Revolver - The Beatles

Fifty years ago today, the seventh Beatle studio album was released in the UK. This is the often looked at as the sequel, or part two, of Rubber Soul. While I can sort of see that now, I still think it's great in its own right. None the less this was the last album they toured for, and only played I believe one song or two off the record (the rest required too much studio trickery to do live). I can't really think of much more to say about the record, other than lets review this thing.

1. Taxman: Opening the album, we get George's ode to Tax Collectors. A pretty  funny song, and I love the guitar and beat to the song.  I love the little double time parts Ringo plays and I love the backing "oh Mr heath" (or whatever they say). The vocals on this are great, and I think this a pretty strong track that packs a punch. This has a tasty solo and I still like it quite a bit. 
2. Eleanor Rigby: When I first heard 1, the compilation that introduced me to the band after Across the Universe, I skipped this song. The reason was because I was seriously afraid of it. Now when I listen to it I think if all the times I heard it playing video games, bit I also hear a song that has some gorgeous string arrangements. It's a very sad and lonely sing, for a very sad and lonely woman. If my ears are correct there's viola, violin, cello and maybe contrabass (could be wrong, but hopefully my ears are right). While it's kinda repetitive, I still think it's a really cool idea for a really cool song. #ExperimentationIsKey
3. I'm Only Sleeping: This has a very dream like quality to it, very laid back and stream of consciousness feeling. By that I feel like, even with the backmasking (used correctly this time) add to the dream quality. I also love that acoustic guitar in the track, I also love the bass pops. This is a solid tune and one of my favorites off the record. I also love the weird noises, which were backmasked as mentioned earlier. 
4. Love You To: The second song on the record to be written by George. This song has a very raga influenced sound to it. It opens with some sitar and could actually add to the dream like feeling from the last track. I really like the rhythms on this track a lot, and like the vocal effects on this track. I doubt its only sitar, but there is some great sounds on this track. I'd love to hear a isolated version of each instrument for this track. I know sitars can have that sustain, or are supposed to rather. I also love the percussion on this. I also dig the double time at the ending g, or at least the pick up in tenpo at the ending. 
5. Here, There and Everywhere: This is a sweet Paul McCartney tune. You can tell because its very pop like, and he's singing it. The guitar on this is so sweet and the harmonies are so fucking great. There's a dream like quality to this, but its more of a romantic dream feeling. Like what it's like to be in love and I love the arrangement here. I could easily see this being played on strings and horns but work quite well without them. Finger snaps a plus. 
6. Yellow Submarine: I don't really feel I need to talk about this song, but I will. I really like the acoustic guitar on this track. It was written by Macca for Ringo and I love the sound effects. While I feel like, oh its this song, I still get kicks on the occasional listen. Plus, damn they really did a great job with all the effects on this thing. Honestly, listen to the non guitar, bass, drums or vocals (Ringo/harmonies) in the track. I wonder how long that took to do. 
7. She Said She Said: This song has a bit of a punch off the bat and it has some nice acid rock guitar on it. I also really like the bands tone on the track, we get some great sounds that make it a bit more trippy, and the bass sounds great. Plus that's some solid drumming from Ringo. The vocals work well here, and I like the part that changes. I like this but I have to be in the mood for it I guess. Also the ending where it kinda speeds up a bit, I really dig that. 
8. Good Day Sunshine: This is sunshine pop, I guess. I like the upbeat feeling of this, but for whatever reason it isn't as sunny as I feel it should be. Like if its sunshine shouldn't it be super bubble gummy. All though I love the piano work on this track. I like how the drums add a bit more punctuation to the vocals. I also really like the harmonies especially at the ending and I like the hand claps. And I appreciate that sort of loop at the end, that's really short. 
9. And Your Bird Can Sing: This is another track in the vein of She Said She Said, all though it's more fun to listen to. Again a killer bass line and some great drums. Though in the mix they seem to be a bit more buried. I like the hand claps, they are a nice touch. And I love the riff to the track a lot. I love the bass tone though, its like an electrified upright bass without the finger hits as audible. It's nice and fast and works quite well here. 
10. For No One: This is a bit of a baroque pop number. I really like the harpsichord on the track and its a gorgeous song that I could very easily cry to. I have heard this song a million times but that trumpet still gets me, I know its coming but I still love it. Paul feels very much like he's singing a Paul song. I think the only thing that could have made this possibly better is maybe strings towards the ending. It's still a solid track though. 
11. Doctor Robert: I like this song, but I also feel like its kinda filler. I mean there are a number of songs that give you what this song gives you on the album. I still like the whole Beach Boys thing in the middle, but I don't fully see the point of it I guess. But what that said its still a solid acid rock tune. And I do dig the bass and organ during that one part. I also want to point out, that guitar is weird. I mean throughout but still. Kudos for getting that in a pop record. 
12. I Want to Tell You: Another George tune, but I still dig it. This is more in the vein of say Good Day Sunshine. It's a pleasant track. I like the ending fade out, but I've kind of described what I like about it elsewhere. It's a fun song
13. Got to Get You Into My Life: This is a great time, great bass line and great horn section featured. I could almost see this, if done slightly differently, being on a Motown album. Maybe something like Away We A Go-Go. This has a fun feeling and while it's kinda bare for how large it could be, I think it works. I also love the guitar tone on this thing. It's great. The ending is also great. 
14. Tomorrow Never Knows: opening with a sitar drone, followed by what sounds like a drum loop with some snare. I really like the drums on this, but I'm pretty sure it's a loop. Like outside of the vocals, I'm pretty sure everything is tape manipulations. Now that's not bad, there's a great solo that is backmasked and the song keeps you interested. I mean some sounds do repeat, but I'd still pick this any day over.... Well a lot of stuff to be honest. I also bet this was fun to do when recording it, considering how this was the first time they played with tape really. I also like the thumb tack/honky rink piano at the ending. I never heard, or remember hearing, that before. Great ending and great prelude for what was to come next. 

Overall i have to give this album a 8.8/10. This is a Beatles record, so its inherently great. Well not always, but you know what I mean. They were lucky enough to not really make a terrible record, even when people fucked with the music. But this is a great, exciting record with a lot of interesting sounds and ideas. While I don't think it's perfect or mindblowing, I do like what's on the record and recommend it along with all the other Beatle records. 

Please Please Me - The Beatles

This is the debut album by my FAVORITE BAND OF ALL TIME. This is the third album review I'm doing of a Beatles album, I don't know exactly when this is going to be uploaded but I started this review on March 23rd, 2012. I'm pissed because my cunt ass computer wasn't working right and I couldn't use the keyboard to type into it. This was supposed to go up on March 22nd, 2012 which was the 49th anniversary of it being released, but I later said fuck it and am going to now upload it 1 year later so it will celebrate it's 50th anniversary. So it was basically useless to me. Now I have an good one and it works, especially since we got two, in case one breaks. Well aside from the computer thing, this album was risky for me. I used to say I didn't like The Beatles then I saw the movie Across The Universe and that got me interested in them. My cousins burned 1 on the computer and I kinda liked it, except Let It Be. #You have no fucking idea how Ironic that is. But then I used to say, after I bought Abbey Road, I only like their later stuff. So the album that I took a risk, so to say first was Rubber Soul. That album was still kind of experimental. But this was the first early, pre-experimental Beatles album I ever bought. And well.... I got into it. moral of the story is musical experimentation is very important, and if not for The Beatles I probably wouldn't have ever learned that. But you'll see why I love this album so much right....... Now! Well, Now it's a few days after the 50th, so lets dive in!

