I’ve had a mixed view of Rihanna since she burst on to the scene last year with the hugely successful Umbrella. I know she’d been around before that (figuratively speaking) but I’d never heard of her.
At first, I rallied against the popularity, and found the song dull, and highly unoriginal. But it grew on me, […]
With a title like Love Song, this track needs to tick certain boxes for me:-
1. It needs to be a song - SCORE
2. It needs to be about love - SCORE
3. It needs to be good enough to warrant such a generic title as Love Song - MISS
This isn’t really a bad song, but it’s […]
Buckcherry are a new band on me, I’ve never heard of them! It seems like they’re one of those weird groups who seem destined to just stay in the States.
I only know about this song, Sorry, (no, I’m not apologising, that’s the title) because of I regularly check Billboard to review videos that my American […]
I’d never heard of this song, Breathe Me by Sia, until a friend of mine told me about it after it was featured on the television show House, starring lovable British rogue Hugh Laurie.
I watched the clip of it on YouTube, and while the song isn’t to my usual taste, I found it very haunting, […]
You’ve had two of my favourite Christmas songs, so now it’s time for two of my least favourite. We start with Cliff Richard’s Mistletoe and Wine.
I actually liked this song when it was first released. My excuses are: It was 1988, I was 11 years old, and I had bad taste. What more can I […]
This song is The Fray with How To Save A Life. Some of you will be wondering what this video is, because as soon as the record got some airplay, everyone wanted a piece, and so there are multiple versions around.
Forget the Scrubs one, forget the Greys Anatomy one, this is the original and the […]
I adore everything about this video, Vanessa Carlton herself, the lyrics, her voice, and the magic travelling piano. The concept is a simple, yet brilliant one, and it’s beautifully orchestrated by the video’s director Marc Klasfeld.
The song itself is one of those ones I never tire of hearing, and even now, five years after its […]
The Queens Of The Stone Age seem to have emerged with a softer, quieter sound, and I’m not sure if I like it. I don’t mind the occasional love song, but when it comes from a band who I think of as hard rocking, hard drinking lads, it just doesn’t float my boat.
That’s not to […]
I’m not a big fan of country music, finding it all a bit fluffy and over the top, but the odd song does leak through to my subconscious, and this version of Kelly Clarkson’s Because Of You by Reba McEntire (with support from Clarkson herself) is one such example.
Maybe it’s the song rather than the […]
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