Reviews Supplemental

13 Aug 2018: Steppenwolf/"Hour of the Wolf" (1975)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/better-than-hour-of-bull-shark-i-suppose.html

14 Aug 2018: Little Feat/"Down on the Farm" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/cows-and-chickens-and-pigs-oh-my.html

15 Aug 2018: The Doobie Brothers/"Brotherhood" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/bros-in-hood.html

16 Aug 2018: Lynyrd Skynyrd/"God and Guns" (2009)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/all-you-really-need.html

man
the band isn't even close to the same with the new lineup

obama-era songs that are kind of political have such a different air to them than the ones we have nowadays
it's refreshing

17 Aug 2018: The Guess Who/"All This for a Song" (1979)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/all-this-goddamn-fucking-shit.html

this album has a song called taxman
it is a lot better than the beatles's song of the same name
because it doesn't call out individual taxmen
(also the guitar part is nice)

it's gettin' pretty bad would probably have made every guitar hero list i ever made back in the day

18 Aug 2018: Matthew Sweet/"Earth" (1989)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/blue-planet.html

19 Aug 2018: Jethro Tull/"Minstrel in the Gallery" (1975)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/witty-retordt.html

almost finishing a discography

the reason i put this one off is because it sounded boring
it was

20 Aug 2018: Saxon/"Unleash the Beast" (1997)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/saxonphone.html

21 Aug 2018: The Commodores/"Hot on the Tracks" (1976)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/scalding.html

22 Aug 2018: Motorhead/"Snakebite Love" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/love-to-bite-snakes.html

23 Aug 2018: Iron Butterfly/"Scorching Beauty" (1975)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/it-burns.html

the album would be better with a singer who actually can
these vocals are just barely not completely irritating
except on slow songs where they are completely irritating

imagine the guy from sparks
except he can't sing

24 Aug 2018: Fall Out Boy/"Mania" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/many-mania.html

i already regret this
the first track is far above expectations
the only thing that makes it below mediocre is the "are you smelling it" part

remember when we were teenagers and blindly hated fall out boy even though they actually weren't bad?!
well they're bad enough now to make it retroactively deserved

track four features a repeating line: "i'll stop wearing black when they make a darker colour"
except the way he says "colour" is the absolute worst and he does it over and over
way too much of this album is repeating the same line many many times in a row

i hate cheap hooks
the most obvious thing that means is what fall out boy did to death on their last two albums; just have a guy going 'woah-oah-oah' over and over
but this album has a different one that irritates me
you're singing a line normally, but one word has a stutter on it
like the guy says "but you know it's true-ue" and of course it repeats throughout the song and i hate it
i hate music basically

track nine may be the worst recording to ever have been called music

25 Aug 2018: White Denim/"Performance" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/dance-for-me.html

26 Aug 2018: Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood/"With Animals"
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/with-or-without-i-dont-care.html

screaming trees guy and some other guy
the album gets better toward the end but it's a bit too little too late

27 Aug 2018: Alice in Chains/"Rainier Fog" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/and-its-gonna-rain-when-i-die.html

alice in chains's last album was an annoying edgy atheist album so my expectations are low
this album is a lot better than that one thankfully but nowhere near the classic material
about as good as black gives way to blue i guess

28 Aug 2018: Simple Minds/"Walk Between Worlds" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/witty-retordt_28.html

29 Aug 2018: Yngwie J. Malmsteen/"Trilogy" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-third-album-if-you-didnt-catch-it.html

30 Aug 2018: Warren Zevon/"My Ride's Here" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/well-bye.html

the hockey song is absolutely great

31 Aug 2018: Beck/"Golden Feelings" (1993)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/08/better-than-silver-feelings.html

why did he pitch-shift his voice so much
i hate when people do that

heartland feeling would be a fun song if not for:
1. the dumb-ass minute-long intro
2. the pitch-shifting

01 Sep 2018: The Beatles/"The White Album" (1968) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-white-album-revisited.html

back in the ussr is the best opener they could have had; it makes you think nothing is amiss with this album (plus it's a 10/10 song)
dear prudence, in contrast, sucks
there is absolutely nothing good about dear prudence
(the worst thing about it is that it got into rock band the beatles instead of like anything else)

luckily, glass onion brings things back with another 10/10
ob-la-di, ob-la-da is a nice song, but the anthology 3 version is better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp4DDkHXaOs
wild honey pie is exactly how you do a song like that; short, sweet, and to the point

bungalow bill exists
while my guitar gently weeps could have been any other band's best song
however, in the context of the beatles, it is only mediocre
i mean it's better than bungalow bill but it's immediately dwarfed afterward by happiness is a warm gun

martha my dear is basically just paul mccartney being paul mccartney, but this time he's done it better than most other times
i'm so tired is probably the best song lennon ever did with the beatles
piggies exists
however, piggies seems like a masterpiece compared to rocky raccoon
rocky raccoon is the worst track the beatles ever recorded until track 25

i am the biggest ringo apologist, but don't pass me by isn't very good
why don't we do it in the road is a masterpiece
following it with i will is absolutely perfect
julia is kind of boring

birthday has one of the best guitar riffs the band ever wrote
yer blues is one of those songs that is exactly what i want out of lennon; the type of thing that only he would bring to the band, but also it's really good and not pretentious/political/whatever (yer blues also features a really good vocal performance; i don't think anyone could nail this song as well as lennon did, and i say this as a mccartney fan)
mother nature's son is an okay song but it feels really underwhelming after yer blues
and that is doubly true when immediately after it is everybody's got something to hide etc.

sexy sadie exists
helter skelter, though, is one of the band's absolute best songs (also one of the world's most uncoverable songs; i mean how did motley crue and aerosmith fuck it up so goddamn bad when they're naturally harder and heavier bands than the beatles?! it boggles the mind that the only decent cover i've heard is by fucking u2 of all bands)
it's followed by two terrible songs: long long long and revolution 1
revolution 1 is a blight on the face of music

honey pie is a classic cheesy mccartney song; i love it
savoy truffle is the second-best harrison song of the four on this album (isn't that just sad?)
cry baby cry exists

revolution 9 is art
fine art
good night

02 Sep 2018: We are Scientists/"With Love and Squalor" (2005)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/heart.html

the first track does that shitty "oh-oh-oh-oh" stutter bullshit
it's such a cheap fucking hook and i'm fucking sick of it

worth the wait sounds like a poor man's the killers

03 Sep 2018: Def Leppard/"X" (2002)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/cross.html

04 Sep 2018: The Kooks/"Let's Go, Sunshine" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/good-day.html

finishing a discography again
most of track two is just "oh-woah-woah" which is the absolute fucking worst

05 Sep 2018: The Reverend Horton Heat/"Space Heater" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/too-hot-to-handle.html

i hate hidden tracks
i hate it even more when the hidden track is dumb bullshit like someone snoring for two minutes

06 Sep 2018: Iron Butterfly/"Sun and Steel" (1975)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/steal-sun.html

finishing a discography
it's better than the previous album, but this "reunion" still probably should never have happened