Reviews Supplemental

30 Jan 2018: Meat Loaf/"Welcome to the Neighbourhood" (1995)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/01/here-is-fruit-basket.html

31 Jan 2018: Def Leppard/"Adrenalise" (1992)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/01/lies-all-adrena-lies.html

the main "dun dun dun" guitar riff of the first track would later go on to be used on a huge hit for britney spears; baby one more time

01 Feb 2018: The Beatles/"A Hard Day's Night" (1964) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-hard-days-night-revisited.html

this was the companion album to the first of five movies the band would be a part of in their lifespan
it is also the best of their five movies (as evidenced by the classic scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMjYiCknUYg )
the first half of the album is songs from the movie and the second half is songs not from the movie

so what's there to say about the title track
i like how john and paul both share the song

i should have known better is for the most part forgettable but it uses the cheap tactic of forcing memorability with its "oh woahwoahwoah iiiiiiiiiiiiii"

if i fell is a pretty good ballad but it's outshined hard by and i love her later on (john is simply worse at straightforward ballads than paul)

i'm happy just to dance with you has a neat guitar tone to it but that's about it

and i love her is 10/10 perfect nothing else can be said for it

tell me why is a REALLY nice song; it could have been a different band's most popular song any day of the week
shame it had to be stuck here where it will never get its due
and a definite shame about the next track overshadowing it in every way

can't buy me love ends both the songs that were in the movie and the string of 10/10 tracks
a definite candidate for the band's best pre-1967 song

opening the non-movie tracks with any time at all was a great move honestly
while not up to the standard of the last three tracks, any time at all is still a really nice track
i like john's vocals a lot on the chorus

i'll cry instead is the worst song on the album
it's just filler, plain and simple
you can tell that john just didn't care about it at all in the way he sings it

things we said today is one of those songs that has no immediate impact but the more you listen to the album the more you appreciate it
i really like the atmosphere of the song and paul's vocal part

when i get home is also filler
there is absolutely nothing remarkable or even approaching "okay" about this song
i may have been too harsh on i'll cry instead; it's better than this shit

you can't do that is barely any better

i'll be back is better than the last two tracks so i probably overrated it but well

honestly, this album had more filler than i'd remembered
it's got more than enough classics to earn its place on the shelf but it's really front-loaded

02 Feb 2018: Anthrax/"Sound of White Noise" (1993)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.html

the best anthrax album
i know that's not exactly high praise
but i actually enjoyed this a lot more than i'd expected to
(my expectations were rock bottom)

there's a cover of cheap trick's auf wiedersehen here as a bonus track but it's nowhere near the original
cheap trick's is far more intense
i mean it's not a bad cover i guess but the original is just so much better it's not even funny
(this version gets better at the end but it's still so similar yet inferior that i wouldn't even bother)

then there's a cover of thin lizzy's cowboy song
here's the thing about covering thin lizzy:
phil lynott's voice is perfect
he could have sang about unicorns and rainbows and still have sounded like the manliest motherfucker ever to live
again, the performance anthrax guy gives isn't bad by any means
but he's covering a song sung by someone who was perfect at making the song feel RIGHT
thin lizzy's original cowboy song is just untouchable

03 Feb 2018: Saxon/"Thunderbolt" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/bolt-of-sound.html

does the use of "thunder" instead of "lightning" bother anyone else

this album merely exists
there's nothing about it that is truly notable or that i will remember in ten minutes

04 Feb 2018: Robert Plant/"The Principle of Moments" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/moments-high-school.html

the backing vocals in the first track are kind of really annoying
messin' with the mekon just isn't good; should never have been released (there's not even a melody)

a lot of the songs here are just annoying

05 Feb 2018: The Rolling Stones/"Got Live if You Want It" (1966)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/please-give-me-some-live.html

why did they perform under my thumb in this manner
remove the lyrics and you can't even tell it's under my thumb

on lady jane did they even bother to tune the guitars properly

the second-best song here is somehow 19th nervous breakdown
(i can't get no satisfaction is the best one because they didn't try at all on assembling the setlist)

