Neon genesis has some pretty interesting story telling decisions. You are brushing away the importance of asuka’s first scene in the anime. If you remember Rei’s first scene with Shinji where shinji goes over to rei’s house, when shinji sees her naked, rei doesn’t react. On the other hand, asukas first scene is a complete reversal of what happened. Asukas character is all about how she uses her sexuality to prove that she is an adult and that she has control. Seems like you are not giving it enough thought because the scene made you uncomfortable. Do better next time.
@diegoavila812921 күн бұрын
FINALLY some one understands my LOVE for Paris! Such an underrated song imo
@alcoholicgoatАй бұрын
No it's not it's better than the anime
@_TraveyАй бұрын
I loved the anime and actually really disliked the manga changes. And I couldnt stand reading Toji's dialogue omg so bad. Not even worthy of being on my book shelf xD
@BabesiabovisАй бұрын
Jim was my icon in the 80's
@mick2998Ай бұрын
I strongly disagree with the consensus that BotH3 is a weak album - It's my favourite of the three by a long shot. I don't care for the controversy behind it, and I won't let that change my opinion. All three albums are among some of the best works ever created in their own ways, and The Monster is Loose is a worthy sequel to the first two. I find myself sometimes skipping tracks toward the end of BotH2 once I get beyond Objects, because they start to drag in my opinion (depends on my mood at the time, sometimes I'll listen to them), and I'll sometimes skip All Revved Up because the clash from it and the end of Heaven can Wait is jarring as all hell. There simply isn't anything like that in 3, the cohesion between tracks and the flow of the album, how it tells its story, is just perfect. Lyrically it's a little weaker, sure, but cohesively it just fits so much better than the other two, and Monstro into Alive is the motor that keeps me running each morning.
@danielteixeira3812Ай бұрын
Thank you for your in-depth research! I'm not sure how the Mindscape version got authorized hahaha! The Sega Genesis version remains my favorite, despite its harsh no deaths allowed stipulations. In the Sound Test there is a motorcycle, which is not heard anywhere in the final release. This means that there was most likely a chase level that was unfortunately removed.
@todesziege8 күн бұрын
The Mindscape version came a couple years after Silius, around the time of Terminator 2, and the rightsholders had clearly loosened up their stance on game adaptations at that point. Their loss, really.
@RetroDrew2 ай бұрын
While it may be a work of fan fiction, and involve some hentai elements but hear me out, the Evangelion Re:Take manga's are fantastic. They write a new ending across 5 volumes that starts right where End Of Evangelion leaves off. Some of the most faithful fan art I've ever seen and it still hits upon each characters main themes all while having a satisfying ending to the series. For those worried about the hentai elements you can pretty much skip all that as it doesn't play too much into the story and only takes up about 40 pages in total across the entire 5 volumes. It's a fantastic read
@cornermonster2 ай бұрын
Love this! Thanks for doing the legwork here. FYI, there’s a 3rd version of “A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste” that is covered by Meat Loaf. It appears on the “Whistle Down The Wind” album (different than the cast recording) and is also on “The Essential Meat Loaf” compilation. 16:04
@victorfergn2 ай бұрын
Nah, the anime was better than Sadamoto's manga. That manga toned down the story, I'm sure that somebody who loves shounen and seinen stories might prefer the manga but I hate shounen and seinen stories... the anime is more real to Japanese culture.
@ConstantinDOSSOU-vy1zoАй бұрын
Evangelion always was an pretty overated story with every ending more trash than the others . The manga is easly the best version of the show
@victorfergnАй бұрын
@@ConstantinDOSSOU-vy1zo Let me guess.. you love Marvel movies. xD
@ConstantinDOSSOU-vy1zoАй бұрын
@@victorfergn No I didn't even see 5 Marvel films 🤦🤦🤦. I just speak facts. Evangelion is a serie about his character but their devloppment was always sucks . Somehow fanboys only saw Anno's shitty writing in the rebuild movies like the writing in original anime hadn't this flaws in the first place.
@victorfergnАй бұрын
@@ConstantinDOSSOU-vy1zo oh please shounen boy, I know you love Marvel.
@ConstantinDOSSOU-vy1zoАй бұрын
@@victorfergn it is excactly why I say Evangelion fans are just arrogant who refuse to see how it isn't deep at all. Poor clown , I personnaly never love Marvel 🤦🤦🤦🤦. But unlike you , I don't think I am better than Marvel 's fans. If I was like you a person who can't make an argument I would just say Evangelion is only loved by people who were depressed and saw themselves in the pathetic characters from Evangelion. But it is is still better than you because the majority of Evangelion fans said it and I never hated them for this, I just hate the fact they tried to do like Evangelion is deeper than it was in reality.
