Reviews Supplemental

19 Jun 2017: Racer X/"Street Lethal" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/witty-retordt.html

20 Jun 2017: Styx/"The Mission" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/missing-mission.html

REALLY makes you miss dennis

21 Jun 2017: Crush 40/"Crush 40" (2003)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/rollin-around-at-speed-of-sound.html

the highlights are escape from the city and LIVE AND LEARN, but we all knew that going in

22 Jun 2017: HammerFall/"Crimson Thunder" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/hammer-to-hammer-to-hammer-to-hammer-to.html

lord of the arcane starts out really cheesy but it REALLY grew on me
"kiss me once and i will surely melt and die
kiss me twice and i will never leave your side"
it's so bad but it's so good

23 Jun 2017: Journey/"Arrival" (2001)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/make-sure-train-gets-here-on-time.html

i'm in the mood for mediocrity today

the first track defied my expectations by being pretty good
damn you journey

this album, against all odds, was really enjoyable
they can't do anything right

24 Jun 2017: 311/"Mosaic" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/three-hundred-and-eleven-mosaics.html

syntax error made the whole thing sort of worth it
sort of

25 Jun 2017: The Steve Miller Band/"Living in the 20th Century" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/not-any-more-youre-not.html

mediocrity redefined

26 Jun 2017: Elvis Presley/"Let's be Friends" (1970)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/also-can-you-help-me-move-saturday.html

the horns on stay away joe are just bad

27 Jun 2017: REO Speedwagon/"Find Your Own Way Home" (2007)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/built-for-speed.html

28 Jun 2017: Scorpions/"Face the Heat" (1993)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/give-yourself-up.html

the best track on the album is the hidden track but it's a hidden track so i hate it instantly

29 Jun 2017: Dream Theatre/"Falling Into Infinity" (1997)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/help.html

the songs are long and uninteresting
except for hollow years which is just long

30 Jun 2017: Miles Kane/"Colour of the Trap" (2011)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/06/colour-of-tarp.html

01 Jul 2017: "Les Beatles Vol. 1" by The Beatles

beatles for sale without a bunch of the filler
but i do miss what you're doing and kansas city/hey hey hey hey

02 Jul 2017: Stone Sour/"Hydrograd" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/exciting-and-new.html

the second track has a title that made me think it was going ULTRA-political, but it's just a rock song about DRIVING FAST and not giving a fuck so uh good job?

"fabuless" is the obligatory "use lyrics from old rock songs" song; the chorus begins "it's been a long time since i've rock and rolled; it's only rock and roll but i like it" i wish i could remove the memory of this song from my brain

whiplash pants (beside having the dumbest song title ever) has a really annoying chorus; "never had a thing" is said in maybe the most annoying way possible

friday knight has an annoying "we all know-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (know-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)" thing going on the chorus


the WORST stone sour album and it isn't even close

03 Jul 2017: Temples/"Volcano" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/hey-i-dont-know.html

i said i'd do it and i'm doing it
this is the band's second and latest album

04 Jul 2017: Mudhoney/"Since We've Become Translucent" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/transparency.html

05 Jul 2017: Foghat/"Girls to Chat and Boys to Bounce" (1981)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/i-dont-understand-what-these-brits-mean.html

06 Jul 2017: Tears for Fears/"Elemental" (1993)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/nova-master.html

power is SUPER-annoying

07 Jul 2017: Joe Walsh/"The Confessor" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/confession-life-is-terrible.html

08 Jul 2017: Judas Priest/"Priest Live" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/live-alive.html

the best version of breaking the law ever
a lot of the band's more fillery tracks here seem a lot better/more grand

if you want to listen to judas priest, you need just three albums:
Unleashed in the East
Priest Live
Painkiller
optional: Screaming for Vengeance

09 Jul 2017: Miles Kane/"Don't Forget Who You Are" (2013)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/or-else.html

10 Jul 2017: Saxon/"Forever Free" (1992)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-title-is-talking-about-death.html

11 Jul 2017: Quiet Riot/"QR III" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/riot-quietly-this-is-library.html

this was the last quiet riot album with kevin dubrow before his departure
then he came back after their 1988 album so

stevo would always use the wild and the young in his guitar hero lists but i never understood it
it's not a very good song
and like
where's the guitar during the verses

12 Jul 2017: Iron Butterfly/"Heavy" (1968)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/in-gadda-da-vida-loca.html

today's rock band dlc is in-a-gadda-da-vida but i've already reviewed that album so have this one instead

13 Jul 2017: Mark Lanegan/"Whiskey for the Holy Ghost" (1994)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/07/no-rye-though-thats-all-mine.html

if you ever have trouble falling asleep, listen to this shit