Reviews Supplemental

26 Feb 2015: NOFX/"S&M Airlines" (1989)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-feeling-in-my.html

I felt bad for doing a Fleetwood Mac album over the version that was actually in the game, so I decided to do the opposite here.
For real, though, I'd rather get run over by a truck than review Rumours. I will seriously go play in traffic right now if that's what it takes.

Five Feet Under has a really cool guitar part, if nothing else.
The best song here is the cover of Go Your Own Way. It's got everything Go Your Own Way needs to not be absolute shit. I like the guitar solo.

All this band needs is a new singer who actually can, then they'd be pretty decent. Unlike most punk rock bands, they've got musical talent.

27 Feb 2015: N-R
Albums I've already reviewed:
Panic! At the Disco/"Pretty Odd" (2008)
Paramore/"Riot!" (2007)
Pearl Jam/"Ten" (1991)
Rage Against the Machine/"The Battle of Los Angeles" (1999)
Ratt/"Out of the Cellar" (1984)
Red Hot Chili Peppers/"Blood Sugar Sex Magik" (1991)

27 Feb 2015: Norman Greenbaum/"Spirit in the Sky" (1969)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-jorge-by.html

Spirit in the Sky is probably the second-best song about Jesus I've heard.
Jubilee can go FUCK itself, though.

A very good album with both moments of greatness and moments of "why".

27 Feb 2015: Rise Against/"Siren Song of the Counter-Culture" (2004)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-meta-knight_13.html

ALL OF THEIR SONGS SOUND THE SAME
If you like one Rise Against song, you will like them all.

28 Feb 2015: R-S
Albums I've already reviewed:
Silversun Pickups/"Carnavas" (2006)
Smashing Pumpkins/"Siamese Dream" (1993)
Social Distortion/"White Light, White Heat, White Trash" (1996)
Sonic Youth/"Daydream Nation" (1988)
Soundgarden/"Superunknown" (1994)
Survivor/"Eye of the Tiger" (1982)
System of a Down/"Toxicity" (2001)

28 Feb 2015: Rush/"Hemispheres" (1978)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-thinner-by.html

This album is thirty-six minutes long, and has only four tracks on it. I will not like this.

The first song is a sequel to the last song on the last album. Also, it's eighteen minutes long. Joy.
It's actually not bad, but holy shit, it really should have been.
The final song is a nine-minute instrumental. It's pretty good, surprisingly.

This album should have been awful, but it wasn't. The Trees is actually the worst song here. A really good album, honestly.

28 Feb 2015: Squeeze/"Cool for Cats" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-sanity-by.html

I really wasn't looking forward to this one. Fortunately, Cool for Cats is the only bad song here.
THIS RAISES MY QUESTION

Why do you name your album after its worst song?
Why do you make your worst song the big single?
Why do people like this garbage?

01 Mar 2015: "The Blue Album" by The Beatles

The sequel to The Red Album, encompassing the band's career from 1967-1970.
Despite including two of the band's worst songs from the period (Strawberry Fields Forever and Across the Universe), this is a pretty decent compilation. They used the single version of Get Back, which is nice.
Shame The White Album is under-represented.

01 Mar 2015: S-T
Albums I've already reviewed:
Tenacious D/"The Pick of Destiny" (2006)

01 Mar 2015: Steely Dan/"Countdown to Ecstasy" (1973)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-marth-by.html

The album begins with BODHISATTVA which I actually spelled correctly first try somehow ("Ecstasy" wasn't so lucky, going through incorrect spellings such as "Extacy", "Extasy", and "Ecstacy" [It's really not my fault that the English language is so fucked that it is impossible to tell the difference between "cs", "ks", and "x" aurally]). Bodhisattva is an absolutely great song, and was an amazing choice for Rock Band.

This album never hits the high of Bodhisattva again, but it's still pretty great throughout. Much better than I was expecting, especially Razor Boy and King of the World.

01 Mar 2015: Talking Heads/"77" (1977)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-lack-of.html

I do not like Talking Heads, and this album has not changed that.

