Reviews Supplemental

16 Nov 2017: The Fireman/"Rushes" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/bushes.html

once again, paul mccartney's electronic project

i rated the third album pretty highly for whatever reason, but this one just goes way over my head


this album is a pleasant elevator ride while you're doing something else
if i had to devote 100% concentration to this shit, though, i'd be bored out of my goddamn mind

17 Nov 2017: Grand Funk Railroad/"Grand Funk Lives" (1981)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/lives-chock-full.html

18 Nov 2017: Pavement/"Brighten the Corners" (1997)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/brighten-coroners.html

i have not liked their first three albums but why not

glad i listened to this one though it was REALLY good

19 Nov 2017: Mountain/"Mystic Fire" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/can-you-take-me-high-enough.html

20 Nov 2017: Iron Butterfly/"Metamorphosis" (1970)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/soon-i-will-be-beautiful-metallic.html

butterfly bleu starts off okay but the third quarter is just someone having stomach trouble for several minutes?

21 Nov 2017: Great White/"Psycho City" (1992)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/fast-car-and-guitar-city.html

big goodbye steals the riff from van halen's feel your love tonight
best song here is (maybe not coincidentally) also the shortest one

22 Nov 2017: Asia/"Aria" (1994)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/shown-in-your-eyes.html

kansas may have made the three best progressive rock albums but asia is the most consistent progressive rock band overall
to be fair though
"progressive rock" is a term that has no inherent meaning so i really can only go by what other people have called it

23 Nov 2017: Beck/"Midnite Vultures" (1999)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/because-its-midnite.html

beck goes up a lot of alleys
but when he goes up YOUR alley goddamn is he great

24 Nov 2017: The Greg Kihn Band/"Kihntagious" (1984)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/achoo.html

25 Nov 2017: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds/"Who Built the Moon?" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/wiggling-butt.html

brand new release
and boy is it mediocre

26 Nov 2017: Modern English/"Stop Start" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/stop-now-go.html

27 Nov 2017: Motorhead/"No Sleep 'til Hammersmith" (1981)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/no-sleep-til.html

28 Nov 2017: James Taylor/"Flag" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/god-save-queen.html

what the fuck is this cover of day tripper

29 Nov 2017: Rick James and the Stone City Band/"Come Get It!" (1978)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/if-you-want-it-here-it-is.html

30 Nov 2017: Albert Hammond Jr./"Momentary Masters" (2015)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/11/chain-me-to-bed-if-just-for-moment.html

albert hammond jr. is one of the guys from the strokes
i own one of his albums for whatever reason
the reason i'm reviewing this one is that a song from it was in forza horizon 3 and i really liked it

it's a really good album

01 Dec 2017: The Beatles/"Please Please Me" (1963) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/12/please-please-me-revisited.html

So, I'm out of their albums/compilations/whatever to review. I was going to just stop doing something from them on the first of the month every month, but then I had this idea.
The first of every month, I will be moving forward through the discography and RE-REVIEWING IT (re-re-reviewing it in the case of revolver)

so here we gooooooooooooooooooooooooo


i saw her standing there is a PERFECT opener, mostly because of the count-in
it's really just a nice song that sets a good tone for their first album

misery honestly doesn't sound very sad
i LOVE the piano part

anna flows pretty well from misery but honestly it shouldn't have been after misery
misery is such a better song than anna, and while anna is still really good, putting it after misery sells it a bit short

so i'm thinking about chains right now and it's just
kind of off
i feel like the harmonica should have had more presence throughout, rather than just isolated areas
as it is, the song feels like it's missing something

boys is a 10/10
no doubt about it
ringo brings a fuckload of charisma to this song
i don't even mind that the song features the absolute WORST, MOST OVERUSED rhyme ever (lips/fingertips)

ask me why is one of those "ooh-wooh-wooh-ooh" songs that existed around that time
it's good a really nice-sounding guitar and i really can't say anything bad about it

closing off side one is the title track, which is severely underrated

love me do, however, would probably be better in a lower key or something

p.s. i love you kind of just exists
easily the least remarkable song here

baby it's you starts with lethargic "sha la la la la la"s
the entire song sounds like they're kind of bored

i felt the same way about do you want to know a secret at first but it's a definite grower
i still feel that it would be better with john and paul's "doo ba doo" shit

a taste of honey just isn't good
it's easily the worst song here, and probably the worst song they'd put on an album until like 1966

there's a place isn't great but it sounds fucking amazing after a taste of honey

twist and shout is a great song, but kind of underwhelming as a closer

i mean yeah this is a great album we already knew how i'd feel
but i'm glad i got it into words i suppose

02 Dec 2017: The Guess Who/"#10" (1973)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/12/skipped-numbers-are-edgy.html

03 Dec 2017: BOAT/"Setting the Paces" (2009)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/12/y-you-too.html

04 Dec 2017: Derringer/"If I Weren't so Romantic, I'd Shoot You" (1978)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/12/love-gun.html

finishing a discography kind of

05 Dec 2017: Krokus/"Krokus" (1976)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/12/music-could-be-better.html

very lacking debut
i'm glad i didn't buy this in 1976, as i wouldn't have bought their GREAT second album in that case

06 Dec 2017: Scorpions/"Pure Instinct" (1996)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-are-animals-naked.html

07 Dec 2017: Pavement/"Terror Twilight" (1999)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/12/scared-lot.html

finishing a discography

08 Dec 2017: Elvis Presley/"Good Times" (1974)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/12/you-know-ive-had-my-share.html

i still don't understand what the difference is between spanish eyes and regular eyes

09 Dec 2017: Ringo Starr/"Time Takes Time" (1992)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/12/waits-for-nobody.html

10 Dec 2017: Faith No More/"Introduce Yourself" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2017/12/hello.html

finishing a discography
this band is SHIT without mike patton
and only mostly shit with him

like this guy "singing" or whatever over this is just terrible
make a voice right now trying to make fun of an idiot
that's what he sounds like