Reviews Supplemental

23 Aug 2019: Less Than Jake/"Hello, Rockview" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/08/goodbye-cockview.html

24 Aug 2019: Face to Face/"Don't Turn Away" (1982)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/08/cheek-to-cheek.html

would have been improved by a singer who actually can

25 Aug 2019: Pennywise/"Full Circle" (1997)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/08/half-eight.html

26 Aug 2019: Teenage Bottlerocket/"Total" (2005)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/08/total-load.html

hate the first track with its "radio-o-o-o" (it's so annoying)

27 Aug 2019: Strung Out/"Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues" (1996)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/08/theyre-all-wasted.html

actually legitimately one of the better punk rock albums

28 Aug 2019: Lagwagon/"Let's Talk About Feelings" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/08/feelings-of-hate.html

so when everything turns grey started i was like "hey this song is way better than the rest of the album"
then i realised
it's an agent orange cover
you know, the band that wrote good songs
(lagwagon's version is just a straight-up worse one though)

29 Aug 2019: Black Tide/"Light from Above" (2008)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/08/fit-to-be-tide.html

the only song i remember from skate 2 that isn't symptom of the universe was shockwave

30 Aug 2019: The Vines/"Vision Valley" (2006)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/08/witty-retordt.html

31 Aug 2019: Nirvana/"Live and Loud" (2019)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/08/as-loud-as-can-be.html

opening a show with radio-friendly unit-shifter is uh different
these aren't the best performances of these songs
an electric version of the man who sold the world is appreciated, though
endless, nameless, as always, lasts forever and does nothing

probably the most apathetic 5/5 i'll ever give

01 Sep 2019: Radiohead/"COM LAG: 2+2=5" (2004) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/com-lag-225-revisited.html

i was prepared to do both discs of in rainbows today, but then i actually looked at my list and saw that this was next
ho well

the opener is a live version of 2+2=5, which makes me want another live album from radiohead
i'm not usually into remixes, but remyxomatosis is nice (and the name is great)

the only reasons to really care about this are gagging order and fog again, which are legitimately great tracks
everything else is disposable

02 Sep 2019: Agent Orange/"This is the Voice" (1986)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/this-is-my-big-red-chair.html

they were better when they were angry

03 Sep 2019: Ozzy Osbourne/"Live and Loud" (1993)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/louder-than-ever-before.html

this is my 4,000th RYM rating so forgive me
this is one of the best years to have an ozzy live album (with zakk anyway)
no more tears just came out as one of ozzy's best albums, and most of ozzy's best songs were already out anyway (though i did enjoy black rain)

the album starts with an intro that was probably hype as shit if you were there, but as it sits from my perspective, it's just clips from various ozzy songs
this version of i don't want to change the world was on the essential ozzy osbourne, which i own

zakk wylde launching into the star-spangled banner during his guitar solo was NEAT

04 Sep 2019: Gordon Lightfoot/"Shadows" (1982)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/surrender-to-the.html

05 Sep 2019: Deep Blue Something/"Byzantium" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/better-empire-than-romans-thats-for-sure.html

06 Sep 2019: JFA/"Valley of the Yakes" (1983)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/valley-of-damned.html

this is a skate punk recommendation i was going to do earlier but i saved it for when i needed something short (it's just over 20 minutes long)
i'm glad it's not longer

the reason i don't like punk rock as a whole is bands like this; the vocals are just so generic for the genre, which isn't a good thing in this genre's case
basically, this album is the absolute standard for generic punk rock
nothing going for it

the cover of walk don't run is nice though, since it's an instrumental

07 Sep 2019: Status Quo/"Backbone" (2019)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/aint-single-black-bone-in-my-body.html

08 Sep 2019: Neil Diamond/"Just for You" (1967)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/gimme-you.html

why did he cover i'm a believer
he really shouldn't have

09 Sep 2019: Strung Out/"Twisted by Design" (1998)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/twisted-like-spoon.html

this band is what 90% of punk rock should aspire to be
reason to believe would have made every rock band list i ever made if i had heard it in time

10 Sep 2019: W.A.S.P./"Dominator" (2007)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/pushed-into-minivan.html

11 Sep 2019: Less Than Jake/"Losing Streak" (1996)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/never-heard-of-it.html

12 Sep 2019: Adolescents/"Brats in Battalions" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/so-much-bratwurst.html

they covered house of the rising sun
they really shouldn't have

13 Sep 2019: Orden Ogan/"To the End" (2012)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/premature-ending.html

14 Sep 2019: Goo Goo Dolls/"Miracle Pill" (2019)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/cured-my-laziness.html

have i ever mentioned that i hate songs that are like "OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH"
i also hate on the second track where the first line of the chorus ends with "fearless, fearless"
they're such fucking cheap hooks

basically, this has all the trappings of modern male-fronted radio pop
i hate it
you could have told me this was an imagine dragons album and i would not have batted an eye

15 Sep 2019: Pixies/"Beneath the Eyrie" (2019)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/champs-sausage.html

16 Sep 2019: Hall and Oates/"Beauty on a Back Street" (1977)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2019/09/backstreets-back-all-right.html