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re: Flight of the Conchords

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SeeingI 03:10 pm UTC 06/06/09
In reply to: re: Flight of the Conchords - Smeghead 07:09 pm UTC 06/04/09

Yeah, I'd agree - it's not their best song by a mile. BUT, it's just smile-making to see somebody doing such an accurate and affectionate parody.

Also it seems to me that only real Steinman fans - somebody who's listened to "Nowhere Fast" and "Carpe Noctem" and all those songs - would have written in THIS Jim-style as opposed to aping the more epic, power-ballady Meat Loaf stuff.



> Yeah, somebody posted that here a couple months ago...It
> was clever, but not amazing in my opinion.
>
> > I am catching up on this show, I don't know if anybody has
> > seen this but they did a pitch-perfect Steinman parody in
> > a recent episode.
> >
> > LOVE: THE WEAPON OF CHOICE
> >
> > It sounds very Bonnie Tyler / Streets of Fire, and the
> > video spoofs "Total Eclipse." In an interview I heard
> > with the boys they list "Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman" as
> > big influences, and here is the proof. Funny stuff!
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ybcpzAmu8Y
> >


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