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samurai7 09:28 pm UTC 09/28/08 |
| In reply to: | Bat - more for anglophiles than the US? - tincrowdor 08:15 pm UTC 09/28/08 |
| I've personally always seen it as a pretty American album, especially lyrically. There's a whole bunch of references to baseball, and other stuf alien to us Brits, like crackerjack boxes and coup de villes etc. But the themes are pretty universal, once we're past the idioms, and the setting could be anywhere, though it does talk of All-American boys and girls (All Revved Up). I also think that the music is far more in the Springsteen/Spectre vein that The Who or The Beatles, but I do get the caomparison with, say Took the Words and Baba O'Reilly, what with the power chords intro etc, and I do think a major trick was missed when the album was mixed, because the drums really lack the presence that later Jim tunes would benefit from, and The Who have a very drum-heavy sound which I love, but I'm drifting off topic, lol. I guess the other big Who similarity is the whole Rock-Opera tag, although I don't see Bat the album as an opera. Maybe a collection of song FROM one, but not like Tommy, for instance. The album was, and still is, a bit hit in the UK. Not sure why we've taken it to our hearts more than the US though, but it's also huge in Holland and Australia, so it's not purely a British thing (although we do sort of own Australia :p - sorry Ryan lol) Anyway, kudos if you got this far, and I'm not dismissing your opinion - in fact I love hearing what others think about these songs. What do people think of when they listen to them. Where do the songs take you, and what do you see there? S > Coming from the UK I think this aspect of Bat hasn't been > touched upon. Isn't there a lot of English-ness in Bat. > For a US album it seems aimed elsewhere. Jim has said he > is a fan of the Beatles, The Who and Queen. Todd Rundgren > .. Beatles again. I think the album also did better > relatively in the UK than anywhere else. Didn't the UK tv > show The Old Grey Whistle Test introduce Meat Loaf into > the public eye? I expect someone to blow holes in my > theory | |
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