10/10 all the way for me.
It has the stop/start structure and build up to a climax flow of Anything for Love.
It brings something new with every movement.
The last six minutes is like the coda of Lemon....completely unnecessarily long but the best thing about the song.
The piano piece between the last chorus and the say a prayer section is effective what is always missing from non-Steinman songs of Meats. Whatever instrument - be it saxophone, guitar or piano - solos always have melody and feel like they go somewhere (I'm thinking the guitar into the last verse of Frying pan, the sax in the more recent live versions of Rock and Roll Dreams, the live and original break in Good Girls, Surf's Up, Lost Boys and Golden girls...it goes on) and the last few seconds seamlessly lead you back to the words.
The power of the song, the melodies, the drag you along whether you like it or not feel of the whole thing.
The opening line just to hit me as out...not because it is flat or out of tune because it's not. it's just the timbre of Meat's voice now. And if you try to sing that opening in that key it sounds the same because it is so low, but that has all fallen by the wayside for me now and just become part of the song. I don't feel any of it is out of place.
So deserves an equally epic video so bring it on.
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