Reviews Supplemental

27 Oct 2018: The Struts/"Young and Dangerous" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/10/disappointing-and-bad.html

the long-awaited second album
starting with a filler track was a BOLD MOVE that didn't pay off
the high notes on the third track are among the worst i've ever heard

for some reason, the lines "i've got to be honest / 'cause we made a promise" made me cringe slightly
not like the meme "cringe" bullshit; i actually had a look on my face and i bent my torso and neck forward a bit

tatler magazine is actually pretty good though which is cool
ashes is so close but it needed more time in the oven

ashes should have closed the album, but instead we great a reprise of the first filler track (this time featuring kesha)
honestly though
kesha improves the song

28 Oct 2018: Dragony/"Masters of the Multiverse" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/10/masters-degree-of-multiverse.html

these power metal albums get more and more ambitious; no longer able to settle for a mere universe
they need a better singer
he sounds like he belongs more in swedish good charlotte than a power metal band

it's okay i guess

29 Oct 2018: Loverboy/"Unfinished Business" (2014)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/10/un-finnish-business.html

30 Oct 2018: Rocka Rollas/"Celtic Kings" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/10/obnoxious-celtic-kings.html

31 Oct 2018: "Bat Head Soup - A Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne"
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-tribute-to-oswald-lucky-rabbit.html

remember back when i did tribute albums
that was a good week

this album features rock stars butchering nine songs from ozzy's solo career, and two from black sabbath (but when i think of those two songs, i think of the tribute version anyway so)

tim "ripper" owens opens the album with a terrible performance on mr. crowley
first he ruins judas priest now this
mr. crowley doesn't work if you just metal scream it
i honestly think only ozzy can do it; his voice is so distinctive
it doesn't work as a straightforward metal song
also what the fuck is yngwie doing to the guitar solos

over the mountain is far less offensive
my standards are very low after that mr. crowley though
lemmy does pretty well with desire

dee snider was the exact wrong person to choose for crazy train
having a traditionally good singer do goodbye to romance just doesn't really work; the girl's voice is too sweet-sounding
jlt's hellraiser is the highlight of the album so far

and it was dethroned one track later
man, this version of shot in the dark is GREAT
i like it better than the original, even
in every respect
jeff scott soto does a GREAT job at the vocals
bruce kulick does better with the guitar part of this song than jake e. lee did

paul gilbert plays guitar on children of the grave here but it's kind of a waste (i like the little trill he does at the end i guess)
it's an okay cover but i'm not jumping up and down

vince neil's paranoid is just silly
it does not work
should have put him on uh
i don't know
(the song called i don't know, i mean)

this version of suicide solution sucks
it has no edge
it has nothing
it's such a non-entity that i would have preferred if they got some shit nu metal band like distrurbed to do it so at least it wouldn't be absolutely nothing

the album ends with i don't know
the vocals suck and the echo effect at the end of every line is awful

album is worth it for shot in the dark and maybe hellraiser but the rest can die in a fire

01 Nov 2018: The Beatles/"Abbey Road" (1969) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/abbey-road-revisited.html

come together is one of those songs that i feel has been done better by like everyone
i'd honestly rather listen to aerosmith's version
the original is growing on me, however
i really like the guitar at the end of the chorus during the long pause between "right now" and "over me"
(the best version of the song is when the guy mashed up come together with fat-bottomed girls)

something does what it does really well
definitely probably the best song george did with the band
(i feel like i said this before about a different song)

maxwell is an alphamale
the ultimate chad
i love this song, unironically
if it wasn't about brutal murder, it would not work in the slightest
if it wasn't performed so light-heartedly, it would not work in the slightest
i would totally play a videogame about maxwell

oh! darling is legitimately in the top five songs
i don't have to qualify that with "that the beatles performed" or "ever in the history of music"
if you are talking about songs, oh! darling is in the top five
it is PERFECT
the bass, the guitar, the piano, the drums, ESPECIALLY the vocals, fucking everything

octopus's garden is ringo's best song

full disclosure: i hated i want you the first time i heard it
the end went on for fucking ever with no end in sight
then it startled the shit out of me when it ended
i thought the power went out
now i love the song so
even if it was just the first part, it would be great
but the ending just works on every level once you know it's there

here comes the sun exists
because sucks fucking ass and it's a blight on the fucking album

then we get to the medley
you never give me your money is great; all it really needed was an ending to be its own song
but it doesn't need that, because the way it ties into the medley is perfect
especially how they reprise it a bit on golden slumbers
(the one two three four five six seven part would be annoying if not for the guitar solo in the background)

sun king?
more like SUCK KING LMFAO
seriously though it's terrible and i wish it wasn't there

mean mr. mustard is okay
it seems a lot better than it is because it directly follows the fucking shit that is sun king but it's not that great
polythene pam has a neato guitar part
she came in through the bathroom window is better than the three parts before it

golden slumbers/carry that weight being together is absolutely perfect
they belong together like cereal and milk

the end is the greatest end to anything ever
the guitar solos and the drum solo and oh god everything is perfect
ringo's drum solo is great because it's not just banging mindlessly on a drum
it's a catchy beat

her majesty is neato
i usually rally against hidden tracks but this one's forgivable because the gap is SHORT (most important thing)
and also it's all meant to be one song anyway

