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rockfenris2005 06:11 am UTC 03/29/13 |
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The Dead Ringer Album: A Jim And Meat Collaboration??? - steven_stuart 03:17 am UTC 03/29/13 |
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I'm confused about what really happened on that album. Just like I'm still confused if Jim produced "A.L.O. aka Quest for the Key" for Asia or not. I have it here in my playlist and it's part of the Steinman folder, but I'm not sure if he actually produced it, and Evil Nickname doesn't have the lyrics at his site. Hmmm....
But I do remember Jim saying on "The other side of the tracks", the interview from 1984, that he and Jimmy Iovine basically agreed to leave the album by mutual consensus, I'm not sure why, I can't really remember that bit, because they were having difficulty with Meat singing?
> > It's hard enough dealing
> > with all these songs from "Dead ringer" that could have
> > been bigger than they were.
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> But did Jim have the same attitude towards the "Dead
> Ringer" songs that he had towards the "Bat 2" songs? Was
> "Dead Ringer" a Meat Loaf/Jim Steinman collaboration?
> Obviously Jim was involved. Jim wrote all the songs. He
> contributed the "Nocturnal Pleasures" monologue. He did
> some arrangements and produced some backing tracks. But I
> have read somewhere (I can't remember where) that Jim lost
> interest in the project and this is why Meat Loaf and
> Stephan Galfas were the main producers of the album. You
> are probably right that the "Dead Ringer" songs could have
> been bigger than they were (it took Barry Manilow to get
> "Read 'Em And Weep" into the US top twenty singles) but
> the album did go to number one in the UK. I would be
> interested to know your "Dead Ringer" opinions.
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