Avicii - True

  Avicii - True
Tracks
  1. Wake Me Up
  2. You Make Me
  3. Hey Brother
  4. Addicted To You
  5. Dear Boy
  6. Liar Liar
  7. Shame On Me
  8. Lay Me Down
  9. Hope There's Someone
10. Heart Upon My Sleeve
11. Long Road To Hell
12. Edom


Let's start this album off with singles Wake Me Up and You Make Me. I'm not really enjoying You Make Me that much. I don't think the vocalist has a good voice in the chorus. The verses are fine. But then the dance beat isn't very "dancy". It's kind of hard to move to this song. Wake Me Up, however, has a great dance beat. Avicii also switches the dance beat with the country/folk part in this track. And he got Aloe Blacc to be the vocalist. Aloe Blacc has nice vocals in this song. He even made an acoustic version by himself. There's no dance beat in that one. Wake Me Up has become a bigger hit than I thought it would be.

Next we have Hey Brother. Hey Brother is kind of like Wake Me Up. It has a country/folk tune to it. Except this track's dance beat also has that folk tune to it. I find that just a little more interesting. Anyone can move to Hey Brother and Wake Me Up. Avicii used Dan Tyminski as the vocalist in this track. Tyminski has good vocals. That's good. When you're a DJ, you not only want to use good dance beats. You need to make sure you have an artist good vocals. 

Addicted To You is only 2:28 in length. So it's pretty short. The vocals are okay in this track. But when listening to the iTunes preview, the preview is so short that you can't even tell what the dance beat sounds like. That's all I have to say about this track.

Long Road To Hell has some good instruments. There is some really well work on the piano. But then it goes into this strange instrument. The vocalist sounds like the one from Addicted To You. There isn't much of a dance beat in this track. I think the dance beat is supposed to be that strange instrument.

Heart Upon My Sleeve has some tune you would hear at an orchestra. Then the beat comes in. This track has a decent beginning. But not something you can really move to. What I expect out of DJ's such as Avicii, Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Armin van Buuren, and Zedd is a song I can dance to. Avicii and Zedd show that the most while Calvin Harris and David Guetta need to work on that a little more.

Finally, we come to the best track on this album. And that is Lay Me Down. Avicii not only got Adam Lambert to be the vocalist, he got Nile Rodgers to use his funky guitar. Nile does a great job with the guitar, Adam does an excellent job with the vocals, and Avicii does a beyond excellent job with the dance beat. This is the kind of song I expect from DJ's. They need a good dance beat and a great vocalist. And most people mention this song being their favorite in their reviews. Well done Avicii. You have become my favorite DJ of all time (so far).

People need to stop complaining and saying that Avicii is country. He's trying something new.

Ranking Of Album:        1        2        3        4        5 

My Top 3 Favorite Tracks
1. Lay Me Down
2. Hey Brother
3. Wake Me Up

John Newman - Love Me Again - EP

 John Newman - Love Me Again - EP
Tracks
1. Love Me Again
2. Cheating
3. Gold Dust
4. All I Need Is You

Love Me Again is the best track on here. But I love every other track as well. Love Me Again however, has a great use of piano and a variety of other instruments that make it unique. John Newman's voice also make these songs unique.

Gold Dust is the second best track on here. All I can really say is John Newman's voice is most unique in this song. Especially when he says, "But everything around me has changed".

Cheating also has a great variety of instruments and is the most up-beat song on this album with All I Need Is You being the least up-beat. I like the background women singers in this song. I first heard it before it was out here in the US. And I complained that it was not out in the US because it was a great song.

All I Need Is You is not very interesting. It's not very active. I don't really like it.

Ranking Of Album:        1        2        3        4       5 

My Top 3 Favorite Tracks  
1. Love Me Again 
2. Gold Dust
3. Cheating

Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll

 Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
Tracks
  1. The Phoenix
  2. My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)
  3. Alone Together
  4. Where Did The Party Go
  5. Just One Yesterday (feat. Foxes)
  6. The Mighty Fall (feat. Big Sean)
  7. Miss Missing You
  8. Death Valley
  9. Young Volcanoes
10. Rat a Tat (feat. Courtney Love)
11. Save Rock and Roll (feat. Elton John)

Fall Out Boy is back together! And they are better than ever! It was their single My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) that got them popular again. This song has the longest title I've ever heard. It has this electronic sounding beat that is really interesting. It is the second best off this album. 

