Reviews Supplemental

21 Nov 2018: Powerwolf/"The Sacrament of Sin" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/radical.html

22 Nov 2018: Thaurorod/"Coast of Gold" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/across-seven-seas.html

23 Nov 2018: Slowdive/"Holding Our Breath" (1991)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/for-up-to-ten-minutes.html

24 Nov 2018: Armoured Dawn/"Barbarians in Black" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/barbara-black-accountant.html

brazillian power metal?! who'd have
not sure i'd have called this power metal, but it's pretty good

25 Nov 2018: Grave Digger/"The Living Dead" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/sunday-sunday-sunday-monster-truck-rally.html

the instruments, sure, those are power metal
the vocals, though
no

i love zombie party until the vocals come in
the vocals aren't like terrible but they're not good

26 Nov 2018: Ronnie Dio and the Prophets/"Dio at Domino's" (1963)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/ordering-pizza.html

an early '60s pop album with none other than the king of metal, ronnie james dio, on vocals
everyone has to start somewhere

i actually really like it but i'm not sure if it's a legitimate like or as a novelty
this is kind of like that ken album where i can't bring myself to give it anything other than a perfect score

27 Nov 2018: Bruce Dickinson/"Tyranny of Souls" (2005)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/fuck-souls.html

i'm always a bit skeptical of these solo albums by singers released while they're still in a band
why were these songs not iron maiden songs
were they not good enough
or were they like acid jazz

begins with a pretentious filler intro track
the rest of the album is
okay

28 Nov 2018: Crosby, Stills, and Nash/"Live it Up" (1990)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/whole-lotta-hot-dogs.html

29 Nov 2018: Beast in Black/"Berserker" (2017)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/sir-berker.html

the opening track's opening drumbeat reminds me of the opening of over the mountain
opening

the first track is basically what judas priest would be like if they did power metal
the second track is basically what rick springfield would be like if he did power metal
the seventh track is basically what new kids on the block would be like if they did power metal






so basically this band is what you'd get if you threw AOR and power metal into a blender
so basically this is my favourite band

30 Nov 2018: 10cc/"Sheet Music" (1974)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/11/more-like-shit-music.html

the second track pussyfoots around the word "shit"
i hate that shit
(they could be pussyfooting around "fuck" instead, and in that case my reply is "i hate that fuck")

01 Dec 2018: The Beatles/"Let it Be" (1970) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/let-it-be-revisited.html

their final album
don't really know what i'm going to do for the first of each month next year
(i have an idea though)

two of us is an interesting choice for the opener (i would have gone with i've got a feeling)
it's a nice song but it doesn't really scream opener to me

dig a pony exists (rock band basically gave it a reason to)
across the universe sucks

i me mine has a nice guitar part but the chorus is godawful
george's voice works really well for the verses but goddamn what even are those choruses

the title track is a classic etc. etc.
i'm kind of numb to it

i've got a feeling is the best song on the album
they should have just recorded it twelve times and made an album of it

the one after 909 is a fun break song
the long and winding road is better with the string section than without
for you blue exists

i hate the let it be version of get back
the single/past masters version is so much better

02 Dec 2018: The Reverend Horton Heat/"Whole New Life" (2018)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/cock-fight.html

the reverend has gotten old and it has affected his voice
these songs would be better if they were recorded twenty years ago

03 Dec 2018: Thaurorod/"Anteinferno" (2013)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/ablaze.html

04 Dec 2018: Yngwie J. Malmsteen/"The Seventh Sign" (1994)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/it-was-stop-sign.html

05 Dec 2018: Jake E. Lee/"A Fine Pink Mist" (1996)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/its-my-new-expression.html

06 Dec 2018: Falconer/"Northwind" (2006)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/caw.html

Falconer are the best power metal band

07 Dec 2018: Savatage/"Dead Winter Dead" (1995)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/frozen-to-death.html

track twelve is the classic trans-siberian orchestra piece in every commercial in december

08 Dec 2018: Warren Zevon/"Preludes" (2007)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/before-ludes.html

finishing a discography

there is a demo here of werewolves of london
i didn't recognise it at first without the iconic piano riff
i really appreciate that we didn't get this version

09 Dec 2018: Built to Spill/"Untethered Moon" (2015)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/its-going-to-crash.html

exactly what i wanted to hear

10 Dec 2018: Eric Clapton/"No Reason to Cry" (1976)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/no-excuses.html

hate female backing vocals
no, seriously
just sing your own fucking song
hate eric clapton

11 Dec 2018: Moby Grape/"Moby Grape '69" (1969)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/there-she-blows.html

12 Dec 2018: Gordon Lightfoot/"Old Dan's Records" (1972)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/youd-bettter-take-care.html

13 Dec 2018: LCD Soundsystem/"LCD Soundsystem" (2005)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/its-all-about-led-now.html

i'm only doing the first disc because the second disc spells the word "your" without the vowels and there is nothing i hate more than that

the second track is godawful
once they start singing together, it becomes the absolute worst
i can't call them "harmonies" because their voices are certainly not in harmony with eachother

the electronic noises on track three are really annoying
disco infiltrator is really familiar; like i've heard it in a videogame before

14 Dec 2018: Jeff Scott Soto/"Lost in the Translation" (2004)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/yo-no-soy-marinero.html

THIS is how you do hidden tracks
make one track blank instead of just having a huge gap mid-track

15 Dec 2018: Motorhead/"We are Motorhead" (2000)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/12/if-you-like-to-gamble.html