1. I Saw Her Standing There: This is the first song on the album. It is a good introduction to this album. It's upbeat and exciting and sets the tone for this album as a whole.
2. Misery: This song is another awesome song. The way this song starts it's got this feeling that I can't quite put my finger on, but I love it. I could see them playing this in Hamburg. I think the little piano fills in there are awesome. It's so sick that they did that for track two on album one. I don't know why, but this kind of blows my mind. It has kind of a doo-wop vibe
3. Anna (Go To Him): The first time I heard this I was surprised that I liked it so much. It thought that it was kind of a weird track. I thought it didn't sounds like any other of the hits that I'd heard before. Now I love the track even more than the first time I heard it.
4. Chains: This is a good song. I don't think that it's amazing, but I don't hate it. I think that this is a slower song. It doesn't really make me wanna get up and dance. Even some of the slower songs on this album I would still dance too.
5. Boys: Ringo sings this one. This is a pretty exciting track to pick up where Chains was slower. I think that this is a doo-wop song. I think it's a fun song that you can dance to. Its like a good Sha Na Na. The solo in this song is sick. I really don't know how other to describe it than it's perfect of the song.
6. Ask Me Why: This is a jazzy kind of song. I could see this being played at a school dance in the 60's. I really like this song. This has one of the coolest refrains/chorus on the album. It love it.
7. Please Please Me: This is probably my favorite track on the album. I love the hell out of it. The vocals at all the parts of this song are awesome. There isn't really any part of this song that I think it's good. Sometimes really good songs have parts at aren't as good, well I don't think this track does. From the solid playing, and the bass line, and guitar vocals. Paul is one sick ass bassist. {10/10}
8. Love Me Do: You can't go wrong with this song. The simple beat and lyrics. This song is a good example of, well, sometimes simple is better. So hats off to Ziggy. I love Paul's vocals in the song and his bass line. And I love the harmony's. This song is just, in a single word, yes {10/10}
9. P.S. I Love You: I really like this song. I don't like at as much as the last two tracks, but I still do like it. I think it's a little more sad than the last track, which was upbeat. This was the b-side of the Love Me Do single in the UK in '62. There is like a Spanish feeling to this song. Which is FUCKING AWESOME! Even back then  they didn't just do blues *cough* The Rolling Stones *cough*.
10. Baby It's You: This is probably one of the weaker points on the album. I do think this is a good song, but I don't think it's anything special.
11. Do You Want To Know A Secret: This song is a pretty cool song. The beginning of this song sounds like it's something exciting coming up. Thought it stays at a slow pace this is still a kick ass song. I like the way George sings this one. I also really like the bass line and the drums.
12. A Taste Of Honey: This song is almost seductive with the way that it is. It feels kind of like tango. I could see someone dancing to this song. I could probably see myself making love to this song, while it's playing. I love the chorus and the arpeggios. The distortion of the guitar is awesome to. I also think it's sick the way that they did the double track on Paul's vocals in the :"middle eight".
13. There's A Place: I love this song, wow, I say that a lot. No, but seriously, this is an awesome song. I like the way the harmonica. The refrains in this song, and along with a part of this album, are just amazing. I'm a sucker for an AMAZING refrain/chrous/pre-chrous and lots of songs on this album have those. "Do you know that it's so". Some examples, off other albums, are Another Girl, No Reply, Think For Yourself, She's A Woman, Michelle, I'll Be Back, I'm So Tired among others.
14. Twist and Shout: This is one of the very, I mean very, few. Like out of The Beatles 200+ songs in their main discography, there is probably 5 songs I'm not huge on. This is one of them. I have just gotten sick of this song. It was ok at first, but Ferris kinda ruined the song for me. Now it doesn't really have that same UMPH! it used to have.

Overall I have to give that album an 8/10. This album was an important part in my musical journey, that still goes on today. As funny as it is, listening to this album today, it only helps remind me how AMAZING The Beatles actually are. I can't believe that these guys have done as big of a number as they have to me. In the best way possible.

Thursday - The Weeknd

This is the second mixtape release by The Weeknd. Now I was timid to listen to this, because I just felt like this one wouldn't be very good. I don't know why, but that's what I felt. I do like that the cover is very colorful. It is kind of friendly and welcoming. I feel very IDK on the way that this thing might be. I have listened to Lonely Star a couple times, I'm not crazy about it, and The Birds Part 1, which I like a lot. This was released in August 18th, 2011. I started this review on May 2nd, 2012.

1. Lonely Star: This sounds like it would be a better quality version of a song that I would have heard on House of Balloons. I don't exactly how to feel about this song. I feel like this would be a song where I could listen to it if I was going to listen to the mix-tape front to back. And at the end of the song he says the days of the week. I don't think that that's a good way to start off a mix-tape.
2. Life Of The Party: This song is just talking about, pretty much, how high he is. And is trying to convince a girl to join him. It's either that or she is high and she could be "tripping out" while they talk to her. The song actually does give you that feel of a song that would be a song where they tried to convince a girl to do drugs in some movie. The beat in this song feels "evil". Like I could picture, in a way, a part in a movie like Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite from the movie Across the Universe. I actually liked that movie and that was kind of an introduction to The Beatles for me. I'm not comparing it to that, but I'm giving an idea of what it is kind of like. The "tripping out" idea that I had kind of reminds me of Alice In Wonderland. This isn't amazing, but it's still a good song.
3. Thursday: This has that House of Balloons vibe to it. I don't think that it is that terrible. Like this could be a rerecorded, better quality,  leftover that didn't make the cut for House of Balloons. Beside the idea of the better quality to it, it still reminds me of a song off House of Balloons. This song seems like it could grow on me if I give it a couple more listens.
4. The Zone: This has this, I might be crazy but, reggae vibe to the beat. [:( ] Please don't kill me if I'm wrong. That's just what I got out of this song the first time through. Also the chorus/hook is "I'ma gonna touch you". So the ideas that come to mind are, is he talking advantage of her, is this "touch" mutual. I don't know, but I do like this song. It could have been on the last mix tape. I know I've made a million comparisons to House of Balloons but that is the only other mix-tape I've heard front to back. I have heard all of Echoes of Silence but in all in order. Also I guess Drake is on this song. I think that his rap is actually pretty cool. I like The Weeknd on the song Crew Love off Drake's 2011 album Take Care. I didn't like Drake's part on that song though.
5. The Birds Part 1: This song is awesome, the beginning is kind of a build up. I don't think that it is a good build up though. It's not until the other instruments come in that it is cool sounding. This is a classic Weeknd song. I really love this song and the more I hear it is gets a little better. The instruments in the beats are sick. It feels like this song is a march and that he is singing this in with a marching band, but a cool one. I could see this being played at a big arena. I don't get the arena feel is exactly reached, but I could see this being a song that is played at an arena.  Thus far this is my favorite song on this mix-tape. There is like an outro where it is just Abel backing vocals and an acoustic guitar. I think that that's a really sweet ending.{9/10}
6. The Birds Part 2: The song starts out with a girl making sounds. Not sex noises but like giggles. The guitar that is in the instrumentation kind of reminds me of Bang Bang by the one and only Nancy Sinatra. The song progressively builds up, adding more instruments and horns and move backing vocals. I defiantly see this being a part 2 to The Birds. There is a really high pitched voice buried in the mix for like a chorus, kind of like the Beach House samples on House of Balloons. You can hear him light up a joint in this song. This thing is actually growing a little more on me. He uses a some of the lyrics from High for This in this song.
7. Gone: This kind of reminds me of the second part of The Party & The After Party. It also kind of reminds me of The Knowing. I feel like thoses songs are either fillers, or it's supposed to be like this is his high. The one thing I wish though was that it wasn't 8 minutes. This is the longest song to date that he has done. It's actually like of like a flip flop The Party & The After Party. The difference though about it is that it would be like The After Party & The Party. This could have been on House of Balloons.
8. Rolling Stone: This has this Spanish guitar intro to it. There are also bongos and stuff in it. This is actually the songs that I needed after Gone. This song also has theses like beads in that backgrounds that make it sound a little like rain drops. The beads kind of remind me of something a little kid would make in kindergarten with the paper towel roll and the rubber bands and raw noodles inside it. I really like this song, but I feel like 4 minutes is a little long. There is this distortion that comes in at the last like 30 seconds and ends the song.
9. Heaven Or Las Vegas: What I wanted was a The Knowing feeling to it. This song has this epic ending type of feel to it. It's either that or the fact that this is over. For some reason this song makes me want to relisten to this thing. Kind of like a repeat you know.

Overall I have to give this mixtape a 9/10. This album gives me this kind of theme to it. The same thing about House of Balloons. But the thing on this one was the shit went down on Thursday. On House of Balloons it could have gone down on any day of the week. I overall liked House of Balloons more than I did this one, though this has potential. The thing about Abel is that these songs are good, but they are best, at least for me, front to back, and need multiple listens.

