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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts) Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:20 AM Oct 2012

9 nights till Halloween! Here is a treat for the Lounge!!!

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9 nights till Halloween! Here is a treat for the Lounge!!! (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns Oct 2012 OP

Love the song, love the video, Aristus Oct 2012 #1

This is the first Meat Loaf song I ever heard. I was still in my teens. Lady Freedom Returns Oct 2012 #2

The original "Bat Out Of Hell' can still astonish, even after 35 years. Aristus Oct 2012 #3

It's Steinman's way of writing that is the reason why the play... Lady Freedom Returns Oct 2012 #4

Aristus

(66,436 posts)

1. Love the song, love the video,

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:43 AM

Oct 2012

love the elements borrowed from "Bram Stoker's Dracula".

Cool...

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)

2. This is the first Meat Loaf song I ever heard. I was still in my teens.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:52 AM

Oct 2012

It was love at first listen. I had to find more and more of his songs. I was hooked.

Aristus

(66,436 posts)

3. The original "Bat Out Of Hell' can still astonish, even after 35 years.

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:56 AM

Oct 2012

Meatloaf's voice was a force of nature. ( I say 'was' because I've heard him in concert several times in the last 20 years, and that amazing voice is gone, a memory. Sad...)

Jim Steinman's songs have this all-or-nothing, now-or-never, do-or-die quality to them that just keeps the listener coming back for more.

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)

4. It's Steinman's way of writing that is the reason why the play...

Reply to Aristus (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 01:01 AM

Oct 2012

Dance of the Vampires is so...wow.

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