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Already, the team has the potential to be one of the top "five or six" teams in the country, Leitzes said. So far, the team has yet to show the coherence it needs to soar that high, but the immediate future ain't too dark...
...controlled update. Rose -- whose voice sounds like an angry air horn -- is one of the most distinctive singers in rock, and his prowess is on display throughout the album. He and guest singer Michael Monroe (formerly of the band Hanoi Rocks) take the Dead Boys' 1978 tribute to nihilism, Ain't It Fun, and reinvent it as a duet, infusing the song with new energy through the interplay of their voices. "I punch my fist right through the glass," they sing together. "I didn't even feel it, it hurt me so bad. Such fun. Such fun." Rose also performs...
...There ain't no justice, as far as that's concerned...
...Eddie the zombie biker in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), then as star of writer-arranger Jim Steinman's ambitious album Bat Out of Hell (1977), Meat Loaf gave clarion clout to rock's first decadent period. The Bat LP sold oodles; one cut (Two Out of Three Ain't Bad) was a hit single; another (Paradise by the Dashboard Light) became an influential proto-video. And for a moment or two, Meat Loaf was a movie star...
...Phil Spector's wailing Wall of Sound. The lyric lines are long and chatty, with more pomp to the bomp. Bat II is the '50s, '60s and '70s, packed in steel and wrapped in Mylar. Or go back even further. Meat Loaf is not quite Jussi Bjorling, and Steinman ain't no Wagner, but in rock terms Bat Out of Hell II is a Gotterdammerung you can dance...