Reviews Supplemental

02 Sep 2017: Foghat/"Return of the Boogie Men" (1994)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/return-of-closet-monsters.html

finishing a discography

03 Sep 2017: Dexy's Midnight Runners/"Searching for the Young Soul Rebels" (1980)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/in-midnight-hour.html

i hated too-rye-ay as a whole but i love come on eileen so i'm willing to give them a second shot


conclusion: dexy's midnight runners are not a good band

04 Sep 2017: Saxon/"Dogs of War" (1995)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/bark-bark.html

05 Sep 2017: Gordon Lightfoot/"Did She Mention My Name?" (1968)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/i-sure-hope-not.html

06 Sep 2017: Grand Funk Railroad/"All the Girls in the World, Beware" (1974)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/beware-of-awful-album-art.html

100% the BEST grand funk railroad album
yellow won't like it though


the best song is, of course, some kind of wonderful
it even closes the album like it was always meant to
but then
oh god why
no
please no
not
A HIDDEN TRACK
YOU RUIN FUCKING EVERYTHING
FUCK YOU
YOU FUCKING SHIT
WHOEVER INVENTED HIDDEN TRACKS IS HISTORY'S GREATEST MONSTER

07 Sep 2017: BOAT/"Let's Drag Our Feet" (2007)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/what-drag.html

08 Sep 2017: The Steve Miller Band/"Bingo!" (2010)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/there-was-farmer-who-had-dog.html

best song here is a cover of let the good times roll
that pretty much sums it all up

09 Sep 2017: Sparks/"Hippopotamus" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/hip-hop-potamus.html

overstays its welcome

10 Sep 2017: Gregg Allman/"Southern Blood" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/blood-from-my-legs.html

so like
this is the album gregg was working on before he died
but it doesn't really make me feel anything
it's not a bad album at all, but it's just kind of there

11 Sep 2017: Riot/"Narita" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-chronicles-of-narita-lion-witch-and.html

there has never been a good cover of born to be wild

12 Sep 2017: Red Rider/"Neruda" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/lost-ships-in-triangle.html

13 Sep 2017: The James Gang/"Album" (1969)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/i-refuse.html

14 Sep 2017: A Flock of Seagulls/"The Story of a Young Heart" (1984)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/be-free-tonight.html

suicide day is definitely a top five a flock of seagulls song
(along with i ran, space-age love song, standing in the doorway, and i guess telecommunication?)

15 Sep 2017: The Jam/"Setting Sons" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/betting-buns.html

review numbering is weird because i skipped the two "single edit" bonus tracks

another "bonus tracks are better than most of the album" situation

16 Sep 2017: Foo Fighters/"Concrete and Gold" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/its-got-to-be-better-than-sonic.html

sonic highways was a huge disappointment; so much so that i reviewed it twice, hoping the second time i'd like it more
the lead single from this album wasn't very good so uh
i have low hopes


what the fuck is this first track
run is, of course, not good, as i have previously stated


this album has terrible volume balancing
like, i et this this part is supposed to be quiet and subdued but I CAN'T FUCKING HEAR IT
THEN IF I TURN THE VOLUME UP WHEN YOU START SCREAMING I GO DEAF


best song here is sunday rain, which is sung by taylor hawkins
honestly at this point taylor hawkins is the best member of the band

i'm giving it a 2/5
would have been lower if not for sunday rain

17 Sep 2017: Bad Company/"Fame and Fortune" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/check-it-and-see.html

this sounds more like foreigner than bad company
like, if i gave you this album unmarked and you listened to it you'd be like "oh nice foreigner album"

18 Sep 2017: Sammy Hagar/"Danger Zone" (1980)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/highway-to-the.html

19 Sep 2017: Golden Earring/"Seven Tears" (1971)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/seven-tracks.html

20 Sep 2017: Styx/"Big Bang Theory" (2005)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/zimbabwe.html

an album of bad covers

i am the walrus doesn't work; lennon's voice is too distinct to really let covers of this one work
also they gave it a BIG ROCK ENDING which is such a weird thing to do to that song

their cover of i can see for miles doesn't have that low-key anger that daltrey gives it
so it's shit

their cover of can't find my way home is just plain BAD
summer in the city does NOT work if the singer's voice isn't deep
manic depression is way oversung

the only good cover here is their cover of styx's long nights
they actually do something different with it and it's at least interesting

21 Sep 2017: Ted Nugent/"Nugent" (1982)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/chicken-nugents.html

22 Sep 2017: Meat Loaf/"Bad Attitude" (1984)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/1000-miles-above-sea-level.html

23 Sep 2017: John Fogerty/"Eye of the Zombie" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/because-this-is-thriller.html

24 Sep 2017: The Killers/"Wonderful, Wonderful" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/its-not-confidential.html

the man is an instant contender for the band's best song

this is definitely the band's best album

25 Sep 2017: Ratt/"Detonator" (1990)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/boom.html

26 Sep 2017: Black Country Communion/"BCC IV" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/09/medicine-drip-of-rock-and-roll.html

the crow steals its main riff from bulls on parade