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you might not have heard of him, but chance are you've heard some of his workquote:His most successful chart singles include Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart", Air Supply's "Making Love Out of Nothing at All", Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", the Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion" and "More", Barry Manilow's "Read 'Em and Weep", Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" if you've ever wondered why "Total Eclipse of the Heart" or "Paradise By the Dashboard Lights" were such unabashedly over-the-top bangers, you have this guy to thank Steinman was known for his maximalist, operatic approach to music, once self-deprecatingly joking "If there was a market out there for 10-minute Wagnerian explosive anthems sung by a 350-pound guy with a huge voice, then we had that market cornered." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_ViIPA-Gc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo Steinman was also a playwright- he collaborated with andrew lloyd webber on the musical stage version of Whistle Down the Wind (a classic British film about children who discover a fugitive in their attic and mistake him for jesus christ), and, in 2017, he realized his "dream project," a musical based on Meat Loaf's debut album (which he originally produced and which remains one of the best-selling albums of all time); Bat Out of Hell: The Musical opened at no-bullshit the manchester opera house here are some cool lyrics of his that I found: quote:The entire city is burning overall, Steinman was a unique voice that over a 52 year career left an indelible mark on popular music cheers to a real one
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Some of my least favorite songs of all time. That being said, I'm sorry to hear that he didn't did sooner. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Big Beef City posted:Some of my least favorite songs of all time. But he did.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnHojqq06Jk
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Big Beef City posted:Some of my least favorite songs of all time. this is taking gbs rear end in a top hat to a new level
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 00:01 |
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Big Beef City posted:Some of my least favorite songs of all time. Cmon man. This is harsh even for you.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 00:06 |
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total eclipse of my fart
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 00:07 |
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That was a cool and detailed OP you wrote, I'm shocked no one else did a thread on this until now.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 00:16 |
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He also sang some of his songs too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jujSbje7pZA
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Big Beef City posted:Some of my least favorite songs of all time. still better at what he did than you'll be at anything, ever
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 00:27 |
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q-RVJyNpfDk
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 00:30 |
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Total poo poo of the Fart
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 00:31 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxmbfvycbv0
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 00:47 |
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Bat Out of Hell owns
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 00:55 |
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*turns around*
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 00:56 |
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Jim Steinman was about 95%, if not more, of what made Meat Loaf successful, and to repay him Meat Loaf sued him in the 2000's. Bat Out of Hell, both the song and the album, remains a rock and roll classic, and he was also one of the musical producers behind Streets of Fire, one of my favorite films. He'll be missed. Oh, and on Bat Out of Hell II he made a Doors parody song titled Wasted Youth that I'm sure some SA posters will get a kick out of.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 01:02 |
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Jim Steinman was 100% the brains behind Meat Loaf. Anything he did without him was mediocre at best. Guy knew how to produce a song like no other. Was also incredible at being able to recycle songs into hits. Think he had a core 20 original songs that he'd just remake endlessly until one became a smash hit (It's All Coming Back to Me Now is a prime example of this). He also did his own stuff including this amazing music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0K_RY34z8U Will never be another like him, for better or worse. EDIT: Seriously, his solo stuff is a treasure stuff of camp, I mean. LOOK AT THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wb8qHgK9kw Leggsy fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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Yeah I was stunned and also mad as hell when I heard Meat Loaf sued him over being able to use the title Bat Out of Hell 3. The man made you, you big Texan idiot, and you pull this poo poo.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 01:06 |
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Someone told me that he was also the secret composer of the Ween song Ocean Man.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 01:07 |
