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Dean

The first five times I heard it, I thought it was hilarious. But it was all downhill from there. Maybe it's something about being white and growing up in the suburbs, but...

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John_B (mail) (www):

Well, Michele's anecdote about the wedding surely poisoned the imagery for me! Until that moment, however, BOOH was still a fun album filled with mostly good--but sometimes awful--stuff. The vampire riff, for instance, was dead fish from the first time I heard it. But the rest of the album--including Paradise--will remain fun for a long, long time.

Other than an occasional dud song--and which performer is immune from that?--Meatloaf should be an inspiration to us all... completely balls-out career choices, most ending up successfully. I'd swap bank balances any day.

4.29.2005 12:11pm

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Jay Solo (mail) (www):

The wedding scene was hysterical! Reminded me of my brother's wedding where the actual wedding party did stuff from Grease, and that was the theme.

I still like the other two hits, but Paradise got played to death when it first came out and became one of THOSE songs, that was sooooo overplayed you can barely stand to hear it for years or decades later. Kind of like Gloria Gaynor's I Will survive.

4.29.2005 12:25pm

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Linda Peters (mail):

The best (or at least most fun) version of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" is here: http://www.gloriagaynor.com/download/alien.shtml

When I thought myself all grown up and important, I tried to distance myself from the music of my teen years. I was, afterall, much too cosmopolitan and erudite for such pedestrian tastes. When I turned 40, I stopped giving a damn and came out of denial. I like the Bee Gee's, disco was fun, and John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John's warbling in "Grease" makes me happy. Is it great music? Maybe, maybe not - but I will remain unapologetic about liking it.

4.29.2005 1:01pm

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Casey Tompkins (mail) (www):

Michelle is perfectly welcome to hide in her house. You can run, but you can't hide, baby. :)

If it's good enough for Pterry Pratchett, it's good enough for me.

Heh.

4.29.2005 2:49pm

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Kevin D:

That album was a bit before my time (and my date of birth) but I really liked "Bat Out Of Hell II" and a few other albums after that. I dunno, I like Meatloaf. Is that bad?

4.30.2005 1:53am

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Dean Esmay:

Yea, if you like Meat Loaf you are a bad person and we hate you.

;-)

More seriously: you probably have to be of a certain age to understand how horribly overplayed that thing is, and how weird it seems that it sold something like 15 million copies when it's so obviously just a novelty record.

5.1.2005 8:32am

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Deanna Barr (mail):

You'll have to hate me too, Dean. BOOH was and still remains my all-time favorite album. Second is BOOHII. I don't hate a song on either album. I bought BOOH in vinyl, then on cassette, then on CD. I wore out the CD and bought another one.

The only thing that came close was Kiss' Detroit Rock City. I played that vinyl until it was unplayable, as well.

Can't stand classical music. So shoot me...

5.3.2005 6:24pm