| re: This won't be popular... but I don't get it | |
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ashkent7 12:44 pm UTC 09/16/16 |
| In reply to: | This won't be popular... but I don't get it - Steve10086 10:28 am UTC 09/10/16 |
| I've been one of the biggest advocates of the album since I heard it back in July and nothing has or will change that and everyone thinks something different whether that's bad or good of the album - which in itself is a good thing. For me, I liked the album from the off I got the differences to everything else including Meat's voice. Only When I Feel, I didn't have any problem with at all. There were a couple of points on all the songs where I at first thought "ooh, that was a rough patch", but on the whole the songs won the battle. Then the more I listened to it, the bits I had noticed before I started to notice less. They became a part of what they song is. They started to make the songs - they symphony - what it is. Meat's almost bark of "the nightmare's never VERY far" before the kick off in Going All The Way. His low, almost inaudible haunting first lines in the say a prayer movement. On other songs too... Who Needs the Young - the whole thing; Loving You - his last pained, hushed analysis of a relationship gone wrong (In this context it is almost as if this song fits in the middle of Paradise before the End of Time finale); and that is kind of the defining sound of the album - ravaged, torn, twisted but ready to fight to the end. It's like Bat finished, and that rider grabbed his exposed heart and slammed it right back in his chest to finish what he started. If you don't like it and can't listen to it, that is perfectly fine. But if you can manage to put it on again, somewhere even in the background, and play it through a few times, then it might just grab you and drag you into that pit before it dies. I can honestly say I haven't had a day in the last few weeks that I haven't had part of a tune from one of the songs in my head. Or heard a low ghost of Meat's vocal following me through the day. Jim called it art...and remember art doesn't appeal to everyone. Sometimes it takes time to be appreciated when its looked at properly rather than just glanced over. Van Gogh died believing he was a failure of sorts because his art wasn't massively appreciated straight away. At least Meat and Jim have seen their entire body of work - including Braver - be embraced and taken to the heart by many. Who knows, but like art, that could grow so much more in future. > My copy of Braver Than We Are was delivered today. > > It's awful. > > I just can't understand the rave reviews. The music > sounds great, but Meat Loaf is unlistenable. > > I thought Steinman was notorious for getting perfect > vocals out of people, and forcing them to do take after > take. I know he didn't produce this, but how can fans of > someone who demands perfection (and Steinman himself) now > be happy with something that sounds so bad? > > I can't see me ever listening to this album again, which I > am very sad about :-( | |
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