Sorry to have mentioned the BS word
I've been researching who all has covered Jim's songs and it's just painful. I even bought Boyzone because I found it extremely cheap. I got through about a minute of the song and turned it off... yikes!!
So Barbra does the talking at the beginning and end?? Yeesh, that's part of what makes Jim's version for me (sorry, I know I'm on the wrong board to say this and while I appreciate Meat's interpretation, I prefer Jim's).
I doubt anyone would mind Meat doing more of Jim's songs (he's done so many already anyway) - I'd just like to have them all in one place ...
I was actually encouraged to hear the "five new songs" figure -- that's how many "new" songs were on Bat II (the rest were covers of BFG or Pandora's Box songs)...15 years would be poetic but it might drive us all crazier than we already are