No One Cares review

Posted : 1 month, 2 weeks ago on 29 March 2008 04:45 (A review of No One Cares)

This one will really get you depressed.



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Five Years Later Still a Great Album.

Posted : 1 month, 2 weeks ago on 29 March 2008 02:32 (A review of Stripped)

Inexplicably I hated Stripped the very first time I heard it. But on just the next listen I feel absolutely in love with it.I've loved Christina's voice since I watched her on the MMC it's only gotten better from then. When I first heard Dirrty on the radio I was completely taken aback that this was Christina Aguilera I was hearing but I thought it awesome none the less. Even now, five years later, I can only think of one, maybe two songs I don't still enjoy. It's hard to pick favourites but Fighter, Make Over and Get Mine, Get Yours may well be the ones I played most.

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Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl review

Posted : 1 month, 2 weeks ago on 29 March 2008 10:03 (A review of Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl)

Excellent tracks. My most beloved track was "He's a Pirate". Perfect mixes.
As seen in the movie, all the tracks in the CD are included in the movie.
I'm so music-hungry on some songs that I can't temper a day without them, that's because for my mind, they are good. For others they might be crap, but for me not.
10/10 Guys! Keep it up Captain Badelt and Captain Sparrow!

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Radiohead - In Rainbows

Posted : 1 month, 2 weeks ago on 29 March 2008 06:26 (A review of In Rainbows)

Let's ignore all the hype surrounding this record for a minute - sure, it was noble of one of the best British bands of the past decade to offer this album online with the user free to pay the band any price they wanted. But most fans wanted the actual copy anyway, instead of a few MP3's on a computer. Let's take a better look at the music itself.

The music is good, it's clean, it's pop. Radiohead hasn't been this clean cut since the days of The Bends and OK Computer. What followed after those two records were experiment after experiment - computer sounds in the form of Kid A and the second part, Amnesiac, and the mix of all their sounds on Hail to the Thief.

Here, Radiohead returns to the inwards sounds that made them so popular in the first place and it is indeed nice to know they are still able to churn out some mighty fine classics. Sure, there are a few harder songs, but all in all this record is so silent that it's the perfect music for an evening of self-reflection or a romantic diner. High emotional points like 'Nude' and 'All I Need' are combined with more rythmic offerings like 'Bodysnatchers' and 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place'.

Apart from the digital revolution this band seems to be after, In Rainbows will be remembered as the record where Radiohead shows they are still able to make good music, simple as that.

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NOFX at their best

Posted : 1 month, 2 weeks ago on 29 March 2008 05:45 (A review of The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us))

If you take all of NOFX's songs and put them together you would make a great NOFX greatest hits album... oh wait, that's what they did!
NOFX has been around the punk scene a long time and well respected too and this album takes the bands best hits from the past 15 years and puts it in one album showing off 28 great punk songs.
I find the music really catchy and what I really find appealing is the lyrics which can be very political or sarcastic and funny. From Dinosaurs Will Die which predicts the death of major record label, to The Separation of Church And Skate in complaining about the punk scene becoming crappy, to Don't Call Me White about stereotyping.
Even though I don't agree they all their songs say, some of the lyrics I do agree with and the music is great and the album is a great way to catch up for new fans and a good look back for long time fans.

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Thanks EMT's

Posted : 1 month, 2 weeks ago on 29 March 2008 05:18 (A review of The Artist in the Ambulance)

I was kinda late for the whole Thrice bandwagon when their first two albums came out but I have picked them up and The Artist in the Ambulance was my first album and it's a great one.
Listening to the previous albums I heard some less then perfected sound that was great hearing and in Artist they perfected it with great hard rock riffs and beats, intelligent lyrics speaking about people not caring about poor countries just because their different to the Salem Witch Trails, and background effects that enrich their sound to something really great.
I really like Artist in the Ambulance and only wished that the band would have keep this sound instead going the way they did and so I rate this their best album and would recommend to anyone.

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Ragtime indie pop-rock sound

Posted : 1 month, 2 weeks ago on 27 March 2008 04:18 (A review of Goodbye Blues)

Goodbye Blues is a BIG step forward for The Hush Sound. Greta's voice has grown so much since Like Vines it amazes me. She's developed a blues-y jazzy tinge to her voice that really works with their overall sound on this album. There's a sort of ragtime feel to a lot of the songs that I like, it enhances the indie pop-rock sound they have. My current favourites - Medicine Man, The Boys Are Too Refined, and Molasses.

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Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster

Posted : 1 month, 2 weeks ago on 27 March 2008 10:04 (A review of Hold On Now, Youngster...)

This indie band from Wales, now signed to Wichita (known as the British home for super-acts like Bright Eyes) has been compared a lot to the Canadian Broken Social Scene, but it shares more with the one-album-wonder Park Ave, maybe more than they themselves even realise. Sweet pop tunes with both male and female vocales make pain and joy from relationships sound so sweet and bitter at the same time.

A mighty fine debut with classics such as 'Don't tell me to do the math' and You! Me! Dancing!' from the previous EP's present, and new songs like 'We are all accelerated readers' and 'This is how you spell' do the trick as well.

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Park Ave - When Jamie Went To London...

Posted : 1 month, 2 weeks ago on 26 March 2008 06:09 (A review of When Jamie Went To London... We Broke Up)

Park Ave is a previous band of Conor Oberst, the now 27 year old genius behind the soon-to-be-gigantic Bright Eyes and one time project Desaparecidos.

Park Ave, with Oberst on drums and backing vocals at an age that must be close to 20, was something of a one time project as well. Before this only record available came out, singer Jamie went to London and the band broke up, hence the title of this record.

It is a shame, because Park Ave has been given an insane amount of praise by critics and the ever demanding indie-scene. Instead of complicated long songs or emotionally driven acoustic sets, something new fans of Conor Oberst might expect, what we have here is a collection of short pop songs that are so honest and simple that they do the trick perhaps even better than the alcoholic- and drugs-driven material of later Oberst. The child-like way themes like love and the life of an artist are portrayed here are quite something to behold.

So, it is indeed a shame this band broke up. Of course there is still plenty of chance to check out Oberst with his Bright Eyes project and even Jamie is busy again with the popular indie-band Tilly and the Wall, but for fans its nice to delve back in the roots of these artists and check out Park Ave. Team Love, the fairly new record label of Oberst has re-issued this album to make it more available so you could do worse than checking out the website to buy this rare piece of indie history.

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Progressive metal done right

Posted : 1 month, 3 weeks ago on 25 March 2008 04:24 (A review of Terminate Damnation)

I first heard of BTA a couple weeks before going to their concert and after I went I was really excited for their album to come out and I wasn't disappointed.
Now I haven't been in the metal scene for that long but I know that Terminate Damnation took a direction that most metal albums ever take, and that is with not so metal instrumentals.
The album starts with March of the Death which sounds like funeral song and the next song, Into Oblivion, kicks in really fast and powerful.
A couple songs later is Elegy a eleven minute epic song that has a classical music ABA flow as the first part is big and powerful with vocals, the second part slows down and becomes a acoustic guitar and piano piece and the last part goes back to the first part just without the vocals.
The next song, Night's Sorrow, is another instrumentals and is a really cool nocturne.
And the rest of the album has songs full of power songs with a couple more instrumentals that break up the album into a great flowing album and should be heard all the way through at least once.
If your a Christian and/or metal fan, this album is a must buy and experience.

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