Alone Together is catchy. And since they played Light Em Up on the radio so many times. I started to get tired of it. And that's when I found Alone Together. My new favorite song. I love the kid sounding voices between the “Say Yeah” and “Let's be Alone Together”. It has few verses because the second basically repeats the first.

The Phoenix sounds like something Fall Out Boy would've made in one of their previous albums. It is a great opening to the album. I like how Pete Wentz raises his voice to really emphasize "Like a Phoenix".

Where Did The Party Go sounds kind of like The Phoenix. That's the only thing I find good about that track. What about you?

It's amazing what Pete Wentz can do with his voice in Death Valley. If all tracks sounded like Death Valley, the genre for this album would most likely be rock. You can tell just by the title that it is rock.

Finally, we come to Save Rock and Roll. It is a slow song so it is not so interesting. But Elton John makes it more interesting. I don't think his voice and Pete Wentz's voice blend very well. So this track is in the middle.

Ranking Of Album:   1        2        3        4        5

My Top 3 Favorite Tracks
1. Alone Together
2. My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark
3. The Phoenix

Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox

 Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox
Tracks
  1. Young Girls
  2. Locked Out Of Heaven
  3. Gorilla
  4. Treasure
  5. Moonshine
  6. When I Was Your Man
  7. Natalie
  8. Show Me
  9. Money Make Her Smile
10. If I Knew

The best song on this song in my opinion is Locked Out Of Heaven. I hated it at first. But now I really like it. It has some strange instrumentals that I don't really like. But overall the song is great.

Next is When I Was Your Man. The only instrument in that song is piano. And that's not a bad thing. It's a good song. If you read one of my previous posts, you'd see that I compared Olly Murs - I Need You Now to this song. People probably don't like it 'cause it's boring. But I think the opposite.

Next we have Gorilla. Gorilla is a cool song. It is the first song I heard from him that had that much explicit content. I like the little back up voice during the chorus. I can't tell if that's Bruno or not. It would have to be my second favorite track.

Natalie is also a cool song. It has such a quick pace. Bruno sings really fast. Everything about this song is fast. I love the chorus of the song. Apparently, it's about a girl named Natalie who ran away from Bruno. It's hard to understand it because of the fast pace.

Next we have Treasure. I used to love this song. Now it has become one of my least favorite tracks off the album. It sounds like it was made in the 1950's. And that got me into it at first. Now it just irritates me. Luckily, Gorilla is his new popular song and they don't play Treasure as much anymore. 

Ranking of Album:   1       2        3        4        5

My Top 3 Favorite Tracks
1. Locked Out Of Heaven
2. Gorilla
3. Natalie

The Script - #3

 The Script - #3
Tracks
  1. Good Ol' Days
  2. Six Degrees Of Separation
  3. Hall Of Fame (feat. will.i.am)
  4. If You Could See Me Now
  5. Glowing 
  6. Give The Love Around
  7. Broken Arrow
  8. Kaleidoscope
  9. No Words
10. Millionaires (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
11. Moon Boots (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
12. Hurricanes (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
13. Hall Of Fame (Original Version) [Deluxe Edition Bonus Track]
14. Breakeven (Live at The Aviva Stadium, Dublin) [Deluxe Edition Bonus Track]
15. The Man Who Can't Be Moved (Live at The Aviva Stadium, Dublin) [Deluxe Edition Bonus Track
16. Talk You Down (Live at The Aviva Stadium, Dublin) [Deluxe Edition Bonus Track]
17. For The First Time (Live at The Aviva Stadium, Dublin) [Deluxe Edition Bonus Track]

Let me just say that this is The Script's best album so far. It has inspirational music. Hall Of Fame is the best track on here. The lyrics are really inspirational. will.i.am does a great role in the song. I think the one with will.i.am is a little better than the original version. I also love If You Could See Me Now. That song also inspirational. The Script just doesn't disappoint me.

In this album, we have a lot of rapping from The Script's Mark Sheehan. Songs like If You Could See Me Now and Broken Arrow. Broken Arrow is one of those songs where you don't hear it on the radio. I really only hear Hall Of Fame and Six Degrees Of Separation. I previewed the song on iTunes and I fell in love with it. It was my second favorite song from the album. Notice I said was. That was before I heard If You Could See Me Now. So now it is third. 