Elliott Smith

This is the sophomore solo effort by singer/songwriter Elliott Smith. I found out about this guy by google searching albums that came out on July 21st. One other album was Appetite For Destruction, and though I think it's a good album, I like this one more. I actually think that this is a really good, solid album. But I listened to it and, well, I'll explain more in the review. I've been pumped to do this thing since I first started doing reviews, and I have planned on doing this one on my birthday.

1. Needle in the Hay: This is a depressing song, and along with the others, have Elliott playing acoustic guitar and singing. This is a dark song, and it is kind of pretty to. This song is a good song, and honestly remember able, at least for me, chorus.
2. Christian Brothers: This song kind of makes me think that the name fits it. Like the music that goes along to the album. This song has a country flavor that kind of makes me think of Simon & Garfunkel.
3. Clementine: This song could actually be a song that was composed by Paul Simon. Like maybe be on his Paul Simon Songbook from 1965. The album that was released after the first "break up" of Simon & Garfunkel duo. It was released after their 1964 debut Wednesday, 4 A.M..
4. Southern Belle: This song kind of reminds me of a song on 1966's Sound of Silence. That is also one of my favorite albums of all time. I really dig the vocals on this song and how it has an aggression the rest of the songs don't really have. The best part is the ending with the vocals where he sings loud and almost enraged, in his whisper quite vocals. 
5. Single File: This is also another songs where it is kind of reminds me of the 1966 Sound of Silence album.
6. Coming Up Rose: This sounds like other people are playing on the song. I think that it might have accordion in it. The guitar solo in it is also really cool sounding. This song sounds like there is an entire band playing. This song has a type of, after thinking about it, a Grateful Dead vibe kind of. Like one of their softer songs.
7. Satellite: I think that this is a pretty sounding song. I don't think that there is much for me to say beyond that 
8. Alphabet Town: I think that there is a harmonica in this song.
9. St. Ides Heaven: This songs sounds like it feature a full band.
10. Good To Go: This is also a pretty song. It sounds like this is a heartfelt feeling, if that makes sense.'
11. The White Lady Loves You More: I don't know exactly how to explain this song. This is a songs that sounds like, at least to me, a weird chord progression. I don't know, I might be crazy. 
12. The Biggest Lie: I think that this is a good way to end the album. Also a good song.

Over All I have to give this a 9/10. This thing is like a more depressing, solo album of a guy whole sounds like the Simon & Garfunkel duo. It's a shame that he died, I wish that he didn't. I almost feel bad for how dark sounding this is, not evil, but dark. This thing has textures and isn't just one recording. He made it sounds very pretty. I couldn't think of it at first, but it kind of has this folky Grateful Dead vibe going on in it too.

Let It Be - The Beatles

This is long past due but here it is. This is the 12th and final studio album by the legendary, and my favorite band, The Beatles. This was recorded from January-February 1969, with the exception of Phil "Shithead" Spector's overdubs. His overdubs took place over January-April, 1970. Some stuff was recorded in February of 1968, Across the Universe, and January 1970, I Me Mine. This album was released on May 8th, 1970 and the movie was released May 13th, 1970. The movie pretty much showed, unintentionally, the final climax leading to the breakup to the band. In late 1968 Paul came up the idea to have a "live in the studio" movie and for them to get back to their roots. That's why it was originally called Get Back. After The Beatles broke up the title was changed to the more appropriate Let it Be.

1. Two Of Us: Paul wrote this one about Linda. It is a very sweet love song. This is one of my favorite songs on this album. This has a finger picked intro to it and it sounds awesome. This song has a place in my heart because it is a love song. I think that this is a good intro to the album. This is a pretty song and you can tell that this has meaning to Paul. This is a fun song and the beat to it makes it a classic Paul on guitar song. Even though there are other instruments on this song. I could kind of see this possibly being on The White Album if it was just Paul and his guitar, but this way is a lot better than the other way.
2. Dig a Pony: This is a song written by John. I don't remember if there was a meaning behind this song or not, but I do know that it grew on me. I used to not like it when I first heard it Freshman year, but later on, still in Freshman year, I learned to like it, kind of. This song is a good example of how their song writing changed. Listen to The White Album then listen to this song. I can see this kind of being on that album, but I also feel like that would kind of be a stretch. I love this bass and the guitar distortion.The vocals on this kind of remind me of, the part with the harmony vocals, I've Got A Feeling. This song has a raw live feel to it. I don't know if that's because of Phil "saving" the project or weither it would have sounded like that anyway. I feel it would have been more raw if he didn't. The solo in this song is neat. I really like the ending how it "comes full circle" with the riff.
3. Across The Universe: This songs was originally released in 1968 for some world fund foundation compilation. This song is very eerie and kind of depressing. This song, I think, has sitar in it. If its not sitar that's making that whole buzzing sound, then it's the fact that Phil slowed the track down. This song has really cool sounding acoustic guitar in it, and I think it goes along with one of my favorite acoustic guitar sound, also on that list is the epic A Day In The Life off the epic 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I'm gonna try to finish that review for June 1st. This song also has a sick string part that comes in at that fade where you have to listen for it.
4. I Me Mine: This is a great song by George. This song is very catchy and has that Waltz feel to it. This is a song I could see someone dancing to on Dancing with the Stars, if they were able to get the legal stuff for it. Well anyway the vocals on this song are kind of cool. I really like the guitar distortion on this and the drums. This song is very, drum sounding. The strings add and compliment this song and help to give it this, epic feeling. The chorus completely changes the tempo and style of song. The whole chorus has different instruments and has this like organ fill at the end of it in the background. This song is a really cool song and is helped by the orchestrations in it. And each verse gets more epic sounding and louder. Until the end where it's as big as it gets and then goes down, and ends.
5. Dig It: My favorite version is the 8 minute one that is on the Ultra Rare Trax Vol. 6. Which that is a bootleg album, so it's not an official album. I hope to one day hear all of the Bootleg Beatles albums, I am going to review some of them too. This is just a silly filler song the album. Its fun to hear the pop culture references he makes in the 8 minute version because he has 7 minutes worth of them more.
6. Let It Be: This is a classic Beatles song. I find it hard for you to honestly say that you don't like this album. This song is one of my favorite Beatles songs. This song is one of most uplifiting songs I've ever heard in my entire life. The beginning piano intro make it feel like "It's here :)". Paul's vocals come in the song to make it sound this ballad. I love the way the piano sounds and the Phil Spector added choir makes this into that gospel sounding song that everyone knows it as. Then the drums come in and it followed by Billy Preston on organ and he does a fill into the solo. I think that my favorite solo is the one in the single. The one in this version is John's solo, the single is George's. The guitars distortion is just eargasmic to me. I love the tone and the whole feel of it. The Fender Jazz bass, which they used on, I believe, White Album, Abbey Road and Let it Be. I think that's the only albums. But the bass in that song is just as good and adds to the song. There are also horns in this and it all adds into a beautiful gospel sounding song. {12/10}.
7. Maggie Mae: This is a catchy song and really fast. I like this one a lot for some reason. This is a traditional Liverpool song. It sounds like a song you'd sing if you were drunk. This is only 40 seconds long and it is kind of a silly song. I know that they didn't include in on the Let it Be... Naked version of the album. The thing that I like about this song is that it has that sound that was a sound that sounded like, if you've heard any bootlegs from the Get Back/Let it Be recordings sessions, or at least seen the movie, you know that sound. This sounds like it was played for fun and not seriously. I think that it kinda ok for the continuity of the album.
8. I've Got A Feeling: This is one of the funniest songs that I've heard them play at the rooftop concert. It was in the movie, of course. Yet again a sick sounding guitar part. This song seems like a song that would be a good first song to a concert. The whole way it is, and how it's like the parts come in one at a time after each other. Paul's voice sounds like this is live. Now I know they took parts of the live version from the concert and used it.The part where it goes "Everybody had a good year" is not as good and Paul's part, but the whole instrumentation that goes into the part where they both sing their parts of the song is awesome. This song is a fun song and a good live song. It's a shame that Paul didn't play this song live with Wings.
9. One After 909: This song was back from the '50s Beat Brothers days. This was writen by John with some input from Paul. This song is totally a '50s song. The way it's set up and the way it sounds. It isn't in anyway a stretch to say that John said he wrote it when he was about 17, so around 1957 which is when the Beat Brothers were still together under that name. This was different sounding and revamped. This version is better than the one from, I'm pretty sure 1964, which they didn't use until Anthology Vol 1 in 1995. I really like the bass on this song and the entire album in general. This is a fun song that I think should get more attention. 
10. The Long and Winding Road: Let me state this, the Let it Be... Naked version is probably the one I perfer. I feel like the whole orchestral parts in this song give me a headache if its too loud. Phil really did a number on this album. This is a terrible reality because of the "wall of sound" production. I like this version a lot, but I also think that Spector shouldn't have messed with the song. I think that the entire choir, strings and brass give this song a gospel sounding vibe to this song. Much like Let it Be but more. This song is a songs that, for some reason, I could see being played on Seasame Street. The original, not orchestrated version doesn't really, for the most part, have and resemblance of a gospel sounding tune.
11. For You Blue: This isn't one of George's best. I really don't like this song that much. It is too bluesy and irritating. I never really liked this song that much anyway. The whole slide in this song bugs me. I just can't stand the whole blues to it. I really have a hard time with this song. Not terrible song, just not one of my favorites. This sounds like a song that The Rolling Stones would do, but not as good. OH that a diss, big time Mick. I do kind of like how the slide sounds distorted, but the piano or keys and the slide solo, very much hurt the song. It sounds cute, but not in a good way. I do think that this song isn't terrible though.
12. Get Back: This is one of my favorite Beatles song. I love the crap out of this song. This was one of the first song that I loved/got me into these guys. The song tells a story that some think makes mention of Linda's last husband, who lived in Tuscon Arizona. And it is also been said this is just a Get Back and leaves alone to Yoko. Well whatever the song is about doesn't really matter to me anymore. What I'm more into this the musical part of it. I already know enough about this song, I want to get to the writing. The song starts out with them tuning up, and talking, which was there to add the effect of the making of the film. The guitar distortion in this song is one of me favorite types of distortion. For that reason, well I need a Fender Amp and Fender Tele. This is such a bluesy song, which blues irritates me, but I love the crap out of it. The chorus is catchy and impossible to forget. The consistent bass riff that Paul is playing makes me want to play along. The first solo, or organ fill, is played by on Billy Preston. The second solo, guitar this time, is played by John and is one of my favorite solos by Los Beatles. I like how the song just kind of ends vs the single version where it stops then starts up again and plays to fade.

