| re: Jens Lekman & Jim Steinman | |
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Jsteinfan 08:28 pm UTC 10/08/07 |
| In reply to: | Jens Lekman & Jim Steinman - JimmyG 08:19 pm UTC 10/08/07 |
| His new album features some hilarious lyrics but the music is way too burt bacarachian for my licking! > > Jens Lekman is a brilliant new Swedish singer/songwriter - > a few brilliant tracks off his latest album can be > downloaded here: > > http://www.secretlycanadian.com/onesheet.php?cat=SC160 > > Lekman's also a big fan of Jim Steinman: > > > http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/46011-interview-jens-lekman > > Pitchfork: If you talk about those, do you get sued, or > can you talk about what some of those samples would have > been? > > Jens Lekman: A Jim Steinman song, I think? It's the guy > who wrote all the songs for Meat Loaf. Or not all of them, > but he was working with Meat Loaf and he wrote all the > best power ballads in the 80s, like "Total Eclipse of the > Heart"-- and one of my all-time favorite songs, "Tonight > Is What It Means to Be Young"? > > Pitchfork: Oh man, I need to brush up on my power ballads. > > > Jens Lekman: You have to listen to that soundtrack, the > Streets of Fire soundtrack. There's that song "Tonight Is > What It Means to Be Young", it's just so amazing. It's > really long and it goes higher and higher, what's that > called? It's just amazing. It just blows you out of your > mind, basically. > > Pitchfork: Which of your songs was the Jim Steinman tune > going to go into? > > Jens Lekman: Well, I shouldn't be talking about that, > actually. It's not really interesting anyway. But yeah, I > did try to sample some Jim Steinman stuff. It's expensive. > | |
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