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Rob 05:09 pm UTC 12/01/09 |
| In reply to: | re: Jim Steinman Collections - rockfenris2005 03:55 pm UTC 11/30/09 |
| It's the opposite way round for me and I do slightly worry what Jim might do to the original Bat songs without the original constraints of 1970s production. I think Jim tends to embrace technology a little too eagerly (and many of his mid 80s-early 90s productions suffer as a result). I'm a big fan of a simpler production, with more live instrumentation, that lets the song speak for itself. That's not to say I don't love the cacophony of noise that some of Jim's best songs are. I just prefer it when that cacophony is produced by real instruments. > I’ll be honest. I think it’s better than Bat 1 in some > ways. Bat 1 is great and all but Jim didn’t have the > resources available to him to truly realize his vision. > I’m not saying this is fact or anything, just my opinion, > but I believe if Meat and Jim had the kind of support and > technology available to them that they had on Bat 2, Bat 1 > would have been an even greater album. > > Bat 2 is like an amazing journey in listening that you > can’t describe. I still can’t quite categorize into > anything else I've heard. Bat 1 is raw though and that has > its charm. Again, this is another reason why I’m so > looking forward to the musical, to see what Jim can do > with the Bat 1 material without any of the constraints he > had in 1977. > | |
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