Reviews Supplemental

BONUS REVIEW: "Bad Company" by Bad Company
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2011/04/zeppelins-made-of-lead-by-lead.html
The definition of okay.

13 Aug 2012: "Diver Down" by Van Halen
This is the last Roth Van Halen album I have left to review.
FILLER INSTRUMENTALS EVERYWHERE
Filler Instrumentals: An Album by Van Halen
Diver Down (Because of All These Filler Instrumentals)
Women and Children First (Because They Can't Survive Filler Instrumentals)
Fair Warning (This Album Has Shitloads of Filler Instrumentals)
1984 (The Number of Filler Instrumentals on This Album)

BONUS REVIEW: "Dr. Feelgood" by Motley Crue
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2011/04/help-by-guys.html
CAN THEY REDEEM THEMSELVES AFTER BEING SO MEDIOCRE FOR SO MANY YEARS

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Normally, I don't have much to say about demo versions, but the demo of the title track on this version I have is super-interesting. The final version is from a third-person perspective, talking about the titular character as "he", but this demo is in first-person. Dr. Feelgood is referred to as "I". The verses are completely different, and it's just a cool thing that exists. Guitar solo's slightly different but who cares
The rest of the bonus tracks are throwaways.

14 Aug 2012: "Madman Across the Water" by Elton John
Tiny Dancer starts this album. It is the best Elton John song.
The rest of the album is pretty good. Choirs aren't cool, though.

BONUS REVIEW: "Their Satanic Majesties' Request" by The Rolling Stones
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2011/04/scrobbling-by-scrobblers.html
THE ROLLING STONES, PROFESSIONAL BANDWAGON-JUMPERS
They should have called this Lt. Salt's Desolate Lungs Group Ensemble, or maybe Pvt. Paprika's Companionless Liver Association Orchestra. Maybe Col. Basil's Solitary Pancreas Corporation Troupe? Or perhaps Gen. Nutmeg's Isolated Spleen Coalition Symphony?

15 Aug 2012: "The Last in Line" by Dio
This album is full of good songs, but doesn't have anything I'm jumping out of my seat for.

BONUS REVIEW: "Down to Earth" by Rainbow
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2011/04/hat-has-heart-japan-benefit-album-by.html
The first non-Dio Rainbow album. With a guy named Graham, how can you go wrong?
Speaking of Graham, Since You Been Gone sounds like a Foreigner song.
THIS IS A GREAT ALBUM
LISTEN TO IT OR SOMETHING

16 Aug 2012: "Freaky Styley" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
I'm doing this album as a formality. I know I'll hate it.
AND I DID NEXT ALBUM

BONUS REVIEW: "Red" by King Crimson
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2011/04/give-me-by-diamonds.html
PROGRESSIVE ROCK
INCONSISTENT AND PRETENTIOUS AS ALWAYS

17 Aug 2012: "Walking Into Clarksdale" by Page and Plant
My internet isn't working, so I'm using a PUBLIC COMPUTER
Plant's voice here, in 1998, kind of sucks. A lot. "Awful" is a good word for it.
5/5

18 Aug 2012: "Phenomenon" by UFO
You know, Rock Bottom and shit.
It never reaches the height of Rock Bottom, but Too Young to Know and Built for Comfort are worth checking out.

19 Aug 2012: "Get Your Wings" by Aerosmith, revisited.
So, I won't have internet at all tomorrow. I have a blog post scheduled to go up tomorrow. Let's hope Blogger is cool and not shitty.
Before listening, I only remembered Same Old Song and Dance, Train Kept A-Rollin', and Too Bad, which were orgasmic, as well as Lord of the Thighs, which I remember being shitty. It's not. It's actually okay as fuck.
Woman of the World is a highlight, and makes it obvious that I never listened to this album in full before today, despite owning it foir years.

23 Aug 2012: "Casey Abrams" by Casey Abrams
WELL THEN
Too many instruments at once on side one; you can't pick just one out. They blend together in a bad way.
The songs themselves are very average, lyrically.
Blame it on Me and Wore Out My Soul are great, though.
The song Dry Spell, however, is almost exactly what I wanted out of this album.

22 Aug 2012: "Close to the Edge" by Yes
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2012/08/not-having-internet-sucks-guys-by-frog.html
REALLY LONG SONGS WITH LOADS OF CHANGES
WILL NEVER LISTEN TO THE TITLE TRACK AGAIN
And You and I and that other one are cool, though.

24 Aug 2012: "Sex Machine" by James Brown
LET'S SEE IF THIS MAN CAN REDEEM HIMSELF
Fake live albums are totally amazing and not a stupid idea at all!
You get the annoying "crowd-pleasing", "I am not the one you are interacting with so I don't give a fuck", "just get to the part where music comes out of your mouth hole", but with none of the excuses for it!

21 Aug 2012: "Take it from the Man!" by The Brian Jonestown Massacre
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2012/08/internet-still-not-thing-i-have-by-why.html
Going in 100% blind here. Never heard anything from the band.
It's okay. It's certainly okay.

>fake live album

only the first half is fake live

the last half (starting at open up the door or whatever) actually is live!

also, giving If I Ruled The World filler rating :'(

also i'm surprised you didn't mind Please Please Please due to woman background singers

25 Aug 2012: "Flowers in the Dirt" by Paul McCartney
Because I couldn't find Снова в СССР.
Elvis Costello guests. It's pretty okay.
This album is okay. On-par with the rest of Macca's '80s output.

20 Aug 2012: "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2012/08/filler-review-by-will-be-edited.html
GETTING BACK ON THE HORSE
IT'S PRETTY GOOD
ANOTHER BLUE MARK FOR /MU/

26 Aug 2012: "Astral Weeks" by Van Morrison
LET'S DO IT
Imagine Van Morrison. Then imagine he made an album. That's what this is.
I like it.

BONUS REVIEW: "Forever Changes" by Love
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2011/04/wallet-twenty-three-by-man-of-many.html
I AM GOING TO LISTEN TO THE /MU/ ESSENTIALS LIST UNTIL MY EARDRUMS POP
If this album were any more okay, it would be okay as fuck.

27 Aug 2012: "Songs of Love and Hate" by Leonard Cohen
THE /MU/ ESSENTIALS LIST NEVER STOPS
CHORUS OF CHILDREN RUINING A PERFECTLY GOOD SONG
NEVER CHANGE, PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLES
I really like this album, until the children start coming in. I fucking hate them.
AND NOW THERE ARE WOMEN IN THE BACKGROUND
FUCK MY LIFE

In conclusion: Avalanche is fucking great, and really made me want to give this album a super-high score, but BACKGROUND VOCALISTS ruin the rest of the songs, aside from Love Calls You by Name and Famous Blue Raincoat. There's also a demo of Dress Rehearsal Rag that's cool.
You honestly have no idea how much I hate this. Leonard Cohen's songs of love and/or hate would all be amazing if it was just him singing. He has the right voice. He has the required amount of emotion. The backing vocalists betray all of that. In one fell swoop, they take a 4.5 album down to a 1. A one out of five.
Songs of Love and Hate, my condolences. I didn't want to give you a 1. I wanted you to stand tall in the 4.5s, maybe one day ascending to a 5. Rest in Peace.

BONUS REVIEW: "Either/Or" by Elliott Smith
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2011/04/its-times-like-these-you-learn-to-live.html
/MU/ WILL NEVER STOP
I really like this album. THANKS /MU/

28 Aug 2012: "Remain in Light" by Talking Heads
In a word: average.

BONUS REVIEW: "Second Coming" by The Stone Roses
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2011/03/theres-by-jayman.html
Yellow was right.