Overall I have to give this a 9.7/10. What you have to realize is that this was the last album released, but Abbey Road was the last album to be recorded.  Though there were somethings Phil Shitctor added in 1970, the vast of it was recorded in the winter of 1969. If you want to hear the real Let it Be buy 2003's Let it Be... Naked. That's as close as anything else to what it would have sounded like. Though I have my problems with this, I have to say that Phil did do a good job on some of the songs. And if he didn't do this, Let it Be might of never been released. Think about that for a second.... It pisses me off that they don't really credit George Martin as a producer. He did most of he work. In all honesty it's like a 7

Tinsel Town Rebellion - Frank Zappa

This is the, though some assholes might disagree (Wikipedia, Sheik Yerbouti is not a live album), the sixth live album by Frank Zappa. This is actually the album cover that Frank was going to use for the unreleased Crush All Boxes, but after he scraped the album after wanting to show his talents. So he used the songs from Warts And All and Crush All Boxes for the albums You Are What You Is, Tinsel Town Rebellion, You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore series, and Shut up and Play Yer Guitar series. This is actually one of my favorite Zappa albums. It was released today May 11th, 1981. It's either that or May 17th, 1981. Tracks 1-3 are on side 1, tracks 4-8 are on side 2. Tracks 9-12 are on side 3, tracks 13-15 are on side 4. Most of this album was recorded live in 1980, but there are some exceptions. Oh yeah This is one of my favorite album covers.

1. Fine Girl: This song was going to be on Crush All Boxes. This is a funky type of song. I am not that crazy about this one. It kind of reminds me of some song that could have made it onto You Are What It Is from the same year, 1981. This is actually not a live song, but an outtake for Crush All Boxes. This is a song that you could do like "up down up down" walking to the beat of it.
2. Easy Meat: This song was going to be on Crush All Boxes. Not necessarily this version but this song. This feels like an early 80's Frank Zappa song. The thing about this is that it is kind of "Easy" to tell what it's about. It is kind of a catchy song too. There is a part where the keyboards and synths at like 1:30 start reminding me of Funeral For A Friend half of Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding off Sir Elton John's 1973 classic double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Well at about the 3 minute mark it goes into this like, first, John Zorn breakdown thing. You know when it sounds like the song falls apart. The best part about that little orchestra part is that it was, I checked, recorded in 1975 around the same time as the 1979 Orchestral Favorites album. The rest of this song was recorded on two other dates in 1980. After that it has this mix of like King Crimson and Lumpy Gravy before going into this pretty sounding guitar solo. The solo gets faster paced as the tempo goes up. It is still a cool song. This kind of reminds me of the song Watermellon In Easter Hay off Frank's 1979 rock opera and double album Joe's Garage Vol. II & III. The ending of the instrumental part reminds me of teh ending of the instrumental parts of that Funeral For A Friend into Love Lies Bleeding. Then they start singing again. I love how Zappa did stuff like that. It sounds really cool and the parts of the songs were recorded about 5 years apart.
3. For the Young Sophisticate: This is kind of like a blues type of song. This was recorded at Hammersmith Odeon in 1979 on February 18th. This is also more of a blues type of song. This song is actually really cool. I like this song and it is cool. The thing about the lyrics is that they are kind of funny
4. Love of My Life: This song was originally on the 1969 album Cruising with Ruben & The Jets by The Mothers of Invention.. This is kind of like a new updated version, tailored to ''This Band''. I know that Frank kind of wrote songs for what he had and was looking for in his backing band. This isn't that off from the Ruben & The Jets version, but it sounds a little different.
5. I Ain't Got No Heart: This song was originally off The Mothers of Invention 1966 debut double album, Freak Out!. That is one of my top, probably, 10 albums of all time. That thing is better with each listen. This version is more sped up and more clear. This is more of a stereo version, but sped up, vs the original version. This actually kind of reminds me of a song that would possibly be on __. This has more of an arena rock feel to it.
6. Panty Rap: I don't really need to explain this one. It's just him talking. I don't really know how to explain it. Its actually more of a contest. It's just 4:36 of him talking. It seems like the intro to this concert off of some other album like Hammersmith Odeon, or Buffalo.
7. Tell Me You Love Me: This is just a remake, live, of Tell Me You Love Me off 1970's Chunga's Revenge. This is also sped up, and for the most part has the same differences, so to say, with the new version of I Ain't Got No Heart. I don't like this one as much as on Chunga's Revenge. It also have more keys driving it, than on the original, where I don't think there are any keys on it.
8. Now You See It--Now You Don't: This kind of serves as a solo, so to say, after Tell Me You Love Me. This is a song that could have definitive been on the 1988 instrumental album Guitar. Either that or on one of the Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar albums.
9. Dance Contest: This is kind of like right after the songs Titties & Beer on Hammersmith Odeon where they would have the talking and the dance contest to The Black Page #2. The track is called Audience Participation. I also think that's on the 1983 Baby Snakes album. The actual reason for that is because it was recorded in October, 1978 in New York. Unfortunately that was post-Bozzio.
10. The Blue Light: This is the more like a Black Page #1. This also has the obvious Steve Vai guitar sounding guitar on it. There is also vocals on this. It says that this is the same song as Galoot Up-Date on 1984's Double Album Thing-fish, but a rewritten version. The vocals on this remind me of the vocals on the Drowning Witch on 1982's Ship Arriving to Late to Save a Drowning Witch. I don't really like this song a ton, but what ever. It isn't ruin the album for me.
11. Tinsel Town Rebellion: This is my favorite song on this album. It's really catchy and interesting to listen to. This is a very catch song and could probably been played on the radio if it was cleaned up a little and didn't have Frank's name as the artist. This is totally a song that could have been a hit. The breakdown is kind of like a Christmas feeling to it. The versus are awesome, and the lyrics talk about people selling out. This is where "Chop A Line" in the beginning of Cocaine Decisions, which is one 1983's The Man From Utopia,  is from. The song at parts kind of turns into a rant with backing music, but it is till a good song.
12. Pick Me, I'm Clean: This song is also on 2007's Buffalo live album. This song is also an ok song, but I like that he turned that phrase in Stick It Out, which was a part of the Sofa Suite that he played back in like 1970-1971 with The Mothers. He had Flo & Eddie in his band at that time. Well he used that same song in Joe's Garage Act II & III and the conceptual continuity still made sense. There is a big solo in the song, which I'm kind of impartial to, but what ever. This song also has this type of Reggae type of feel I get from it.
13. Bamboozled by Love: This song dates back to Beat the Boots: Saarbrücken 1978. The version on this album was recorded at Hammersmith Odeon on February 19th, 1979. This kind of reminds of a classic blues progression. The lyrics are kind of gruesome. There is a part where it says, "If she don't give me what I want, She won't have no head at all". Then the verse right before the solo ends with "I am here and she is gone, and the reason that you have not seen her, seen her, Is she is underneath the lawn". Outside of the dark theme of this song, it's a really cool song. I like this more than I thought I would.
14. Brown Shoes Don't Make It: This song was originally on The Mother's of Invention's 1967 Absolutely Free. This was recorded on February 18th, 1979 at Hammersmith Odeon. This song goes from making fun of society and the media in general. After that the song shifts into a song about a city hall official who had sex with an underage 13 year old girl. This version isn't as good on Absolutely Free but I love the idea of the song. This song is kind of eerie, but it's eeriness is not as eerie as it can be because it is, like I said, stereo sounding verse the mono sound on the original version. This song is 7:15 minutes. I'll go more in depth with this song when I do the review of it for Absolutely Free in August.
15. Peaches III: This is the "New Age" version of Peaches en Regalia. It was originally on Frank's 1969 album Hot Rats, then later on The Mothers 1971's Fillmore East -- June 1971. This is the third version, as in they were different, of Peaches. That's why it was called Peaches III. This version is more guitar driven in the beginning vs the more kept together and perfected Hot Rats version. This album version of this song was recorded on the early and late show at Hammersmith Odeon on February 18th, 1979. This sounds like more of a live version. The beginning intro is played on guitar, then the guitar part is played on keys.

