> Holding out for a hero was the first time I experienced it
> as well. I hated it, it was awful.
>
> Not because I'm against the recycling per se, just because
> I really loved (and still love) Stark raving Love. I think
> it's a great melody, groovy lyrics, excellent vocal by Jim
> and the fucking AWESOME guitar outro by Davey Johnstone
> (Elton's guitarist, was working with Meat and Alice Cooper
> at the time when Elton was doing various things sans
> Taupin and his regular band, tghat's the readers' digest
> version anyways).
>
> And then Holding out for a hero was so... so... shit. It's
> boring, the melody is hard to pick and remember and teh
> production is thin, uninspired and monotonous. The ONLY
> thing it had going for it was that it shaamelessly stole
> the piano riff from a far superior song, so all in all it
> had an adverse effect on me.
>
> Obviously I've warmed to the concept of recycling, but I
> still hate Hero.
>
I know you'll crucify me for this (LOL payback for my TMIL comment ;-) but I thought "Hero" kicked the crap out of "Stark Raving Love". I like both songs but I just think "Hero" is more over the top. That and "Stark" has the tendency to go on...
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