June 2012
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Top 10 Not So Great Songs from Great Albums
In my last article, I wrote about the Top 10 Great Songs from Not So Great Albums. Well today, I’m doing the opposite, since you can’t write a list like that without a companion police. So here you go. These are… The Top 10 Not So Great Songs From Great Albums 10. Dropping Plates- Disturbed OK, this one might seem out of place, but I still feel it belongs. While the album is...
May 2012
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Top 10 Great Songs from Not So Great Albums
Hi everybody, and welcome back to Henry’s Music Blog, now back to the usual schedule. Something bothers me when I buy albums, and that’s when I buy an album for one song. Sure, sometimes you’ll find an album that succeeds your expectations, but usually, you’re stuck with one good song amongst a pile of crap. So today, we’re looking at: Top 10 Great Songs From Not So...
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Supergroups{+Announcement}
Hello everybody. Before I start this article, I am happy to inform you that this Wednesday, I’m going back to my old schedule of Sundays and Wednesdays, due to school being out for the summer. I’ll also be publishing 2 articles on the next three Sundays to make up for the ones I missed before. Anyway, on to the article. The idea of the super-group is often promising, but is often not...
Birthday Cake: A Song Review
Rihanna’s music has certainly changed for the worse recently. I remember back when she made songs like “Umbrella”, which is now considered a modern pop gem. But ever since the incident with Chris Brown, her music went for a drop, followed by a mountain. At first, she made songs that were understandably darker and angstier than her previous material on Rated R. But the album...
Hair Metal
There have been several passing fads in music, especially in terms of genres. We’ve had Psychadelic, Grunge, Nu Metal, and the boy bands of the late 90s. But back in the 80s, music had separated into Heavy Metal and synthesizer driven pop music. But then an unseen force came, combining the two genres to increasing degrees before finally imploding on its own debauchery. That genre was Hair...
April 2012
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Top 10 Most Overrated Songs Pt 2
Back when I first started this website, for my second ever article, I did a list of my most overrated songs ever. For that article, I did songs that have managed to achieve critical success despite their massive shortcomings, at least in my opinion. But I decided that a list of the most overrated songs in history wouldn’t be complete without the other side of the spectrum, songs that have...
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Root Notes: MTV
Hello everybody, welcome to today’s post, where I start a new recurring feature on the site. I’ve noticed recently that in the world of music, it’s not always the musician who becomes important in the history of music. Sometimes it can be a movie, a show, music directors, or even politicians who become important aspects in music’s development. So, for this new series Root...
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Boyfriend: a Song Review
Justin Bieber is a very controversial topic in music as of late. It’s rare to see something as chaotic as the internet, which can’t agree on whether nazis are bad, band together to hate a teenager. So you’d think he’d be a massive hit on the radio as well, right? Actually, no. On the radio and on the charts, he’s had very little success, with his previous biggest hit...
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Insane Clown Posse: An Outside Analysis
Back during Super Bowl Weekend, I did an article on Nickelback, talking about how they don’t deserve the hate they have. You may remember that in my list of bands that do make awful music, I mentioned Insane Clown Posse. But while I did that article, I realized that, in all honesty, ICP probably has the largest hate following in all of music. So I decided to write about them. And before...
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500 Greatest Albums (Rolling Stone)
Recently, Rolling Stone has been publishing all of their greatest-of-all-time lists again, updating them to include new releases and to fix previous mistakes. After their new top 500 songs, top 100 artists, and top 100 guitarists (which you may remember as my first article ever), they recently published their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, originally released in 2003. And since my first article...
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Top 20 Most Suprising One Hit Wonders pt 2
10. Oasis Oasis was pretty much the face of the 90s after Nirvana ended. Rarely does anyone get as heated over whether a band is good or terrible as they do here, especially with the Noel and Liam’s infamous behavior. And with two albums considered classics, you’d expect them to be a huge success on both sides of the states. But they weren’t, for a simple, yet confusing reason....
