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re: It just won't quit

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mickp 07:08 pm UTC 08/22/13
In reply to: re: It just won't quit - rockfenris2005 07:13 am UTC 08/22/13

I agree it is a great song and in my view the only rework by anyone of a Pandora's box track that beats the original (although the PB version is still great). I feel it was made for Meat and sounds better with a more rock based backing

>
>
> > I wish this song would never get another release or
> > something. Wasn't it meant to be a single from Bat 2 at
> > some point? It's so under-rated for me :( I don't think
> > Meat ever played it live either.
> >
> >
>
> Jim BBC1 Interview 1994:
>
> "It just won’t quit was actually written before, but that
> was written definitely with Meat Loaf in mind. There’s no
> explanation for that other than it’s a song about
> obsession, which is one of my favourite topics. And again
> what I like in that song, I think the verses are extremely
> gorgeous to me, very lush, very kind of dramatic. And the
> choruses are real pop and um, almost bouncy, sort of
> bouncy with an edge. I like the tension between the two of
> them. I think there’s a lot of dynamics in that song. I
> like the… to me that sounds like the black forest to me,
> that song, it just has a great brooding rich sort of
> obsessive quality. And the fact that it has a good pop
> melody, so I’m pretty proud of that. I think it’s one of
> his best vocals too on the album."


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