What happens when a guy goes from some of the crappiest pop made to hard rocking? He gets compared to Jimi Hendrix.
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Lenny Kravitz has had an interesting career with the charts. Besides being called Mr. Lisa Bonet (don’t remember her? she was the hot Cosby kid) he had a hit with this annoying song: Read the rest of this entry »
Here is one of those posts that I have dreaded; a post where it is overwhelmed by one artist completely.
It isn’t that I don’t like the artist, as I do, but I generally didn’t want any one artist to overload a single post. Too bad that Johnny Cash put out so many “American” albums before his death.
Going alphabetically, as iTunes does it, we will hit quite a few in this post. We start with:
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
The third in the series, Solitary Man, wherein we have some covers that were in response to Cash’s various illnesses at the time.
After Alice Cooper the man left Alice Cooper the group there came an album called Welcome To My Nightmare, which introduced fans to Steven. Steven was a strange little boy that had strange occurrences happen within his life ranging from the death/murder of his mother to the Devil himself trying to take his soul.
With last year’s Along Came A Spider, Alice Cooper brought to a close the story of Steven. While the album is about a serial killer named Spider (no relation) it is found out that Spider is nothing other then either an alternative identity for Steven, or Steven is an alternative identity for Spider. Either way, the host body has been killing for 28 years and it can be assumed that the host body killed the mother along with many others.
Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider
The whole album is amazing in not only sound and storytelling, but for the fact that the 60+ year old Cooper still has a voice that sounds as strong and real as it did on the Love It To Death album.
A taste of what the album has in store can be seen in the “Along Came A Spider” mini-movie, with more fan service then I have seen in a video ever:
As promised in the mission statement of this website, I am putting out a “guilty pleasure” in the list.
The first season of American Idol is the only one I watched all the way through. The second season bored me after the audition process due to the, well, boring contestants. Every season after that got worse until the point where I no longer care or watch. I think I got through maybe four seasons of auditions before I just gave up entirely.
For my money Nikki McKibbin was the better rocker of the first season group, but Kelly Clarkson did have something.
Unfortunately her first album, while a major seller, is not what could be called the greatest thing she would ever put out.
Her latest album, All I Ever Wanted, isn’t that great of an album either.
Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
Every song on this album sounds like the request of a teenager on the radio. A teenager playing the most idiotic game of “break up/make up” in high school you ever saw. The lyrics are nothing more than pandering to that age and mindset. There is no growth from Kelly as an artist, which is something we did see on the previous two albums.
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