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Top 20 Most Suprising One Hit Wonders pt 1
We all love one hit wonders. Whenever a band manages to achieve one hit, they stay in our minds forever, usually because they are such a product of the time. We have the classic one hit wonders, like Nena and Chumbawamba, and the artists who aren’t but we think of them as though they are, like A-ha and MC Hammer. But then there are the bands that just don’t feel like one hit wonders,...
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Prog Rock
Back in the early 20th century, there were two contemporary styles of music that had quickly become extremely popular with audiences. While jazz was one of the biggest forms of music during the 20s and 30s, Blues kept underground, until around the 50s, where it evolved into Rock ‘n’ Roll, where it dominated. This continued to evolve in this way up to around the late 60s. But up to...
March 2012
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10 Things Pop Music Needs to Stop Doing
Pop music has gotten awfully stagnant in the last few years. We’re not having the radical stylings of many artists recently, instead having either the club pop or your stereotypical bland love ballad. So I feel like at this point, more than any other, I can make a list like this. So here are my… 10 Things Pop Music Needs To Stop Doing Note: Instead of a normal top ten list, this is non...
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I Have No Proper Image For How Much I Hate This...
Let me get this straight, right out in the open. What I am about to talk about is what I consider to be, without question, the worst song I’ve ever heard. Not joking. What I am about to talk about today is literally the worst thing ever foisted on human ears. “Look at me Now”? “Ass”? “Stupid Hoe”? “Alone”? Those are nothing compared to this...
The Switch from Singles to Albums
These days, not a lot of classic albums are being made with the frequency that they were back in the 70s. I don’t know this for a fact, due to me not even being alive back then, but it really does feel like that. For example, let’s look back at 2011, and list all the albums most likely to be remembered in 20+ years: 21-Adele Watch the Throne-Jay-Z and Kanye West And that’s...
A Video I Enjoyed
Hi everybody. Unfortunately, due to a busy weekend, I do not have the time to write a post today. Instead, here is a link to a video that I liked, that made a point about Chris Brown that makes the point better then I ever could.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/tis/tpsr/34549-turn-up-the-music
Watch that, while I come up with a new review for Wednesday. Bye! And after that,...
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Why Born in the USA is the Most Overrated Album of...
Now I love Bruce Springsteen as much as next guy. The man is one of the most important people working in music today, and in my opinion, has only made one bad album in his whole career. But, as it so happens, it’s also one of the most famous albums ever made, and easily one of the most critically acclaimed. But quite frankly, I’ve never seen it. I’m talking about Born in the...
One Final Note
And on my two articles already today, I would just like to say that the new Bruce Springsteen album, Wrecking Ball, is really good. So if you get a new album — get this one.
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Rumours: an Album Review
Fleetwood Mac has a very… interesting history behind them. Starting off in 1967 as a blues band, they had their first success with the original “Black Magic Woman”, now more famous for the cover by Santana off of Abraxas. However, the original line-up of the band broke up in 1970, followed by a second line up that no one cares about. However, as soon as they hit their third line-up,...
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Friendship Is Magic and What It Shows About...
Hello everybody. Two things to say before I start the actual article. First of all, thank you all for getting me to 100+ followers. I really do feel honored. Secondly, I’m sorry this article was late, something came up on Wednesday. So today, I’m doing two articles. This one is the celebration for making it to 100+ followers, and isn’t really about music at all. Instead,...
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Stupid Hoe: A "Song" Review
Oh boy, here we go. Welcome, everybody, to the 2nd part of my Nicki Minaj article. And I gotta say, I’m not looking forward to this review at all. I’ve reviewed some very bad songs so far. But all of those songs were huge hits. This is the most reviled song of the last 5 years. I am not exaggerating. People liked “Look at me Now.” People liked “ASS.” But...
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Nicki Minaj: an Outside Analysis
How fascinating. I’ve only done three looks at artists in the past, and two of them are from Young Money. It just goes to show how big Lil Wayne is at this point. With all of the biggest artists on Earth, not only is there Lil Wayne, but also two of his proteges, Nicki Minaj, who I’m talking about now, and Drake, who I’ll get to at a later date. And now we have Tyga’s...