Overall I have to give this a 9.0/10. This is an awesome album to listen to. It's really good and enjoyable to listen to. I don't think that some songs are automatic, but they can grown on you. There are some duds, but that doesn't ruin the album. This is a good Zappa album for like a accessible album. I really need this on CD and Vinyl.

Mondo Cane - Mike Patton

This is the fifth solo album credited to Californian Singer Mike Patton. I love this guy, he is actually one of my musical heroes. This guys voice is crazy, and he also uses tricks and other stuff that I haven't seen anyone even attempt to try. Now I have heard this album about a dozen times and I love it, but as you know nothings that simple with me. Especially if I love this thing as much as I say I do. Well some quick background info about this. This was recorded with Mike and a backing orchestra of about 65 people. This album is cover versions of 50's and 60's Italian pop songs. This was released May 4th, 2010. I'm pissed that I didn't upload this earlier, I was out of town

1. Il Cielo In Una Stanza: This song starts out with what sounds like a storm. It's actually really cool to hear with headphones on. There is so much more going on, and you heard the instrumentation so much clearer when you have headphones on. This song is more stings and drums. The strings on this song make it seem like this would be a song that would be played at someones wedding. This song is very clear and easy to listen to. This is a very pretty song that I have teared up before because of.
2. Che Notte!: This is a faster song. There is more more brass on this song than the last. This is a more quick song, and I could never see at someones wedding. There is a trumpet solo in the middle of the songs and it is very cool sounding. Then after that solo comes a screach by Mikie and the song sounds like it falls apart. After it falls apart there is a like horn and then the song starts up again. The ending of the song has this feel of like a '50s jazz song.
3. Ore D'Amore: This song was partially written by Bert Kaempfert. That is a German orchestral leader and songwriter. He composed a song called Moon Over Naples, which Faith No More covered the song in 1995, but the version with lyrics. The lyrics were added in 1966 and the songs was retitled Spanish Eyes. This song is ok but I'm not huge on it.
4. Deep Down: This song was written by Ennio Morricone. Ennio was a Italian composer who wrote soundtracks for movies. Some of his best word was for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly soundtrack. This song is ok in the beginning. I am not huge on this song, but the best part is where it's like in the breakdown where it changes up a little. I think that sounds really cool. Guitar comes in and it is the only part that is, for the most part, different from the rest of the song. The ending is also pretty cool where it's him whispering the last part into the mic without any other music behind him.
5. Quello Che Conta: The beginning of this song sounds like it would be in a soundtrack to a classic Spaghetti Western. After the intro there is a fingerpicked guitar accompanied by strings and bass. Then after that comes in, what I am pretty sure is, a harpsichord and Mike's vocals. This song is beautiful and can bring a tear to your eye. This entire song is very sweat and not hard to digest. This song is one of my favorites on this thing. {9/10}
6. Urlo Negro: This is the heaviest song on this album. And it is by a landslide. The feedback in the beginning of the song is in the crossfades with the last track. Then there is a drum roll and Mike screams. "AH!!". He sounds like he is angry on this song. Like he has almost blood curtling screams on the versus on this song. But the thing is for the chorus he sings like it is a very catchy song. This is easily the catchiest song on here, because of the chorus. This song is a masterpiece and I tip my hats off to The Blackmen. That's who the song is credited to. Watch the video for this song, its actually kind of cool to see them do this. It looks like they are all having fun.
7. Scalinatella: This is another song that I could see being in a soundtrack to a movie. I could also see this being a song you can dance to. It is, for the most part, just Mike and an acoustic guitar. Strings do come in a little later. This song is also a beautiful song. This is a very, very chill song.
8. L'Uomo Che Non Sapeva Amare: This is a return to the feeling that I get from  Il Cielo In Una Stanza. I love this song because the backing vocals are awesome and this song has, what I think is, a harpsichord in it. There is also a part where there is this video games sounding thing. It kind of reminded me of The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny demo that Mr. Bungle made back in '86.
9. 20 KM Al Giorno: This is a jazzy feeling to it. It kind of reminds me of Minnie the Moocher. This song has a very slick feeling to it. The solo in this song is a keyboard solo that sounds kind of like something that Ray Manzarek would have played on a Doors' song. This song is very cool, and I mean that literally. 
10. Ti Offro Da Bere: This song has a like "piano riff". This song is another pretty song, but there is a guitar in there and it kind of sounds like a surf rock guitar. And it comes in after almost every verse on the song. It reminded me of something like the little guitar riff in The Air-Conditioned Nightmare off Mr. Bungle's 1999 album California. Not the main one, just... listen to the songs and you'll know what I mean.
11. Senza Fine: This is a very good way to finish this album. This song has this vibe that brings the song Good Night, which is the last song on side 4 of the 1968 self titled double album by The Beatles. It doesn't really sound that similar, it's just that I get that vibe from it. It's the last song, so lets say goodnight or good show, and maybe you'll comeback, but for now your tired and you want to end your "trip" fun. Lets say goodnight and goodbye. The horns and everything about this song work. The only thing that hurts the whole entire goodnight vibe is that towards the middle of the song it gets louder. But then towards the end it gets quiterer than it was before and it kind of just... ends. Well that is after the screams and noises are done, and the song goes back to the original loud feel. Then after than it is the end. And to say that's all there is a hit of a triangle and that ends the song and also the album

Overall this album gets a 10/10. This is a masterpiece and it's beautiful. This is the perfect album for just about any occasion. This can relax you, it can make you tear up, it can be something you listen to at a family party, you can even show your grandfather who likes this type of music. Patton's vocals throughout this album, for the most part, have this echo feel to it. I feel like this was recorded in a room with concrete walls when it comes to some of the quieter songs. It is best though with headphones on, but for the most part, what isn't. This was my fourth or fifth time listening to it, and I can honestly say that it has gotten boring.

Congratulations Remix Ep - MGMT

I heard about this and was psyched, back last year, because I couldn't, and still can't, wait for MGMT self titled album. I checked almost everyday to see the progress of the album. I was super surprised that they were going to release a remix album of song off my favorite MGMT album, including Climbing to Higher Lows and the Eps, Congratulations.