06 Feb 2018: Ted Nugent/"Little Miss Dangerous" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/little-miss-disasterous.html

today and tomorrow are both (planned to be) albums from the latest batch of rock band DLC
let's get the interesting one out of the way first

07 Feb 2018: The Commodores/"Commodores" (1977)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/commode.html

this album features both brick house AND easy
when it rains it pours i suppose

confession:
i like faith no more's cover of easy better than the original

08 Feb 2018: Nine Days/"The Madding Crowd" (2000)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/majoras-mask-just-got-lot-less-tense.html

do you remember these guys's song?! i do
i hate the one part where he delays it like "this is the story of a ................... girl"

i don't know what the other fifty minutes of this album is here for
(revolve isn't bad though i suppose)

09 Feb 2018: Robert Palmer/"Some People Can do What They Like" (1976)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/not-me-though.html

keep in touch would be a great song if the title lyric were removed completely

the third track is godawful in not just lyrical content but also as a piece of music
he could be saying "fuck yeah tits and chocolate milk" with that voice in the chorus and i'd still hate it
okay i just had the best idea ever
you know how boobs are full of milk?????
WHAT IF we genetically ENGINEERED it so that boobs would instead be full of CHOCOLATE milk
just give me the nobel prize now thanks

10 Feb 2018: Franz Ferdinand/"Always Ascending" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/and-always-twirling-twirling-toward.html

2013's right thoughts etc. was disappointing, only having like two good songs
let's hope the five years since have been good to the band
they have not

why is there a song with rapping

the first track is interesting but after that it's just fucking boring

11 Feb 2018: Visigoth/"Conqueror's Oath" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/cooooooooooonqueeeeeeeeest.html

i apparently reviewed their 2015 album and liked it sooooooooooooooooooooooooo

warrior queen is pretty much EXACTLY what i am looking for when i listen to metal

album of the year

12 Feb 2018: King Kobra/"Ready to Strike" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/gnik-arbok.html

the high notes at the end of shadow rider are just so bad

13 Feb 2018: Ian Hunter/"You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/review-title.html

14 Feb 2018: Eric Clapton/"461 Ocean Boulevard" (1974)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-cream-of-crop.html

if eric clapton would wait and release an album every other year with the five best tracks from the two existing albums, they might be okay
maybe

15 Feb 2018: Stray Cats/"Blast Off!" (1989)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/rocket-to-da-moon.html

16 Feb 2018: Stray Dog/"Stray Dog" (1973)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/never-stray-from-yo-beliefs-dog.html

i did this one for the obvious reason but i'm sure you're wondering what it is
well imagine an early '70s rock album
that's it
nothing crazy or unique
it just kind of is

17 Feb 2018: Greg Kihn/"Greg Kihn" (1976)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/featuring-greg-kith.html

18 Feb 2018: Chuck Berry/"Rockin' at the Hops" (1960)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/rock-n-roll-hopscotch.html

a sequel to johnny b goode kicks off the album
not particularly well mind you

let it rock has like the same exact melody as johnny b goode

19 Feb 2018: David Bowie/"Earthling" (1997)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/hu-man.html

the first track proves that no one is better at singing "so far away" than ZP theart
bowie's constant "so far away" is so fucking annoying

dead man walking is most likely bowie's best song from the '90s
i also like the distorted guitar in the last thing you should do

the album starts out BAD but then it gets good so
if it were a four-song EP consisting of dead man walking, the last thing you should do, law, and seven years in tibet, it would be a great thing
shame about the rest of it

20 Feb 2018: Motorhead/"Overnight Sensation" (1996)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/witty-retordt.html

21 Feb 2018: Night Ranger/"Neverland" (1997)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/never-grow-up.html

22 Feb 2018: Lindsey Buckingham/"Law and Order" (1981)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/criminal-justice-unit.html

what the fuck is with the first track

23 Feb 2018: Joe Walsh/"Ordinary Average Guy" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/never-heard-of-him.html