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Bat Out of Hell II was my first rock album that I discovered on my own (via happening to tune in to Entertainment Tonight when they were doing a profile on Meat and his comeback, and that's OK because that show was actually worth watching back then), and holy poo poo did it blow my 10 year-old mind which had been raised on a diet of 50s-60s oldies via my dad's mixtapes (which had no Beatles songs for some reason) and the Beach Boys, with my mom providing her vinyl copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller. (I wouldn't actually be familiar with the vast majority of "80s music" until I started my my late teens.) Yeah, the songs were extraordinarily long and lyrically more akin to musical numbers, but who gives a poo poo when the music is that good? Well, a year or two passes and adolescent me, without being able to put it into words, needed to find music that was a bit less campy and overwrought. But I never stopped revisiting that record. There's nothing else like it and the first, and it turned out that Meat and Jim had a bit of a Kirby/Lee relationship in that they brought out the best in each other and never hit their creative apexes again when they stopped working together. Steinman wasn't a singer (though he tried) and Meat was neither a songwriter nor able to find hired guns to fill Jim's shoes. And yes, Streets of Fire is very underrated. As is Walter Hill as a filmmaker but this ain't CD. Just remember that after The Warriors he wanted to make "a rock n' roll fairy tale" action movie and Joel Silver, God bless him, made it happen. Steinman being involved was icing on that cake.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 02:29 |
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Total poo poo of the Fart I'll do anything for sharts
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 02:50 |
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But I won't poo that
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 02:50 |
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Steinman ruled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPx1dF9E2cM
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 03:25 |
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I always thought Jim Steinman was meatloaf’s real name lol
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 03:42 |
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e: let me try putting this more positively. he was very .,.. consistent. yes. consistent.
Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Apr 21, 2021 |
# ? Apr 21, 2021 03:52 |
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First thing I thought of when I saw the thread.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 04:06 |
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An album so bad a local record shop hiked the price up to $50,000 for a vinyl copy to make sure no one bought it.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 04:07 |
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No, you didn't have to stoop so low Have your friends collect your records And then change your number I guess that I don't need that though
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He was pretty good at writing piano stuff.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 04:43 |
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I think of Sisters Of Mercy first when I hear Jim Steinman's name, but obviously that is like the thing he is third-most famous for (at best), so for anyone who does not know what it sounds like when an English goth rock band at the peak of their brilliance joins forces with the world's campiest epic songcraftsmith, you should hear these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgifFdi8eio And honestly I might even like this one ... more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BURM7l6_pvg no I prefer "This Corrosion" It is also hilarious that Meat Loaf eventually covered "More," bringing some sort of Steinman circle to a close
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 04:52 |
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total eclipse of the FART hahahahaha get it??
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 04:53 |
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Guess he had a total collapse of his life.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 05:31 |
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Steinman was also a crucial part of one of the most fascinating train wrecks to ever hit Broadway, "Dance of the Vampires": https://www.vulture.com/article/broadway-dance-of-the-vampires-bloody-disaster.html
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Dr. Quarex posted:I think of Sisters Of Mercy first when I hear Jim Steinman's name, but obviously that is like the thing he is third-most famous for (at best), so for anyone who does not know what it sounds like when an English goth rock band at the peak of their brilliance joins forces with the world's campiest epic songcraftsmith, you should hear these: I was probably the only Sisters fan that thought Floodland was absolutely terrible, and doubly so after the perfection of First and Last and Always. When I found out that "the Meatloaf guy" produced the album it all made sense (well, that and the "band" only being Eldritch and some new session musicians at that point).
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 07:49 |
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ON A HOT SUMMER NIGHT yeeeeeessss.... YEEEEESSSSSS He was cool, too bad he wi be forever associated with fash supporter Meat Loaf
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Cubone posted:cheers to a real one I just saw the news. I would say his music just isn't my kind of thing, but he made it WORK somehow, I can't help but love it. A true original. Bob's Burgers version of Bat Out Of Hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV9nTw6ODiQ Literal Video of Total Eclipse, one of the funniest things ever: https://vimeo.com/7198484 Cafe Barbarian fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Apr 21, 2021 |
# ? Apr 21, 2021 08:47 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUjYAi0WcQ
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 08:55 |
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The 90s dance cover (Nicki French) is a favourite of mine too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EolLvBcWaA
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edit: drat you cloudflare
~Coxy fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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More like "Total Infarction of the Heart" *checks wikipedia* Ah. I mean More like "Total Failure of the Kidney"
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