As I've been going about my day I'm listening to music that was released today. Redlight King released his second CD "Irons In The Fire", Sheryl Crow released "Feels Like Home" and the Arctic Monkeys released "AM".
The best of the three CDs is Redlight King's CD and it's not that close. Redlight King's debut CD was "Something For The Pain", it's a great CD. It's full of great rock songs and he's mixed in other genres as well. "Pain" is full of songs that are perfect for catharsis and to exercise to. Nearly every song on his debut CD is amazing. It's always tough to better your first CD, there are many more musicians who haven't than have. Sadly this is a bit of step back for Redlight King.
So far the only song from Redlight's new CD that's available on Youtube is "Born To Rise", you can listen to the entire new CD on Spotify for free though. "Born To Rise":
"Born To Rise" is a good enough song, but it's not the best song on new CD. I prefer "Dark Side Of The Moon", which has nothing to do with Pink Floyd or Phillip Phillips. I also like "Devil's Dance".
Here are a couple of my favorite songs from his debut CD "Something For The Pain".
"Bullet In My Hand":
"City Life":
Next up is Sheryl Crow's "Feels Like Home", this is a perfectly adequate CD. Crow has never been a rocker and always has had mellow music. But this CD she continues moving to being a country music artist. There's nothing wrong with that. other than it sounds like an idea from a corporate executive for Crow to sell more CDs. The best thing about this CD is the cover photo of Crow, she's still gorgeous.
The first single from her new CD is "Easy":
My favorite song on her new CD is "Homecoming Queen". Not only is she still gorgeous but she still sounds really good as well. Now can we only find her some better songs like "Homecoming Queen"?:
Last and most definitely least is the Arctic Monkeys cleverly named CD "AM". No, the title isn't a tribute to 70's radio, but the initials of the band. I can't believe the band that had this amazing song:
has now become so boring. Their previous CD was as witty and clever as the title "Suck It And See", "AM" is a bit of an upgrade. But "Suck" was an apt description and wasn't real hard to improve on.
Even the lead single from "AM" is a bit weak, usually the first single is meant to get as much exposure for the album as possible. The only exposure this would get the band is negative. It still has very much the Arctic Monkey sound and at least "High" has a pulse. I'm guessing the Monkeys were listening to Evanescence when they came up the idea for this song, specifically the song "Call Me When You're Sober". Except the Evanescence song actually rocks.
Arctic Monkeys have never been known as a video band, but this video is lame even by their standards. "Why'd You Only Call Me When Your High":
Remember then their music made you want to get up and dance? What does this song make you want to do besides sleep? "Do I Wanna Know":
Now I have to go listen to some good Arctic Monkeys music to remember them when they were creating much better music.
themusicaddict
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