Reviews Supplemental

24 Jun 2018: Simple Minds/"Sons and Fascination" (1981)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/witty-retordt_24.html

the third track has a really awful noise that keeps repeating throughout it that sounds like a cow mooing

25 Jun 2018: Extreme/"Waiting for the Punchline" (1995)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/gary-cherone-era-van-halen.html

ah yes the old warrant/skid row strategy of becoming a really shitty pseudo-grunge band after your genre dies
it works better for extreme than for either of the above, since extreme weren't good to begin with
(the turkish march and more than words excepted)
and, of course, it's still miles better than the next project gary cherone would undertake

26 Jun 2018: Motorhead/"Aftershock" (2013)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/more-like-afterschlock-am-i-right.html

27 Jun 2018: The Band/"High on the Hog" (1996)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/so-much-ham.html

28 Jun 2018: Ted Nugent/"Spirit of the Wild" (1995)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/witty-retordt_28.html

29 Jun 2018: John Fogerty/"Blue Moon Swamp" (1997)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/once-in-a.html

30 Jun 2018: Triumph/"Surveillance" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/i-before-e-except-after-c-and-words.html

01 Jul 2018: The Beatles/"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band.html

this was the big one, the beginning of the years people seem to like more
the title track has a neat guitar part but i'm kind of numb to it at this point

with a little help from my friends cannot be done justice through words
if anyone else sang the song, it would not work
looking at you, joe cocker

lucy in the sky with diamonds is kind of annoying; definite candidate for worst song here
getting better certainly exists

fixing a hole is underrated; inoffensive paul mccartney songwriting done right
she's leaving home is a song i really liked for a time, but i don't like it much at all any more

being for the benefit of mr. kite is only worth it if you're listening to the love version
within you, without you could be erased from existence and i would not shed a single tear

when i'm sixty-four is the song that made me realise this album has a lot more mediocre songs than i'd remembered
lovely rita is a bit better but whatever

good morning, good morning is really, really good though
the reprise of the title track is superior to the prise

a day in the life, of course, is perfect

this is the first one of these re-listens that has caused me to change my rating of one of their albums
this time, the album's perfect 5/5 rating has been reduced to a 4/5

the only songs i'd actually listen to out of context of my own free will are with a little help from my friends, fixing a hole, good morning, maybe the reprise, and a day in the life

02 Jul 2018: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer/"Black Moon" (1992)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/felony-in-thirty-six-states.html

03 Jul 2018: The Vines/"In Miracle Land" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/it-would-take-miracle-for-vines-to.html

i said i'd do rock band songs and goddammit i plan to just just enough so no one can call me a liar

04 Jul 2018: Looking Glass/"Looking Glass" (1972)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/youre-fine-girl.html

catherine street has a nice guitar solo but it's not the best song up until that point
if you cut out every time the guy says "one by one", that song would probably only be a quarter as long

05 Jul 2018: Gordon Lightfoot/"Back Here on Earth" (1968)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/earthly-desires.html

starts off okay but gets better as it goes on

06 Jul 2018: Modern English/"Mesh and Lace" (1981)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/mash-and-pace.html

07 Jul 2018: James Taylor/"New Moonshine" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/this-one-doesnt-make-you-blind.html

james taylor, except without anything that makes james taylor interesting

08 Jul 2018: Extreme/"Saudades de Rock" (2008)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/hola-senor.html

finishing a discography
the big comeback album, thirteen years after the last one

the first song is absolutely terrible
i do not know how two people got together and decided this was worth recording, much less releasing

09 Jul 2018: W.A.S.P./"Unholy Terror" (2001)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/witty-retordt.html

10 Jul 2018: Starsailor/"All This Life" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/shame-its-all-mosquitoes.html

finishing a discography

11 Jul 2018: Steve Winwood/"Steve Winwood" (1977)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/not-best-thing-to-win.html

12 Jul 2018: Magnum/"Breath of Life" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/put-it-back-in.html

13 Jul 2018: Triumph/"Edge of Excess" (1992)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/dredge-of-excess.html

finishing a discography

14 Jul 2018: Dirty Projectors/"Lamp-Lit Prose" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/prose-for-cameras.html

15 Jul 2018: Bachman-Turner Overdrive/"Rock 'n' Roll Nights" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/better-than-jazz-nights.html

amelia earhart tries to be the next big epic song but it's just kind of annoying
i think it would have worked better with an actual singer

16 Jul 2018: Slowdive/"Souvlaki" (1993)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/dont-make-loud-noise-or-souvlaki-will.html

17 Jul 2018: Warren Zevon/"Mr. Bad Example" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/i-smoke-up-some-ham-in-boys-room.html

rock band dlc day?! don't mind if

18 Jul 2018: A Day to Remember/"What Separates Me from You" (2010)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/i-have-corndog.html

no expectations going in

oh
nice
harsh screaming vocals
my
favourite

thankfully, this album is mercifully short

the reason i did this album was that the rock band preview used normal-ish singing vocals instead of screaming, and the track they used in rock band is actually decent because of this
however, i don't know if i actually liked it, or was just happy for the reprieve from the terrible screaming

okay so we're on track four and only one track has been terrible screaming but it was the first track so i had a knee-jerk reaction but honestly why would you lead with the outlier track? especially when the outlier is absolute shit like that?

okay track five is terrible screaming again
i missed it so much
said no one ever

if you removed the three screaming tracks, this would be an okay album
shame about what happened