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but see for it to have been cold and lonely, it would have had to be him on his own, unless it's a meatloaf sized metaphor for our existence wherin we are touched briefly by the presence of women with torch dildos and dashboard lights on their nipples.
― Queen G of the morning after, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:01 (twenty years ago) link
I only like the "if I gonna be damned, then i wanna be damned" bit. the rest is rubbish, pseudo-springsteen.
and springsteen's much better.
i love bruce.
― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:01 (twenty years ago) link
No, the point is that Meat Loaf and Steinman do Springsteen BETTER because it's flashy show biz and not all this huffy meaningfulness BS.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago) link
no, the line is "cold and lonely in the deep dark night", i.e. everywhere around the parked car except for inside it.
I think we need a TS : Springsteen vs Meatloaf thread.
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link
seven years pass...
five years pass...
three years pass...
According to Meat Loaf's autobiography, Davis commented that "actors don't make records" and challenged Steinman's writing abilities and knowledge of rock music:
Do you know how to write a song? Do you know anything about writing? If you're going to write for records, it goes like this: A, B, C, B, C, C. I don't know what you're doing. You're doing A, D, F, G, B, D, C. You don't know how to write a song.... Have you ever listened to pop music? Have you ever heard any rock-and-roll music.... You should go downstairs when you leave here...and buy some rock-and-roll records.[18]
Meat Loaf asserts "Jim, at the time, knew every record ever made. [He] is a walking rock encyclopedia." Although Steinman laughed off the insults, the singer screamed "Fuck you, Clive!" from the street up to his building.[19]
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 July 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link