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Eminem - The Eminem Show (2002)

One of the few brave white souls in America that successfully created "black rap" music that white Americans could be proud of Eminem created the hit that was the best selling album in 2002.

A controversial album dealing with a wide variety of problems, for example family and political issues, that can be seen explicitly in tracks like Cleanin out my closet and White America, where he vents his anger at his mother in the first track and his thoughts about the US government in the second track.

Despite the large amount of profanities and derogatory language the album sold alarmingly well, over a million copies in its first week of sale. Similar in my review about 50 Cent's The Massacre both albums did extremely well, despite treating a gender as a commodity. Seems like today's youth in the most powerful country in the world enjoy this foul language rap music instead of more peaceful and intelligent types of music.

Sad in this reviewer's opinion modern audiences have taken a trend towards this genre of music, which is claimed to be destroying today's youth, encouraging drug usage and killing as what the "cool kids do", some role models these rappers aspired to be. This album is an oldy but goldy for rap fans, but parents if you wish your kids to finish school and maybe go to college to get a degree, turn your heads elsewhere.

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Comments on Encule Tech

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Comment on Feeding Three

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Slash - Slash (2010)

Slash’s first solo release is a must have for any rock fan. It is a combination of stunning riffs and excellent vocals that fuse to create possibly the best rock release of 2010.

Led Zeppelin - Mothership remastered (2007)

There are many albums, songs and artists who regularly shout, "Do you remember me?" None, there are none who shout louder than living rock legend Led Zeppelin.

Justin Timberlake: FUTURESEX/LOVESOUNDS

Released by the American singer Justin Timberlake on September 12, 2006, this album intertwines sex and love as similar concepts. Perhaps what would be considered the most successful tracks on the album are Sexyback, Summer Love, My Love and What Goes Around Comes Around.

The Go Find - Miami (2004)

I was seventeen years old and it was my first year at university. A new city, new people, a new home. A new life. Light was slowly fading from the days and dark skies were taking over. Me and my iPod walking down the streets.

Priestess - Prior to the Fire (2010)

Sophomore release by Canadian hard rock act Priestess is an excellent follow up to their 2005 release ‘Hello Master’. This album is certainly worth the wait for fans of the band and hard rock fans alike because the bands choice to move away from a mainstream sound allowed them to come together as a tighter unit. This has created a more refined sound. Channelling a range of hard rock and metal titans of the likes of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath the direction of this Canadian four-piece is definitely on the up.

50 Cent - The Massacre (2005)

A vulgar album from a young American gangster rapper, 50 Cent's The Massacre essentially says how great and amazing he is. The unmeasurable arrogance displayed in songs like God Gave Me Style and Candy Shop are either saying he was given great qualities by a divine power God gave me style, putting him above others from born qualities, or treating women like whores and toys of pleasure with no respect I'll take you to the candy shop, I'll let you lick the lolly pop.

Jónsi - Go (2010)

Run! Faster! As fast as you can! And smile. Please don't forget to smile. You are four years old again and discovering the world. You talk ceaselessly about what you see, hear and feel. Everything is new, all is good. And beautiful.

Jónsi - Jón Þór Birgisson - is one fourth of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. After five albums with his band, the time had come to start a solo project. Greatly in the style of the music Sigur Rós creates, but more accessible to a larger audience. Jónsi has managed to develop his own style without betraying his previous work.

Music, The Religious Muse

The time has come to introduce a new concept to our blog. From today on, every two weeks: our observations about the music world in all its glory and facets.

Most people don't realise the presence of music in everyday life and the impact it has. We could almost say it is similar to how much machinery has become integrated in our lives. Could you imagine the world without computers, phones or even a microwave? Music is the driving beat, the harmonious melodies of our selves performed on God's dance floor. It has become so integrated in our daily process that if it were to disappear it would be similar to a clock missing a cog.

Counting Crows - August and Everything After (1993)

"I wish I was travelling on a freeway
Beneath this graveyard western sky
I'm gonna set fire to this city
And out into the desert
We're gonna ride"
- Time and Time Again

Counting Crows has long been a name lost in the past. For the people of today, Generation Y, the name may not even register. But for those who have been cooking in the oven of life a bit longer, it is a name that stirs memories of a somewhat honest and brutally original reality. August and Everything After, with its slightly western sound and honest out take on life is the missing link that all people have disconnected with as time, money, technology and general everyday life has bloomed doubt within our souls.

Linkin Park - Meteora (2003)

A great album to listen to when you are angry, either with a friend or loved one transgressing you, betraying you, or any such action of the nature. You knew your lies would divide us but you lied anyway is an example of some of the great lyrics from this album, which is more then just people saying they are angry, they are people who have been cruelly hurt on the inside and vent their pain through great sounding music.

Nona Mez - Radio Rain and Hard Luck Stories (2010)

A cold and windy day. One can smell the snow in the air. You wear a warm coat and a big scarf. Earphones in your ears. You walk at a fast pace. The wind burns on your face. Back home you hide away and curl up in a fluffy blanket, but at the same time want to break free. From the world. From yourself. From what's keeping you from anything.

Storyboard and colour scheme

Layout in progress

Deciding on a blog layout is both very easy and difficult at the same time. Difficult because you want to find something that completely blends in with the content of your blog. Easy because - if necessary - you can change and improve it at any given time.

Rather than using a basic Blogspot template, we chose to search for something more vibrant. The reason for that is that even if you do change all the colours, fonts and font sizes and use a picture for the header, your blog will still look like the typical Blogspot blog. It does not stand out in any way, and that is not what we wanted for something that we will put a lot of effort in.

Many Google search terms and hours later, our clicking fingers started feeling numb. And then, there it was, out of nowhere. The perfect template! We immediately felt that it completely fit what we want to communicate to our readers.

But 'perfect' does not exist. We thought it necessary to make some minor changes to the template. We changed a few font sizes, got rid of the menu tabs at the top of the body and changed the names of the 'applications' in the right hand column.

What you see now is what we changed or not changed it into. The colour scheme and the image at the top create some kind of metropolitan feeling. The feeling of a big city, where music can come to life and where people are critical thinkers. Dark and light at the same time. Simple and sophisticated. And thus ideal for the content we will be producing.

Not just a fancy name

Rabble Review. More than just a fancy name...

Rabble: the noise we produce in real and everyday life, the noise we make by blogging, the noises we are blogging about.

Review: our reviews of the rabble, of the music we listen to, the music that changed and still changes are lives.

Yes, all four of us are music lovers. How? Because music stores are for us what a candy store is for a five year old.