Reviews Supplemental

26 Mar 2019: Snowy White/"White Flames" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/03/really-hot.html

27 Mar 2019: SOTO/"Divak" (2016)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/03/de-vaccuum.html

so middle-of-the-road it hurts

28 Mar 2019: Alestorm/"Black Sails at Midnight" (2009)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/03/heart-of-lion.html

29 Mar 2019: Julian Lennon/"Help Yourself" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/03/help-me-first-though.html

30 Mar 2019: White Denim/"Side Effects" (2019)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/03/irritable-legs-syndrome.html

31 Mar 2019: Yngwie J. Malmsteen/"Blue Lightning" (2019)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/03/blue-blue-electric-blue.html

this is partially(?) a covers album
yngwie needed to find a better singer

the cover of foxy lady sucks and i'm not much of a fan of the song to begin with (it always struck me as a worse purple haze)
oh speaking of purple haze
this cover is also bad; the cover of foxy lady was honestly better

i've never been much of a fan of while my guitar gently weeps
this cover does nothing to change that

shreddy metal cover of paint it black
we didn't need this
we didn't want this
we don't deserve this garbage

he can shred over paint it black but he can't change the smoke on the water riff ever

01 Apr 2019: Radiohead/"Airbag/How am I Driving?" (1998) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/airbaghow-am-i-driving-revisited.html

airbag is exactly the same as on ok computer
pearly is the song that will make you happy with your purchase right away
a nice instrumental follows
polyethylene is the best song here by a mile

a very good and worthwhile little listen for radiohead fans
i own the CD

02 Apr 2019: Crosby and Nash/"Wind on the Water" (1975)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/wind-up-water.html

03 Apr 2019: The Beach Boys/"Pet Sounds" (1966)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/bark-bark.html

i've long said that 30-45 minutes is the ideal length for an album
this album falls right in that range at 36, and is heralded as a classic
problem: i hate the beach boys
i'm in the mood to torture myself though so let's get to it

man, wouldn't it be nice if i actually enjoyed things
i'll tell you right now that what i hate about the beach boys is the backing vocals where they're like "wooh-ooh-ooh" or "bup bup bup"

wouldn't it be nice opens the album and it's
okay
i don't like the harmonies
but i could see it being a grower if i let it

i can't make out any of the words on you still believe in me when they try to harmonise (even if i think they're just saying the title)
it's also kind of boring and not a good song
i don't like the pointless "aaa-AAAAAAA-aaaaa-AAAAAA" falsettos toward the end
strongly hate them

a good singer? that's not me (you could have told me this was a ramones song and i would have believed you)
track four is straight filler; undeniably
track six is the first time i've ever been glad for a filler instrumental's existence

sloop john b is actually good though not going to lie
god only knows would be good if it had a different singer and cut the "ba ba ba ba" shit out
i know there's an answer and here today are okay which is nice

what the fuck is that title track

better than i thought it would be
still not good for the most part

04 Apr 2019: Great White/"Shot in the Dark" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/one-step-away-from-you.html

coincidentally the same year as ozzy put out his song shot in the dark, making this album instantly IRRELEVANT

05 Apr 2019: Falconer/"Armod" (2011)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/armod-and-dangerous.html

finishing a discography
a sad day

06 Apr 2019: Genesis/"Trespass" (1970)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/past-threshold.html

giving peter gabriel-era genesis a second try
relatively glad i did

07 Apr 2019: Rival Sons/"Feral Roots" (2019)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/feral-old-coots.html

remember when i said i'd be doing all the new rock band songs as they came out
well they've released a lot of dumb bullshit
but this dumb bullshit seems tolerable

sounds like post-brothers the black keys
sounds like nearly every song could be used in one of those youtube trick shot videos

08 Apr 2019: The Glorious Sons/"Young Beauties and Fools" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/huh-f-f-f-foolin.html

more of that sweet rock band shit that no one really wanted

09 Apr 2019: The Four Seasons/"Helicon" (1977)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/never-heard-of-fourth-one.html

10 Apr 2019: Grand Funk Railroad/"Good Singin', Good Playin'" (1976)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/bad-namin.html

finishing a discography
when rubberneck started i clicked on spotify wondering what the fuck this was an ad for

11 Apr 2019: Willie Nelson/"Phases and Stages" (1974)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/life-and-times.html

12 Apr 2019: The Jam/"In the City" (1977)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/take-me-to-your-leader.html

13 Apr 2019: Nirvana/"Live at the Paramount" (2019)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/live-at-paramount-by-nirvana.html

milk it
this is a release of a halloween 1991 show, 28 years later because someone wanted money

disclaimer: celebrity worship culture is bullshit
i don't give a shit about famous people's political views or whatever
i enjoy nirvana's music; i don't care how liberal they were
i wouldn't care if they ate babies and had diaper fetishes (even if the combination is worse than either separately)
unless it's something like rage against the machine where it permeates every single song, it doesn't matter
nirvana have nice, wholesome songs about (perhaps unjustly) getting in trouble at school and having to sit out at recess, something we can all relate to

opening with jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam was an interesting choice
actually a very good one because i never really especially cared for the unplugged cover they did and i like this one a lot
honestly the four tracks they picked to open the album (jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam / aneurysm / drain you / school) was an amazing decision because it appeals to my own tastes
shame about the next two tracks though

i still say smells like teen spirit is in too high of a key for kurt's voice
i like the way his voice dies at the end of the song here, though

i mean, i know what polly is about
but it's still a good song
i like the harmonies here
(the fast-paced rock version from from the muddy banks of whiskah is still the best one though)

every time i hear sliver, i wish they'd done a version with all five verses (the "grampa had a cigarette" verse i think was only on the with the lights out demo)
love buzz is a song i fell out of love with around 2008 but now i'm back in love with it

live endless, nameless is uh interesting

14 Apr 2019: Blind Guardian/"The Forgotten Tales" (1996)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-forgotten-url.html

a covers and rerecordings album
i like how the covers start out played straight, but then ramp up after a little bit
the mr. sandman cover is beautiful
the don't talk to strangers cover didn't need to happen

15 Apr 2019: Powerwolf/"Blood of the Saints" (2011)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/marrow-of-sinners.html

16 Apr 2019: The Lemonheads/"Lovey" (1990)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/and-also-dovey.html

17 Apr 2019: Orden Ogan/"Easton Hope" (2010)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/weston-despair.html

18 Apr 2019: Gerry Rafferty/"Another World" (2003)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/witty-retordt.html

19 Apr 2019: The Melvins/"Bull Head" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/04/the.html

playing sunset overdrive made me realise i'd never done one of these