According to the Weezer biography Rivers ' Edge: The Weezer Story by John D. Luerssen the lawsuit also stated that Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo was going to ask him to appear in the music video for the song " Island in the Sun.

John D. Luerssen of Allmusic has stated that they sound similar to The Knack, The Calling, and label-mates Fountains of Wayne.

The merging of instruments has led Allmusic to state that guitarists John and Damian O ' Neill " mated infectious guitar hooks to 1960s garage, 1970s glam rock, and Feargal Sharkey's signature vocal quaver.

John Bonham has been described by Allmusic as one of the most important, well-known and influential drummers in rock.

Allmusic critic John Dougan has written that " As the band's creative force, Lynott was a more insightful and intelligent writer than many of his ilk, preferring slice-of-life working-class dramas of love and hate influenced by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, and virtually all of the Irish literary tradition.

John Book of Allmusic said the " record contributed to the buzz about the Seattle music scene.

Writing for Allmusic, John Dougan described the genre's origins:

Allmusic writer John Bush, who declared it " the most consistent and flowing hip-hop album ever recorded ", summed up the record as " an unqualified success, the perfect marriage of intelligent, flowing raps to nuanced, groove-centered productions.

In a retrospective review, Allmusic editor John Bush gave the album four-and-a-half out of five stars and complimented its songs ' " freewheeling arrangements ".

However, many mocked the song for its poor lyrical content ; John Bush, writing for Allmusic, described it as " one of the most embarrassing rap performances of the new millennium ".

The prominent fusion guitarist John McLaughlin, for example, had played what Allmusic describes as a " blend of jazz and American R & B " with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames as early as 1962 and continued with The Graham Bond Organisation ( with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker ) whose style Allmusic calls " rhythm & blues with a strong jazzy flavor ".

The album received positive reviews, John Franck of Allmusic labeled Meantime " arguably one of the most influential and overlooked rock records of the ' 90s ".

On the review of the album Siembra, John Bush of Allmusic referred the message as " a devastating life-in-el-Barrio exposé ".

Allmusic describes the soundtrack album as " marvelous music ... something listeners should be thankful for, particularly fans of either Miles Davis or John Lee Hooker ".

Allmusic profiler John Floyd asserts that O ' Neal was ousted for " looking ' too black '", though the real reason was there wasn't enough money in it for O ' Neal.

John Bush of Allmusic called him " the best rapper / producer in hip-hop history ," while editors of About. com placed him on their list of the Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers, as well as placing him on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time ( 1987 – 2007 ).

" John Dougan of Allmusic says that Into the Unknown is " a bit off-putting at first blush, mainly because the tempos are slower and more deliberate, and because of the use of swirling organs and pianos ", while he calls it a " terrific record that was perhaps more daring than anyone realized at the time of its release.

" Allmusic writer John Bush states that, " The Beach Boys ended the decade by releasing the worst album of their career ," describing the album as " yet another oddball attempt to push The Beach Boys into the contemporary mainstream despite their many songwriting and production flaws.

In John Franck's review of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence for Allmusic, he stated: " Featuring extraordinary ambidextrous drummer Sammy Siegler ( of Gorilla Biscuits / CIV fame ), Glassjaw has paired up with producer / entrepreneur Ross Robinson ( a key catalyst in the reinvention of the aggro rock sound ) to take you on a pummeling ride that would make Bad Brains and Quicksand proud.

Greg Prato of Allmusic wrote, " If only one singer could be selected as the most identifiable with ' 80s arena rock, it would have to be Journey's Steve Perry "; colleague John Franck praised Perry's as a " soaring, whale of a voice.

John Serba of Allmusic said that Orchid was " quite an audacious release, a far-beyond-epic prog / death monstrosity exuding equal parts beauty and brutality -- an album so brilliant, so navel-gazingly pretentious that, in retrospect, Opeth's future greatness was a foregone conclusion.

In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic has written that " it plays as the most focused and accomplished set of songs Elton John and Bernie Taupin ever wrote ".

Allmusic critic John Dougal writes that " the Modern Dance remains the essential Ubu purchase ...

