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Born to Run + Andrew Lloyd Webber = Bat Out of Hell
Posted by skirky on 19 March 2010 - 9:26pm.
You can dress it up as much as you like, but BOOH is just BTR with all the street smarts stripped out and a big pile of theatrical bobbins ladled on by Todd Rundgren. IMHO.
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Yes, you're quite right. Absolutely, in fact.
That's why it's great.
Your point being?
I don't think it's ever pretended to be anything else.
Sorry, Gatz love.
Well, I happened to be watching 'Classic Albums' on Sky Arts and it didn't come up once during the whole hour. I think the 'point' generally was "It's Friday night, let's clink glasses and point at pop cultural references and go 'oh....yeaaahhh...and another thing...' and then all go off for a kebab before the last bus home. Still, the best laid plans and all that.
My ride's here.
No problem sweetheart
Makes me think Born To Run should have been a live album
I've got the box set that contains this concert and I can watch it over and over. I hardly ever listen to the album.
Mmm...
I rarely listen to the early Springsteen albums as the definitive versions of many tracks now appear on the Live box.
It no surprise
when you consider that Professor Roy Bittan plays piano all over the BOOH album, and that Max Weinberg plays drums on three tracks
I'm with Pax and Gatz
Chances are the programme-makers are not as old as those of us who came to a similar conclusion as yours 33 years ago. "Theatrical bobbins by Todd Rundgren" is, of course, a moveable feast, but in this instance it's surely A Good Thing. Has there ever been a better motorbike-impersonating guitar?
I think
Todd completely agrees. As far as I can recall, in his interview with Danny Baker recently he mentioned the BTRH as one of the ingredients in BOOH.
Jim Steinman might not completely agree.
He has said he finds that, "...puzzling, musically...Springsteen was more an inspiration than an influence." And while Springsteen is often lauded for his closeness to the blue-collar man and for songs grounded in real life, Steinman has said: "They (the songs) were all about my obsessions and images. None of them takes place in a normal world. They all take play in extreme world. Very operatic... they were all heightened. They don't take place in normal reality."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Out_of_Hell
When...
... did Andrew Lloyd Webber ever have lyrics as good as Bat Out Of Hell?