Reviews Supplemental

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05 Nov 2016: Eddie Murphy/"How Could it Be" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-understanding.html

i have loved party all the time for a long uh time now so it's about time i got around to this one

05 Nov 2016: Eddie Money/"Can't Hold Back" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/12/run-now-while-you-still-can.html

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06 Nov 2016: Elvis Costello/"Painted from Memory" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-yellow.html

featuring BURT BACHARACH
i have no idea who that is but his name is fun to say

this album is the epitome of "it exists"

06 Nov 2016: Elvis Presley/"Roustabout" (1964)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-and-around-lake.html

the best elvis album in YEARS
maybe ever
it's just so fun

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07 Nov 2016: Black Country Communion/"Black Country Communion" (2010)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-darkness.html

glenn hughes, jason bonham, joe bonamassa, and some other guy

the last track could have stood to be a bit shorter

07 Nov 2016: David Coverdale/"Into the Light" (2000)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/12/out-of-darkness.html

finishing a discography that should have been finished long ago

love is blind goes on for a bit too long
the rerecording of too many tears is inferior to the restless heart version

ending on the worst track was an interesting decision
two of the bonus tracks are nice though
all the time in the world just goes on and on and fucking stop already

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08 Nov 2016: Avenged Sevenfold/"The Stage" (2016)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-revengeance.html

oh
boy

the final track is FIFTEEN MINUTES LONG
it should have been like
three

also spotify played the ad for this album like four times as i was listening to it

08 Nov 2016: .38 Special/"Strength in Numbers" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/12/1-2-3-4-5-senses-working-overtime.html

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since i write these 24 hours in advance, these reviews aren't very patriotic
i apologise

09 Nov 2016: Fine Young Cannibals/"The Raw and the Cooked" (1989)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-edibility.html

remember when i said i'd be doing rock band dlc as it happens
well here we are niggas

the first track is super-famous
i love that snare drum it's just so nice
the singuy sounds kind of like cee lo green

as expected, nothing else reaches the level of the big hit but hey

09 Nov 2016: Kane Roberts/"Saints and Sinners" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/11/angelic.html

rym aor?!
it's been a while

basically what def leppard would be if they were better in every way

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fuck yeah america

10 Nov 2016: Ted Nugent/"Weekend Warriors" (1978)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-end-of-world.html

there is no one in this world more american than ted nugent

10 Nov 2016: Blackfoot/"Strikes" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/11/youre-out.html

is there a more AMERICAN genre of music than southern rock?!
(the answer is 'no')

but country grew out of folk which started and was truly perfected in britain

the most american genre is jazz btw

there is nothing more american than taking something the british did and making it better
see also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War

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fuck yeah america

11 Nov 2016: The Amboy Dukes/"Journey to the Centre of the Mind" (1968)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-rowboat.html

is there ANYONE more AMERICAN than TED NUGENT

honestly never would have guessed this was ted nugent if i hadn't known beforehand
sounds like some shit yellow would love

11 Nov 2016: The Four Horsemen/"Nobody Said it Was Easy" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/11/ease-of-use.html

ever wondered what it would be like to have brian johnson in a southern rock band?
just as bad as having him in ac/dc

there's also this one guy who just kind of mumbles over the music sometimes
he's not much better

bad album

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12 Nov 2016: The Band/"Moondog Matinee"
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-whatever.html

the robotic voice effects on the first track are kind of silly and out of place
i don't think that song could be any more annoying if it tried

12 Nov 2016: Elvis Presley/"Girl Happy" (1965)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/11/so-many-girls.html

a lot of these songs just wouldn't work without elvis's raw charisma
they talk about people who can "sing the phonebook", but they're wrong about who can do it
it's not about your range or whatever the fuck; it's about CHARISMA
elvis had this intangible quality where you just like to hear him sing; he's not the rangiest motherfucker on the planet like freddie mercury or whoever, but he's the king of rock and roll for a reason

all that said, this isn't the best collection of songs elvis has ever had to work with
he makes it work better than anyone else could, but it's still not "wow you HAVE to hear this"
it's just nice

the last track is very good though

also the sound quality on the version i'm listening to is suspect

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13 Nov 2016: Simple Minds/"Acoustic" (2016)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-electricity.html

this album came out yesterday as i'm writing this
two days ago as i'm posting this

rerecordings of some of their songs, including their biggest(?) hit, don't you forget about me
if you had just played see the light for me i would have assumed it was a u2 song

13 Nov 2016: Fine Young Cannibals/"Fine Young Cannibals" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/11/upstanding-citizens.html

might as well just finish the discography right away, since there are only two albums

the cover of suspicious minds is pretty neat

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14 Nov 2016: Blue Oyster Cult/"Heaven Forbid" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-forbidden.html

this is the only true studio album of theirs i haven't reviewed

14 Nov 2016: Brian Setzer/"Live Nude Guitars" (1988)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/11/hide-children.html

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15 Nov 2016: Squeeze/"Some Fantastic Place" (1993)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-places-i.html

15 Nov 2016: Pilot/"Morin Heights" (1976)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-like-carrot-heights-am-i-right.html

one of those bands that really only has one good song

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16 Nov 2016: Roy Orbison/"One of the Lonely Ones" (2015)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2016/11/julio-and-case-of-missing-album-for-two.html

i have been trying to do this one since it came out
thank god it's finally time

this album was recorded in 1969 and put on a shelf for over forty-five years