Reviews Supplemental

02 May 2017: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/"B.R.M.C." (2001)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/06/means-nothing-to-me-as-long-as-theres_2.html

so boring
why even bother making this

reviews are prerecorded

03 May 2017: New Order/"Lowlife" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/lying-low.html

03 May 2017: Motorhead/"Bastards" (1993)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2008/06/means-nothing-to-me-as-long-as-theres.html

i'm changing up the format
doing two albums a day just made me avoid double albums because fuck
so one album a day is the new standard
we'll cross the "first album of the month is always the beatles" when we get there (i'm running out of them honestly)

we'll still get the obligatory "monthly motorhead album!!!" and whatever, but there should be more variety, at least

and i'm going to stop with the "reviews are prerecorded" thing
we all know by now that i'm doing these at least a day in advance


04 May 2017: The Clash/"Sandinista" (1980)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/sand-in-my.html

starting off the new format with a triple album
finishing a discography while we're at it

if music could talk would be complete filler if not for that saxophone
it takes the song from "what" to "mmmmmm"

lose that skin is sung by geddy lee
i'm not looking it up
because it sounds exactly like fucking geddy lee

against all odds, they've made a pretty decent triple album
it's got all kinds of neato tracks and doesn't get boring
there's some awful garbage here but you could say the same about the white album

the white album is a really good comparison, actually
if you're a fan of the band, you'll accept the shit as part of the whole
if you're not, you won't
granted, i like the white album a million times more than sandanista, but the same is true of the bands themselves

for real, though: this is the best album the clash ever made
(the only other one i even liked was give 'em enough rope though)

side F is pretty shit though
they probably could have and should have pared this down to a double album, in spite of what i said previously
i've got conflicting feelings after side F
if side F's bullshit was sprinkled throughout, i wouldn't have noticed
but it's all just THERE

05 May 2017: Great White/"Once Bitten" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-my-my.html

not the one with once bitten twice shy on it
that would be the sequel, Twice Shy

the thing about this album (and i believe i said this about twice shy as well) is that it sounds empty
the bass needs to be turned up to create a fuller sound
as it sits it feels like it's missing something

save your love tries hard to be the next big glam metal ballad but it's just okay

this album is much better than twice shy, even if it doesn't have any song as good as the title track
(honestly once bitten twice shy should have been on both albums)
also the girl on the cover is homely as fuck

06 May 2017: Kasabian/"For Crying Out Loud" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/exactly-what-i-thought.html

three years after the horrific 48:13, we get this
the first track starts off like "what why" but then it grows on you

this is the best kasabian album by miles
i've listened to all of them, and until now empire was the only decent one
this one's pretty nice
not groundbreaking or anything but nice

07 May 2017: The Cult/"Choice of Weapon" (2012)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/i-choose-banjo.html

finishing another discography
how excitement

the singer just sounds old
his voice didn't improve with age
it's kind of like what happened to david bowie's voice
except without the great songs that make it work

there's
one
song
that
is
sung
like
this
and
it's
really
annoying

08 May 2017: The Gregg Allman Band/"I'm No Angel" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/ignore-wings.html

the album art is horrendous
on the left side, there's a red block with a weird yellow line that looks like the MS paint spray can tool, and the text telling you the album name is in cyan

opens with a bruce springsteen song

09 May 2017: ZZ Top/"XXX" (1999)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/yyy.html

there's something about finishing up discographies that just feels so good

there's a track where it's just like an announcer announcing the band
but it's in the MIDDLE of the album
oh wait that's because the last few tracks are live or at least they want you to believe that

the live portion should have just been thrown out
the cover of teddy bear is just dumb

10 May 2017: The Replacements/"Don't Sell or Buy, It's Crap" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/under-penalty-of-law.html

i'm sick so here's just whatever

the joke cover of like a rolling stone didn't need to be released

11 May 2017: Yellowcard/"Where We Stand" (1999)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/history-dont-care-at-all.html

do you remember agnew
i do

this album was most likely an attempt to get into a tony hawk game
they were super-impressed with THPS1 i suppose

nothing here is notable at all
they haven't yet discovered the violin so it's all pretty pointless

12 May 2017: Jethro Tull/"The Broadsword and the Beast" (1982)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/place-your-bets.html

a few songs here are definitely a product of the '80s
like, there's no way jethro tull would make such a song outside of the '80s

songs like pussy willow make it work pretty well though
watching me watching you has some weird-ass '80s-ass synths which is actually kind of neat

overhang is probably the best song here but it's a bonus track (i hate when that happens)
bonus tracks take it from a 3.5 to a 4

