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AndrewG 10:14 pm UTC 05/19/10 |
| In reply to: | HCTB and Live Bonus CD - Marklbetya 12:10 am UTC 05/19/10 |
| I thought the live cd is pretty damn good actually, far far better than I was expecting. Meat's vocals sound better than what they did at the shows in my opinion, so I think they have cleaned things up considerably. I would be interested to know how this has been achieved. I grew tired of HCTB after 3-4 plays after huge initial interest, which is the first time this has happened for me in Meat album history since I've been a fan in 93. The excessive energy on the album is actually a problem for me. The climax is constantly reached, there is no road to it, which is wrong. Even the ballads (if you can call them that) are constantly turned up to eleven. Subtetly has gone out the window and instead we get a Metallica/Guns N Roses/The Darkness/Meat Loaf stew! Meat is probably not adapting well to his age I think. I honestly think he should do more cut down songs/albums where he does not have to compete singing with 2 billion guitars and Bat he will always be able to do but the new stuff live, I'm not so sure. I'll be interested to hear how it goes down in the US and preferably not listen to the fluffy duffy reviews but honest ones. > Having just listened to HCTB, I have to say I'm very > disappointed. While Jimless Meat is never as good as a > true Bat album, I've been a fan of much of Meat's stuff > without Steinfluence. Tracks from "Couldn't Have Said it > Better" and "Bad Attitude" come to mind and there are > others. > > But I just don't like his song selection. Los Angeloser > was OK, but I'm really not a fan of "guitar rock" as I am > "Piano rock" about which Jim is the master. But I know > that's what Meat does, so I wasn't expecting too much from > this CD. > > What the revelation was for me was on the Bonus Live CD. > I have now concluded that I don't want to ever hear Meat > sing live again. It seriously sounds like he's singing > at the wrong speed. I don't know if it's how he saves his > voice, or if he tries to "act" the songs since he can no > longer sing them, but it's very bad. > > I practically have a shrine to Meat in my entertainment > center, so I'm not one of those Meat haters. I'd love to > have dinner with him. And I would love to see Meat do > studio work if there are new Steinman songs to record, as > I still think he is Jim's finest voice. But the time for > performing live is over. I honestly wouldn't go to a free > live show in Orlando (near my home) at this point. If they > actually considered those songs worthy of release, it's > time to retire from that. I get psyched for a great song > and then the vocals start, and it feels like a bad acid > trip has started (or at least what I would expect one to > be like). > > I also think we should have a lottery trying to guess the > date that Meat calls this CD a piece of crap, as I'm > getting tired of every CD being the best one he's ever > done until it flops, and then he claims he always thought > it sucked...when it's time to release the next one and > needs you on board. | |
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