Reviews Supplemental

Bloody Well Right only got a good!? now that's the crime of the century

I've always liked Hide In Your Shell's chorus progression, but the song as a whole is pretty eh.
And I like Rudy's direct musical call out to The Who's 5:15, keeping up the train theme.

07 Mar 2016: Tears for Fears/"The Hurting" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-hurting-by.html

I had no clue that Tears for Fears originally wrote and recorded Mad World. Unfortunately, their version has absolutely no feeling to it. The lyrics and the music are at odds with eachother. It's at least three times as fast as it should be.

07 Mar 2016: Stray Cats/"Rant 'n' Rave" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/08/help-me-by-guys-who-wont-stop-sneezing.html

I can't believe this. They just played a song of their own on their own album, and bleeped out the word "ass". SO MUCH FOR BEING REBELLIOUS YOU FUCKING RETARDS
BLEEPING OUT A WORD IN A SONG ABOUT BEING A REBEL IS ABSOLUTELY RETARDED
FUCK
OFF
i docked half a star off the album's rating for this

the rest of this album is so phoned in it's not even funny

08 Mar 2016: Joe Walsh/"Barnstorm" (1972)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-cup-by-joe.html

let's just write the same song ten times and call them all different songs

08 Mar 2016: Duran Duran/"Seven and the Ragged Tiger" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/08/fun-days-by-birth-days-not-mine.html

opening with the reflex makes me hopeful that this will be a good album
i hope they don't dash those hopes too soon

This is Duran Duran's best album by miles. While it never again reaches the high of The Reflex, songs like New Moon on Monday, Union of the Snake, and Shadows on Your Side definitely put in a good effort.
I was extremely pleasantly surprised by this album.

sorry for the wait flocks

09 Mar 2016: The Fixx/"Reach the Beach" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-right-now-by.html

09 Mar 2016: Bad Religion/"Against the Grain" (1990)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/08/help-me-to-help-you-by-helpers.html

Bad Religion are one of the best punk rock bands to ever do. They never keep a song or album going for longer than it can support, and, while they are a very "one sound" band, it's a great sound.
This album follows 1989's absolutely brilliant No Control, and is not really anywhere near as good. Oh well.


top three punk rock bands:
1. green day
2. bad religion
3. my chemical romance
the replacements aren't punk are they

10 Mar 2016: Saxon/"Battering Ram" (2015)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-saxophone-by.html

one of the better albums of 2015

i'd just like to post the filler review i just typed up before it's gone forever:
"Glue" by The Adhesives
My favourite band. Their music just sticks with me.

10 Mar 2016: The Rolling Stones/"Voodoo Lounge" (1994)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/08/glue-by-adhesives.html

this band really should have quit after emotional rescue
maybe release start me up as a single if you absolutely must
the world wouldn't be any worse for not having start me up though


through and through could be used as a cute for insomnia

11 Mar 2016: The Jeff Beck Group/"The Jeff Beck Group" (1972)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-gyros-by-gyro.html

I figure we might as well finish this discography now.

The new singer may sound like a poor man's Rod Stewart, but he gets the job done. It's a shame Rod didn't stick around, since the songs here are the best the band's ever put out. Except Sugar Cane, which is irredeemably horrible. well jack white could probably make it a good song but that's because he's a master of black magic

that one part is stricken out because they tricked me into typing that then made a bunch of shitty songs
really
shitty
songs

11 Mar 2016: Goo Goo Dolls/"Goo Goo Dolls" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/08/brand-new-car-by-automakers.html

i really wish this band had a different name
like
any other name

The cover of Sunshine of Your Love is neat. Giving the same touch to Don't Fear the Reaper, however, didn't work well at all.

12 Mar 2016: Wolfmother/"Victorious" (2016)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-stuff-by.html

This is the best Wolfmother album. Whether or not that means anything is debatable.
I actually really like this album for some reason. I don't think it'll win over anyone who hates the band, though.

if you look at my rym score for this album you will be ashamed of me

12 Mar 2016: Journey/"Raised on Radio" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/08/god-blessed-video-by-cheesy-80s-band.html

13 Mar 2016: The Steve Miller Band/"Number Five" (1970)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-by-band-that.html

not very good

sorry for the wait flocks
glocks
stocks
shocks
pox

13 Mar 2016: Rush/"Power Windows" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/08/time-rolls-out-by-cant-make-it.html

guys i
i actually
like
this band


this is their third-best album
it's not ambitious in the slightest
it's just good music

14 Mar 2016: U2/"All That You Can't Leave Behind" (2000)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-jaundice-by.html

a lot of bands have one hit that's just kind of
there
it's not terribly creative or imaginative
it's decent enough but
it's just kind of there

the rolling stones have start me up
aerosmith have DUDE
david bowie had rebel rebel
green day have oh love
queen have we will we will rock you
boston have don't look back
u2 have beautiful day


beautiful day however
has the distinction (along with oh love i suppose)
of being the best song on the album it's on

which means of course
that the rest of the album is bad
the last five tracks really should have been jettisoned

14 Mar 2016: Elton John/"Empty Sky" (1969)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/08/hopeless-by-hopeful.html

sails is very close to being a great song but it needed more time in the oven

15 Mar 2016: Rick Astley/"Hold Me in Your Arms" (1988)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-gas-lamps-by.html

The cover of Ain't Too Proud to Beg is in an oddly low key. Like, Rick's voice sounds deeper than usual. Almost like someone slowed the song down afterward without altering the pitch.


While this album doesn't have anything that lives up to the big four of Whenever You Need Somebody (Never Gonna Give You Up, the title track, Together Forever, and Slippin' Away), this is still a really enjoyable album.
Shame it ends on its worst track.

15 Mar 2016: April Wine/"The Nature of the Beast" (1981)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/08/held-by-items.html

there is nothing to say about this
it's just
there

16 Mar 2016: Taddy Porter/"Stay Golden" (2013)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-slam-by-jam.html

after an amazing debut, this band decided to suck

16 Mar 2016: Elvis Presley/"Something for Everybody" (1961)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/08/kings-and-queens-by-jack.html

confession: i skipped an elvis album
the religious one
sorry


this album splits the album in half, with the ballads at the front and the not-ballads at the back
this works well since the not-ballads are the highlight

17 Mar 2016: Van Morrison/"A Period of Transition" (1977)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-greed-by.html

a period of phoning it in

17 Mar 2016: The Presidents of the United States of America/"Freaked Out and Small" (2000)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/08/grand-designs-by-grandest-man.html

they used normal instruments this time which didn't go so well

18 Mar 2016: Bruce Springsteen/"The Ghost of Tom Joad" (1995)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/julio-and-case-of-missing-springs-by.html

this album is really quiet for some reason i can barely hear it so i have to turn my volume way up and it will destroy my ears when i forget i have done this and try to do something else
thanks bruce
you're amazing

album was phoned in pretty hard
i really don't care what he's mumbling about when all he does is mumble over silence

18 Mar 2016: Meat Loaf/"Midnight at the Lost and Found" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/03/bup-bup-by-booda-dooda.html

sure, he'll never replicate bat out of hell
but this is still a pretty nice album

as a note i went back over bat out of hell and changed my rating of it to 5/5
thank you for