Allmusic thoroughly commended the album in their retrospective review, praising Rick Davies's keyboard work, Roger Hodgson's vocals, and John Helliwell's saxophone.

" Opinion again was mixed however, with John Serba of Allmusic commenting, " Bottom line, Aborym is easier to enjoy in theory more than in practice, although tackling the group's wildly disturbing sonic art isn't without its rewards.

`` For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life '' ( John 3::

John Dalton in his Chemical Philosophy gave ten calculations of this value, and finally adopted − 3000 ° C as the natural zero of temperature.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

King John of England gave the Abbey permission to buy and sell goods anywhere in England ( except London ) toll-free.

In John 14: 31 Jesus explains that his sacrifice was performed so: " that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.

In his paper " Evolution of consciousness ," John Eccles argued that special anatomical and physical properties of the mammalian cerebral cortex gave rise to consciousness.

In 1983, she analysed telephone intercepts on John Cox that gave her access to conversations with Joan Ruddock and Bruce Kent.

Fiz Stape prematurely gave birth to a baby girl, Hope, after her husband, John, struck his stalker Charlotte Hoyle with a hammer to silence her.

They both viewed the work of British landscape artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, which confirmed to their belief that their style of open air painting gave the truest depiction of light and atmosphere, an effect that they felt could not be achieved in the studio alone.

Later in life he lightheartedly gave himself ( along with John Knowles, Tommy Emmanuel, Steve Wariner and Jerry Reed ) the honorary degree CGP, standing for " Certified Guitar Player ".

During the 1880s, five foreign editions contained two revelations to John Taylor that were received in 1882 and 1883 ; these revelations " set in order " the priesthood, gave more clarification about the roles of priesthood offices — especially the Seventy — and required Priesthood leaders to live plural marriage in order to qualify to hold their church positions.

Playing acoustic guitar, she formed a group with Bowie and bassist John Hutchinson ; between September 1968 and early 1969, when Bowie and Farthingale broke up, the trio gave a small number of concerts combining folk, Merseybeat, poetry and mime.

John Mark Byers, the adoptive father of victim Christopher Byers, gave a knife to cameraman Doug Cooper, who was working with documentary makers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky while they were filming the first Paradise Lost feature.

Meetings between Pope John Paul II and the Assyrian Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV led to a common Christological declaration on 11 November 1994 that " the humanity to which the Blessed Virgin Mary gave birth always was that of the Son of God himself ".

On the one hand, the seventeenth century divine, John Cosin, held that episcopal authority is jure divino, but that it stemmed from " apostolic practice and the customs of the Church ... absolute precept that either Christ or His Apostles gave about it " ( a view maintained also by Hooker ).

Now in his thirties, Oxford bought a sublease of the premises used by the boy companies in the Blackfriars sometime after November, 1583, and then gave it to his secretary, the writer John Lyly.

On 4 August Orwell gave a talk at the Adelphi Summer School held at Langham, entitled An Outsider Sees the Distressed Areas ; others who spoke at the School included John Strachey, Max Plowman, Karl Polanyi and Reinhold Niebuhr.

" Not Counting You " reached number 2, and then " The Dance " put him at number-one again ; this song's theme of people dying while doing something they believe in resonated strongly and, together with a popular music video, directed by John Lloyd Miller, gave Brooks his first push towards a broader audience.

When Henry Compton, the Bishop of London, did not ban John Sharp from preaching after he gave an anti-Catholic sermon, James ordered his removal.

Callamy who bought it at the decease of Mr George Sale ... and now gave me at the decease of Mr John Nickolls, 1745 ".

In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.

Production Company with Walter Folmer and John Zwicki, which gave him his first opportunity to direct.

The majority of readers gave the answer " gry ," an obsolete unit of measure invented by John Locke.

In this story, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars, Col. John Jacob Lehmanowsky, settled in Indiana later in life and gave lectures on the " Wars of Europe " in which he extolled the virtues of the hussars, which his audience heard as " hoosiers ".

* 1963 – U. S. President John F. Kennedy gave his " Ich bin ein Berliner " speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.