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Todd has given an interview in today's Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/20...gren-interview |
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For those not wanting read the entire thing, here are the ML points.
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I can perhaps see why Meat wanted to make the next record with his hardworking touring band when you hear stuff like that.
I can see how Rundgren always comes to his "spoof of Bruce Springsteen" argument but at the same time I think diminishing the songs only down to that is a bit unfair. It's perhaps a bit weird for the original producer not to get more excited about the music in a more dramatic / poetic fashion in this case I'd say. It has more qualities than just being a spoof surely. |
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How can something be a spoof of something so inferior? Thats degrading. Springsteen is Springsteen.
Not the same level as the Loaf. How can Todd be so dismissive? |
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![]() ![]() Jim Steinman said it's one of his favorite albums ever. Even Kasim has said Todd is sarcastic. |
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Todd's version of two out of three ain't bad is one of the worst bits of music I've ever heard in my life.
![]() Hard to believe it is the same person who gave us Bat out of Hell! |
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![]() A rise? what? Just think comparing that to BOOH is ludicrous. |
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And of course Steinman used Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg on the record. I can see how Bat out of Hell could be perceived to have been inspired by Born to Run (the songs) but I'm not sure if Bat was actually written before 1975. It probably was. |
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And yes, I think you are trying to get a rise. ![]() |
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, I urge anyone to listen to the piano introduction to Backstreets and you'll hear how "Meaty" it is...Bittan is a legend. |
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I think you're right about the lyrics, though. |
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Born to Run and Night maybe..... a friend did tell me you could sing thunder road over a part in Took The Words and it would fit perfectly.
But the whole album sounds kinda tinny to me and underwhelming. I just dont see the resemblance to BOOH, only took the words stands out as maybe a little bruce-ish. I see more of a resemblance to Prize Fight Lover. |
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Yeah his opinion may be quirkey sometimes. But I sort of agree with him. I'll take Bat over BTR any day.
Also the last person on this forum to troll it to get any sort of rise out of somebody is Wario. He's the most harmless person on this forum. If what he said made you get slightly angry. I'd advise stepping away from the computer for just a short while. ![]() |
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![]() The reason "Took the Words" sounds Bruce-ish is because it sounds "Spector-ish". And "Prize Fight Lover" sounds like "My Lucky Day", a song off an album which many Springsteen fans consider to be his worst ever, so there you go. ![]() Quote:
![]() And I did get angry- he "dismissed" the most important album of Bruce's career, his masterpiece, which he slaved over for over a year. An album that means a lot to me personally. I don't think you are, either. ![]() You've said on other occasions that you like Springsteen at least a little, and now suddenly you don't? Seems odd to me. I better stop now before I get worked up again. ![]() |
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And here we go again....
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Wrecking ball is decent and I do like that record so I guess that's what u were referring to. But BTR not so much aha |
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What's wrong with a Springsteen spoof anyway, even if it WAS true (which I'd contest, outside of the similarities above)? Good music is good music. BUT BACK ON TOPIC. I don't think I've ever heard Todd say one positive thing about Bat out of Hell (the album), or seem even the slightest bit enthusiastic about it. I don't understand how you can possibly work on an album as legendary as Bat out of Hell and not be, at the very slightest, "Ok, that was a pretty cool thing I helped make." I find his whole attitude very bizarre, I can see why Meat might have had difficulty working with him from the way he portrays himself in interviews ![]() |
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This whole Todd topic is BS!
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Bruce
Springsteen. Now you have 2 lines! |
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Agree with Andrew too. Meat's enthusiasm and emotion touches me; Jim's enthusiasm and logical explanations are always interesting; Todd's dry sarcasm reminds me that less is more .. a little can be amusing, but as a continuous way of being lacks wit and becomes a bore ![]() However he was a key player in bringing the album into being, and I always appreciate that Meat pays him credit .. the bigger man ![]() Caryl |
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