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mickp 11:26 pm UTC 02/15/25 |
| In reply to: | Creeper - fnord 11:17 pm UTC 10/13/23 |
| Creeper are excellent. Seen them live a number of times. Further than forever is a fitting tribute to Jim who gets an acknowledgment in the album. I think he would have loved them > We all are always on the lookout for new Steinmanesque > music. I don't recall if it was this discussion board > where someone recommended Creeper-- I cannot find the > message now if it was. However, Creeper has been one of > my favorite new (if the last 10 years is "new") band since > I discovered them a few years back. > > Creeper started as a straightforward punk band, with maybe > some My Chemical Romance pretensions, but by the second > album had turned into a goth parody of Springsteen, which > I thought was hilarious and beautiful. The influence of > Jim was clearly there. (Maybe Creeper IS that parody of > Springsteen that Rundgren thought Meat Loaf was.) > > The new album Sanguivore dropped today. It is an explicit > love song to Jim's music, the 9-minute opening track > Further Than Forever especially. I cannot recommend this > highly enough. > > Many bands have tried to imitate Steinman, few with > success. This is not imitation; this is inheritance. | |
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