Reviews Supplemental

11 Jun 2016: Cake/"Fashion Nugget" (1996)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/05/gold-in-them-there.html

since i did rumours i deserve to do something i want to do

glad i did the other one first because this album is nowhere near as good
the cover of i will survive is 10/10 though
i don't know how he does it; the vocals are very specifically placed, and it feels like he's stopping himself after certain words in order to "sing" them just a bit later, which gives the song a weird gait that just feels so right
shame about the censorship on this particular version though

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12 Jun 2016: Four Non-Blondes/"Bigger, Better, Faster, More!" (1992) [Rock Band review #7]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of-missing-truth-in.html

a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha oh boy
awful in every sense of the word

1. who gave this bitch a microphone
2. who gave this bitch a record deal
3. who bought this shit
4. who decided it was a good idea to put this shit in rock band 4
5. what's going on
6. and i say hey yeah yeah
7. hey yeah yeah
8. i said hey
9. what's going on

it's amazing that they managed to follow up what's going on with an even WORSE song
i think my right eardrum is about to burst and i'm listening to this pretty quietly

i will admit one thing about stevie nicks
she is a better singer than THIS bitch

it's like she's trying to be meat loaf
without understanding why meat loaf is good
meat loaf chooses the proper moments to go over the top
this bitch chooses all the moments
this is, of course, disregarding the terrible voice and songwriting on display here

i feel like this album took twenty years off my life
but i really don't think i had that long left to begin with
so if i just like
stop posting
then this album has killed me

this album makes me wish i were listening to sleater-kinney

"YEAH YEAH, YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH" IS NOT GOOD SONGWRITING
IT SHOULDN'T EVEN QUALIFY AS SONGWRITING

real
real talk:
"yeah" and "oh no" and "aw yeah" and "oh yeah" and "oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh" and shit
CAN'T
BE
THE
MAIN
HOOK
OF
YOUR
SONG
if you make a song with many many yeahs and oh oh ohs and whatever the fuck in place of a chorus
KILL
YOURSELF

it seems like every single fucking song on this piece of shit has a big "YEAH" or "YEAH YEAH" or "YEAH YEAH YEAH" as the fucking main point of the song

you know why she loves you worked?
it was the first one
the first time someone just said "yeah let's just make the chorus 'yeah yeah yeah'"
it's not original any more
it's tired
it's annoying
it's fucking stupid
you're not the beatles
please fuck off and stop polluting the world with your garbage

LIST OF SONGS THAT USE "YEAH", "OH NO", etc. CORRECTLY:
Won't Get Fooled Again
War Pigs
I've Got a Feeling


LIST OF SONGS THAT USE "YEAH", "OH NO", etc. INCORRECTLY BUT ARE STILL GOOD:
Under the Bridge

12 Jun 2016: Aerosmith/"Live! Bootleg" (1978)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/05/leg-of-boots.html

let's wash down that shit with some good shit
this is one of those live albums that's pulled from many different shows, this time between '77 and '78

the guitars on back in the saddle sound strange
the way steven tyler's voice and the talkbox come together on this sweet emotion is not the best

did steven tyler just forget the opening lyrics to last child
the more i think about it, the more i realise how great of a choice last child was for gh2
a+ harmonix
last child is also a much shorter song than i remembered
i thought it was like five minutes not three-and-a-half

there's a cover of a james brown song here
it's complete filler

Well, now that you've done Rumours, you have no excuse not to do Tusk. It's a rite of passage
(It's essentially a Buckingham showcase album with other stuff interspersed and all of Nicks' tunes are more ballad style songs a la Dreams)

For the most part I agree with your Rumours review. It's pretty overhyped, really, but it has a neat history.
Second Hand News, You Make Loving Fun, The Chain, and Dreams are all great, everything else is pretty just alright. Gold Dust Woman is truly the most faulty song on the record.

nothing's ever good enough for you is it
(i'll probably get to it eventually, but don't be surprised if it takes me until like february)


