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PanicLord · 18 Nov 2009, 23:15

I was listening to 2 Meat Loaf songs the other day in the car on high volume - and really enjoyed them. As songs in their own right, I think they are both absolutely cracking soft rock tracks. Ok, I do cringe a bit whenever the lyric is "before your lonely world collides", but that aside, I thoroughly enjoyed them.

The songs were "Cry Over Me" and "If God Could Talk".

This got me thinking - I enjoy them when I don't hear them as part of a Bat / Steinman album, but think they were out of place on Bat 3. It is not the quality of the song as such - as I say above, I really like these songs, and think these would have massively improved CHSIB if they were on it instead of eg YRIWW.

It is more the difference in production style between those songs and Steinman written or influenced songs - I guess I would sum it up as "soft rock" rather than "operatic rock".

And then I was thinking about non-Steinman songs that could possibly have been a better fit on a Bat album, and came up with ILFYATTT, NADEITH, DIST, and CHSIB. There probably are others (MG?), but I didn't have all day

Anyway, to cut to the chase, IGLHFBOU is to me the best song in the world ever. Amazing lyrics, great music, hilariously over the top and yet appropriate production (possibly controversial I know, but I don't think the CD version does it justice!), brilliantly sung (and it is HARD to sing, as most Meat songs are), and superbly theatrical, with a setting that I like to imagine myself in as the hero. The whole storming into a castle on a thundery night to rescue my girl from the clutches of her evil father... wicked in every way. I get emotional every time I hear it.

Every new song Meat Loaf does, I always rate on the basis of how well it compares to IGLHFBOU. On the basis that it needs to appeal to me on all the levels above, this sets the bar pretty high!

Some of the non-Steinman songs I list above get pretty close (DIST and ILFYATTT in particular).

I was wondering - do you, dear reader, have a similar standard to which you compare, or am I as mad as a box of frogs?

18 Nov 2009, 23:15	#1
PanicLord Mega Loafer Join Date: 18.06.2003 Location: At The End Of The Line Posts: 2,651	Everything Compared To A Single Song? I was listening to 2 Meat Loaf songs the other day in the car on high volume - and really enjoyed them. As songs in their own right, I think they are both absolutely cracking soft rock tracks. Ok, I do cringe a bit whenever the lyric is "before your lonely world collides", but that aside, I thoroughly enjoyed them. The songs were "Cry Over Me" and "If God Could Talk". This got me thinking - I enjoy them when I don't hear them as part of a Bat / Steinman album, but think they were out of place on Bat 3. It is not the quality of the song as such - as I say above, I really like these songs, and think these would have massively improved CHSIB if they were on it instead of eg YRIWW. It is more the difference in production style between those songs and Steinman written or influenced songs - I guess I would sum it up as "soft rock" rather than "operatic rock". And then I was thinking about non-Steinman songs that could possibly have been a better fit on a Bat album, and came up with ILFYATTT, NADEITH, DIST, and CHSIB. There probably are others (MG?), but I didn't have all day Anyway, to cut to the chase, IGLHFBOU is to me the best song in the world ever. Amazing lyrics, great music, hilariously over the top and yet appropriate production (possibly controversial I know, but I don't think the CD version does it justice!), brilliantly sung (and it is HARD to sing, as most Meat songs are), and superbly theatrical, with a setting that I like to imagine myself in as the hero. The whole storming into a castle on a thundery night to rescue my girl from the clutches of her evil father... wicked in every way. I get emotional every time I hear it. Every new song Meat Loaf does, I always rate on the basis of how well it compares to IGLHFBOU. On the basis that it needs to appeal to me on all the levels above, this sets the bar pretty high! Some of the non-Steinman songs I list above get pretty close (DIST and ILFYATTT in particular). I was wondering - do you, dear reader, have a similar standard to which you compare, or am I as mad as a box of frogs?