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Vin 05:15 pm UTC 03/08/07 |
| In reply to: | A song I NEVER see mentioned here - rockfenris2005 03:18 pm UTC 03/08/07 |
| This song make about as much sense as a duet as IACBTMN. I could see it working on stage with a boy and girl who aren't singing about EACH OTHER, but as an album track I don't think it would work, as the assumption would be they are singing about each other and leave the listener wondering: "So why won't it just quit???? Why don't they fucking hook up already?" > > But it was brought up in the recent thread. > > "IT JUST WON'T QUIT". > > I heard the Meat Loaf version first which I think is > stronger than Pandora's Box. It seems more cohesive and > "complete", for some reason. (I think this is also another > one Meat claims was written for BAT II all along). > > Musically, as some of you know, it started out as > "Melville's Theme" in "The Confidence Man". This made me > think that perhaps the whole melody came from a cut song > written for the character of Melville. So, I asked Ray (as > you do) LOL. No, there was never a full song written for > Melville although Ray *does* have a lyric which Jim never > composed. > > I think this song, lyrically, is very personal to me like > the whole Pandora's Box album. > > It's also one of those songs that, IMO, could benefit from > a new version with some big-name singer. It's never been > allowed to shine, it's just sort of thrown in there with > the "Bat" saga and an album that sunk ignominiously. > > Perhaps it will make it to the stage-show? > > For some reason, I can imagine a NEW duet version being > made > > | |
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