1. Congratulations (Erol Alkan Remix): This has more of a funky vibe to the beginning. During the first verse it is only the bass. There is also electronics and drums, but it those come in later. They also have the keyboard solo in this song playing in the background while they play that funky guitar. I really like this song and remix. I think Erol Alkan did a bad ass job at remixing this song and not making it shitty dubstep. This is an actual song, and it is good. I also like how he made it work longer. The first time I saw that this was 6 minutes I thought it wouldn't be very good. I was wrong {9/10}
2. Siberian Breaks (Ed Banger All-Stars Remix): This version starts out with a piano and little guitar notes instead of guitar chords. There is also a harmonica in the beginning of the song. The harmonica in the song reminds me of My Window by The Residents. That song is off  their 2005 album Animal Lover. This song is shorter than the original version. There is a brief silence that is picked up by the next part. The next part is heavily keyboard driven along with electric drums. It is just a funky jitt. This songs next part is like on the album except there is more space and sounds like it is super stereo? This part progressively turns into notes that sound out of tune and not right. I really like it and think it's cool that that's how he made this sound. {7.8/10}
3. Brian Eno (Cornelius Mix): There is like harpsichord in this song. This has more of a sophisticated feel to it. When I listen to this it makes me think of high class, to a certain extent. There is hand claps and also strings in this song. The little synth fill in the original is played on what sounds like harpsichord. It sounds very cool. You have to hear this yourself. There is some type of over driven squeak in the background during the solo. This song is one that makes me picture them playing in a big club. And them all having fun. The song kind of ends abruptly, not as much as the album version but still. {8.2/10}

Overall I give this a 8.7/10. I love that these guys kept the continuity of the songs and it worked. None of the songs are super different. There is no FUCKING dubstep on this. For some reason remix nowadays usually means dubstep. These guys didn't dubstep, you know why... They are cool. Check it out it's on iTunes for like $3. Definitely worth the money

The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

This is one year shy of 40 years old. This is one of my favorite albums and one of the most important albums I've ever heard in my life. I love this album because of how it has "progressively" helped, after listening to it and putting it away for a while and now coming back to it, realize how amazing it still is. This concept of this album or the overall theme has so heavily influenced my desire to make concept albums (along with some examples which include Tommy, The Wall, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and even as current as Lou Reed & Metallica album titled Lulu). Now I can go on forever on how this is a an awesome album, but I need to review this be-och before I ruin my schedule of an album a day for March, and maybe April.

1. Speak To Me: I love that this songs starts to continuity of the heartbeat that is pretty much heard through out the whole entire album. And how can you not agree that the ending is pretty funny. Ah ah ah ah. This song and Breathe In The Air are completed with you listen to them together as ''one song''.
2. Breathe In The Air: The flow of Speak To Me/Breathe In The Air is awesome. This song is very mellow and is a good example of a classic. The way this song is reminds me of taking deep breaths. I could imagine hearing the sound of someone talking deep breaths. 
3. On The Run: This song is a good example of how the album drives and flows. The first time I heard this it was out of order. After hearing it in context it was so much better. With the intercom sounding voice and the guy running and the atmosphere, you feel like your running. The drum beat and the constant synthesizers make it sound sick. It also gives it this star wars outer space sci-fi feeling to the guy running.
4. Time: I love the fact that they got all those clocks to sound in the beginning of the track. This song almost has an African feel to it with the bongos but also a kind of James Bond thing with the bass, until the vocals come in. The vocals take this song to a new level with the accompaniment of the guitar, bass, drums, and keys. The solo is so cool sounding, it sounds like it was double tracked but very closely, or they used reverb or something. This song wouldn't be as great as it is if it weren't for the keys in the song. That is the driving force of the song, along with the drums. The keys add the sound of funky reggae feel to the song. The song slows down, which I don't really like that part, but the best part is the driven energy from the drums and keys. The more I listen to the album, the better each song gets. I love the entire thing. And God Damn David's voice.
5. Great Gig In The Sky: The woman who does vocals on this track kills it. I love doing a really bad falsetto, cuz I can't sing, along with her. I love this track so much. The music and the feelings that you get from this are amazing. I can't explain how fun of a song this is to listen to unless you've already watched it. The piano in the beginning makes my ears perk up to know that it is this song. The piano in this song is beautiful. When the girl comes in with her screams, right after the instrumentation for most of the song come in. Amazing. This song slows down and goes back to the beginning  but with her gospel vocals singing over it. 
6. Money: Supposedly the money track in the beginning of the song was the same "sample" used in The Beatles legendary Yellow Submarine. I'm not sure if that is true, but if so that's awesome. Now to the song. I love the bass riff in this song. The bass is what grabs your attention, and Roger's vocals on this are also great. The saxophone solo on this song is complemented with all the other instruments in the song. I think the sax solo is a good build up or prep for the guitar solo. The guitar solo sounds like it was double tracked. This song is just so great there is little I can say. And you can probably review this song yourself. Your Know? Oh one last things, I think that the voices at the fade are pretty funny if you actually listen to them. This song, I love how the tempo changed and it just UGH! An amazing song that was a hit. I can't say that all hits are amazing, but this song is.
7. Us And Them: This song picks up right after Money. This songs synths in the beginning are something that I was reminded of when I was listening to 7 Skies H3 by The Flaming Lips. You know, the 24 hour song, well I only made it through 12... but I am determined to finish the songs from 0:00:00-23:56:53. I think that is is a pretty chill track. It has a very laid back feel to it. The background instruments can almost be looped. Now when the choir sounding chorus comes in... it can almost make you cry. It is very pretty sounding and they did a good job at making it emotional. The guitar and the instrumentation in this sound like I could listen to this looped for a good long while. The piano solo in the song adds to this chill/lounge/gospel/jazz sounding vibe I get from the song. I don't LOVE it but I think its defiantly a {9/10)
8. Any Colour You Like: The synths in the beginning of the are cool. The thing is that I really can't say much of this except that it's a filler? I think that it is just there as a kind of filler or a solo to the last song to lead up to Brain Damage. The flow at the end who the song picks up perfectly is just great. 
9. Brain Damage: Even though I've heard this song 1 million times on the radio there is some reason I still like it. Whether it be because of how weird the lyrics are, or the music, it drags me in. The flow from this song to Eclipse and having these two tracks as the last two is nothing short of genius. The vibe that I get from this song is just one that is completed when you hear Eclipse. The lyrics to this give it this eerie feel to it, add the little guitar in the background, and you have a scary song. I don't think it's scary but I think is good. The chorus is kind of a preview to what is to come in Eclipse. Speak To Me/Breathe In The Air and Brain Damage/Eclipse are pretty much two different song and makes this song. Like the whole perfect feel to the song is there when you hear Brain Damage/Eclipse together. The same is true of Speak To Me/Breathe In The Air
10. Eclipse: This song is probably part of the reason that this is one of my favorite albums ever. I love how this album just ends on the highest note and the most powerful track on the album. This song proves that the album just continually builds progressively gets more power until now. This is my favorite Pink Floyd song just because of the energy you get from this. I mean the flow of the keys and the instruments. And the vocals are so simple and yet they are delivered into making them very strong and emotionally appealing. And to wrap up the album we heard that heartbeat one last time. Just the production on this song pumps me up. It probably does that to anyone. The way this album ends makes you want to buy the next album by Pink Floyd. {11/10)

Over all I give this album a 10/10. I don't think that any album could ever be like this one, or even come close to sounding like this one. Pink Floyd did have a certain style but certain  sounds were preserved on this album. This was also one of the greatest albums of all time, and I agree with Rolling Stone Magazine... for once. This album is awesome, if you haven't heard it go and listen to it on YouTube, I don't really care how you do just find someway to listen to the album. This is defiantly on albums to hear before you die. This bitch's reverb helps give it that outer space vibe. This is truly a masterpiece.

We're Only In It For The Money - The Mothers Of Invention

This album is SUPER important and I'm honored that this is my first Zappa album review. This is the 44th anniversary of this huge album. This is even more important musically to me than Dark Side Of The Moon and The Valley combine. This was the first Zappa album I heard in it's entirety, along with Sheik Yerbouti and Freak Out! Those are three of my favorite albums but three of the most important musically to me. Now I can go on forever about how this is an amazing album but, well I'm gonna break it down track by track. The original intended album cover for this was a parody of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I don't really like that album cover much, but because of legal stuff that was on the inside instead of the outside.

