Reviews Supplemental

19 Jul 2018: Savatage/"Gutter Ballet" (1989)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-nutcracker-suite.html

20 Jul 2018: Robert Plant/"Shaken 'n' Stirred" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/sturdy.html

21 Jul 2018: The Doobie Brothers/"The Doobie Brothers" (1971)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/super-doobie-bros-brawl.html

22 Jul 2018: The Band/"Jubilation" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/excitement.html

finishing a discography

23 Jul 2018: The Guess Who/"Guess Who's Back" (1978)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/back-for-attack.html

the album should have been called "guess whose back" and had a bunch of backs on the cover

24 Jul 2018: Motorhead/"The World is Yours" (2010)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-world-is-mine.html

25 Jul 2018: Dan Hartman/"Images" (1976)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/pictures-of-frames.html

26 Jul 2018: The Brian Setzer Orchestra/"Rockin' Rudolph" (2015)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/rude-reindeer.html

finishing a discography in style
the flintstones christmas song is absolutely brilliant

i never understood rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
they say "oh yeah everyone knows dancer dasher prancer etc. but do you know about the most FAMOUS one?!"
if you say everyone knows the other eight, then have to ask if they know about the ninth, that makes it the LEAST famous
it may have become the most famous due to the song's notoriety, but the lyrics of the song make no sense

here comes santa claus has really annoying female singers, who reprise their role on little jack frost

27 Jul 2018: Built to Spill/"Keep it Like a Secret" (1999)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/wet-bed-blues.html

28 Jul 2018: Matthew Sweet/"Modern Art" (2011)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/i-am-modren-man.html

29 Jul 2018: Styx/"Cyclorama" (2003)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/one-big-carrot.html

before even starting, i've noticed this album has a track called "Captain America" and a track called "Genki Desu Ka"
i'm in for a ride

there's a blink-182 song in the middle of this album (kiss your ass goodbye)
why though

yes i can is a fucking backstreet boys song
what is this album

more love for the money is 100% the best styx song of the 21st century



i don't understand why every album needs to be an hour long
i'd rather they release two albums that are each half an hour long, even if the content is the same
more realistically, this would allow for better quality control and a lack of overly long tracks that take themselves more sseriously than they should
in this case, the back half of the album was honestly great but the front half dragged it down

30 Jul 2018: HammerFall/"Legacy of Kings" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/legacy-of-bling.html

31 Jul 2018: Sammy Hagar/"I Never Said Goodbye" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/07/well-bye.html

this album was released while hagar was in van halen, and would be his last solo album until gary cherone joined van halen
"the contractual obligation album"

01 Aug 2018: The Beatles/"Magical Mystery Tour" (1967) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/magical-mystery-tour-revisited.html

their worst movie but not their worst album, as i remember it

the title track is fine for what it is but i'm not jumping out of my seat for it
the fool on the hill has nice flutes, especially that wild one after "around and around and around etc."

flying is just filler, but i'd much rather listen to it than blue jay way
george harrison is my least favourite member of the band
your mother should know gets us back on track with a nice mccartney track that does nothing to offend

i am the walrus is probably the most famous song on the album, and i guess it deserves it
hello goodbye may be silly and redundant but so is all you need is love and people love that one

strawberry fields is fucking awful
i HATE songs where they take a vocal track and change the pitch artificially
if john lennon wanted to combine two arrangements at different speeds, then he shouldn't have half-assed it and recorded a new fucking vocal track
and that fucking horn section and dumbass wankery at the end is so terrible
the love version is actually good listen to that one

penny lane is the example i'd use if someone asks why people don't like mccartney
baby you're a rich man is a really good song and i don't care what anyone else says

all you need is love exists
i wouldn't care for it at all if not for mccartney's she loves you reprise

this album's rating is going down too
half of the album is terrible or filler
the beatles were at their absolute worst from 1966 to 1967

02 Aug 2018: Toto/"Turn Back" (1981)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/peril-ahead.html

03 Aug 2018: Slowdive/"Pygmalion" (1995)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/pigs-and-lions.html

finishing a studio album discography
(there are five EPs but that's a different story)

i ended up skipping most of track two because the chanting was giving me a headache

it's probably a good thing they broke up after this album because it's terrible
they got back together though and made their best album so that's nice

04 Aug 2018: Savatage/"Edge of Thorns" (1993)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/can-i-have-new-crown.html

05 Aug 2018: Three Days Grace/"Transit of Venus" (2012)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/melting-in-atmosphere.html

so i heard animal i have become for the first time in like a decade and somehow that mediocre mid-aughts hard rock song made me feel nostalgic for when it was on the radio every ten seconds (let's hope i never feel that for what i've done or - god forbid - rock star)
time to pummel that feeling into submission

06 Aug 2018: Built to Spill/"Ancient Melodies of the Future" (2001)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/meet-you-all-way-rosanna-yeah.html

very consistent
consistently okay

07 Aug 2018: Ten Years After/"Watt" (1970)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/watt-not-to-do-at-stoplight.html

08 Aug 2018: Robert Palmer/"Pressure Drop" (1975)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/pushing-down-on-me.html

09 Aug 2018: Greg Kihn/"Greg Kihn Again" (1977)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/keep-in-touch-with-mama-kihn.html

10 Aug 2018: The Vines/"Winning Days" (2004)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/never-heard-of-them.html

11 Aug 2018: Miles Kane/"Coup de Grace" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/save-your-money-for-children.html

12 Aug 2018: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer/"In the Hot Seat" (1994)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/ow-fuck.html

for all intents and purposes, finishing a discography

hand of truth has a really neat piano part that sounds like it belongs in a street fighter game
shame it's the only thing worth the time on this album