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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
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Meat Loaf- Now you just had to have Meatloaf didn't ya?  I know that you were reviewing another album but I just have to mention a Bat out of Hell it must be one of the most overblown and silliest albums ever conceived with its operatic overtones and it was certainly Jim Steinman's baby, but thanks to Meat Loaf's bombastic singing the whole thing is pulled and we have an album that is probably essential to any CD collection. I put it on now and again and think how silly it is, but I keep on putting it on......I also saw that you did a feature previously on Jim Steinman's solo album (his only I think) whilst that album sounds like a direct sequel to Bat Out of Hell it suffers from Jim Steinman's lack of range and it could have been so much better had Meat Loaf been on it, because the songs were there. I thought Dead Ringer the true follow-up to Bat as a disappointment though.
I see that you have a section of Bruce Dickenson comin up, looking forward to that. |
Kind of just the one point I want to reply on here, that being your Meat Loaf section. Although BOOH can't be taken that seriously, it is a fine album and really moving with songs like "For crying out loud" and "Two of of three ain't bad", with the title track being a total classic, and I would agree that "Dead ringer" was a bit of a letdown, though still a good album (have you heard his latest one?), but as for Jim Steinman...
Well, firstly he had two solo albums, "Bad for good" being his first and featuring the original version of "Surf's up" that appeared later on Meat Loaf's "Bad attitude" album (a truly great ML album!), as well as "Lost boys and golden girls", which resurfaced on "Bat out of Hell II", but I don't understand your comment about his range on "Original sin", as he didn't sing on that. I think he does the monologue on "I've been dreaming up a storm lately", but otherwise all the songs are sung by female vocalists. I do agree though that Meat Loaf would have worked very well on it.
Yes, there's a special on Bruce and tonight I'll be uploading my special on Dio: can you believe it's two years already?