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re: An albums worth of Steinsongs on TMiL…

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Vin 01:07 pm UTC 04/24/11
In reply to: An albums worth of Steinsongs on TMiL… - Wilbury 11:31 am UTC 04/24/11

I would suggest that the 7 Steinman tunes on Bat III are not, as a whole, of sufficient quality to make up a satisfactory "complete" album. I suppose my view is necessarily tainted by what Desmond & crew did with them, and maybe if Jim had produced them all I would feel differently. Part of it, too, is the fact that 1/2 of them were recycled from previous studio albums, so there wasn't enough that felt "new" if they had been releases as a 7-song album. I'm pretty confident I would not have felt satisfied with such an album. Not that I felt satisfied with the Desmond-padded album they did release.

I understand the desire to put more songs on the record, but I'll never understand why the let Desmond write, or co-write nearly all of them. I recall during the process Meat saying there was a very strict screening process or something for new songs for the record. What BS.

> So, with the few recent threads mooting the course 'Bat3'
> took, it's got me thinking.
>
> There are 7 Steinman Tunes on TMiL. And almost all of them
> ought to be significantly longer / more fleshed out than
> they appear there. That is enough for an album surely —
> over half of which would be 'new' (assuming Break It and
> Seize the Night can be considered new… which they probably
> would be).
>
> So… entirely unfounded speculation, but is it POSSIBLE
> that the notion of not every song being written by Jim was
> introduced to the project with Desmond (who also happens
> to be a songwriter), instead of there being a pre-existing
> need for more songs that Desmond satisfied??
>
>


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