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Originally Posted by Wario
Rory and Jim I just feel don't have the vocals to get these songs across by themselves.
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This I can relate to more than the phrase "lacks so much passion it's un funny"
E Ernie wrote:
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The fact is that a few people on this forum don't think that ANYONE has passion except for ML. That is one of the most horrible things that you can say about a musician, ESPECIALLY a singer.
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I'd agree with the second part. As to the first .. I think the fact is that Meat has always had a unique style. That imo is what made his partnership with Jim so outstanding .. a one of a kind composer and one of a kind singer, where the whole has always been greater than the sum of the parts.
Many of us describe the uniqueness of Meat's style as "passion", perhaps because it is so difficult to define. I see that .. but it is imo more. There has always been a huge delivery, a delivery that is somehow different to that of other singers, he has always become a character lost in the song .. he really IS an actor who sings; he performs a song in a way that his fans are swept away by, and I guess "passion" tends to be used as a convenient shorthand for what he brings to Steinman penned songs. This particular version by Rory Dodd illustrates this in my view. The song would simply not have caught my imagination and interest if the only version I had heard had been this one. I heard Meat's version, and there is an urgency, a depth, a resonance, a belief, a being the song, and yes, a passion, that immediately captivated me. It is imo all these things that made Jim want to work with Meat, and that make Meat's delivery bring the songs to a life that for me others simply do not. That's not to say that other singers do not have skill, nor indeed a passion for their work. It's simply that Meat brings something extra, something hard to define, but something that only he can bring to the songs .. something that even, for me, Jim himself does not bring. It has always imo been a fusion of two extraordinary abilities. I do not think that BOOH would have been the phemonenal success it was without both of these two unique talents. So, no disrespect to Rory Dodd, but for me too, something is missing, something lacking. The song comes across to me as having less dimension than Meat's version.