Posted on 04/20/2021 11:48:25 AM PDT by nickcarraway
But al, in my business, it is the one or two it does pi$$ off that gives you the headaches. This conversation is over.
Comparing Meat Loaf to Springsteen is an insult to Mr. Loaf.
“On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?”
Jim wrote rock opera. Some of it very good, and some of it not so good. RIP. Springsteen did it too with Born To Run, though Springsteen aficionados hate to admit that.
Springsteen was smart enough to tone down the rock opera content in future albums...IMO that rock opera sound is limited.
Yeah, I had it on cassette and I played the hell out of it while cruising around in my father's Chrysler Newport.
Yet another musical icon from my youth dead.
Soon I will only be left with Keith Richards and Willie Nelson. Maybe Bob Dylan.
When he wrote, "let me sleep on it", he wasn't kiddin' around.
Damn! That’s awful news. Wrote one of the greatest rock and roll albums of all time.
Neil Sedaka is still alive. I bet you loved him.
The woman in the video (not Ellen Foley, whom I’d thought it was).
I believe Ellen Foley was the singer, but Karla was the one in the video.
Springsteen sucks.
“Jim wrote rock opera. Some of it very good, and some of it not so good. RIP. Springsteen did it too with Born To Run, though Springsteen aficionados hate to admit that.
“Springsteen was smart enough to tone down the rock opera content in future albums...IMO that rock opera sound is limited.”
Ditto to everything you said. Born to Run was great - but nobody really wanted to hear Born to Run 2 (Born 2 Run?).
That’s why a real Rock & Roll album, which was put out in the same time frame, like Bob Seger’s Night Moves, has held up better than Born To Run IMO.
There’s only so much bombast you can take before it gets real old.
Agree 100%!
Musical and lyrical genius. RIP Jim Steinman. Great great song writer
He wrote some powerful songs that rival Queen in terms of Grandiosity. And I liked them more.
He was the musical giant that many fans don’t know.
Rest In Peace.
RIP! Here in NJ (and maybe elsewhere I don’t know) it is a new tradition to sing “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” at all weddings. The guys and girls sing the different parts and it’s always hilarious and wonderful fun.
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