OFF: Andy's dodgy tastes in music (retitled for Andy)

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I just broke down and pulled out the Meatloaf disc... I am 2:06 minutes
into  the opener... yeah.. can't wait til he revs up that bike man... just
like the killer Corben painting on the front...  talk about abusing that
silver machine baby, I may be hungry but I sure aint dead maan... anyway:

> > > ... and  Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell rules!
> > >
> > > Christian
> >
> > No, you blew it again!  :)


Fascist! By whose standards :) Oh shit now it kicks asssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  There is a place for all that Steinman
> > cod-operatic guff (it worked fine on the soundtrack to Walter Hill's
> > _Streets of Fire_, and didn't he produce the Sisters of Mercy once?)
but

Yeah!! As Steve Swann points out it was on Floodland. But surely the
Sisters are just a tad cheesy for Steinman? A tad too grim? A tad too dead,
pale, boring, goth... shit, the bike revvin, the drumsss forget it! Like a
Bat Outta Helllll! Eh? Oh, Floodland, yeah. This Corrosion/Mother Russia. I
am sure eldritch (our BOC-L eldritch, not the fake Sisters guy) approves of
someone as cool as Meatloaf! I mean, you talk about cool/cred here Andy,
let's try "Rocky Horror", or "Roadie" (the awesome movie starring Meatloaf
as the greatest roadie-hero ever and Alice Cooper, Blondie and tons of
other COOL people!). C'mon! Ya blew it!!!  :)

> I don't have it in front of me to check, but _Floodland_ sounds like
> what you're after.  At a minimum, "This Corrosion" screams Steinman
> to me.


Weird. Mine screams "Hey hey hey now now now, sing this corrosion to me"
but I am puzzled how to sing corrosion. Should I stop brushing my teeth??
Meatloaf *just* sang "you took the words right out of my mouth" too..
cosmic.

> > only as long as you approach it with layers of irony.  Surely?

Irony is fine, but I don't waste money on music just to be ironic... I buy
stuff I like.. witness the "easy listening" trend, Mike Flowers Pops,
whatever - suckers! Though say, not being a fan, a band like Pulp are at
least able to be a bit of both. Mind you, I love good irony but it has its
place :)

Steve Swann writes:

> I dunno.  I always liked Meatloaf's over-the-top approach.  I mean, a
> 250lb rock star who gets so psycho belting out songs about sex and
> motorcycles during his on-stage performances that he occasionally
> needs to be given oxygen, gets a lot of style points in my book.  ;-)

YEAH! He even was dead for like 10 minutes - onstage - AND got back UP AND
FINISHED THE SET!!!!! A hero in my book.

> > (Still at least it's not Rush.)
>
> 15 years ago I would have called you out on that one, too.  ;-)

Yeah, as little as Rush seems to do for me, most of my bashing them in the
past has just been to egg people on :) Trauma caused by a roomate years
ago, and I am not sure if Iwill ever get over it ;)

As for Queen, they originally (basically) appealed to me as Hawkwind did
later (at first anyway, before I started triggering on other HW elements
;-) the band that were so varied, creative and unpredictable, that each
purchase was an "adventure" at my tender age. Radio Gaga still stirs me,
maan, partly because of the video - I went out and rented Fritz Lang's
Metropolis and blew my mind. Queen's history was the epitome of decadence
perhaps, but that's part of the charm. They teetered between crass
commercialism and strangeness but always explored music way beyond their
selling-format. I regret now ditching almost all my Queen CDs as part of my
stupid "oh, that's not cool anymore" phase years ago - yes, and I will say,
the day Freddie bit the dust was a bum day ;-) I remember blaring "Dead On
Time" and of course other appropriate tracks for hours in rememberance -
cos I knew he had a sense of humour and would have wanted that *snif*.
**HONK!**

Steve writes:

> What, you looking to start a fight with Chip Hart now?  What'd you
> have for breakfast, Andy?  ;-)


Andy shoulda had MEATLOAF fer breakfast! About 250 lbs of it !!!!

please get with it, Andy :)

"All revved up with no place to go",
Christian