02 Nov 2018: Yngwie J. Malmsteen/"Fire and Ice" (1992)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/neither-aint-so-nice.html

yikes

03 Nov 2018: Falconer/"Chapters from a Vale Forlorn" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/pretentious-album-title.html

i'd say that this is the most pretentious album title ever but then i remembered that coheed and cambria exist

check out my power metal album ratings bro
https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/Rakitox/strm_h,ss.rd/power%20metal

somehow, i have far more high-rated power metal albums than glam metal albums
https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/Rakitox/strm_h,ss.rd/glam%20metal

04 Nov 2018: Bloodbound/"In the Name of Metal" (2012)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/magnesium.html

05 Nov 2018: Espionage/"Digital Dystopia" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/digitise.html

an australian power metal band's first album
i didn't even know they had power metal in australia
they should do it more often because i am a big fan of this

06 Nov 2018: Monument/"Hellhound" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/bark-bark.html

there are so many fucking bands named monument
this one might be the worst
those fucking vocals
they're absolutely horrid

07 Nov 2018: Rick Derringer/"Electra Blues" (1994)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/witty-retordt.html

the title track is just pride and joy though
if it were 2007/8 again, i'd put blue boogie in every guitar hero list ever

08 Nov 2018: Krokus/"Hoodoo" (2010)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/who-do.html

i have never once heard a good cover of born to be wild
they also had a version of this song on their 2017 covers album
i think it's a different version but i can't be bothered to find out
i say this because my rating on that album for born to be wild was "i couldn't tell"
this version here isn't too wild either but i don't think i'd go that far on a rating of it

"give me a rock and roll handshake"
what does that even mean

shot of love is basically a shitty highway to hell

09 Nov 2018: Mad Hatter/"Mad Hatter" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/fuck-these-goddamn-hats.html

swedish power metal

all the laughing in the first track is really stupid
like, i get it
but i don't like it

the singer isn't very good

10 Nov 2018: J Mascis/"Elastic Days" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/periods-generally-go-after-initials.html

11 Nov 2018: Muse/"Simulation Theory" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/just-theory-bro.html

this is a thinly-veiled anti-trump album
foreign celebrities shouldn't criticise the results of another country's elections
how would you feel if we started talking shit about your queen all the time
(oh and she deserves it don't think she doesn't)

12 Nov 2018: Ted Nugent/"The Music Made Me do It" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/ted-my-boy.html

/ourguy/
people may hate him but he's the hero we need
someone has to talk from the right side of the aisle

the guest woman on track five sucks
the repurposed pro-gun cat-scratch fever is better than the original

13 Nov 2018: Blind Guardian/"Tales from the Twilight World" (1990)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/tales-of-early-21st-century-flash-in.html

weird dreams is exactly what i want out of an instrumental

14 Nov 2018: Ginger Baker's Air Force/"Ginger Baker's Air Force" (1970)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/daring-sky-based-raid.html

the first track is really strong
but the second just drags on for too long
most of the tracks here do honestly

i skipped the tribal chanting song because seriously fuck off
i suppose the album could make pretty good background noise

15 Nov 2018: Jeff Scott Soto/"Prism" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/jailbird.html

album starts off brilliantly but devolves into mediocre power ballads
and i usually fucking love power ballads

16 Nov 2018: Toto/"Fahrenheit" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/fuck-celsius.html

the title track is 10/10 '80s
nothing after that is any good

17 Nov 2018: Smashing Pumpkins/"Shiny and Oh-so Bright Vol. 1" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/cant-see.html

18 Nov 2018: Badlands/"Voodoo Highway" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-painful-highway-experience-would-not.html

19 Nov 2018: The Grass Roots/"Leavin' it All Behind" (1969)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/well-bye.html

i heard wait a million years on the radio today (yesterday) and i was like "damn nigga" and i knew i had to review that album

track three has a different singer
he sucks
i really wish he'd stop getting tracks to himself because he is way worse than the first guy

wait a million years really should have been longer

20 Nov 2018: Supertramp/"Even in the Quietest Moments" (1977)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/snowly-piano.html