02 Mar 2015: T
Albums I've already reviewed:
The Allman Brothers Band/"Brothers and Sisters" (1973)
The Go-Gos/"Beauty and the Beat" (1981)
The Guess Who/"American Woman" (1970)
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones/"More Noise and Other Disturbances" (1992)
The Offspring/"Smash" (1994)
The Presidents of the United States of America/"George Washington etc." (1995)
The Replacements/"Pleased to Meet Me" (1987)
The Steve Miller Band/"Fly Like an Eagle" (1976)

I wanted to do one that just said "02 Mar 2015: The", but there just HAD to be an odd number of thes. how does one pluralise "the"

02 Mar 2015: Testament/"Souls of Black" (1990)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-nightmares-by.html

METAL

The second track's intro rips off Raining Blood.

Can Testament replace Anthrax or Slayer in the big four? Unlike Anthrax or Slayer, this band is actually good somehow.
Metallica, but not.

02 Mar 2015: The Donnas/"Bitchin'" (2007)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-clothes-by.html

Generic Rock Music: Female Edition
I like this better than the album I reviewed for GH1, but that's really not saying much. There's nothing special about this.
New Kid in School isn't even on this album, what the fuck
It's like a Japanese bonus track or some shit.

03 Mar 2015: The

This is the last day of RB2's main setlist. Tomorrow, we will start on a few of the bonus songs.

03 Mar 2015: The Grateful Dead/"Go to Heaven" (1980)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-flag-by-bags.html

In addition to RB2's Alabama Getaway, Don't Ease Me In from this album was later added as DLC. They're the best two tracks on this album, and bookend it.

The second half of this album is better than the first, as Far from Me and Althea are just filler. I was worried for a minute, but it had a definite upswing.
If they do another Grateful Dead pack, Feel Like a Stranger should definitely be in it.

03 Mar 2015: The Who/"Tommy" (1969)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-trainyard-by.html

I don't want any part of this.
This album is a classic, and it's on the /mu/ essentials list. Normally, that's enough of a reason for me to review something. However, this album is a double album rock opera about a child without the ability to see, hear, or speak by The Who. Forgive me if I want nothing to do with this.

Overture begins the album. It's mostly instrumental, but it's pretty interesting, against all odds. It's immediately followed by filler.
Underture is WAY TOO FUCKING LONG
WHOSE FUCKING IDEA WAS IT TO MAKE IT TEN MINUTES LONG

OH BOY NOW TOMMY IS GETTING MOLESTED BY HIS UNCLE
THIS IS A GREAT ALBUM

Tommy Can You Hear Me is just really annoying.
Smash the Mirror would be pretty good if not for that incredibly annoying "rise" bit.

I really wish Spotify had "accidentally" replaced the last track with the superior We're Not Gonna Take It.


There are some very good songs here (I should say "very good melodies and instrumental parts"), brought down by the ridiculous story. "Overwrought" and "pretentious" don't even begin to describe this album. Should have been a single. Pinball Wizard, that's it. Everything else should have been reworked into NOT FUCKING THIS

Probably the worst album I've ever listened to, but not the worst music I've ever listened to, if that makes sense.

04 Mar 2015: Bonus songs
Albums I've already reviewed:
Bang Camaro/"Bang Camaro II" (2008)

I'd say that RB2's bonus song selection is better than RB1's, overall. There's nothing as absolutely horrible as I'm so Sick, for one.

04 Mar 2015: Anarchy Club/"The Art of War" (2009)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-mission-scallions-by.html

Harmonix got the advance scoop on this album, putting one of its songs in RB2 before it even came out. This band, Vagiant, and Bang Camaro got the same treatment in GH2, and we all know about Chinese Democracy.

This is a better album than A Single Drop of Red, but it's still nothing remarkable. Get Clean was the best song here. The final track is some fucking spoken-word manifesto. Fucking wow.

04 Mar 2015: That Handsome Devil/"A City Dressed in Dynamite" (2008)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-skull-by-half.html

Their singuy's name is Godforbid, just as a note.

An extremely odd album. I'm still not sure what I just heard. It's like this huge mix of genres that shouldn't work, but kind of does, most of the time. Rob the Prez-O-Dent is not indicative of this album's music, even though it fits in perfectly.
It's weird as shit, basically.

