WWWWW- One of the year's finest
WWWW- Great track
WWW- Isn't revolutionary, but it'll play
WW- Well...uhh...maybe
W- If I hear this ONE MORE TIME...
Arcarnum- Hide 'N' Seek (WWWW) It's more Filter than Nine Inch Nails, but it's still solid industrial-pop.
Bjork- Nature Is Ancient (WW) It's not nearly as annoying as her other songs, but her voice is still annoying, eventually tiring the pop-electronica beat and the song in general.
Blake Shelton- Heavy Liftin' (WWW) It's enjoyable, catchy "workman" country-rock, but it has an air of familiarity to it, though.
Boomkat- What You Do To Me (WW) It's a quasi-rip-off of Kylie Minogue's "In Your Eyes" and the sexed-up lyrics are stupid, but the disco beat is nice.
Brooks & Dunn- Red Dirt Road (WWW) Catchy riffs, overall enjoyable country-pop-rock song reminscing about that "red dirt road".
Buddy Jewell- Help Pour Out The Rain (Lacey's Song) (WWW) Great country-folk song about a father and his daughter wanting to be in Heaven to see their long-lost relatives and "Jesus face-to-face".
Buzzcocks- Jerk (WWW) It's a simple but solid driving punk song.
Chynna- Its Ky (W) The beat was decent, but does he really have to have cheesy, lame "I'm representing Kentucky" (especially the chorus, where he belches "it's Ky/The place where we get high") raps while sounding higher than ODB? We have the worst rap song ever folks- yes, even worse than PBT's "Fool With It".
(Stinker Of The Week)
Dana Glover- Rain (WWW) Sounds like Pink singing a personal, heartfelt Amanda Marshall song. Very cool.
Death In Vegas- Hands Around My Throat (W) The retro-electronic effects on this pop-rock song are nice, but it still sounds WAY too much like Elastica.
Deric Ruttan- When You Come Around (WWWW) Very catchy, enjoyable and personal country-pop...one of the best country singles of the year.
Die Trying- Oxygen's Gone (WWW) Very cookie-cutter and slick, but it's still a very solid, somewhat catchy, driving pop-punk song.
Dierks Bentley- What Was I Thinkin (WWW) Really enjoyable, if a little tiring, up-tempo country rock.
Dolly Parton- I'm Gone (WWW) Great banjo-tinged, up-tempo old-school bluegrass, tailor-made for line dancing. Just brilliant.
Dwight Yoakam- The Back Of Your Hand (WW) It's emotional and heartfelt, but this old warbler doesn't have a "Hurt" in him like Johnny Cash did.
Erasure- Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) (WW) It's cheeky and cheery, but this really poppy song is really, really stupid.
Evanescence- Going Under (WWWWW) It's kind of like Linkin Park meets Lacuna Coil meets sweet (but short) guitar solo but in a song where Amy Lee (and her alternating creepily spoken/booming vocals) finds strength within herself to have life after love.
(Single Of The Week)
Good Charlotte- Girls And Boys (WWWW) Nice '80s feel overtop a catchy punk-ish tune with, essentially just a chorus- but what a good one it is- "Girls don't like boys/they like cars and money/Boys laugh at girls even when they're not funny". Excellent.
Jay Jay Johanson- Automatic Lover (WWW) It's a little dated, but this poppy Euro-disco song is a hit.
Jay-Z- La-La-La (Excuse Me Again) (WWW) Infectious Neptunes beat meets great rapping by Jay-Z- just like Danzig does in metal, Jay-Z does in rap: keeping redone topics interesting.
JS- Ice Cream (W) The waterdrop beat is nice, but this is WAY too sexed up. Sample lyric: "31 flavours ain't got nothin' on me".
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz f/The Ying Yang Twins- Get Low (W) Disorganized beat and structure, cliched lyrics and rappers who sound as though they're constipated...no, it won't work.
