What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

MEAT LOAF "hang cool,teddy bear" cd, 2010.

Meat's 11th studio outing and dear oh dear....
how hard has the once mighty Meat Loaf fallen....i know its sometimes difficult to distance past glories from present failures, and in this case i wish i was listening to "deadringer","bat out of hell" or even its sequel in "bat out of hell II"...
i know Jim Steinman is once again out of the picture, and Meat always struggles without those epic charasmatic opus songs, he does those character songs really well, but when confronted with straight foreward rock n roll he falters, and does so badly..
thats not to say there are no good tracks on here, there are, but only just over half of them 8/13 in fact. the most interesting one is the third track "los angeloser" which is a boppy mover complete with "scratching", a few "yo baby's" and "check this outs", and a cool rock beat, so it is my favourite one here. the second last track "if it rains" comes pretty close to being the best one,its a good rock ballad with hints of past glories...although neither is worthy of *** they could over more time and exposure!..
Steve Vai and Brian May both make guest appearances here as does Jack Black...
look, the album probably isnt as bad as it sounds but as ive said:compared to previous albums it is dissapointing!
oh yeh, the album is loosely based on a novel on the same name by Kilian Kerwin, its the story of an injured,dying soldier reflecting back over his life and what could be if he were to survive and get back home...


I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: peace on earth
best track: los angeloser

tracks:

1. peace on earth *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nr6F4GYBdA live
2. living on the outside *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkQPmdoId_I live
3. los angeloser **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeRKFA3YogY&ob=av2e video(vevo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7FquwlRXOE live
4. if i cant have you **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPr--b6ERhA audio
5. love is not real *
6. like a rose **
7. song of madness *
8. did you ever love somebody? **
9. california isnt big enough *
10.running away from me **
11.lets be in love **
12.if it rains **
13.elvis in vegas **

3s=0
2s=8
1s=5

rating: 1.6