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spotify doesn't have gary clark jr. so i'm skipping him

13 Jun 2016: Gin Blossoms/"Congratulations, I'm Sorry" (1996) [Rock Band 4 review #8]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of-missing-sincerity.html

been looking forward to this one

follow you down is such a nice song
i like the guitar, the vocals, the feeling of it
shame nothing else on this album is much like it at all
you can tell it's the same band
they just
only wrote one good song

13 Jun 2016: Heart/"Heart" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/05/blood-pumper.html

the one with what about love on it
what about love is one of those songs that's just
flawless

the best heart album i've reviewed
it's all just
nice
it's good
i like it
then you add what about love and it's great

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14 Jun 2016: Grouplove/"Never Trust a Happy Song" (2011) [Rock Band 4 review #9 #9 #9 #9 #9 #9 #9 #9 #9]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of-missing-knowledge-of.html

everyone loves "literally who"s right

the first track is really awful
the vocals are just terrible in every way
the last word of each line starts off in-key, then the guy's pitch and volume rise way too high and my ears can't take this shit

once again, harmonix have chosen a good song from a sea of shitty ones

14 Jun 2016: .38 Special/".38 Special" (1977)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/05/special-guns.html

my one-word ratings mean nothing, remember
"good" for this album is better than "good" for that last one
don't ask why i do things the way i do them
i don't know

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15 Jun 2016: Halestorm/"The Strange Case Of" (2012) [Rock Band 4 review #10]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of.html

protip: never start your album with a bad song
don't be halestorm

once again, harmonix picked the best song from the band
shame it's just okay

please never namedrop zz top ever again
you're not good enough

15 Jun 2016: Alestorm/"Captain Morgan's Revenge" (2008)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/05/revenge-of-the.html

am i clever yet

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16 Jun 2016: Imagine Dragons/"Smoke and Mirrors" (2015) [Rock Band 4 review #11]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of-missing-smoke-and.html

not the one with radioactive
a really bad band that got really lucky with radioactive
i bet my life is shit i don't give a fuck

track seven uses the line "you're stuck in the middle" at about the same cadence and rhythm as wanna be startin' something
it bugged me for like ten minutes until i remembered that it was, in fact, wanna be startin' something

16 Jun 2016: Rick Derringer/"Spring Fever" (1975)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/04/boing.html

a MUCH better album than his debut
i'm actually impressed

i like this a lot actually

the lowpoint of the album is a cover of walkin' the dog
aerosmith did it better

17 Jun 2016: Judas Priest/"Redeemer of Souls" (2014) [Rock Band 4 review #12]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of-missing-soul.html

the first track here feels like
it could have been good
it needed a harder edge
a more crunchy guitar tone would have helped loads

story of the album actually
singing about violent/death shit and whatever and the songs aren't hard enough to support that
the final track is fine the way it is though

that attached five-song EP in the deluxe edition is nothing special
(there is a reason these songs didn't make the album)

17 Jun 2016: Van Morrison/"Wavelength" (1978)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/04/length-of-waves.html

plays out about how you'd expect a "ten years after biggest hit" album to play out

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18 Jun 2016: Mark Ronson/"Uptown Special" (2015) [Rock Band 4 review #13]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of-missing-common-sense.html

the luckliest number you'll ever do
this is one of those albums where every track has at least one guest musician
the only two i've heard of are stevie wonder and bruno mars

the first track is just a waste of stevie wonder's talents really
feel right is fun because you can tell mystikal totally believes everything he's saying about this motherfucker

uptown funk is one of those tracks that goes on for way too long
it should have stopped before the "uptown funk you up" shit starts
the entire ending section is unnecessary and shouldn't be there

18 Jun 2016: Spin Doctors/"Turn it Upside-Down" (1994)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/04/upside-downside.html

oh yay
beginning your album with the most unenthusiastic song about asses ever is not a good idea

maybe if their singer cared anout any of the songs here at all ever, this wouldn't be terrible
get a new singer
one who wants to be here

this album is actually pretty insulting
the fact that they don't respect potential album-buyers enough to put any effort at all into the hour of bullshit they prepared

