John Mellencamp was born October 7, 1951 in the small town of Seymour, Indiana. He started playing in his first band at age 14 and has been making good American rock and roll music ever since. After a few failed albums in the 70’s, John switched labels where they changed his stage name to Johnny ...
10. Drunk Girl With a soft piano melody to start off the song that turns into full band play I put this song at number ten. It’s about how a young college kid or high schooler who likes a girl, gets to kiss, and then realizes that she was drunk and the whole thing meant ...
Description of the product: The Coby 2GB MP4 player looks like it will be a great product when it is first seen. This is what I thought when I spotted it at Walgreens and figured that I could use an MP4 player with a rechargeable battery instead of on that uses AAA – which happens ...
When we “see” a sound wave projected onto a visual screen, we see a wave. We describe music in terms of waves, in cycles per second or Hz. We use wave talk to discuss notes, speaking in frequencies and amplitudes. But then, without warning, someone starts spewing trigonometry at us like a high school mathematics ...
The Strokes pretty much came out of nowhere in 2001 and were perhaps the most popular out of the garage rock revival bands and the “The” bands that persisted in that time period. They’ve probably remained the most successful band out of that category due to their distinct sound and catchy melodies. Here are my ...
My thirteen year old daughter hosted one of those sleepovers that I dread so bad. The term sleepover is really a misnomer, seeing that the girls neither sleep nor does the party ever seem to be over. Even though I had them established in the basement with all the food, drink, cookies, popcorn and anything ...
Alan Jackson is one of my favorite country singers. Born Alan Eugene Jackson on October 17, 1958, he is an American country music singer and songwriter, who became the second most popular and one of the best-selling country musicians of the 1990s. He was working as a forklift driver in K-Mart before his claim to ...
Kansas was a highly successful progressive rock band from the 1970s, combining the extended instrumental sections and grandiose nature of their English prog rock contemporaries with a commercial, accessible, song-based arena rock sensibility. Their massive hit songs “Carry On My Wayward Son” and “Dust In the Wind” are staples of classic rock radio. They changed ...
The Pixies formed in 1986 in Boston, and as the 80s came to a close they looked set as the band that would break the underground music scene into the mainstream. They were established as one of the best new bands on the independent scene after the 1988 release of their now legendary first album ...
Prince made the statement of a future of death and despair 17 years before. “2000 zero-zero, party it’s out of time.” Things had changed from 1982 to the “year of the party” of 1999. Prince himself had to go through changes in his music as well, from the masterpieces he made to commercial missteps he ...