Because some people got the crazy idea that I’m some kind of computer whizkid, people sometimes ask me if I can do something for them. Truth be told, as long as those damn things just work I can usually persuade them to do my bidding, but when they don’t, well, damn them straight to damnation. [...]
Category Archives: Music
What I've Been Playing (2)
July 1, 2010 – 23:49
There are three books I’ve read recently waiting to be reviewed, but I got no inspiration. So here’s an easy post: the quarterly update of what I’ve been listening to. Artists Meat Loaf (162) Dio (79) Melissa Etheridge (73) Dusty Springfield (67) Prince (66) a balladeer (64) Bruce Springsteen (60) Bløf (58) Tanz der Vampire [...]
Hang Cool? Screw That!
June 17, 2010 – 00:28
As I said in my review of Hang Cool Teddy Bear, there’s one more thing about this album I need, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, to discuss: the complete clusterfuck the various record companies (Mercury/Universal and Loud & Proud/Roadrunner) managed to make of the formats the album was released in. If [...]
Hang Cool Teddy Bear
June 14, 2010 – 23:45
Meat Loaf’s latest album, Hang Cool Teddy Bear, has been out since April 16th, and I still don’t quite know what to make of it. If it had been a complete disaster, an utter train wreck of ill-conceived ideas and cliched songs, it would have been easy. If this album had been a spectacular return [...]
Let It Be
June 7, 2010 – 23:04
There was a question in my mailbox about the where and when of Meat Loaf’s cover of “Let It Be.” According to the liner notes of the “Not a Dry Eye in the House” single, it was recorded for ABC’s Nightline. But as anyone who knows how to string a few keywords together would have [...]
