Reviews Supplemental

28 Apr 2021: The Shadows of Knight/"Back Door Men" (1966)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/04/surrender-to-the.html

another rym recommendation

29 Apr 2021: Q65/"Revival" (1969)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/04/witty-retordt_29.html

another rym recommendation

30 Apr 2021: The Zoo/"Chocolate Moose" (1968)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/04/vanilla-squirrel.html

another rym recommendation
hey look a broken clock IS right twice a day

01 May 2021: Incubus/"Make Yourself" (1999) [revisited]
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/make-yourself-revisited.html

the two big songs, stellar and drive, are pretty much the only reasons to come
but man are they reasons to come

02 May 2021: The Standells/"Dirty Water" (1966)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/good-old-boston.html

03 May 2021: Royal Blood/"Typhoons" (2021)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/witty-retordt.html

to sum up the band:
first album was great, probably reviewed it during the rock band project or something
second album was
fine

this one's good
and that's all i really wanted

04 May 2021: The Litter/"Emerge" (1969)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/witty-retordt_4.html

another rym recommendation

this album is the bridge between 60s rock and 70s rock
it sounds like the band wanted it to be the 70s already but were stuck in the 60s

the final track is twelve minutes long and it ends in a fifteen-minute drum solo
why'd they have to ruin it like that

05 May 2021: The Druids of Stonehenge/"Creation" (1967)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/droods.html

another rym recommendation

06 May 2021: The Master's Apprentices/"The Master's Apprentices" (1967)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/titled-after-self.html

another rym recommendation
these covers of i feel fine and my girl are interesting at least

i think that i dislike the harmonica as an instrument

07 May 2021: Death Cab for Cutie/"The Photo Album" (2001)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/witty-retordt_7.html

08 May 2021: Weezer/"Van Weezer" (2021)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/never-saw-this-one-coming.html

the long-awaited van weezer

blue dream just fucking stole the riff from crazy train
and it's by far the best song on the album
and it's by far the best song weezer's done since the greatest man that ever lived

weezer have finally done it
their best album since maladroit by far
BY FAR
(maybe because they pandered to me specifically)

previously, that title went to ok human but that was like a 7/10
this i'm giving a 8/10
don't worry about it

precious metal girl is terrible though
(i had the album at 9/10 but they just had to close on THAT)

we'll be back next year for the periwinkle album, which will likely be awful

09 May 2021: /"G-Force" (1987)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/witty-retordt_9.html

the tone on the guitar solos here is just atrocious
white knuckles is like eruption but worse

she's got you is just bad
it's not like "dear god make it stop" bad
but the kind of bad where it's like "i don't like this but i can't be bothered to change the station"

the second half really evens this album back out to "okay" though

10 May 2021: Humble Pie/"Thunderbox" (1974)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/more-like-blunderbox-am-i-right.html

anna is more interesting than when the beatles did it at least
however, 99 pounds is less interesting than when the black crowes did it

11 May 2021: Van Morrison/"A Sense of Wonder" (1984)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/witty-retordt_11.html

12 May 2021: Yes/"Drama" (1980)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/drama-yes.html

actually legitimately impressed by how much i liked this one not gonna lie

13 May 2021: Eric Clapton/"Another Ticket" (1981)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/for-aeroplane.html

14 May 2021: Dirty Projectors/"Ring Road" (2020)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/ring-ring-ring-ring-ring-banana-phone.html

god bless this band, releasing five short EPs in 2020 rather than a whole album
i mean that sincerely
listen to a few tracks, save the rest for later

the EP starts with two great songs which is always nice to see
this is their best release since swing lo magellan
(though i did skip earth crisis)

15 May 2021: The Black Keys/"Delta Kream" (2021)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/call-my-name-delta-kream.html

i'm glad turn blue was just an anomaly
the band's been on an upswing since
this doesn't rank up there with their first five albums, but it's a nice listen

16 May 2021: Autograph/"That's the Stuff" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/doesnt-even-deserve-witty-retordt.html

this is what i imagine people who don't like the 80s think of when they imagine the 80s
it's so nondescript

17 May 2021: Genesis/"Wind and Wuthering" (1976)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/i-cant-believe-its-not-wuther.html

i'll be honest
it only took so long to get to this one because of the word "wuthering" in the title
it's the kind of word you put in an essay to try and impress your high school english teacher so she'll look past the fact that you used five-hundred words to say absolutely nothing
or was that just me
maybe i should have been a politician

18 May 2021: The Living End/"White Noise" (2008)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.html

19 May 2021: Y&T/"Down for the Count" (1985)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/witty-retordt_19.html

poison did your mama don't dance better

20 May 2021: King's X/"Out of the Silent Planet" (1988)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/witty-retordt_20.html

another spotify recommendation

21 May 2021: Cactus/"Restrictions" (1971)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/witty-retordt_21.html

22 May 2021: Syndicate of Sound/"Little Girl" (1966)
http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-high-pitched-wail.html

another spotify recommendation
it's
fine