SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORCEROOOOOOOOOOR! *rabblerabblerabblerabblerabblerabble*

There's no shame in that.

Now, if you'd said you like the Céline Dion version, we might have to discuss your position over the trapdoor, but...

--G.
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I'm not psychotic.

....yet.

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Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

I was going to express incredulity, but Wikipedia backs you up here.

Unfortunately, thanks to my jukebox queueing up "I want you back", I've now invented the Bananarama cover of this song in my head.

*tries to shake it out of there*

Céline's a curious nexus point in the strange and ineffable overlap of rock, pop, and... whatever her preferred style is called. If her cover of "I Drove All Night" isn't enough, there's always the bizarre but true fact that one of her biggest singles, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", was originally written for (and eventually performed by) Meat Loaf.

--G.
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That's the only song of hers I can stand*, mainly because she manages the exact kind of delivery needed to perform a Jim Steinman song.

*ok, kiss my ass, I like the Titanic song. That was a long year, sue me. :)

	Chad Collier Smirking Kilrathi The Captain of the Gravy Train

So it was, and you did good work.

But personally, I'd attribute any enjoyment of that song to James Horner's talent at composing pleasing melodies (when he bothers to actually come up with a new one these days) rather than to the extremely repetitive lyrics put to that theme or the vocalist singing them.

Originally written for him? I'm not so sure about that, although with any given Steinman song, that's the way to bet. But in this case, I thought it was originally written specifically for "Pandora's Box", the girl group he manufactured back around 1990 or so and which put out a single CD, "Original Sin". At the very least the longest and most lushly orchestrated version of the song yet is on that disk...

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere...

Well, that's what the liner notes to Bat Out of Hell III say, if memory serves...

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

In that case, who am I to dispute The Word of God(tm)?

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere...

The Cindi Lauper version cued in iTunes as I read this entry.

I think its time for a nap.