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rockfenris2005 04:58 am UTC 04/26/11 |
| In reply to: | re: An albums worth of Steinsongs on TMiL… - rockfenris2005 04:56 am UTC 04/26/11 |
> > > > > You can't tell me it wouldn't have been entire worlds > > > better than the trash we got served with? > > > > There was a lot about it that wasn't right. Was it thrash? > > Well the standards for a Bat album are very very high. > > Some of the songs on Bat 3 were good, but some of them > > should never ever have been on the album. Thrash? A bit > > harsh maybe. I can see you're angry about what happened. I > > too wasn't happy either. I felt sorry for Jim. I still > > went out and bought Bat 3 despite everything though. But > > I'm actually really annoyed with Jim just as much as I am > > with Meat Loaf. I mean Jim should have had the guts to > > come out and tell his fans why he didn't do the album > > after saying he would a few years previous to it's > > release. I mean he said NOTHING!! Do we really know the > > real story behind Bat 3? I think there was a lot of greed > > involved alright. But maybe Jim's writing ability and his > > ability to even play the piano are actually worse than we > > think and even know. Maybe the truth is Jim can't write > > good songs anymore. > > Even if Jim hadn't been involved, they could have asked > Todd Rundgren to produce, the original produce of "Bat out > of Hell". That would have given it more continuity. To me, > it was a no-brainer. Todd should have produced. > And if Todd produced, maybe he could have worked something > out with Jim. Maybe a lot of these new songs would have > been recorded because, after all, Jim thinks Todd is a > genius. Just maybe... > > And they didn't need any of the celebrity guest > appearances. They were just trying to sell more albums. > But they didn't need to do that. The fact that it was > called "Bat out of Hell" was enough. > And they tried promoting one of their new artists by > having her record one of the duets when she probably > wasn't the right person to sing the song. They should have > given it to Patti. And there were too many duets. There > should have been two, at most. > > And the way the songs ran together, it was all over the > place for me. Bat and Bat 2 feel like a progression, an > experience. > And they released the wrong songs as singles. And when they released the sings, you didn't see the kind of promotion that you saw with Bat 2. | |
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