1. Are You Hung Up?: This is a sound there is is a person talking and whispering. It is kind of eerie. And there is a little guitar riff in there and it is cut off by a someone making a horse sound. If I am not mistake, Eric Clapton's voice is on this song. It's either that track or Telephone Conversation.
2. Who Needs the Peace Corps?: This song is funny. I like how he brought up the problems and the foolishness of the whole hippie movement in something a hippie would probably listen to. That is the thing about Frank, he had this thing where he could make appealing songs that make fun of the people who it appeals to. Another example is Dancing Fool. I also like how the instrumentation is in the background to him talking about instructions of what he will do as a hippie. There is just something about the way they do that part of the song that is so neat. I really think it is cool that they not only do that, they also make it work. The part in the song where it says "I love the police as they beat the shit out of me" well, that is something I included in a sophomore year speech  I did on censorship. Which I bombed, why well I did pretty much everything they said no to. So I went down like a man.
3. Concentration Moon: This song is "cute". I don't know what people could have a problem with this. This is one of my first favorite songs by Zappa. I really like how the song ended and it has a couple seconds in between of sound collages, then starts over. The line where it say "American way, how did it start" is one of the coolest sounding things I've heard. The part just hits me like a rock. If you make music or even enjoy music there has to be some types of music that hit you like that. Well this is one of the many that hit me. Hard!
4. Mom & Dad: This song is so pretty. The lyrics are also very touching, if you listen to then and think about them. The lyrics talk about someone telling their parents people are getting shot by the cops. and ultimately he was shot. This song has a build at "Ever take a minute to show a real emotion" which leads into just this perfectly built up part and the song just. This song hits hardest of all the songs. This is a song that I could cry to. It is just so pretty and touching. This shows that he is himself. I don't see any other way to say that. This song makes me tear up, maybe it will make you to.
5. Telephone Conversation: I like how this flows in the album in between tracks. This is just how this album is. I kind of think of it in a way as a big commercial.
6. Bow Tie Daddy: This was also another instant classic for me. I really like this one because it is different. And this is also a cute song but if you listen to it. It will catch your attention because of its cartoon sounding to it. But it is making fun of the parents of the hippies. This is defiantly a song I could see on the radio.
7. Harry, You're a Beast: This flow to this song is great. The vocals on this track are really good. I like the instrumentation on this to. Then there is Dick Barber doing that signature growl on this track. Then it goes back to the normal part. The track gets played backwards. This mentions someone saying "Don't come inside me", but is is all sped weird so it would be censored. This song appears to be about a guy who is a beast, sexually. This song is just so great. It grabs your attention and it is super catchy. I love this, and it is one of my favorite 
8. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?: This song is very funny. I think this applies to everyone, the way this song is you think it's about a penis or a vagina but it states that :"Its your mind". I love at about 30 seconds it picks up and sounds pretty cool. I think that this also hit me like a rock. The way his vocals are and the drums and guitar. Perfect
9. Absolutely Free: The piano intro to this song is just cool. I also like how he took a shot at. I also think that it's funny how they had to censor the line "Flower Power Sucks!". This album in general is a masterpiece. There is are parts in this song where it remind me of a odd type of waltz. The drum roll on the chorus is how my favorite type of sounding drums are. I like the compression on them.
10. Flower Punk: There is a cut where it sounds like they are changing the channel. Then this song starts immediately after. This has a very distorted wah-wah guitar sound to it. The vocals are sped up, a technique Frank often did on songs, especially on stuff with The Mothers of Invention. The song kind of ends the starts up and has static noises and people running around in the background and in one speaker there is one person talking to you and the other speaker has someone else talking to you at the same time.
11. Hot Poop: This is another sound collage song that has a funny title. It is only 26 seconds but it has part of the song Mother People which is on this album, played backwards.
12. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music: This is a classic sounding sound collage. It sounds like someone was recording stuff and sped it up extremely fast. At the last 20 seconds of the song there is a surf rock sounding song that plays with waves in the background. That whole surf rock part is awesome. It reminded me of a more surf rock version of Lumpy Gravy the theme song. This track is cut off by other sound collage stuff and ends with a fart sound. 
13. Let's Make The Water Turn Black: This song is on of the instants. The fart sound from the track before is hilarious, especially since this track is about someone trying to start a fire with a lighter and their farts. Supposedly this was based of a real event in Frank's life. I'm not positive but I think I read somewhere that that is the inspiration. There is just something about the way this song is performed that is so embedded in my head forever, that I don't exactly know for sure.
14. The Idiot Bastard Son: This song is a song that is only like 45 seconds. After the 45 second mark it has people talking about a bunch of different stuff. At about 1:21 the song starts up again. This song is a little different and there are different lyrics and guitar parts. The drums and bass are the same. Then there is a type of part where it has a piano part with vocals and guitar. After that they have the whispering spoken words again until it leads up into the next track.
15. Lonely Little Girl: This is my least favorite song on the album. I'm not saying it is bad, I just don't LOVE it. There is parts in this song where it sounds like there is a sitar in it, which is at the end of the song. This has part of How Could I Be Such A Fool? and What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body in it. I just never really got into this track that much.
16. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance: This song is also pretty. The thing about this is that it is just funny. With the instrumentation on it sounding cartoonish and cartoonish vocals on the track singing about lonely people gathering together and peace. Along with that peace you can take your clothes off when you dance. That is the last line of the song so you get the impression of them talking about "All the evils know to man, will be an evil we can rise above" is not as important as being able to run around naked.
17. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Reprise): This is just a shorter version of the track of the same name. It isn't all that different from the other version. The only major difference is it appears to fall apart towards the end. And after the music is done there is voices that talk and just say random stuff.
18. Mother People: This song is also very important to my Zappa music appreciation. This is part of my favorite songs by him. This song is funny and it is very catchy. It gets stuck in your head, very easily.  It starts out with an orchestral feeling to it. This reminds me of Lumpy Gravy. But then after that part it goes back to the normal song and ends. This song is a good song to start off listening to The Mothers with.
19. The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny: If not for Revolution 9 then it would of been harder to fall for this album. This song is and avantgarde, noise collage, tape loop track. The first ever tape loop song I liked was Revolution 9 by The Beatles off their 1968 self titled album. The beginning of this has some type of motor sounding thing to it. Then this evolves into piano, which evolves into a bunch of random instruments together. This sounds like Frank's take on his type of Edgar Varese composition. This also somewhat reminds me of a not so distant cousin of the second half of The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet which is off 1966's Freak Out! album. There are also cartoonish vocals laughing like they are evil or they are high. This track is 6:25 and by far the longest track on the album. The second longest track on this album is 3:24. That over 3 minutes longer that any the second longest track. There is a part where it sounds like they were just running around hitting stuff in this big empty room.

Over all this is a 10/10. I love this album. Its just so perfect and just works. I literally could of reviewed this album with out even re-listening to all but 3 songs. The rest are permanently engraved in my skull musically. I think that this should be on a list of top 50 albums ever. This is just such a perfect piece of musical history for me and it is also touching to me and has meaning. If not for this I probably wouldn't like Frank. The way this album was mixed and edited is perfection. This isn't amazing quality but it gets the job done. I think that the quality works and is perfect for what it needed on this album. Some albums need to be low quality to sound good and then the same is true of the opposite. Long story short I love this album and can't wait till March 22nd cuz then I'd doing Apostrophe and March 26th Just Another Band From L.A. check out my page at the top where it says release dates.