February 2012
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Billboard Top 10: 3\3\12
You know, today, I think I’ll try something new. Nothing fascinates me more than the Billboard charts, and what they indicate for the current popular landscape of music. Each week they publish the new top 100, I look to see if anything has changed so far. And some weeks, nothing really changes, sometimes actually looking the exact same in the top 10. Other weeks, there’s a big change,...
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Indie Rock Pt 2
Welcome to Pt. 2 of the Indie Rock article. Last time we were here, we ended with the 90s, and how Indie Rock wasn’t the draw it used to be. But something happened, and it was in reverse notion. Indie bands stopped trying to be modern, and went back to the sounds of Led Zeppelin for some, and the Cars for others. And all these bands, for a brief time, got insanely popular. We had The...
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Indie Rock
Note: For any English readers, we are referring to the American form of Indie Rock, meaning on an independent label, and not the English form, as a byword for Alternative music.
At a certain point in most genre’s lives, the genre stops really existing, and becomes an umbrella for all that sounds slightly similar. For example, Metal. Metal as a genre doesn’t really exist anymore,...
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Alone: a Song Review
Well, it’s the day after Valentines, and you know what that means. Actually, you don’t since I just made it up, but every Valentines week, I review a love song, old or new. And I decided I’d start it off with one of the most well known love songs ever, and one of the biggest sellouts ever. Today, we’re reviewing “Alone”, by Heart. Let’s talk about Heart...
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Spiderland: an Album Review
Together, in the 90s, there were about two bands that truly launched completely new genres. In 1994, KoRn released their self titled, which created nu-metal. But three years before, when Nirvana made Grunge commercial, Slint released Spiderland, considered the creator of the genre of Post-Rock, which I still don’t understand. Consisting of 6 songs, the album was a poor seller, but...
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Top 10 Bands Ruined by Singers
A band is best when a singer and the band are in perfect balance with each other, working with each others strengths for a unified sound. Sometimes, an excellent singer can pull up a band from being just good, and it doesn’t matter how bad the rest of the band is. But if you have a terrible singer to contend to, it’s very hard to be good. People are always immediately drawn to the...
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An Apology to Nickelback
Happy Super Bowl Sunday, everybody. Now, I was originally planning to do something about Madonna, due to her singing in the half time show, but there was something I have to say for everyone. We’ve all been guilty of this in the past; it’s just something that we all seem to fall into from time to time. So now, I am going to say this. Nickelback, I apologize for the internet. In case...
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Ass: a Song Review
Currently, Kanye West is one of the biggest stars on the planet. And he has every right to be, what with his last album being one of the greatest albums ever made. But then he had to make others famous. So, like Lil Wayne, he made his own label, G.O.O.D. Music. But don’t let the name be a full indicator. While there is talent on board, like Kid Cudi and Common, there are others that seem to...
January 2012
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Nu-Metal
Nu-Metal is a very controversial genre to most music fans. On one hand, at this point in time, the only nu-metal band you’re still allowed to like are the Deftones, who people say aren’t even really nu-metal. But on the other hand, almost half of the young metal fans around these days started out listening to KoRn and Limp Bizkit, no matter how hard they pretend they didn’t. But...
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Top 10 Queen Songs (Besides Bohemian Rhapsody)
I’ve already made it very clear that I am very tired of constantly hearing “Bohemian Rhapsody.” But I never said that it was a bad song. On the contrary, it really is one of the greatest songs ever written. But I just wanted to get some other Queen songs up to the forefront. So these are my choices for:
The Top 10 Best Queen Songs (That aren’t Bohemian Rhapsody)
10. Keep...
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Katy Perry: An Outside Analysis
There are some artists that just create hatred within me. These artists are for the most part obvious, with your typical list of Nickelback, BrokeNCYDE, and Justin Bieber. But there are some artists that, rather than hate, make me very angry. Some are artists that have talent, but don’t use it to their full potential, like Drake or Ke$ha. Then they’re the artists that I absolutely...
