| Bat Out Of Hell Live | |
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Mr.Egg 11:47 pm UTC 10/10/07 |
| A few years ago, I bought the special edition of a CD called "Bat Out Of Hell Live - with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra". When I found it in the music store, I thought it was a great concept. Jim's Bat songs recorded by a classical orchestra instead of a rock group. Of course the original rock recordings can never be beaten but I think that the basic classical orchestra concept was an interesting avenue to go down. It wasn't until I got the album home that I realised something was not quite right. They had included two other composers. James Michael and Nikki Sixx. Their song is called "Couldn't Have Said It Better". If the product hadn't used the words 'Bat Out Of Hell' in it's title, then I would have no right to complain. How could I complain if the CD was called "Meat Loaf Live"? When Bernstein conducted Beethoven's Ninth, he didn't stick five minutes of Chopin in between movements. Also, when Bernstein conducted anything, the sound of the orchestra was fantastic. Unfortunately, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra does not sound great on this recording. It sounds cheesy. They should have involved Jim. I understand that Meat was doing a world tour at the time, promoting the album "Couldn't Have Said It Better". But the Melbourne recording was a special one off. And it called itself Bat Out Of Hell. Of course Meat could have sung non-Jim songs during the normal part of his tour but this is different. He is making the same mistakes with Bat 3. By using another composer (Desmond Childs) and by not involving Jim in the project. | |
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