Remember Meat Loaf? Not the entrée but the singer Michael (nee Marvin) Lee Aday? When he had his first hits back in the ’70s, I liked them. Still do. Jim Steinman wrote the songs, as well as songs for other artists. You can usually tell a Jim Steinman song:
- “Read ‘Em and Weep” (Barry Manilow)
- “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” (Air Supply)
- “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (Bonnie Tyler)
- “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” (Celine Dion)
Yeah, that guy. Now you know why those songs sounded like Meat Loaf songs but weren’t.
Anyway, what’s on your mind? Got something to share? It’s Thursday Night Open Thread, and your turn to run things.
Who wants to start?
“Meatloaf again!?”
-audience
Don’t eat the Meatloaf!
Is this going to degenerate into people randomly dropping Rocky Horror screen calls?
Why get us started if you don’t want us to finish?
We are just trying to stay sane inside insanity.
Did Harvey just call us degenerates?
He knows us so well.
In my best Margret Dumont voice…”Degenerates!! Well! I’ve never been so insulted in my life!”
“Well, stick around a while.”
” . . . and that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground too. If you’re not careful they’re going to tear you down and put up an apartment block.”
“ahh I can picture you now in front of the stove. Can’t see the stove.”
“Will you marry me? Did your husband leave you any money? Answer the second question first.”
Ok, I’m not even mildly embarrassed to say that I have never actually been able to sit through RHPS.
Also, though I could instantly recognize the other 4, hear them in my head, I’ve always made it a point to avoid Barry, and no idea at all about read em and weep.
Here’s the version by Meat Loaf.
I’m proud to say that I’ve never heard any of those songs, and, until now, had heard only of “Total Eclipse of the Heart”.
Moving on, William Henry Harrison, who contracted pneumonia at his inauguration and died thirty-one days later, which made him a better President than Lyndon Johnson or Barack Obama, was born February 9, 1773, at Berkeley Plantation, in Charles City County, Virginia.
It’s probably bad that I’m far more familiar with Meatloaf’s versions of all the covers.