In this month's Classic Rock (Feb13) there is an extra supplement, which has a new interview with Andrew Eldritch...
Q: For the second Sisters Of Mercy album , 'Floodland', you worked with Jim Steinman on two songs, 'This Corrosion' & 'Dominion'.
AE: People thought that with the second album we were completely Steinman-ised, but it's untrue. 'This Corrosion' is ridiculous. It's supposed to be ridiculous. It's a song about ridculousness. So I called Steinman and explained that we needed something that sounded like a disco party run by the Borgias. And that's what we got.
Q: Did you actually like 'Bat Out Of Hell'?
AE: I've never listened to it. I know the song BOOH. It's OK. But it's not as good as Golden Earing's 'Radar Love', is it? It's not as good as '(Don't Fear) The Reaper' by Blue Oyster Cult, or 'Edge Of Seventeen' by Stevie Nicks, or Aerosmith's 'Dream On'.
Q: Steinman produced 'This Corrosion'. But he didn't produce BOOH, Todd Rundgren did. Did You know?
AE: No. But Jim is very good at getting budgets for stuff that requires big budgets. And he's very good at organising choirs - all the stuff that constitutes icing on the cake. I didn't realise that he paid no attention whatsoever to the cake until I worked with him. But the icing was always very shiny.
Q: How did you relate to him on a personal level?
AE: I loved the guy. He's very articulate and very funny.
Eldritch also says that he continues to write & record (for himself), but putting an album out is unlikely (not enough financial reward).
NJC - In same supplement there is also a great 11 page feature on the production of the 'Foreigner 4' album, with comments from Mutt Lange and Tony Platt (who engineered Billy Squier's 'Signs Of Life').
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