@joshuaberry96392 ай бұрын
‘Lets get a circle pit going audiotree’ will go down as my favorite quote ever said on an audiotree set
@patricemeseck16072 ай бұрын
Jim Steinman and Meat were pure magic together. I can't imagine one without the other. I'm not sure Meat ever could either. He sure didn't stick around long after Jim left us.
@veronikaironic2 ай бұрын
what is the interview where the clap is mentioned it has me ROLLING 😭💀
@SphereSquared2 ай бұрын
28:36 the background lol
@SphereSquared2 ай бұрын
18:13 damn
@jimmothypakistan52233 ай бұрын
manga #10 of shinji ikari raising project features shinji cross dressing for a cultural festival
@tropes20873 ай бұрын
Get in the robot Shinji
@magictriangle68783 ай бұрын
I just finished reading Sadamoto's manga, and man. It's amazing. I also agree it's better than the anime. I thought this video would be just about the manga, but seeing these other weird adaptations is just as good lol. Now to watch the rebuild movies
@RareCheese4253 ай бұрын
29:45 you do realize that they're 14 right...
@irrelevantonyt3 ай бұрын
As of the rebuilds, we now know all of these are very possible canon yippee
@tobyisawesome3 ай бұрын
This feels like a less chaotic scott the woz video
@mxsmitzz22353 ай бұрын
4:26 that’s not at all what this scene is. Misato was too late. Shinjis train left. It was his conversation with his school friends that allowed shinji to decide to stay for himself. He didn’t decide while the two were staring at each other. He had already decided. That’s why the scene holds on them so long. It’s about misato realising shinji decided for himself, and shinji getting confirmation that misato did want him to stay afterall
@leewhite823 ай бұрын
There was a really good demo of A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste by Rory Dodd, with the intro melody of Out of the Frying Pan. Its a whole new song and has no connection to the MeatLoaf version. Shame it was never released...
@killahdolphin3 ай бұрын
Oh no my queen! 😭😭😭
@JodaroKujo4 ай бұрын
18:41 this had me laughing so hard
@moviereviews4life4 ай бұрын
Great job on the video. I'd say I'm more surprised you made no mention of It's All Coming Back to Me Now by Pandora's Box than Celine Dion & finally Meatloaf & Marion Raven. I did discover that Braver Than We Are was a Jim Steinman written album. So thanks for that.
@gowiththeflow3634 ай бұрын
Kaworu at the bottom of best girl tier list is some bs
@jzalapski4 ай бұрын
Hulk Hogans Theme is an instrumental version of "Ravishing" by Bonnie Tyler.
@RandomGuy-ft3cj4 ай бұрын
Im sad that im a year late, there so much talent here. I hope to see more content soon, passion beats greed.
@chrisjulien76984 ай бұрын
Christ bless you, EVA slice of life was something i didnt know i needed lol
@JOSEPH_EMMANUELBUSTILLO_GARCIA4 ай бұрын
Do you know where to find the other volumes asides from the first 2?
@HustlerHorstRuediger4 ай бұрын
I read the Manga like 17 or 18 years ago and watched the anime for the first time about 10 years later - This is one of the few instances where indeed watching the anime first is the right choice imo. Without taking the time to compare the two releases or even rereading the manga once over the time, I was slightly annoyed by Shinjis behaviour and the fact that everything feels 20% more confusing. Also watching the anime should be much easier/cheaper today than geting a copy of the manga.
@alonsoyanez43804 ай бұрын
It's 2024. She's beginning a new era AND STILL NO SIGNS ON WANTING TO DROP THIS MASTERPIECE. 😢😢
@aerok55144 ай бұрын
i have the mangas deluxe all!!!
@M_Ladd5 ай бұрын
Great job! Thank you very much! Over the years i have listened to quite a few of Rorys songs and found him to be ok, just a guy, nothing special, but not bad. Curious as to which of his songs you thought could rival Meat, because i never saw that, but admit i may not have listened to the right one? I don't think anyone could ever sing like Meat. He was a one an only. That is what made him great. So far, to me Rory was just a singer.
@christinanewcomb17185 ай бұрын
Excellent review. I have become obsessed with steinman including listening to dance of the vampire in german on repeat just for.kicks. you are right everything he did was to create bat out of hell the musical he just didnt know the big picture just one piece at a time
@GuiltlessGear5 ай бұрын
I've been trying to find the source for this particular version of Total Eclipse, which i can only find in this demo for what uploader MLBF calls "Bat Out of Hell 2100", a supposed proof of concept demo for a Bat Out of Hell musical film. The song plays at approximately 53:00 in the video. After doing some digging, I found a site hosting the demos, which claim it was dated 1997. and identifies the singers as Laurie Beechman and Marcus Lovett.
