Reviews Supplemental

15 Apr 2018: The Doobie Brothers/"One Step Closer" (1980)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/and-im-about-to-break.html

16 Apr 2018: Triumph/"The Sport of Kings" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/curling.html

17 Apr 2018: Eric Clapton/"There's One in Every Crowd" (1975)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/if-three-is-crowd-that-means-one-third.html

I was gone this weekend, but holy wow you reviewed Starsailor (the album)!?

tim buckley always was my favorite singer/web comic artist. Starsailor is probably his least accessible album, so good job on liking it (or so it seems). Jungle Fire is one of my fave songs of all time.

If you really liked it, I'd recommend you try some of his earlier albums like Goodbye and Hello and Happy Sad.

it was an experience i'll tell you that much
i didn't really know what i was getting into so when i started it was just like "what in the world have i gotten myself into"
but then by the end i kind of got into it
i couldn't listen to it like in a shuffle playlist or something but i would imagine i'd try another at some point
(not this month though there are rules and regulations about that sort of thing)

remember when i said i'd be doing upcoming rock band songs' albums?!
don't call me a liar (just call me lazy)

18 Apr 2018: Status Quo/"Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo" (1968)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/or-pmmftsq.html

gentleman joe's sidewalk cafe is basically the beatles's i don't want to spoil the party
but dude
if you're going to rip off THE BEATLES
at least rip off one of their good songs

paradise flat is great until the cheesy talking part
you're not the backstreet boys dude just stop

19 Apr 2018: Mr. Big/"Actual Size" (2001)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/large-and-in-charge.html

20 Apr 2018: Motorhead/"Hammered" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/stammered.html

21 Apr 2018: BOAT/"Topps" (2008)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/put-me-in-coach.html

finishing a discography

22 Apr 2018: Devo/"New Traditionalists" (1981)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-song-of-my-people.html

23 Apr 2018: Bad Company/"Here Comes Trouble" (1992)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/victor-trouble-president-of-gerber-baby.html

24 Apr 2018: Traffic/"Mr. Fantasy" (1967)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/mr-dungeons-and-also-dragons.html

25 Apr 2018: Sammy Hagar/"Nine on a Ten Scale" (1976)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/more-like-six-on-ten-scale.html

26 Apr 2018: Bachman-Turner Overdrive/"Head-On" (1975)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/talking-about-crashing-cars.html

27 Apr 2018: HammerFall/"Infected" (2011)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/lets-talk-about-no-one.html

the first minute of the album is a dumb pretentious intro to the first song

28 Apr 2018: Ringo Starr/"Ringorama" (2003)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/come-one-come-all.html

ringo should have done more songs with willie nelson

29 Apr 2018: Streets/"1st" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-worst.html

30 Apr 2018: Zebra/"Zebra" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/04/brb-changing-stripes.html

a really bad version of supertramp at the best of times
let's not talk about the worst of times

01 May 2018: The Beatles/"Rubber Soul" (1965) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/05/rubber-soul-revisited.html

the album starts with drive my car, which has a neato riff and guitar solo (i'm not as big a fan of this one as i once was)
norwegian wood features the band's best ever use of sitar; it really makes the song pop if you get what i mean

you won't see me is a nice song but it doesn't stand out at all
i used to say that nowhere man is the lowpoint of the album, but it's actually pretty nice (great harmonies)

think for yourself is probably george's best song to date (as in through 1965); i like the guitar part a lot
now, the word, there is a filler track if ever i've heard one

michelle is a 10/10 and i will fight anyone who says otherwise
what goes on is probably ringo's worst album track; still pretty okay though

girl would not have worked if anyone other than john had sung it; i have never heard anyone cover this song and never want to
i'm looking through you is one of those song i didn't like at first but i really like it now; especially the electric guitar bits

in my life
i'd write more about it but that about sums it up

i tend to confuse wait and you won't see me; wait is the much better song
john and paul overpower george on the harmonies of if i needed someone; not sure if i like that

run for your life is a great way to close the album; after songs of love, loving, and wistful nostalgia, it's time for a song about beating the shit out of that fucking whore
(it's a song that could never be released in 2018 by a non-black man)

02 May 2018: Scorpions/"Humanity - Hour I" (2007)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/05/humans-who-are-scorpions-in-disguise.html

finishing a discography
(there was no humanity - hour ii)

03 May 2018: Moby Grape/"Moby Grape" (1967)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/05/white-grape-holy-uh-grape.html

i heard this is a classic but i have no idea what it is

starts out great but it kind of peters out in the middle

04 May 2018: Status Quo/"Spare Parts" (1969)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/05/ive-got-roundy-and-hexoblo.html

the lisp on that first track is unbearable

05 May 2018: Manfred Mann's Earth Band/"The Roaring Silence" (1976)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/05/wrapped-up-like-douche.html

the obvious draw here is the cover of bruce springsteen's blinded by the light
legitimately one of the best covers in the history of music; it surpasses the original in every way

i don't know how you can go from THAT to fucking singing the dolphin through

06 May 2018: The Soft Machine/"The Soft Machine" (1968)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/05/you-cannot-petition-machine-overlords.html

on the first track, one of the overlapping singers mumbles the words like he hasn't learned them yet
nice chords at the end of it though

they reprise the first track for the third track; that is way too soon and should be illegal


the first track, in spite of everything i said, is the best and most interesting track here

07 May 2018: Don Dokken/"Up from the Ashes" (1990)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/05/down-into-dirt.html

the rest of the band was legitimately holding him back