singing over all …

Born Cross-Eyed is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their album Anthem Of The Sun. Just as a note, I’m reviewing the version of this song which appeared on Anthem Of The Sun originally, I’m not reviewing the single version of this song which I believe …

No Prayer For The Dying is the title track of a record put out by Iron Maiden. The song starts off right away with a melodic guitar lead which I swear I’ve heard before in another Maiden song but I can’t remember exactly where it came from, it reminds …

Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread is a song by Bob Dylan And The Band which appears on their album The Basement Tapes. The track starts off with a very simple guitar strumming pattern which is somewhat reminiscent of Dylan’s earlier work but to no major extent once …

Pretty Peggy-O is a traditional song which is covered by Bob Dylan that appears on his self-titled debut record. I’ll say right now that the version of this song which I was always familiar with was the version by The Grateful Dead, a version which I actually enjoy quite …

The Black Angel’s Death Song is a track by The Velvet Underground which appears on their first record, The Velvet Underground And Nico. This song starts out in a somewhat dissonant fashion due to an electric viola being played and then Lou Reed’s vocals coming in pretty abruptly, I …

Hero Of The Day is a song by Metallica which appears on their album Load. The track starts out with a clean guitar riff which has a very melodic feel to it with Hetfield, Ulrich, and Newsted coming in very lightly on vocals, drums, and bass respectively. The verse …

Heart Of Mine is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Shot Of Love. The song starts off with a piano part which then leads into Dylan singing some lyrics before the rest of the instrumentation soon comes in. The lyrics focus on Dylan, or the …

Susie Q is a cover performed by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album 12 X 5. As I said, the track is a cover, of a pretty well known song I may add, so I will just be talking about the execution of this song. I believe …

Please Mrs. Henry is a song by Bob Dylan and The Band which appears on the album The Basement Tapes. This track opens up with a very light guitar rhythm before Dylan starts up with the vocals which are somewhat humorous throughout the track, assuming you don’t take the …

Rattlehead is a song by Megadeth which appears on their debut record, Killing Is My Business… And Business is Good. Rattlehead starts off in an extremely fast manner and this is definitely the definition of early thrash metal in my opinion. The guitar riff is extremely rapid and Mustaine …

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 …

Seeing The Real You At Last is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album Empire Burlesque. The track opens up with a bit played primarily by horns and outside instrumentation which I really don’t associate with Bob Dylan and that I personally don’t really like hearing …

In Another Land is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Their Satanic Majesties Request As with most of this record, the sound on this track is primarily very psychedelic which is a sound that I personally love. The track opens up with a harpsichord …

I Belong To You is a song by Muse which appears on their most recent studio effort, The Resistance. This track starts off with a distinctive piano riff followed by the drums and Matt Bellamy’s vocals joining in singing the verse in a pretty melodic manner which goes pretty …

Strawberry Fields Forever is a song by The Beatles which appears on their most psychedelic work, Magical Mystery Tour. The song starts off with a very melodic sound which sounds almost as if the song were in a dream before Lennon comes in gently with the vocals as this …

Overseas Stomp (The Lindy) is a cover which appears on a reissue of the self-titled Grateful Dead album. This song is a cover but I’m sure that The Dead added their own distinct touch to the track which is what I’ll be focusing on here. The track opens up …

All The Love In The World is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album With Teeth. The song starts out with some electronic drums playing in a rhythm which stays throughout the majority of the song. Reznor joins in with the vocals pretty quickly on …

Time Passes Slowly is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album New Morning. This track opens up with a piano which gradually builds up and somewhat reminded me of jazz if it would’ve continued, but unfortunately it doesn’t go on for too long. Dylan comes in …

Meet Your Master is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album Year Zero. The track opens up with a very heavy synthesizer rhythm which certainly gives the song a definite electronic feel. Another synthesizer soon joins in which provides a lead for the song, if …

2 X 4 is a song by Metallica which appears on Load, the first half of their double album, Load/Reload. The track opens up with a sludgy sounding drum rhythm from Ulrich before Hetfield comes in with the rhythm part which reinforces my statement about this song having sort …

Purify is a song by Metallica which appears on their album St. Anger. I’ve read that a lot of fans regard Purify to be the worst song on St. Anger but I don’t think I’d go that far. Purify doesn’t sound too bad as it opens up, well until …

Losfer Words (Big ‘Orra) is an instrumental by Iron Maiden which appears on their album Powerslave. I can’t speak with absolute certainty but I believe this is one of the very few Iron Maiden instrumentals, the only other one to come to mind right now is Transylvania and I …

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 …

Love Henry is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album World Gone Wrong. The song opens up with a light acoustic guitar pattern which serves as a nice introduction to the song before Dylan comes in with the vocals. Dylan’s lyrics focus on a story so …

Prince Charming is a song by Metallica which appears on their album Reload, the second half of their double record Load/Reload. The song starts out with a guitar riff which is very blues-rock sounding and is pretty characteristic of many of the riffs on both Load and Reload which …

