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Belmont 12:34 am UTC 10/12/07 |
| In reply to: | "I haven't done all I wanted to do yet. I have too long a list. But I want to write something r ... - Bright_Eyes 12:08 am UTC 10/12/07 |
| I think Jim recycles alot of his old work because he sees so much he can do with what he already has. He also probably has a ton of new material but thinks its not quite ready yet. To me, Jim sees to be a perfectionist when comes to his music. If he doesn't feel its complete, then he dosesn't release it. I'm a poet, so when I write I want to be perfect TO ME!!! I don't care if its not perfect to someone else because that doesn't matter. I think thats how Jim might be when it comes to his music and work. If it takes a long along time to make something great, then it just takes a long time. This is just what I think. > I read the interesting interview in the Hartford > newspaper. Thanks to whoever posted it, and to Steinman > for answering the questions. One of the parts that really > stood out was: > > > "I haven't done all I wanted to do yet. I have too long a > list. But I want to write something really great of all > times. Not necessarily music. Just something that really > matters. "Bat Out of Hell" did that, I guess, but I want > to do more." > > > This was surprising to read because I had started to think > of Steinman was somebody who gave up, maybe 15 or so years > ago, on the kind of renegade creativity he had at the > beginning of his career. > > If he has "too long a list" I have to wonder why so much > of his work in the past decade has been recycled, and why > in the past two years he has focused on projects that are > primarily recycling of past work. > > If he's got a long list, what is the guy waiting for? > > Here's a list of all the songs Jim has commercially > released since 1993 that are written solely by Steinman, > and that were not a recycling of something already > commercially released: > > > - If It Ain't Broke (Break It) - from low-budget > Wuthering Heights CD > > - Cry to Heaven - Desmond Child's mediocre production > > - In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King - Desmond > Child's mediocre production > > > Unless I'm forgetting something, that's the whole list. > (Unless you count Everly Bros.) Kinda shocking that it's > just those three songs, for a full 14 years of his career. > And none of those are high-budget Steinman productions. > > I think that's why I used to think The Dream Engine was > such a big deal, because they would have added at least 3 > great songs to that list, in presumably high-quality, > Steinman/Rinkoff productions. Excitement over TDE was > partly a matter of starvation, because it had been so long > since new Steinman songs were released, and it looked like > TDE would do that. > > What explains his trend toward recycled work? Could it be > a financial thing? Maybe, but he could also try to make > money with new work, and it's hard to believe that he'd be > poor if he didn't recycle his old hits. > > This comment of Steinman's stands out to me because it's > mostly in new work that I'd be interested. When I first > heard Steinman's work, I was interested in hearing all of > it over and over again, and reading anything that could be > read about it. Now I've gotten tired of that, and I rarely > listen to Steinman's work. But I'd still be interested in > new songs, as long as they're good, because at least > they're new. > > Is it possible Steinman wants to write a lot of new stuff, > but doesn't have the creative juices flowing anymore? > > I'm also kinda intrigued by the distinction between work > that really matters and work that does not. How do you > decide which Steinman project really matters? Does it have > to be serious or political or realistic to matter? Does it > just have to be very successful or influential? I've > always thought of Steinman's work as stuff that does not > really matter, but that is still great anyway. | |
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