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bpmolder 11:20 am UTC 12/19/07 |
| In reply to: | re: ever noticed........? - rockfenris2005 09:19 am UTC 12/19/07 |
| The one I have noticed most recently is a melody line from The Storm and the bass riff at the beginning of Nowhere Fast from Streets Of Fire. I love how he interweaves his melodies and themes in and out of his compositions. The first similarity I ever noticed was the repeat of the opening lyric from Paradise on Love And Death Of An American Guitar and Wasted Youth. That's what got me hooked on finding similarities in his songs and seeing how he uses them. > > That piece crops up all over the place, from my memory. > It's the OVERTURE to "The Confidence Man" and the > beginning of "Something Of This Masquerade May Follow", > then the 1981 "More Than You Deserve", it's not in the > original demo. You can sort'a hear something like it in > the riff to "Rebel Without A Clue", and it's definitely on > the beginning of "The Future Ain't What It Used To Be" > which has all sorts of older Steinman songs; The "Surf's > Up", of course, and the piano transition between the end > of the loud chorus/and final verses of "For Crying Out > Loud". > > Here are some other ones, and they freaked me out because > I'd never even noticed them until they were pointed out. > The riff to "Song Of The City Of Hope" from MTYD more > basically becomes the riff to "Lost Boys And Golden > Girls"; the middle section of "Mother River Song", from > TDE, reappears in "Dark Night Of The Soul" in Garbo, along > with the "Nocturnally Yours" riff (from TCM) which appears > at the climax of the same song. The first 2 opening lines > of "Surf's Up" are the same as the first 2 opening lines > of "Objects", musically, and the end of "Confession Of A > Vampire" is reminiscent of the last bit in "I'll Kill You > If You Don't Come Back". Jim's "Come With Me" progression > (which dates back to 1966 according to the Copyright > information on the DOTV demo) appears the most out of all > Steinman's pieces. I can see why he's so proud of it. > > Then you have "And I wanna take you out of the frying pan, > out of the frying pan, out of the frying pan, and INTO THE > FIRE." Which, when slowed down, you get "And I would do > anything for love, I would do anything for love, I would > do anything for love BUT I WON'T DO THAT." Which was > probably not intentional. > > Baring in mind that I've heard none of the older stuff in > Steinman's latest material. "Body" borders on becoming > parts of "Safe Sex" and "Not Allowed To Love" slightly > SLIGHTLY resembles "A Good Nightmare Comes So Rarely" but > that's it really. > > The intro to WH's "Break It" is reminiscent of the BAT 2 > version intro of "Lemon". > > It's also interesting how the dynamics and structure of > "Original Sin" and "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste", > Whistle version, are both similar. Then they finish off > with a "We Will Rock You" tribute and a slow finale. I > used to think that that was proof enough that Steinman had > a hand in that melody. > > | |
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