Bleeding Heart is a cover done by Jimi Hendrix which is on his most recent posthumous album, Valleys Of Neptune. The track certainly has a definitive blues-rock rhythm and feel to it, like a lot of songs which Hendrix worked with. I have to say that I love the …

(Walkin’ Thru The) Sleepy City is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Metamorphosis. The song comes off with a sweeping clean guitar riff before the vocals come in, abruptly at that, singing in a pretty generic vocal melody. The song has somewhat of a …

One Of My Lies is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Kerplunk. The track starts out with a pretty raw sounding three-chord guitar riff before the bass and drums join in. Something I like about the sound thus far is that the production really isn’t …

Burning Bridges is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their record Obscured By Clouds. The track starts off in an extremely mellow and melodic mood with a very light organ melody primarily leading the song as it first starts off. Something interesting about the vocals of this …

Sara is a song by Bob Dylan which is the final track on his album Desire. I’ll be honest and admit right now that this is one of my favorite Dylan songs throughout his entire catalogue. The track starts off with a somewhat ominous tone before leading into a …

Where The Boys Go is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Emotional Rescue. The song starts out with a very steady rock and roll rhythm with Jagger coming in with the vocal part very quickly and he has a melody which I personally think …

Watered-Down Love is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Shot Of Love. The track starts out with a very upbeat sound, as do many of Dylan’s songs from his religious period, and Dylan sings in a melody which sounds unnaturally poppy in my opinion. To …

Black Magic is a song by Slayer which appears on their debut record, Show No Mercy. Black Magic starts off in a very building fashion with a rapid guitar chugging slowly fading in before revealing the main riff of the song which has that very characteristic sound and is …

Crazy Miranda is a song by Jefferson Airplane which appears on the album Bark. The track starts out in a very melancholy fashion with a piano primarily leading the track with Grace Slick joining in with the vocals. I’m not exactly sure, but to be completely honest, I think …

Rank Strangers To Me is a cover performed by Bob Dylan which appears on his album Down In The Groove. Dylan comes in with his vocals right away singing in a pretty delicate manner along with a simple strumming acoustic guitar part. Dylan’s vocal tone isn’t all that bad …

Fixin’ To Die Blues is a cover performed by Bob Dylan which appears on his self-titled debut record. I’ve read that Dylan’s version of the song is actually pretty different than the original because he changes around the vocal melody along with some lyrics so we’ll see how this …

Stockholm Syndrome is a song by Muse which appears on their album Absolution. The song starts off with an extremely heavy guitar riff which is quite uncharacteristic of Muse just because of how metal sounding and aggressive it is. To be honest, I’m surprised that I heard this from …

Closer is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album The Downward Spiral. The track opens up with a synthesizer rhythm which is repeated for multiple times before Reznor comes in with the vocals in a pretty unique manner, it’s difficult to describe but there’s a …

Down The Highway is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his second record, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. This track opens up with a clear blues inspired guitar pattern and just the fashion Dylan sings the lyrics makes it clear that this song will be heavily blues influenced. …

Elysian Fields is a song by Megadeth which appears on their album Youthanasia. The track opens up with some brief noise before leading way to a heavy guitar riff with Mustaine singing over it in his characteristic Mustaine snarl. The guitar riff on this song isn’t exactly thrash metal …

With Teeth is the title track of an album by Nine Inch Nails. With Teeth opens up with some brief noise before leading to a drum rhythm which sound somewhat awkward and then a synthesizer being played over this and finally a distorted guitar playing a bit of a …

Crazy Mama is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Black And Blue. The song starts out in a pretty laid-back fashion with sort of a lazy and casual guitar riff which gives way to a short lead played over it. Jagger comes with the …

Dig A Pony is a song by The Beatles which appears on their final studio record, Let It Be. Dig A Pony starts off with sort of an awkward beginning before getting into the main riff of the song which isn’t bad at all. Lennon soon comes in with …

Tailgunner is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their album No Prayer For The Dying. Tailgunner is the opening track of the record and tries to open the record in a pretty energetic fashion. The opening guitar part of this song builds up with a bass line …

The Wanton Song is a track by Led Zeppelin which appears on their album Physical Graffiti. The track opens up with a nice rock and roll rhythm which somewhat reminds me of The Immigrant Song, an earlier song done by Zeppelin. The point I’m making is that the riff …

Factory Girl is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Beggars Banquet. Factory Girl starts off with a nice acoustic guitar pattern which actually reminds me of Led Zeppelin for some reason and then a tabla, an Indian percussion instrument comes in, which further reminds …

Parabol is a song by Tool which appears on their album Lateralus. I’m not extremely familiar with Tool’s music but I’ve been trying lately to see how they are so we’ll see how this goes. The track starts off with what sounds to me to be a bass playing …

Ninety Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street) is a cover performed by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Down In The Groove. The track opens up with Dylan starting the vocals right away with a notable piano behind him and the tempo having the tempo of …