05 Mar 2015: Bonus songs
The last day of bonus songs before we get into well over a month of DLC.

05 Mar 2015: The Main Drag/"Yours as Fast as Mine" (2007)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-schoolio-by.html

A Jagged Gorgeous Winter has this great feel to it. It's easily one of the more memorable RB2 bonus songs. It's just a shame that nothing else on the album cared to even try to be as good.
Also, on one track, they spell "your" as "yr", so I hate them forever. Naturally, this song would be the second-best on the album if I weren't morally opposed.
IT IS NOT A WORD IF IT DOES NOT HAVE VOWELS IN IT
Y IS NOT A VOWEL WHEN I MAKES THE "YUH" SOUND AS IN "YELLOW"
STOP FUCKING WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
IT'S CONFUSING ENOUGH AS IT IS

LANGUAGES ARE A MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
YOUR GOAL SHOULD ALWAYS BE TO SPEAK A LANGUAGE CORRECTLY
IF THAT IS NOT WHAT YOU ARE DOING, YOU ARE NOT COMMUNICATING WELL
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU AND YOUR NIGGER FRIENDS ALL UNDERSTAND EBONICS
THAT IS NOT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND IS THUS AN INCORRECT MEANS OF COMMUNICATION, "HOMEBOY"
YOU ARE A LANGUAGE TERRORIST

ANYONE WHO WILFULLY DISREGARDS THE CONVENTIONS OF OUR SOLE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION SO FLAGRANTLY SHOULD BE DEPORTED WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT

05 Mar 2015: The Sterns/"Sinners Stick Together" (2007)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-walnut-by.html

This is easily the best of this round's bonus song albums. If you liked Supreme Girl, you're in luck. If not, look elsewhere. Every song is pretty much exactly like Supreme Girl.

06 Mar 2015: DLC between RB2 and RB3
Albums I've already reviewed:
A WHOLE FUCKING LOT
Notably, many full albums were released as DLC between RB2 and RB3. I've reviewed the following:
Megadeth/"Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?!" (1986)
Rush/"Moving Pictures" (1981)
Red Hot Chili Peppers/"Blood Sugar Sex Magik" (1991)
Motley Crue/"Dr. Feelgood" (1989)
Nirvana/"Nevermind" (1991)*
Foo Fighters/"The Colour and the Shape" (1997)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble/"Texas Flood" (1983)
Pearl Jam/"Ten" (1991)
Guns N' Roses/"Chinese Democracy" (2008)
Jane's Addiction/"Nothing's Shocking" (1988)
Pearl Jam/"Backspacer" (2009)
Megadeth/"Rust in Peace" (1990)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience/"Axis: Bold as Love" (1967)
Judas Priest/"British Steel" (1980)**
Pantera/"The Great Southern Trendkill" (1996)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience/"Are You Experienced?" (1967)***

*Missing Endless, Nameless; Come as You Are and Lithium are live versions
**Harmonix used shitty live versions
***Presented as "Are You Experienced? Rock Band Edition"; missing loads of tracks, notably Red House

Basically, the only non-Greatest Hits album in added in this timeframe is No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom, which I will continue to not have reviewed once this is over.

SO LET'S GET THIS SHIT STARTED

Week one of RB2 (week forty-two overall) had both Megadeth's Peace Sells album (done), and some sort of MTV pack thing. I've done the Panic! At the Disco album, and today's first review will be another album from that, but the other two are going to remain undone.
Week forty-three was the release of Rush's Moving Pictures album, plus singles from The Cult (done), Kasabian (done), The Stone Roses (done), Sleater-Kinney (I'd rather be dead), plus both today's second review and tomorrow's first review. ONWARD

06 Mar 2015: The Plain White T is/"Big Bad World" (2008)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-getting.html

Not the one with Hey There, Delilah.
Do these people try to make generic pop songs, or does it come naturally?

This album has one song ten times. It's like, I get it. You write generic pop songs. There's nothing else to it.

06 Mar 2015: Bad Religion/"The Process of Belief" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-night-away-by.html

This album starts off really strong, but kind of slides down the quality scale throughout. The DLC song, Sorrow, is just okay, and everything after that is filler. I don't know what happened.

