After previously telling you all that I don’t tend to like
long songs, I now include another album that is full of long songs. Meat’s
terrible performance at the AFL grand final a few years ago probably
demonstrates that he is on the tail end of his career, but when he was on, he
was fantastic, and no one else can rival his theatrical lyrical delivery. My
highlight of the album is the epic “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” (refer to
link), which even features a baseball commentator and some amazing entendres.
And how good is it when Ellen Foley jumps in and sings her part? Sensational
stuff. According to Wikipedia, so it must be true, this is the second highest
selling album of all time in Australia (second only to Whispering Jack) so
there must be plenty of closet Bat Out of Hell fans out there.
Coming up at #21 – a musical heavyweight (not in the same
way that Meatloaf is a heavyweight though!)
So glad to see this here: Marvin 'n' Jim were an unbeatable pair.
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