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Originally Posted by White of High
Meat Loaf and Bon Jovi are in the same shoes with a little difference. Bon Jovi sing and perform professionally, the arrengement, the sound is great. His voice changed a lot and it's not enjoyable to me, but the main problem is his soulles performance and songwriting. All songs sound the same, nothing new comes over. Meat has a lot of soul in his songs, he just doesn't sound porfessional anymore. Vocal arrangement sounded horrible in the last decade to me but Meat still has good songs. When I listen them I think my youth is over.  |
I think your view is a bit extreme and probably a bit exaggerated but I understand where you are coming from. But even then if I had to choose I'd always go for the one with the one who has songs with soul. Bob Dylan was never a great vocalist or Mark Knopfler for that matter but both have written some of the most beautiful songs ever and could always put soul into the songs when required. Some stand out live performances that come to mind from Dylan are Shooting Star at MTV Unplugged and Tunnel of Love on Alchemy Hammersmith London 1983 and Romeo and Juliet 1992. All terrible vocals but great soulful performances.
"I saw a shooting star tonight and I thought of you"
"Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the spanish city to me when we were kids"
"And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat and bad company
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet I'd do the stars with you any time"
If that ain't soul I don't know what is.