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re: When Did You First Love Jim's Music And What Song Was It?

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tincrowdor 02:45 pm UTC 01/17/10
In reply to: When Did You First Love Jim's Music And What Song Was It? - steven_stuart 12:38 am UTC 01/16/10



> Max asked an interesting question when he started the
> "Best Non-Jim Meat Album" thread. It was: "Also, does
> anyone else remember the first release of a Jim related
> album in his/her lifetime?" There weren't many answers to
> this question because posters were mostly replying to the
> main subject of the thread (which is understandable).
> Perhaps Max should have strated a separate thread because
> the two questions are so different.
>
> Max's answer was: "For me it was either Wuthering Heights
> or Couldn' Have said it Better back when in middle
> school."
> I guess many younger posters were not introduced to Jim's
> music by Bat One. There must be some posters who first
> became Jim fans because of the Anything For Love single
> and video. Did anyone first get into Jim because of
> Bonnie's TEOTH? I wonder if there are any posters who were
> introduced to Jim's music in the pre-Bat days. Like maybe
> they saw the Joseph Papp production of More Than You
> Deserve. Or perhaps they liked the song he wrote for
> Yvonne Elleman when he was under contract to Robert
> Stigwood. I am guessing that a lot of old timers like Dave
> started their association with Jim's products when the
> original Bat album took off (that is the case for me). The
> very first Jim composition I heard was BOOH the song when
> the film clip was shown on Old Grey Whistle Test. I think
> a lot of middle aged UK residents had the same experience
> when they were young.
>
>I liked BOOH but associated it with MeatLoaf when it came out. I have a vague recollection of Stark Raving Love being played on the Friday Rock Show and enjoying that. It was only when TEOTH came out, which I recall got slammed on Radio1 (in the UK) Roundtable show, where it got reviewed as terrible, and of course that went on to be a transatlantic best seller. I loved the song and then saw the credits and realised that Jim also wrote Bat. A few years later I saw Streets OF Fire and I liked some of the tunes and when I checked them I discovered I liked the Jim songs. So really at that point I started to check out the back catalogue


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