Heresy: a Song Review
I felt bad for this. In my The Downward Spiral review, I put in a note about the fact that I did not own “Heresy”. Well now, I’ve decided to finish the review after a week, with a short text review.
3. Heresy
In “Heresy”, the main character of the story rejects god, with one line of the chorus being a repetition of “God is dead.” This is a far cry from...
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Top 10 Songs Destroyed by Overplay
In my opinion, nothing destroys anything faster than overplay. Many otherwise fine movies have been destroyed by overplay, such as Borat or Mean Girls. But this blog is not about movies. It’s about songs. And that’s why today I’m giving my Top 10 Songs Destroyed by Overplay.
Some guidelines before we begin: 1. No Christmas Songs. 2. Songs must be good in the first...
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Album Review: The Downward Spiral
I would consider myself a Nine Inch Nails fan. Sure, most of the recent stuff is rather lackluster, but back in the 90s, only one person could personify pure anger as well as Trent Reznor, and that was Billy Corgan. And most people tend to agree that Reznor’s masterpiece is The Downward Spiral, considered the greatest industrial record ever by people who’ve never actually listened to...
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Look at Me Now: A Song Review
I made a grievous mistake in the past. You see, in my list of the Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2011, I had not listened to most of the songs that came out this year. And this was one of the songs that I had skipped over. It wasn’t until after I had published both lists that I was aware of this songs existence. And dear god, do I feel awful for not including it on the list. And this isn’t...
Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 2011
I don’t care for most pop music. However, even if most of it ranges from bland to intolerable, there’s always songs that manage to not only be good, but unique enough to stand out from the sea of mediocrity. And these are the songs that I feel manage might actually stay good even a year after they came out. So, here we have…
Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 2011
10. Stereo Hearts - Gym...
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Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2011
Looking at the hit songs of the year, 2011 was not a very interesting year for music. Pop music was at its most generic this year, mostly staying with club anthems and songs about how teenagers should feel better about themselves. However, among the mediocrity, there are a few songs that managed to stand out, for better or worse. And today, we look at the worse, with a special New Years post:
The...
December 2011
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Top 10 Albums of the Year
2011 was a year where music was set by club music for most of the time. Look at Billboards Top 100 songs of the year. Most of the songs are basically about dancing and having sex at clubs. I don’t care for club songs. And typically, no one cares about the albums those songs came from. So these are my choices for my best albums of the year, which I feel manage to not be “singles”...
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Album Review: In the Court of the Crimson King
Prog Rock has two main influences in albums; Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Quarrymen, and Days of Futures Past by the Moody Blues. Both brought very important qualities of prog into rock music, with Sgt. Pepper bringing the concept album and the concept album, and Futures Past with a symphony. But Prog truly started in 1969 with King Crimson’s first album, In the Court...
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Lil Wayne: An Outside Analysis
Lil Wayne is a controversial subject in music today. Many have called him a musical genius, a man to shape rap as we know it. Others call him a talentless idiot who makes all his talentless friends, like Drake and Nicki Minaj, fellow superstars. I am in neither of these groups. Mostly, I don’t care either way about Lil Wayne or his Young Money Roster. I am an outsider in this subject. So,...
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Top 10 Most Overrated Songs
No one has the exact same taste as anyone else. This is a fact. Not even The Beatles are universally loved at this point in time. So I know that next to no one will fully, or even partly, agree with this list. But these are my opinions, and no one will change these choices. But please wait to send your hate-filled comments until the article is finished. So, lets begin this list.
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100 Greatest Guitarists (Rolling Stone)
Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Guitarists” list has the “privilege” of being called the worst list that they had ever made. While people will complain about their other lists, but none has received the raw, unnerving hatred from nerds on the internet than this. So what could could Rolling Stone do but release a new version. And somehow, the new version is actually worse....