13 May 2017: Warrant/"Louder, Harder, Faster" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/stronger-better.html

the hottest newest release from a band that hasn't been relevant since 1990's cherry pie
but what a relevance it was
r.i.p. jani lane

good news: warrant have gone back to being a glam metal band
bad news: it's not a particularly good one

for what it's worth: i feel that warrant can be used as a GREAT EXAMPLE of a glam metal band
they may not be the best one, but within three songs, you can display the genre pretty well to someone who's not into it

cherry pie is the radio hit that everyone knows whether they want to or not
heaven is the GLAM METAL BALLAD
uncle tom's cabin is their best song, and a good display of some of the best the genre has to offer

then of course they went full skid row and made really bad regular metal albums, and now that jani lane's died, they've gone back to glam metal, only less interesting than before


granted, you can do the song examples thing with skid row (youth gone wild / i remember you / here i am), motley crue (looks that kill / home sweet home / too fast for love), poison (talk dirty to me / every rose has its thorn / look what the cat dragged in), etc. etc. but whatever


the final song on this album is a modern bon jovi song, 100%

14 May 2017: Paramore/"After Laughter" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/painful-chest.html

the "rock band" pretense has been dropped
pthe album starts off interesting but drops off quickly

forgiveness just goes on and on and on and it's just like I GET IT ALREADY
no friend is just why even bother it sounds like muddled propaganda; i can barely hear it and i'm not sure i want to

it's
an okay album
i guess
i had high hopes after the first three tracks but it quickly fell apart

15 May 2017: Gordon Lightfoot/"The Way I Feel" (1967)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/not-very-good.html

the best gordon lightfoot album i've listened to by far
there's nothing to say about it; it's just really good

16 May 2017: Harem Scarem/"United" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/we-stand.html

17 May 2017: The Isley Brothers/"Shout!" (1959)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/these-are-things-i-can-do-without.html

i said that i'd do future rock band dlc and here we are

the big surprisingly good song is how deep is the ocean
big fan of the cover of he's got the whole world in his hands as well

i'm kind of glad they divided shout into two parts
part two is plainly inferior

18 May 2017: John Mellencamp/"Sad Clowns and Hillbillies" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/full-of-sorrow-and-regret.html

with guest appearances from martina mcbride and uh other chick it seems like mellencamp is going country
it's not interesting in the slightest

19 May 2017: Elton John/"Rock of the Westies" (1975)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/rock-of-wheaties.html

yell help is one of those songs that's just like
i get it
you can stop now

street kids was in GTA IV and it's easily the best song here

20 May 2017: DragonForce/"Reaching Into Infinity" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/so-far-away.html

SHIT DOG
NEW
DRAGONFORCE

while i miss zp a lot, i'm glad we've still got our boy sam totman
new dragonforce is good but it lacks personality

oh wait this song has death metal vocals
into the trash it goes

the worst dragonforce album

21 May 2017: Goo Goo Dolls/"You Should be Happy" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/shiny-happy-people-holding-hands.html

brand new EP
reviewing today because fire emblem echoes just came out and i want to play it

it's generic as fuck

22 May 2017: B.B. King/"Indianola Mississippi Seeds" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/native-americanola.html

ask me no questions would later influence lynyrd skynyrd to make their song, don't ask me no questions
they share the line "don't ask me no questions and i won't tell you no lies"

ending on the worst song is always a bad idea
hummingbird is just so overblown with the chorus of women at the end and it just isn't very good

23 May 2017: Faces/"First Step" (1970)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/also-last-step.html

starts off really well but quickly devolves into a sea of filler instrumentals

I recognized Hummingbird as a Leon Russell song so I looked up the album...and holy wow look at the all star ensemble on Indianola Mississippi Seeds

BB King, Carole King, Joe Walsh, Leon Russell

Even though I don't typically like basic blues music, time to give this album a try

have fun but i'm pretty sure you won't like it much

24 May 2017: Blink-182/"California" (2016)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/05/rest-in-peace-simultaneous-release.html

I SAID I'D DO UPCOMING ROCK BAND DLC AND BY FUCK I MEANT IT

built this pool is HILARIOUS WOW HA HA HA HA HA
brohemian rhapsody is EVEN HILARIOUSER HA HA HA HA HA