In the Tones.

What do the holidays mean? More time to relax and have sometime for yourself. In the midst of your leisure, you should listen to the album Ukelele Songs by the amazing Eddie Vedder - singer of Pearl Jam. If you think this sounds anything like Pearl Jam, you are wrong. His deep voice singing along with the highs of the ukelele create a melody that just makes you want to sit by the fireplace or dance around the room with someone. If you don’t have enough for the entire album, you should at least listen to Dream a Little Dream of Me, Sleepless Nights, and Longing to Belong. I first came across Eddie Vedder when a friend of mine told me to listen to the album from Into the Wild. Safe to say, his lyrics made me want to listen to the rest of his artwork. Great artist, a nice addition for a calm playlist on your iPod.

Enjoy!

4.7/5

Ukelele Songs is available on iTunes

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ukulele-songs/id433985038

Dear readers, 

I am about to do something that may make you hate me, criticise blink-182. The day, scratch that, the minute after the release of the long-awaited album of Tom, Mark, and Travis, I send a command on my computer instructing it to begin the download process so I may begin listening to what I believed was going to cause a musicgasm for my ears. 14 song downloads later, I begun listening to the album.

Four songs in, I begin to lose interest, why you may ask? I need to look at the Now Playing bar to remind me what band I was listening to. It wasn’t blink-182, it was Angels and Airwaves feat. +44, and vise-versa. Out of respect to the amazing band that is blink-182, I must recognise the fact that being out of the music business for 8 years, by this I mean both side projects of DeLonge and Hoppus were never as big as blink-182, can create some difficulties with the need to Tweet between recording and blog about your latest creation. And yet? I found myself missing an anthem I can rock out to daily such as, What’s My Age Again?, or a beautiful love song such as I Miss you. 

Aside from these comments, I’ll try to make a few comments without considering who they were or how different this is from the guy who sang about all the small things. 

The best songs from the album proves that 3 guys are better at coming up with songs than AVA mixed with +44 and Travis Barker on the side. Best songs, “Mh 4.18.2011”, “Wishing Well”, “After Midnight”, “Kaleidoscope”. They are upbeat, have some of the old blink-182 characteristics tied in, and they make you not regret buying the album.

I don’t regret buying the album. It is enjoyable and not that bad. However, I do wish it said various artists in the sort box given this album is blink-182, Angels and Airwaves, +44, and Travis Barker altogether. If you’ve never heard any of the aforementioned bands, buy the album and you can!

3.4/5 

Greetings,

So one of In the Tones’ goals is to introduce bands that may not be chart-topping bands, but in our opinion, are still quite awesome. In this post, we would like to recommend a lovely band that just makes you smile with catchy lyrics and a nice beat. They’ve been becoming increasingly big in the United States after playing in Coachella and having the hit single, L. I. F. E. G. O. E. S. O. N. (a great song). They are fun and a nice band to have in your playlists for music to pass the time that you may or may not be listening to in detail. What are your thoughts?

A few days ago, Coldplay released a new single titled, Every Teardrop is a Waterfall.

Before we delve in to the music, something I enjoy very much about music is the album covers, especially for the singles. In the case of Coldplay, disappointment is rare. The cover is a wall with a bunch of mixed colours and tags saying Every Teardrop is a Waterfall. The foreground is the typed title of the song. The cover goes hand in hand with a song because the song is about the joy of music and of life. The different colors show the different aspects. For a short word, it’s a cool cover.

The lyrics of song at first look aren’t quite like Coldplay previous songs, but these are packed with meaning like almost very song (excluding Yellow, which Chris has yet to figure out). The music shows that something small and somewhat bad can be made into something beautiful. “Every siren is a symphony, every teardrop is a waterfall.”
Sirens are sounds of crimes or accidents and tears are metaphors for sadness, but even the bad can create something beautiful, the water combines into a huge body that shows a rainbow when the sun shines on it.

There isn’t much to say on the music. It’s classic Coldplay with its folksy alternative beat. Harmonies are reminiscent of Viva la Vida, but hopefully something new will come.

If this song is an indication to what the next album will hold, I’ll wait to pre-order when another single is released. Let’s simply hope that radio stations don’t overplay this song and ruin yet another song.

Hello World,

I doubt any of you have stumbled on this, but if you have, welcome. The blog is a little plain, but I’ll fix that when I get to a computer. This blog will review music of all sorts. Given that I add new music to my computer everyday, and I have a long commute which allows me to listen to 6 different radio stations because I’m constantly changing them, I can effectively review new stuff, tunes from the past and songs in this era that have greeted us for awhile but we haven’t always been listening.

I’ll try to be as unbiased as possible and if there’s any album you’d like my opinion on, just message me and I’ll give it a listen.

The title shows my goal of making people’s knowledge of music go beyond the record-pop that is overplayed 30 times on the radio and listen to bands people have never heard of. Prepare to be in the know…

More to come,

In the Tones