Reviews Supplemental

24 Feb 2018: Bachman-Turner Overdrive/"Bachman-Turner Overdrive II" (1973)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/maximum-overdrive.html

25 Feb 2018: Buckethead/"Electric Tears" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/electrocution.html

26 Feb 2018: Bad Company/"Holy Water" (1990)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/take-dip.html

27 Feb 2018: Mudhoney/"The Lucky Ones" (2008)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/found-penny-on-sidewalk.html

28 Feb 2018: Dokken/"Lightning Strikes Again" (2008)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/ill-be-rocking-all-night-rocking-all.html

01 Mar 2018: The Beatles/"Beatles for Sale" (1964) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/beatles-for-sale-revisited.html

no reply as the opener is just kind of strange
it's not really a strong one in any sense of the word

the problems with a lot of songs on this album (such as i'm a loser) is that they merely exist
i have no strong feelings one way or the other

baby's in black is the first notable song on the album
it's one where they actually tried

rock and roll music may be a "cover for the sake of finishing the album" but fuck if it's not fun

i'll follow the sun is really good when you're listening to it but afterward it's kind of forgettable
mr. moonlight is the absolute worst song on the album bar none

kansas city/hey-hey-hey-hey is one of the band's best covers at all ever at any point
eight days a week is probably the best performance the band has turned in at this point (maybe not the best song but they sing it so well that it doesn't really matter)

words of love is the textbook example of filler
honey don't is probably ringo's worst song with the band; there's just nothing exciting or memorable about it

every little thing is a contractual obligation song
i don't want to spoil the party is just a worse version of i'm a loser

what you're doing is a 10/10 and i refuse to believe otherwise; it should have closed the album but instead
everybody's trying to be my baby closes the album and it's not a flattering closer

02 Mar 2018: FM/"Indiscreet" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/hey-guys-im-planting-bomb.html

i'm back on the train of looking at RYM's "AOR" chart and just plucking albums from it
no clue how this made the chart

03 Mar 2018: I-Ten/"Taking a Cold Look" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/brrrrrrr.html

featuring our boy steve lukather

so uh
these guys apparently were the first ones to perform alone
i always assumed that was a heart original

04 Mar 2018: Streets/"Crimes in Mind" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/thought-crimes.html

featuring the guy from kansas
the band kansas not the state kansas
no one's from the state kansas
(the guy from the band kansas is from missouri)

05 Mar 2018: Scorpions/"Eye II Eye" (1999)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/biocular.html

06 Mar 2018: David Bowie/"Heathen" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/witty-retordt.html

this album came out on my ninth birthday

gemini spaceship is the best track here
it's got an absolutely great drum part and the guitar(?) part is low in the mix, but still legitimately positive adjective

07 Mar 2018: The Guess Who/"Flavours" (1974)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/vanilla-and-also-vanilla.html

08 Mar 2018: Night Ranger/"Seven" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/motorin-motorin-motorin-motorin-motorin.html

why did they call their eighth album released in 1998 seven instead of their seventh album which was released in 1997???



side note:
i fucking hate this wells fargo zelle commercial
the conversation is so unnatural no one talks that way
and honestly
just use cash like a normal fucking person
it's a twisted fucking world where on any ad to sell something you have to specify that you want PHYSICAL UNITED STATES CURRENCY rather than bitcoin or some fucking weird-ass digital transfer



album's shit

09 Mar 2018: Mudhoney/"Vanishing Point" (2013)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/poof.html

they call it that because this is the point where their ability to make good music vanished
i'm exaggerating but you know

10 Mar 2018: Albert Hammond Jr./"Francis Trouble" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/hes-been-dogging-me-since-day-i-was-born.html

zero effort
zero good songs

11 Mar 2018: Myles Kennedy/"Year of the Tiger" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/its-year-of-dog-though.html

alter bridge guy doesn't know what year it is apparently

12 Mar 2018: Jimi Hendrix/"Both Sides of the Sky" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/front-and-left.html

there is a reason that jimi didn't release most of this during his lifetime
there are a few good tracks here but most of the album seems unfinished; particularly the last three tracks

13 Mar 2018: Judas Priest/"Firepower" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/load-cannon.html

they finally did it
they got their shit together

their best album since painkiller
top five of theirs for sure
(not that that's a hard thing to be)

remember when i said i'd do rock band 4 DLC as it came out/didn't offend me as a human being
well

14 Mar 2018: Del Amitri/"Twisted" (1995)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/turned.html

15 Mar 2018: Dokken/"Broken Bones" (2012)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/brokken-bones.html

ballads: the album
you could have told me this was a bon jovi album and i would have believed you

okay so
my internet shit the bed
and i had to review some albums in weird-ass ways
but since all of my word documents were on the computer and the computer couldn't into internet, i had to wait to post until today

sorry


16 Mar 2018: Badfinger/"Airwaves" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/wave-em-round-like-you-just-dont-care.html

this is legitimately the best badfinger album
Lost Inside Your Love, Love is Gonna Come at Last, Sympathy, and Come Down Hard are the first legitimately great songs the band ever wrote
(Come and Get It was, of course, written by Paul McCartney)

if i were in a better internet situation right now i'd definitely add Come Down Hard to the list of good riffs that i keep forgetting about

i'm legitimately impressed by this album, honestly
if you like classic rock on the softer side of that radio designation, this is a really good choice
you could call it generic and you'd probably be right but sometimes generic is just what you want/need

worst track is the last track
they put a lot of effort into trying to make the next let it be or whatever but it just isn't good

17 Mar 2018: Screaming Trees/"Other Worlds" (1988)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/my-internet-is-not-currently-working.html

18 Mar 2018: Stone Temple Pilots/"Stone Temple Pilots" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/big-x.html

the first album STP released after scott weiland's death (is it bad that 'stapp' came to mind before 'weiland')
so they replaced weiland with CH3ZD4R B3NN1NGT0N right but then he died
so they replaced HIM with some guy from that singing show
the voice i think
already the single most relevant constant from that show ever
oh wait sorry
he was on the x factor USA
so the voice still hasn't done anything remotely notable

i hate when bands have more than one self-titled album (unless they're weezer in which case it's awesome)

it's
not bad
better than i was expecting really

the album shines when it's you know rock songs instead of ballads
new guy does a pretty good job
if i didn't know scott weiland died you could have convinced me it was just him after losing some of what made him special due to

age/drugs/whatever

19 Mar 2018: Clover/"Clover" (1970)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/tis-neer-eer-oer-mloer-o-cloer.html

this is the band huey lewis was in before the news
part of me wants to say this is more country than rock

i like that the song called monopoly is a love song

20 Mar 2018: Mountain/"Masters of War" (2007)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-best-card-game.html

how about an album entirely consisting of bob dylan covers
that's new and exciting right

putting ozzy osbourne on masters of war just makes me want to listen to war pigs

i do not like this version of mr. tambourine man
and this version of like a rolling stone may be the single worst cover of any song ever recorded