well, I think the world would have coped fine had Objects not been released :o). But I know what you mean, in a roundabout kinda way.
And what I'm saying, is even if Meat still insisted on calling it Bat 3, it would have been well and truly to the benefit of teh aquality of the album for "them" to have written it all themselves. The Steintunes just don't work, and Meat wouldn't have come off as a greasy salesman by trying to contort the whole thing to look more like the first 2 than it actually is.
But yeah, it's just a given that it shouldn't have carried the Bat 3 part of the title...
>
>
> > I think TMiL would have been better (and more easily
> > swallowed) if it didn't include any Steinman penned tunes
> > at all.
> >
> > And if it was only 55 minutes long.
> >
> > I'd keep Monstro / Alive, What About Love, Blind As A Bat
> > and MAYBE Cry Over Me, and have James Michael ? Desmond
> > write the rest.
> >
> > That way they could have crafted an album, instead of a
> > frankenstein. And they wouldn't have fucked up any jim
> > songs on which Meat can't sing.
> >
>
> That's what I kept ranting about in the lead-up to it all.
> Even Jim said it should have been called TMIL (but that
> was before Meat tied his hands behind his back *sigh*)
>
> Had Meat changed it to TMIL with maybe ALL Desmond songs,
> he would have proved his loyalty to Jim. Jim would have
> seen the sacrifice Meat made and got on with "Final At
> Bat". Instead of Meat saying "oh, we're going to do
> another one, we're going to conclude it" they could have
> properly concluded it this way. It's a real shame.
>
> And just think... had it happened to BAT II and the world
> never heard "Objects". The same happened here. The world
> never heard Jim's true BAT III, the final at BAT.
>
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