07 Mar 2015: DLC
Picking up where we left off: Week forty-four was RHCP's album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (done). Week forty-five was a three-pack from The Offspring (done), plus a bunch of singles from Free (done), Screaming Trees (done), Static X (no), Against Me! (haha no), and today's second review and tomorrow's first review. LET'S GO

07 Mar 2015: Hot Hot Heat/"Make Up the Breakdown" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-whiskey-drink.html

The first thing that strikes me about this album is that it is bad. They need a singperson that isn't completely awful. He ruins every song, and makes this bordering on awful. As it sits, very mediocre. Would not recommend.

07 Mar 2015: George Thorogood and the Destroyers/"Bad to the Bone" (1982)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-hooligans-by.html

Rock Band only ever got one George Thorogood song, and it was his most famous. Can't say it's his best, but whatever.
The album cover is a striking image of George Thorogood thinking "what's that smell?".

This album has some neat songs, but also some filler. It's a middling album. Miss Luann's opening riff is pretty cool, though.

08 Mar 2015: DLC
Week forty-six was Motley Crue's album, Dr. Feelgood (done). Week forty-seven was the best pack, Nirvana 01 (aw yeah). Week forty-eight was a pack by today's second review's artist, plus a bunch of singles, including Silversun Pickups (done), and tomorrow's two reviews.

08 Mar 2015: Harvey Danger/"Little by Little" (2005)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/08/julio-and-case-of-missing-not-sleep-by.html

Never heard of it.
The DLC song is filler, of course. Like, Harmonix legitimately chose the worst song on the album.
It's actually a pretty good album if you can get past Harmonix's poor song choice.

08 Mar 2015: Siouxsie and the Banshees/"The Scream" (1978)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/09/julio-and-case-of-missing-genesis-by.html

Begins with some ambient bullshit filler. Hooray.

The vocals and instruments don't seem to go together at all. It's like a tonedeaf person who's never heard a song before played "match the vocals with the instruments".
There is also a cover of Helter Skelter. It's atonal nonsense over generic powerchords.

Absolute garbage. Half a star, not even going to try and justify it.

09 Mar 2015: DLC
Both of today's reviews are during the same week as Sushi, week forty-eight.

09 Mar 2015: Blink-182/"Dude Ranch" (1997)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/09/julio-and-case-of-missing-gatecrashing.html

I HOPE YOU LIKE BLINK-182
BECAUSE I AM GOING TO END UP REVIEWING HALF THEIR DISCOGRAPHY BEFORE THIS IS THROUGH
(THEIR DISCOGRAPHY IS A LOT LARGER THAN YOU'D THINK)

Did you know that every Blink-182 song sounds exactly the same? It's true. Also, holy shit, why? If you have heard one Blink-182 song, you know exactly what to expect. That, fifteen times in a row.
The runtime is apparently under forty-five minutes, but I think I'm being lied to. This is just going on forever.
The musical equivalent of Groundhog Day.

the next review will be interesting i promise please don't go no more blink-182 for another twenty-three days i promise

09 Mar 2015: The Psychedelic Furs/"Talk Talk Talk" (1981)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/09/julio-and-case-of-missing-five-dollars.html

Singperson needs to stop smoking. His voice is completely shot. The album would be better if they got a non-smoker to sing. Smokey sounds like he doesn't even care about the music, and REALLY brings it down. Songs like I Wanna Sleep with You have nice instrumental parts, but Smokey just brings it right down with his cancerous voice.
Occasionally, there is a good song here, probably in spite of Smokey. It might just be growing on me.
The best part of this album is the saxophone, and that alone bumps it up half a point.

Some pretty good songs brought down by a singperson who's smoked fifty packs a day for a century.
Better than Blink-182, thankfully.

10 Mar 2015: DLC
Week forty-nine featured a pack containing today's first review, plus two singles, which are today's second review and tomorrow's first review. Two days after that, the twenty free songs you get for just having RB2 came out, and that will finish off tomorrow and Thursday.

10 Mar 2015: The Presidents of the United States of America/"These are the Good Times, People" (2008)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2014/09/julio-and-case-of-missing-awakening-by.html

The POTUSA DLC tracks weren't very fun. Ladybug was a pretty cool song, though, so here I am.

I remember not liking the first POTUSA album, but I really like this one. It's really interesting, and doesn't linger in one place for too long. The only sore spot is the last track, Deleter, which has a girl for no reason and the way her and the main guy's voices overlap is really annoying.