When I first heard Six Degrees Of Separation, I didn't like it. It started playing more after Hall Of Fame and I kept saying no other song can be better. I didn't like how Six Degrees Of Separation was taking the place of Hall Of Fame. But after hearing it a few times, I started to really like it. It's my fourth favorite.

I love how this album has live performances from The Script including songs Breakeven, For The First Time, Talk You Down, and The Man Who Can't Be Moved. Especially since they were all performed in the same.

There a few songs I don't like but the album is good overall. I would love to buy Hall Of Fame (Original Version) from iTunes if it wasn't "Album Only".

Rating Of Album:        1        2        3        4        5

My Top 3 Favorite Tracks
1. Hall Of Fame (feat. will.i.am)
2. If You Could See Me Now
3. Broken Arrow

Olly Murs - Right Place Right Time

 Olly Murs - Right Place Right Time
Tracks (US Edition)
  1. Army Of Two
  2. Heart Skips a Beat (feat. Chiddy Bang)
  3. Troublemaker (feat. Flo Rida)
  4. Dance With Me Tonight 
  5. Hand On Heart
  6. Hey You Beautiful
  7. Right Place Right Time
  8. Oh My Goodness
  9. Loud and Clear
10. Dear Darlin'
11. One Of These Days (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
12. What a Buzz (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
13. Cry Your Heart Out (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
14. I Need You Now (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

Everyone should know the hit single Troublemaker. Troublemaker is my favorite song off this album. I love its catchy pacing. When I first heard it, I thought it was a Maroon 5 song. Olly's voice sounds just like Adam Levine's in this song. It also sounds like a song Maroon 5 would make. 

I also love Right Place Right Time. The music video to me is so inspiring. Especially since part of it involves Olly's X Factor audition. Right Place Right Time is the most inspiring track on this album. It's my second favorite.

Army Of Two and Loud and Clear have this orchestra sounding part in the beginning that I really like. Somehow, Army Of Two became less interesting to me. However I still like Loud and Clear. I Need You Now is one of those that don't really excite you because the only instrument is a piano. It's kind of like Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man.

Heart Skips a Beat was better with Rizzle Kicks. I prefer to have that version out in the US. But we're lucky we even have the song. Heart Skips a Beat just makes me want to get up and move. It's a cool song.

And Dance With Me Tonight. I thought it was annoying at first. It sounds like it's from the 1950's. But after hearing it a few more times I started to get into it. It's not one of my 3 favorites. But it's still a good song. 

This is the US edition of the album. They have a different version in the UK. I wish he had his first two albums out in the US along with Right Place Right Time. 

Ranking Of Album:        1        2        3        4        5

My Top 3 Favorite Tracks
1. Troublemaker (feat. Flo Rida)
2. Right Place Right Time
3. Loud and Clear

Maroon 5 - Overexposed

    Maroon 5 - Overexposed

Tracks

  1. One More Night

  2. Payphone (feat. Wiz Khalifa)

  3. Daylight

  4. Lucky Strike

  5. The Man Who Never Lied

  6. Love Somebody

  7. Ladykiller

  8. Fortune Teller

  9. Sad

10. Tickets

11. Doin' Dirt

12. Beautiful Goodbye

13. Wipe Your Eyes (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

14. Wasted Years (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

15. Let's Stay Together (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

16. One More Night (Sticky K Remix) (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

Maroon 5 now has their fourth studio album. What's the best track on here? It's Payphone. I love the use of piano in this track. It's the first song where I heard Adam Levine swear. That's only if you buy the explicit version. Obviously like other rappers, Wiz Khalifa swears in the explicit version. It's the best song Maroon 5 ever made. 

My next favorite is Love Somebody. I first heard it when Adam Levine performed it with Maroon 5 on The Voice. That's when I started hearing it on the radio. In the first chorus, it sounds like there is a broom that is sweeping. Pretty strange. But I love the overall song.

My next favorite is One More Night. I used to think it was better than Payphone. But after hearing it a few more times, I realized Payphone was better. I love this version and the Sticky K Remix. The remix however pulls me into the song a little bit more than the original version. But I still like the original. 

I love every other song except Daylight. Daylight = Worst song on album. When they continued to play it on the radio (Before Love Somebody), I got annoyed every time it came on.

Ranking of Album:    1        2        3        4        5     (5 stars)

My Top 3 Favorite Tracks
1. Payphone (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
2. Love Somebody
3. One More Night