If I were lord high ruler of everything, from that list I'd ditch Who Needs The Young, never liked it, and I'd ditch Not Allowed to Love, cause it's my least favourite of the ballads. And there are too many ballads here.
Then I'd count on at least two or three of Jim's titles ACTUALLY turning out to be true songs :o). Hopefully guitar-driven rockers, and/or simply uptempo.
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> > > But according to Meat most of those songs didn't exist. He
> > > was merely teasing us with a couple of lines here and
> > > there.
> >
> > Would "What Part Of My Body Hurts The Most?" count as a
> > new song? Even though it has been performed in the "Dream
> > Engine" show. I have thought for a long time that Meat is
> > the only one who could really pull that one off. Rob Evan
> > is a technically very gifted singer but Meat Loaf would
> > get the emotional side of the song just right. After 78
> > takes and driving Jim crazy.
>
> The new songs that we've heard are:
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> "Braver than we are"
> "Only when I feel"
> "Not allowed to love"
> "What part of my body hurts the most?"
> "We're still the children we once were"
>
> Throw in
> "Cry to heaven" and
> "In the land of the pig the butcher is king" AND
> "Who needs the young?" (which fits with the old age
> concept I had, Bat 1 being the youth album, Bat 2 being
> the middle-age album, etc.)
>
> And there are 8 songs, which Jim probably would have
> recorded. This is a good start, and already much better
> than TMIL.
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