After going through my least favorite songs and favorite outtake, today I’ll reach 1000 Meat Loaf plays tracked on Last.fm. To celebrate this joyous occasion, here is my stab at the Best Top 5 Meat Loaf Songs … ever. 5. In the Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King Every “best x ever” list… Read more »
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Counting down: favorite Meat Loaf obscurity
Part two of my three part countdown to reaching my 1000th Meat Loaf track tracked on Last.fm. Today it’s time for Presence of the Lord, a B-side from 1973. The very first thing Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman recorded together was a single for RSO Records. The A-side was “More Than You Deserve”, the title… Read more »
Counting down: my 5 least favorite Meat Loaf songs
Since I’ve started using Last.fm in March 2006, I played 989 Meat Loaf songs. Being the geek that I am, I wanted to pay some special attention to the last 11. I’ll tackle those in three parts: today, I’ll play my 5 least favorite Meat Loaf songs, tomorrow is for my favorite rarity, and on… Read more »
41 Shots? Get out!
On July 12th, 2009, Bruce Springsteen & his mighty fine E Street Band performed the song American Skin (41 Shots) for the first time since October 2003, and for the very first time outside of the US. It was one of my highlights from that show. Last night I noticed a recording of that show,… Read more »
Pyramid: check
Today, my sister and I went for a bike ride to the Piramide van Austerlitz, near Amersfoort. It is gloriously pointless and it is probably the most ridiculous monument in The Netherlands. It doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s awesome. The pyramid was build in 1804 by the French army under Auguste de Marmont,… Read more »