Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Feb 14, 2018 20:34:02 GMT -5
Now, there's a phrase you don't hear very often. [/snark]
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 14, 2018 20:37:26 GMT -5
Having a Richard Corben cover alone puts him ahead of 90% of all '70s rock bands. Meat Loaf forever! Unfortunately, great album art and great music seldom correlated in the '70s. In fact, it was often just the reverse. ...I like ELO too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2018 20:38:41 GMT -5
I have no dislike for him, but can’t say I’ve ever listened to his work beyond a random song on the radio or music video back when they played those on TV.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 14, 2018 20:42:36 GMT -5
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 14, 2018 20:42:37 GMT -5
Now, there's a phrase you don't hear very often. [/snark] I hear from music industry/Nashville friends he spends his time drinking vodka and crying. That is exactly what you would expect him to do from listening to MeatLoaf songs. Not many artists have that level of commitment.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 14, 2018 21:30:09 GMT -5
Having a Richard Corben cover alone puts him ahead of 90% of all '70s rock bands. Meat Loaf forever! Unfortunately, great album art and great music seldom correlated in the '70s. In fact, it was often just the reverse. Augh!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are gonna have to throw down! Okay, maybe not that far and I am not a fan of everything on this album; but, I love ELO, right up to and including Xanadu. There, I said it! On that album, "Turn to Stone," "Mr Blue Sky," and "Sweet Talkin' Woman" are all favorites. Not quite there with "Hold on Tight," "Don't Bring Me Down," or "Rock N Roll is King;" but, good stuff. Don't make me sick the wife on you, either, as she is a big prog-rock fan: ELP, Yes, Alan Parson Project, Rush; all that stuff. She fights dirty, too!
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 14, 2018 21:34:58 GMT -5
I even like this...
So, in the words of Ric Flair, "LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT.........because it's the best thing goin'.......today!"
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo.......................................
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Post by badwolf on Feb 14, 2018 21:48:28 GMT -5
I only know a few Meat Loaf ("Paradise" is very nostalgic for me) but I loved Bonnie Tyler and had a couple of her albums (the 2 biggest ones I suppose) when I was a kid.
And I love ELO. Time is my favorite.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2018 22:36:48 GMT -5
I saw Meatloaf play at a small club on Hampton Beach in NH in the summer of '92 (about a year before Bat out of Hell 2 was released and revived his career, and there were about 20 people in the audience. About half were my group of friends from college who just wanted to hear Paradise live (it wa sa staple at all out college parties), the rest wandered in to get out of the sun I think.
-M
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Post by berkley on Feb 14, 2018 22:49:36 GMT -5
Re ELO, I love Eldorado, Face the Music, and A New World Record (haven't heard the ones that came before). I bought Out of the Blue when it came out but found it a disappointment compared to those previous three albums. Not that it's a bad record, just not up to the very high standard they'd set up to then - something like Elvis Costello's Get Happy, another decent to good album that was a relative disappointment because the artists's previous work had been so outstanding (to my ears).
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Post by Confessor on Feb 15, 2018 0:02:35 GMT -5
We're getting a bit off topic here, but I really don't like ELO's music either. It's not as offensively bad to me as Meat Loaf, mind you, but I still don't enjoy it. I find it a bit soulless, a bit pompous, and far too indebted to the Beatles, without having any of that band's bite or innovation.
I'm gonna sound like a total music snob here, but I much prefer Jeff Lynne's little know pre-ELO outfit, The Idle Race. They did some charmingly whimsical and quintessentially English pop-psychedelia in the late '60s. "The Skeleton and the Roundabout" was an almost hit in mid-1968 over here in the UK, but it ultimately flopped...
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 15, 2018 1:00:38 GMT -5
I must confess I bought this solely for the cover : I also kind of know who the musicien is, and will never ever listen to that record. I got it for $0.50 and almost felt dirty getting a record solely for the cover artwork (a mighty cheesy one, might I add...). It is quite rare comic book artists are hired for record cover art by good and relevant music, somehow, as the choice will too often be a fanboy one. But then again, especially in the 70ies, great comic book artists seldom were good designers.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 15, 2018 5:08:36 GMT -5
I don't fault you for getting that album just for the Corben cover art (and it's not like you paid an arm and a leg for it). But yeah, it is a bit cheesy, esp. for Corben. It seems like he was channeling Boris Vallejo a bit for this one. Anyway, on the topic of seeking out specific cover art, when I was shopping for a copy of Steve Englehart's novel The Point Man some years ago, I specifically wanted the original paperback edition from the early 1980s because of the lovely cover art by Corben:
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 15, 2018 9:49:50 GMT -5
To get off the album cover jag (which I admittedly started) here is one of my favorite Corben paintings.
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