Loon f/Kelis- How You Want That (W) P. Diddy's beat rips off The Neptunes, and the song's a cliched bling-bling party rap song...*shaking head*.
Lumidee f/Busta Rhymes & Fabolous- Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh) (WWW) Arguably it's better without Busta, but the catchy, stripped-down, almost raw version of the "Get Busy" beat makes it worthwhile.
Mest- Jaded (WWW) For once, we get personal and heartfelt catchy pop-punk instead of childish pop-punk from Mest.
Molotov- Frijolero (WW) These Latin rappers are funny, but the salsa-esque beat is really really lame.
Molotov- Here We Kum (WWW) It won't change the world, but the '80s-synth beat met with the Spanish raps make for a mildly entertaining experience.
Nick Cannon f/B2K - Feeling Freaky (W) This is just pitiful, almost reaching new lows in the cliched sex-rap song. Cliched lyrics, lame chorus (by B2K) and a rehashed "Where The Party At?" beat...*shakes head*
P. Diddy, Nelly & Murphy Lee- Shake Ya Tail Feather (WWW) The chorus is a little stupid and only Nelly's rap is golden, but P. Diddy's bassline-heavy beat is actually blazing.
Paloalto- Fade Out/In (WWW) Yeah, it's kiddie rock, but it's enjoyable, catchy and driving kiddie-rock.
Paul Van Dyk f/Hemstock & Jennings- Nothing But You (WW) It's for hardcore clubbers and there are some tricks in this trance song, but's just too mundane.
Peter Gabriel- Growing Up (WWW) Great industrial-goth-pop song, but it's another song that sounds way too much like Nine Inch Nails.
Pillar- Fireproof (WWW) It's dated and redone nu-metal, but it's catchy and somehow very interesting nonetheless.
Ricky Martin- Yo La Tengo (W) It's another of Ricky Martin's "classics": stupid sex lyrics, stupidly contrived Latino pop beats and overall just stupid. Can we ever get the "La Copa Della Vita" Ricky back any time soon?
Sean Paul- Like Glue (WWW) Yeah, it's embarrassing at times, but it's got a nice, sultry summertime beat...just in time too.
Shadows Fall- Destroyer Of Senses (WWWW) It's a bit disjointed in its attempt to be an Atheist song, but it's still solid and beautiful (in it's own way) death metal.
Spineshank- Smothered (WWW) It chugs with the rest of them and is another cliched whiny nu-metal song, but it's enjoyable, catchy and emotional (honestly), so I'll give it to them.
T. Graham Brown- Which Way To Pray (WWWW) Touching, heartfelt gospel-country song about a girl who's in despair.
The Alkaline Trio- We've Had Enough (WWW) Great AFI-like, gloomy punk song.
The All-American Rejects- Last Song (W) *shakes head* Another boring, whiny pop-punk song about a broken heart. Look, she left you. Get over it.
The Chynnamin- All About The Paper (WWW) The lyrics are cliched and sexed up, but the beat's nice and upbeat...so I'll give it to him.
The Chynnamin- Come For You (W) Now auditioning to be worse than 50 Cent...horrible, lifeless beat and cliched street rhymes.
The Question- I'm Feeling You (WWWW) It's a very intricate Moloko track with a female rapper over it...very interesting and very different.
The Revolution Smile- Bonethrower (W) It's Strapping Young Lad meets Limp Bizkit...isn't it fun? I didn't think so either.
The Used- Blue And Yellow (WW) It's personal, heartfelt and mellow, but it sounds too much like Saliva.
Three 6 Mafia- Ridin Spinners (W) They want to be old-school rappers, but they turn out as just a cliche and horribly dumb...
Tre 6- Just Dance (WWW) It's not quite Talib Kweli's "Waiting For The DJ", but it's still a solid party-rap song from "The Dirty South" that disses Ginuwine's "Hell Yeah" in the second verse. Brilliant.
Tyrese- Signs Of Making Love (WWWW) Beautiful, heartfelt and personal love R&B ballad about a girl Tyrese really wants.