Reviews Supplemental

07 Sep 2018: Looking Glass/"Subway Serenade" (1973)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/eat-fresh.html

finishing a discography (of just two albums but still)

the first track would be better without the chorus

08 Sep 2018: Paul McCartney/"Egypt Station" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/card-games-ahoy.html

track six features some nice pussyfooting around the word "fuck"
if you are too much of a pussy to say "fuck", don't write a song where the chorus has "fuck you" in it

this album was a HUGE disappointment after new

09 Sep 2018: Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force/"Odyssey" (1988)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/here-we-go-off-rails.html

10 Sep 2018: Slowdive/"Slowdive EP" (1990)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/dive-dive-dive.html

11 Sep 2018: HammerFall/"Glory to the Brave" (1997)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/death-to-cowards.html

hammerfall's discography is top-shelf power metal
there's only one album left after this, and i'm kind of sad about it

12 Sep 2018: Labyrinth/"Return to Heaven Denied" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/tonight-we-dine-in-hell-unfortunately.html

13 Sep 2018: Ten Years After/"Stonedhenge" (1969)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/dude-woah.html

i don't know what they were going for here
i don't want anything to do with it though

14 Sep 2018: Golden Earring/"Together" (1972)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/forever-and-never-to-part.html

15 Sep 2018: Willie Nelson/"My Way" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/or-highway.html

willie nelson covers standards

16 Sep 2018: Treat/"Dreamhunter" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/stalking-my-prey.html

the cover of tush sucks
it has no grit

17 Sep 2018: Falconer/"Falconer" (2001)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/puncher.html

the guy's voice reminds me of ian anderson
so pretty much this is the perfect metal band

18 Sep 2018: Lost Horizon/"A Flame to the Ground Beneath" (2003)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/reward.html

this album begins with the filleriest of filler instrumentals
the band needs someone else to write their songs; their ability at their instruments/vocals are fine

19 Sep 2018: Gun/"Gun" (1968)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/second-amendment.html

20 Sep 2018: The Tragically Hip/"Fully Completely" (1992)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/totally-undeniably.html

tragically boring

21 Sep 2018: Chuck Berry/"New Juke Box Hits" (1961)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/stars-in-his-eyes.html

more like new juke box filler

22 Sep 2018: Bloodbound/"Nosferatu" (2006)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/witty-retordt.html

23 Sep 2018: Savatage/"Handful of Rain" (1994)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/acid-rain.html

24 Sep 2018: Overkill/"Feel the Fire" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/its-hot.html

while looking at yesterday's album on RYM, i saw a related thread that was basically "metal with vocals that aren't horrific"
that lead me here and a few other places we might check out later

the second track has those cheesy anthrax gang vocals
their cover of sonic reducer sucks

25 Sep 2018: Wind Rose/"Wardens of the West Wind" (2015)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/powerful-metal.html

26 Sep 2018: Testament/"The Legacy" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/show-lot-of-legacy.html

27 Sep 2018: Warren Zevon/"The Wind" (2003)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/gentle-breeze.html

finishing a discography kind of
there was a posthumous album with unreleased shit but you know

28 Sep 2018: Greg Kihn/"Citizen Kihn" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/rosebud.html

29 Sep 2018: Built to Spill/"You in Reverse" (2006)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/uoy.html

30 Sep 2018: Rod Stewart/"Blood Red Roses" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/09/fuck-blood-blue-roses.html

01 Oct 2018: The Beatles/"Yellow Submarine" (1969) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/10/yellow-submarine-revisited.html

confession: i have never listened to this album in full
i have never seen the movie, and have never listened to the score

the title track is still just nice (if i gave it a different rating on revolver, it's probably a mood/context thing)
i get why only a northern song didn't make a proper album, but i'm glad it saw an official release here and didn't fall to the wayside like not guilty (and didn't get butchered on george's solo albums like not guilty)

all together now is the song i end up thinking about most on this album, so take that however you want
hey bulldog was on my top eleven riffs list and it's one of the band's best songs

it's all too much is probably the worst actual song on the album; it's not great and it goes on for too long
(but only because all you need is love is saved by paul's "SHE LOVES YOU YEAH YEAH YEAH" at the end)

i listened to one-and-a-half tracks of the film score and decided that i don't want to do that
would have been a great EP but the B side exists (kind of like a less extreme version of Bowie's Low)