The Valley - Eisley

Alright You guys I flippin' pushed The Dark Side Of The Moon's upload date in order to make space for this amazing super meaning full album to me up. This is Eisley's third studio album. This is also their first full lenght after leaving that, well I don't know how to put this any nicer, HELL of a record label Warner Bros. Those guys are crooks. Well anyway, I fell in love with Eisley after I saw them live at Lincoln Hall, Chicago on either 2/11/11 or 2/14/11. I don't remember the exact date. I do no that I was super excited to see these guys. My cousin Stevie and Mike told me they were going to see some band called Eisley in like October or November of 2010. Then Stevie kept talking about them, so I eventually started listening to them. The first songs I heard were I Wasn't Prepared and also Plenty of Paper off their full length album from 2005 Room Noises. I didn't really like it. It took me a couple listens to like it, this was in January of 2011. Then I heard Combinations which made me excited for seeing them live. I eventually became in love with Combinations and then I heard the song Ambulance. That quickly became my favorite song by them. For some reason it had some type of emotional effect on me. There is a certain thing about that song that just hit me. So that song made me even more pumped to see them. After the show we met them. It was really never racking, especially saying "hi" to the sisters. They are pretty and they are well.... Eisley. After that concert ask anyone at school who remembers when I saw them. I was a die hard fan and couldn't wait for this album to come. Well the day of I asked my mom to pick up the album before I get home and asap. Well I went to school, and I had one of those craps where it hurts you scrotum. Well I lasted until 4th hour, where I went home. My uncle picked me up and I asked him if he heard it. He said it was really good and told me all about it. When I got home my mom didn't have bought the Cd so I sat on the shittier with nothing alone and in pain. I called her and she told me she didn't get it yet. So when I was done I waited another 3 hours watching Conan reruns and when she got home she gave me the CD. I ran in the basement and listened to it. There was a girl I had a crush on when I got this, and It reminds me of here, in a way. There were certain songs that remind me of her still. And I see her around school, but what ever. This album also still has an emotional feel to it through all the songs on it and the feeling is just. It is very important to me. Oh one last note, these guys did production for the album Gary Leach, Austin Deptula.

1. The Valley: This was a song that wasn't my favorite at first. Then this eventually became an important song to me. I picked this song as a song for the main track to the Othello soundtrack that we had to make for sophomore year English. This has an awesome beginning string section with her vocals sound like the best way to start an album. This song is just so pretty and upbeat. This song has such strange lyrics and metaphors in it. It is very figurative in what it is supposed to be meaning and showing. The verses and pretty but then the kick comes in, after a slight instrumental break (just enough to say three words), with the guitar riff with the chorus. The harmony vocals throughout is pretty and there isn't really anything that I can say is wrong with this song.
2. Smarter: This is one of the angry songs by Eisley. I remeber seeing them play this song live. I didn't think much of it until I heard the actual album. The guitar has a riff and this music video is pretty cool. Now this isn't my favorite song but I do like it and will listen to it on the album. I don't really listen to this outside or alone but I do listen to this with the album and it adds to the mix of angry and sad. Which is a certain feel I have gotten from this.
3. Watch It Die: The first time I heard this song it sounded like they were saying "Fucking In the morning". I found that very odd. I kept hearing that until I actually read the lyrics in the booklet that came with the CD. And the song seems to start suddenly. I don't really think that it is timed right. It is all correct but i feel like it is off beat? Even though it all works and is on the same beat of the song. Whatever that's just one of my weird ideas. But the verses in this song are cool. During the chorus there is song type of banjo sounding thing in the background. I think that that's the electric guitar because after all there are two guitar players. And also it's always nice to hear Chauntelle sing.
4. Sad: Stacy plays like a G. Sherri is singing this one and it feels aggressive. For some reason or other I think this fits perfect on track 4. There is a cool riff to get people who like heavier music a glimpse of a heavier Eisley. The whole overall album is somewhat angry and you can tell. And this is a perfect example. Now the pre-solo is a perfect example of one of my favorite parts of Eisley songs. And the solo none the less is just right on. I feel what they do. This also has some figurative language in it's lyrics.
5. Oxygen Mask: This is another favorite by Eisley of mine. I just love this song. The piano is awesome and Stacy is nailing it with her vocals. The strings make me want to cry along with them. Sherri and Stacy's double harmony at the second verse remind me of something MGMT would do vocally and that is aided with the bass in the back. I love the strings and the other instrumentation over this whole thing. The ''pre-solo'' to this song is an sick sounding piano fill. And the solo is right on to. There is something about this song to where when I think about it and listen to it at the same time it makes me cry. It is an emotional song for me. I'm not quite sure of how this is remains relevant to me but this feelings still are. This song is just one big way to lighten up the tension, so to say
6. Better Love: Better Love is where the tension starts up again. With its aggressive drums, bass and guitar riffs. There is something about the guitar distortion and the bass that just work with me. The piano also in the chorus is pretty cool and works even better and isn't just there to be there.This is defiantly of of Eisley's more BA songs. This shows you that well... ''DuPree Family Ain't Nuthin' Ta Fuck Wit''. I love this solo and how the drums end the track and that same beat goes into the next refrain. That's part is my favorite part of the song and I love it just so much.
7. I Wish: This is probably my least favorite song on the album. I still like it but it is my least favorite. Well The song has progressively grown on me in a very good way. The live versions of this song, the ones they do live, is much better. I don't like the way it's just set up. The chorus isn't that mind blowing, for me. The best part of Eisley songs, for me, is like the bridge or refrain of whatever you way to call it. Well that refrain in this song isn't even that mind blowing for me.
8. Kind: This song can make me cry. There is some type of feel that I get from this song that makes me sad, in a good way. This song is one that reminds me of emotions and love and that whole entire thing that I love this reason because it reminds me so much of. The fact of the matter is that the most emotional tracks for me are Mr. Moon, Ambulance, Kind, and Oxygen Mask. There is something about the DuPree family that makes songs that can make me cry. I know that the emotions that I feel through the songs are there. The piano in the beginning and the chorus adds guitar in the mix along with the post chorus strings. And all this stays together and gets more grand as the song progresses. Then comes the refrain... #the tear jerker. And then the part with the two singing harmony and sole acoustic guitar. This is my friend what you call perfect
9. Mr. Moon: No tears are saved for this track either. This is one of the biggest most important songs I've ever heard by any band. I still remember when we saw Eisley live, Stevie told me that this next song sick. And Mike told me to listen to the drums. So when it started it was ok. Then the drums kicked in. I was obsessed with how Weston pulled that off for a good 2 months and used guitar hero drums to try to play along. The intro keys are just like a build up and the more and more you get into it you can see and feel the rush. The vocals on this track are beautiful and the instrumentation on this track is beautiful. I think the part where the harmony vocals kinda sound like they are being talked over the phone is funny and, for lack of better word, cute. This song's chorus just hits.... Like a rock. Then with the piano solo and the "uhhhh, uhhhh" harmony part,  just goes into the part where it is the 1st verse again into the best part of the song. The like extended version of the chorus during the "Bridge" I guess. This song is just so amazing I really don't have much I can't say about it but I need to move on to other tracks
10. Please: This is an mixed. I wouldn't probably listen to this on its own. But with the whole album it's perfect. This song also can make me cry. Though I don't think it is a Mr. Moon I don't think it's not a Kind. This song is very good, no exaggeration, but it is no amazing ground breaker/emotional breaker for me. That me personally. But when ever I hear this this gives me the feeling of a final word before the ending Ambulance which is the eplouge.
11. Ambulance: This song is super meaningful to me. This reminded me of someone that I held dear to myself. There is very much emotion that I've had over this and yeah. I am over her now and glad. When I listen to this it brings me back to winter going into spring and all the best feelings of the spring of Sophmore year of High School. You know the feeling of being in love, it being spring. I was just talking to my mom and I realized that this album is like an over all story about low points in their love lives, which I've known, but also that this is where it ends up. They need someone to take and care for them. This song starts out sad. Then it comes in with so much momentum and ends with the same power it started with. This song is prof that you can keep the same power through an entire song. There aren't very many songs that I know that do that for me. This song just has so much power and feeling to it. The strings come in in the beginning and keep adding up to the top and it with 3 high hat taps and the song comes in. The acoustic guitar adds as much power to the song as the electric and all the other instruments in this song. I cry at this song because of the emotional to it takes on me. But at the end it makes me stronger and better and more confident and 

Overall I give this album a 100/10. This album is so important to me. It has held an important part of my life and soul. I don't exactly know how to explain it. This album I know is heavier and darker for Eisley. Now they are no Burzum or Eminem but this lyrically and melodically is more mature than their other stuff up to this point. I like it and respect that they have grown over the past 12 years as a band, now 13 years. I just hope that they make another album that will mean this much to me x amount of years later. And I hope this one does to.