Reviews Supplemental

30 May 2018: Toto/"Hydra" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/05/cut-off-one-track-and-two-more-will.html

the follow-up to toto's abysmal 1978 self-titled debut
the only good thing on that album was hold the line and it didn't even have the courtesy to begin or end on that track

this album is better than the self-titled and toto IV

31 May 2018: Motorhead/"Kiss of Death" (2006)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/05/dokken-did-it-better.html

just kind of exists
it's like they tried to make another motorhead album specifically rather than just writing music

01 Jun 2018: The Beatles/"Revolver" (1966) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/revolver-revisited.html

i've revisited this album before but hey why not
this is the band's worst album by miles and i will not give you an inch on this one

the first track is taxman, which has a nice guitar solo and nice drumming but that's about it; terrible opener
the part where they actually say the names of then-current british tax collectors is absolutely awful and not only dates the song but also shows that, without a doubt, the song was written just to whine about taxes

eleanor rigby's biggest fault is that paul puts no emotion into it
it's just so lethargic and i cannot get behind that

i'm only sleeping also has a lethargic vocal performance but that makes sense because it's, you know, a song about sleeping
i'm only sleeping is one of the highlights of the album, and maybe their best song with nonstandard instrumentation

love you to is an incredibly mediocre version of the next year's within you, without you, which wasn't that good to begin with
here, there, and everywhere sounds more like a mediocre wings song than anything; it should have been saved for wings at the speed of sound

yellow submarine is ringo's most famous song with the band but like i've heard it so much that i can't bring myself to care
i'm coming around on she said, she said; it's pretty good (i still think the black keys did it better though)

good day sunshine would be better without the chorus
and your bird can sing should have opened the album; it's really good and wouldn't scare people off by being weird like some of the other songs here (one of the best guitar riffs the band ever did also)

for no one is completely out there from the rest of the album as far as tone goes but that's what makes it so great
one of two songs vying for best on the album for sure

doctor robert is OFFENSIVELY mediocre; THE most mediocre song the band ever put out
the fact that they put doctor robert on an actual album is baffling (this is why that british "singles aren't on the albums" shit is whack)

i want to tell you (how mediocre this song is)
no emotion, no care, no anything

got to get you into my life is the other best song on the album; it absolutely is everything the rest of this album isn't (good, full of energy, not pretentious)

the album ends on tomorrow never knows
ho boy
i like the drums
i hate everything else
i especially hate the fake bird noises and whatever filter they have on lennon's voice



to settle this once and for all:

GREAT SONGS:
I'm Only Sleeping
She Said, She Said
And Your Bird Can Sing
For No One
Got to Get You Into My Life

GOOD SONGS:
Yellow Submarine

EXCEEDINGLY MEDIOCRE SONGS:
Taxman
Eleanor Rigby
Love You To
Here, There, and Everywhere
Good Day Sunshine
I Want to Tell You

BAD SONGS:
Doctor Robert
Tomorrow Never Knows

02 Jun 2018: Slowdive/"Just for a Day" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/come-on-dude.html

their comeback album from last year was better

03 Jun 2018: Status Quo/"Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon" (1970)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-stove-is-stove-no-matter-where-you-go.html

04 Jun 2018: Manfred Mann's Earth Band/"Nightingales and Bombers" (1975)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/witty-retordt.html

05 Jun 2018: The Sisters of Mercy/"Floodland" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/purge-communists.html

to celebrate the GTA IV review that came out yesterday

the fucking communists invaded britain and made this album, whose lead track is about how the US should get out of berlin and let russia have it
the worst part is that it's actually a really good song
usually i hate the overblown choir-type vocals that bands use but it works REALLY well on this song

this corrosion would be better if it didn't have that stupid "angelic chorus" at the front
everything after this corrosion is just whatever
if that's a fragment of neverland, i definitely don't want to hear the bonus track where it's twelve minutes long

i said i'd do rock band DLC and goddammit it is going to happen

06 Jun 2018: Seether/"Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray" (2011)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/bad-album-name.html

if you are a fan of modern generic hard rock, this is one of the better albums to listen to

07 Jun 2018: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer/"Love Beach" (1978)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/love-beach-baby-love-beach.html

the final suite would be better if they cut out the last three parts

08 Jun 2018: Traffic/"Traffic" (1968)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/you-jump-in-front-of-my-car.html

09 Jun 2018: Firehouse/"Firehouse" (1990)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/put-it-out-put-it-out-put-it-out-put-it.html

10 Jun 2018: Gordon Lightfoot/"Don Quixote" (1972)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/don-quikong.html

11 Jun 2018: Matthew Sweet/"Sunshine Lies" (2008)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/sunshine-go-away-today.html

12 Jun 2018: Billy Bragg/"Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/nothing-to-bragg-about.html

i found this list online of great albums less than half an hour long so i'll be listening to this one because the rest sound like shit
this one is merely mediocre

13 Jun 2018: Ten Years After/"Cricklewood Green" (1970)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/chirp-chirp.html

14 Jun 2018: Crosby, Stills, and Nash/"Daylight Again" (1982)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/dancing-is-over.html

15 Jun 2018: Bachman-Turner Overdrive/"Street Action" (1978)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/action-on-streets.html

16 Jun 2018: Gin Blossoms/"Mixed Reality" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/unattractive-female-alien.html

17 Jun 2018: Jethro Tull/"J-Tull Dot Com" (1999)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/for-love-of-god-not-dot-net.html

18 Jun 2018: The Brian Setzer Orchestra/"The Brian Setzer Orchestra" (1994)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/titled-after-self.html

19 Jun 2018: David Bowie/"Hours" (1999)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/cowers-in-front-of-towers.html

20 Jun 2018: The Doobie Brothers/"Cycles" (1989)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/rinsing-cycles.html

tonight i'm coming through sounds more like a huey lewis and the news song

21 Jun 2018: Steve Winwood/"Arc of a Diver" (1980)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/ball-of-diver.html

22 Jun 2018: Little Feat/"Time Loves a Hero" (1977)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-present-however-does-not-like-heroes.html

23 Jun 2018: Nine Inch Nails/"Bad Witch" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/06/not-on-carpet.html

i would like to thank nine inch nails for finally putting out an album that is a reasonable length