| re: Meat's Surf's Up | |
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Rob 09:39 am UTC 08/05/09 |
| In reply to: | re: Meat's Surf's Up - Pudding 07:41 pm UTC 08/04/09 |
| I can understand people not liking it, but worse than Meat's All Coming Back...?? That's harsh. I'd rather listen to Cry Over Me on a continuous tape loop for a week than hear that awful rendition of one of Jim's finest songs ever again. Having said that, I'd rather listen to Meat's version on a tape loop for a week then ever be subjected to that caterwauling Dion woman strangling the life of it, so it's all about degrees of awfulness. > To be honest I'm completely the opposite, I think it's one > of Meats worst attempts at a Jim song without Jim. I'd > even place Meats attempt at (I've got vomit coming up in > my mouth thinking about this) It's All Coming Back To me > Now above his attempt at Surf's Up. > > Reason being, Surf's Up is one of my all time favourite > Jim songs and if isn't going to be done right then it > shouldn't be done at all. It's sounds to tinny and hollow, > which has been mentioned before. > > That being said, I'd probably give my redundant left nut > for a DVD quality version of the music video. > > > I've kinda touched on this a few times before, but Meat's > > SU is probably my favourite of all his attempts at a > > Steinsong without Jim being present. It's sufficiently > > different from the original to be worthwhile (actually > > something that too many of the covers on Bat 2 didn't > > achieve) and it subscribes to Jim's ethos of using the > > piano as a percussion instrument perfectly. > > > > The arrangement seemed cluttered to me when I first heard > > the album (and I should say, I heard this version before I > > heard Rory's on BFG) but the more I listen to it, the more > > I realised it's actually the production that's a bit > > woolly > > (Meat's vocals are buried too low in the mix at certain > > points) and the arrangement is actually pretty good. I > > guess it shows that Jim's songs can withstand different > > treatments and still shine through, and I love the way the > > band give it a real good kicking compared to the > > beautiful, delicate version on BFG. > > > > I stuck it in my fantasy Meat Loaf set in the thread below > > because I'd love to have heard Meat doing this version > > live back when he had the voice to do it justice. As Jim > > might say, that would have been "really cool". > > > > > > > > | |
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