not logged in
| re: My Review of Meat Loaf's New Las Vegas Show... (Some JS) (SPOILER ALERT) | |
Posted by:  |
rockfenris2005 05:53 am UTC 03/25/14 |
| In reply to: | re: My Review of Meat Loaf's New Las Vegas Show... (Some JS) (SPOILER ALERT) - AndrewG 11:34 pm UTC 03/24/14 |
For those of you who don't know, Meat Loaf mentioned on the UK forum that "Prize Fight Lover" will be one of the tracks on the new album. I think that's wicked. I think they're re-recording it? > The first time I heard it I thought it was pretty good. > The production is pretty awesome I think and Meat's vocals > sound superb on it. But the production seems to hide the > fact these are just poor songs in my opinion. They never > seem to reach a level of comfort or excitement that is > very apparent on the one song that was left off "Prize > Fight Lover". > > So I would say it's my least favourite Meat Loaf album > songwise, even to the extent I much prefer songs such as > "Keep Driving", "Burning Down" and "All of Me", all from > albums which I'm sure took a LOT less effort to put > together. These are simply more interesting songs. I don't > think Meat needs to be singing songs which contain > profanity either. Why? I much prefer poetic lines such as > "Can't you see my faded Levi's bursting apart?" than "I > can barely fit my dick in my pants." I just don't get why > Meat recorded that kind of stuff or "Next time you stab me > in the back you'd better do it to my face." I just think > there is no fun in that. It is a very bleak and serious > approach to lyrics. I just don't like it personally. > > To be absolutely fair though I did enjoy hearing the HCTB > sings live in 2010. I had no problem listening to those 4 > picked songs 4 times in a row as they were performed very > well and Meat's voice was pretty good during the Dec 2010 > tour I thought. > > > This topic turned into the usual Meat Loaf bashing that > > has been going on around this site for about twenty years. > > And what the hell is so bad about Hang Cool? Do I think > > it's a great album? no, do I think the songs are as good > > as Steinman's good ones? (yes he does indeed have some the > > suck) no, but I still think it's a fun album. | |
| reply | | |
| Previous: | re: My Review of Meat Loaf's New Las Vegas Show... (Some JS) (SPOILER ALERT) - AndrewG 11:34 pm UTC 03/24/14 |
| Next: | re: My Review of Meat Loaf's New Las Vegas Show... (Some JS) (SPOILER ALERT) - JB 10:25 pm UTC 03/24/14 |
| Thread: | |