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19 Jun 2016: Mumford and Sons/"Wilder Mind" (2015) [Rock Band 4 review #14]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of-missing-mindfulness.html

the ultimate "whatever" band
they exist
that's about all i have to say here

the epitome of merely existing

ditmas steals a vocal melody from bringing on the heartbreak (def leppard)
i would not have caught that if i hadn't chosen tonight [last night] to review this album
it is, however, the best song on the album

19 Jun 2016: Rush/"Roll the Bones" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/04/wild-ride.html

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20 Jun 2016: Scorpions/"Comeblack" (2011)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of-missing-proper.html

this album is just rerecordings and cover versions
i wouldn't be surprised if we got a scorpions pack consisting entirely of rerecordings from this album
rock you like a hurricane / blackout / still loving you
sounds pretty logical to me (they'd probably just release hurricane and still loving you as singles to be honest)

beginning with rhythm of love over no one like you or rock you like a hurricane was an odd choice
a bad one, really

klaus's upper register has kind of been lost over the years so songs like no one like you don't work as well as they used to
the chorus in particular sounds really flat

every song seems to be in a lower key, which really hurts them i think
except blackout
good old blackout
mainstay of my guitar hero and rock band lists for years

BUT THE REAL REASON TO LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM IS THE COVER VERSIONS

the cover of tainted love is a lot better than soft cell's
i like it a lot
the cover of children of the revolution is kind of neat; not as good as the original of course

this is the best version of across the universe i've ever heard by the way
the only one i don't hate

i also like this all day and all of the night better than the original, and ruby tuesday as well
the japanese edition bonus cover of shapes of things is also swell


the covers half of this album really improves the final product
i'm glad it wasn't just rerecordings
in fact, if it were just covers of the same quality as the ones here, i might even have given it a 5/5

IF HARMONIX CAN ONLY DRAW FROM THIS ALBUM, HERE IS MY IDEAL SCORPIONS PACK:
Rock You Like a Hurricane
Blackout
Still Loving You
Tainted Love
Tin Soldier
All Day and All of the Night

20 Jun 2016: U2/"Three" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/04/one-and-one-and-one.html

the band's debut ep
it's short but whatever

two of the songs would later be rerecorded for boy
the other wouldn't

i figure it would make sense to do this one, as one of the u2 tracks from rb4 was on boy
also i'm feeling lazy

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21 Jun 2016: St. Vincent/"St. Vincent" (2014)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of-missing-sainthood.html

starting with rattlesnake was a terrible decision, as it is a terrible song
birth in reverse made me kind of excited to review this one, but it seems to be an anomaly on this album, which is a shame

honestly though this is pretty neat; i'll probably review more albums by this woman

21 Jun 2016: Avenged Sevenfold/"Sounding the Seventh Trumpet" (2001)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/04/revengeance.html

after this, i will have officially reviewed all of the avenged sevenfold albums
not sure if i'm proud of that

this was the band's first album, before the """classic""" line-up was together
note the three sets of quotation marks

the first track is one of the best songs this band has ever put out, honest to god (and not just because it's also one of the shortest)
early avenged sevenfold used those awful harsh screamy vocals in a lot of their songs
say what you will about the band nowadays, but they've been much better from city of evil onward than they were originally, except for nightmare (which was just boring)

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22 Jun 2016: System of a Down/"System of a Down" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of-missing-system.html

"because everyone needs a mother, FUCKER"
shakespearre reincarnated

22 Jun 2016: Live/"Mental Jewelry" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2009/04/mentally-handicapped.html

i hated the first album of theirs i reviewed, so let's see if i'm dumb for giving them a second chance
it's actually decent which is nice

and i did give throwing copper a second go and all my complaints the first go-round were accurate

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don't expect my best work

23 Jun 2016: The Both/"The Both" (2014)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/06/julio-and-case-of-missing-sense.html

better than i'd expected