Archive for the 'Alternative' Category

Oasis - Don’t Believe the Truth [2005]

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Don’t Believe The Truth is the sixth Oasis studio album-and a very proud success for this group! You get the awesome hit single “Lyla” as well as “Let There Be Love.” It appears they saved “Let There Be Love” as almost the best for last since this is one of the most beautiful songs I […]

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul [2008] 2 Tracks Sample

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

“Someone tell me I’m dreaming, the freaks are rising up through the floor” - the moment I heard that line in Bag It Up, the first song on the album, I was 70% convinced this was for me. The other 30% followed with the next few chords.
Rock at its best.
Of course the typical Oasis melody […]

John Mayer - Heavier Things [2003]

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

I loved John Mayer from the first time I heard “My Stupid Mouth”. I even went to see his tour last summer, which was awesome. Unfortunately, however, this album is a crushing disappointment.
Gone are the thoughtful, or sardonic, or whimsical lyrics. They have been replaced by psycho-babble and sugar-coated garbage. Gone are the cutting, driving […]

John Mayer - Continuum [2008]

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

How many musicians have you ever heard coming out of the suburbs of Fairfield, Connecticut? If you are a John Mayer fan, you know at least one. Pigeonholed as a sensitive pop artist with the debut album, Room For Squares, Mayer shifted tack to a bluesier sound with his second studio release Heavier Things. Joining […]

James Blunt - Back to Bedlam [2005]

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

James Blunt spent a year in Kosovo as a soldier in the British Army, and that exposure of the horrors of strife and conflict inspired the emotional tenor of his work as an artist. The lyrics and melodies he wrote in his spare time from soldiering formed the genesis of his impressive debut album, Back […]