The Albums

As I got older, I realized that keeping records is a vital activity. It has always interested me, but I hadn 't put much thought into it until, one day, while I was cleaning the messy room in our house, I found a recipe book with a picture of my grandma. The picture had a great impact on me. It was during that time that I started to realize that leaving memories, pictures, and pieces of advice are really important if you don’t want to be forgotten. This is when I started to think, why not start a new personal album project? As i mentioned before, I had always think that keeping records like pictures, personal papers or diary is very important, but not much since last week. Everything started on Monday, April 1 2016. It happened…

Album Review One For my first album review I decided to use the album Help! by The Beatles. I chose this because everybody has heard of the Beatles and this class has increased my interest in older rock music. I was embarrassed by the little I knew about great bands of rock history. I used this assignment as an excuse to force myself to really dive in to The Beatles. The Beatles started in England around the late 50’s as a band that played in taverns and bars to make ends meet. In the early…

Heaven Walters MUS 110 Drew Hays 10 April 15 Album Analysis: Saxophone Colossus According to the Webster Dictionary, Colossus is defined as something that is gigantic or immense, which is also accurate when describing Sonny Rollins’ contributions to the jazz world. Sonny Rollins, himself, was knowns as the “Saxophone Colossus” back in 1956, and has been compared to Coleman Hawkins with his strong, intense notes combined with lyrical freedom and genius. Saxophone Colossus, recorded in June of…

Extra Credit If I ever had an album cover like the beetles, I would make it very beautiful and decorated. I would also love to incorporate people on the front cover, which I believed were successful in impacting the world. Altogether, for me this would include big people such as Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, and Barack Obama, for many reasons. One of the big people that I would like to incorporate on my album cover would be Steve jobs. Jobs was a phenomenal individual that did reached great…

Jubilee Album Outline: The 50s The first decade of Baptist Bible College marks one of its most successful decades. Opening September 5, 1950, 107 students were the first to attend classes that were held in High Street Baptist Church. Certainly all of the founding leaders G.B. Vick, John Rawlings, W.E. Dowell, Fred Donnelson, Noel Smith, and R.O. Woodworth were all key to the success of BBC in its first decade. Many graduates would attribute their success to these leaders who taught their…

The Illmatic album covered the topics of poverty, gang rivalries, street violence, drug violence, etc. Nas based the album on his life experiences and narrated it into music. Although the album was released in 1994 it still relates to common issues in the 21ST century. For Example, there is still urban poverty, street violence, and drug violence still going on every day. As well as people still dying and getting locked up due to the same issues. The world is yours and education vs schooling go…

America's albums--six certified gold and/or platinum, with their first greatest hits collection, History, hitting four plus million in sales--displayed a fuller range of the trio's talents than did their singles. Their material encompassed an ambitious artistic swath; from effects-laden rockers to oddball medleys to soul-bearing ballads, America displayed a flawless blend of disparate genres and styles as wide-open as the great American plains. Enjoying massive success early in their career,…

The Black Album and White Teeth are both set in the diverse society of London and have in common that the protagonists are teenager or young adults whose problems may in some ways correspond with the supposed reader/student of a language classroom. These fictional texts not only represent issues of non-belonging, stereotyping, and identity formation, they also have the quality to uncover, through their form, the multiplicity of meanings manifested within a text, owed to an absent authoritarian…

Twenty One Pilots’ album Blurryface captures the emotions and feelings almost everyone experiences, but is too afraid to express. With its multi-genre track list, Blurryface could not be identified as one genre due to the complexity of the melodies, off putting beat changes, and depressing lyrics. The album should have failed in the beast that is mainstream music. However, bandmates Tyler Joseph and Joshua Dun of Twenty One Pilots managed to take their polarizing sound and turn it into a…

Francisco Mela, an invigorating Cuban-born drummer, percussionist, and composer, releases a powerful new album entitled “Fé” (faith), which works as a tribute to his late parents and a way of gratefulness toward the masters who believed in his capacities. He recorded it with his Crash Trio, which includes the Argentine pianist Leo Genovese and the American bassist Gerald Cannon. The master guitarist John Scofield appears on two tracks as a very special guest. “Ancestros”, a breathtaking tune…