@Out_of_My_Head5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the laughs! He wrote a song for Barry Mannilow: “Read Em and Weep” and one for Air Supply: “Making Love Out of Nothing at All.” The latter sounds like a vampire inspired song and has a bit of Jim's signature theatricality. I would say he probably repurposed both songs.
@janacariad5 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video - it's really cool to see all these origins compiled! Maybe somebody has said it already, but about the Tanz der Vampire musical: it's based on Roman Polanski's "The Fearless Vampire Killers", just adapted a litte. And the German language version (I'll call it the "original" version although it has been shortened since the very first production) is not in any way the same as the Broadway disaster that absolutely flopped (and rightly so). The bit you quoted was from that US version; the Austrian/German version has actually very different lyrics. I'll try to link a nice bootleg with pretty much accurate English subtitles. Michael Kunze wrote those lyrics, a very prolific and successful (musical) writer / songwriter in the German speaking world - and he captured the Steinman essence really well IMO. I'll stop obsessing over my fav musical now - here's the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/laiguppqqpuniKw.html Oh, and btw: Tanz der Vampire is currently playing in Hamburg, Germany with none other than Rob Fowler as Graf von Krolock (the male lead). He was Falco in the Bat Out Of Hell musical.
@ayushprasher24805 ай бұрын
18:15 daym😂😂
@musashimiyamoto5865 ай бұрын
I loved Bad for Good, a very underrated piece of work. And don't get me started on "Streets of Fire". I was madly in love with Diane Lane.
@musashimiyamoto5865 ай бұрын
When it comes to rock ballads as an adolescent you could not have been luckier to have been born in the time of Jim's and Meat's heighday. And I was. Unfortunately, those ballads did not get the credit they so richly deserved. One female reactor hit the nail on the head referring to "For crying out loud": "If I wanted my boyfriend to write me a lovesong, it would have to be like this one."
@Temporal_Assassin5 ай бұрын
Right off the bat you are off. Total Eclipse of the Heart WAS WRITTEN as a song from the view point of a Vampire, then Tyler recorded it, then when Steinman developed Tanz der Vampire, he dusted it off as a vampire song and tweak ed for the screen play. But it was ALWAYS a Vampire song. As for Tanz der Vampire, you should really be more specific, it is not a German musical, it was a German Language musical or an Austrian musical, Austrians do not like being called "German", it was also the longest running musical in Austrian history. I must also mention Michael Kunze, who did an absolutely spectacular job rewriting Steinman's music. Translating lyrics from one language to another, while fitting the music AND keeping faith to the original spirit and meaning of the song is no small feat. As an example, "Sarah", the English version is more about loyalty and finding and protecting her, I gave it ti my daughter Sarah upon my divorce. The German version is more about actual danger, about love, and being with her forever. Giving that to my daughter would have raised eyebrows! Yet, both do the job for their intended audience per language and culture. The gold standard is Steve Burton singing the German music. Steve Burton was once understudy to Michael Crawford in "Phantom of the Opera". You will find claims he 9/11 killed the English version, but any true multilingual fan will stand fast as do my wife and I, that Crawford was the sole death of that show. His ego demanded money, demanded creative control, demanded other characters had more funny lines and that he should have them, and his ego gave us a Eastern European, supposedly evil vampire, cracking jokes and speaking like a poorly acted Italian clown! Granted he can sing, but he made Krolock a laughing stock. You can here it in you tube videos. Some believe he was also enraged that Steve Burton, HIS former understudy, was so beloved and he did not want to play Burton's character, so wanted to make his own. We lost Steve Burton far to soon, and I pray one day another attempt will be made to create this once again in the states, but more true to the original Austrian one, with a scary evil Krolock and not an italian bafoon. But I guess I am ranting.
@Temporal_Assassin5 ай бұрын
Streets of Fire was an actual Steinman brain child, It is what made me take note of Steinman, I knew his music through growing up with Meatloaf, but not his name. But when I saw that movie by chance, I think only because Michael Pare was in it. It blew me away, and if you find a copy of the original CD, on the back cover is a statement from him. He wanted to make a movie with everything he loves, tough men, beautiful women, guns, action, Neon, and kissing in the rain. I don't remember the exact words used other than the kissing in the rain. That movie was Stineman's baby from the start. There is a second version that uses some of the music. Pare's character's daughter is now a singer in a band that uses much of her mothers music. There are a few videos on KZread, but I have found the movie nowhere. Streets of Fire was my soundtrack through much of my Army life, and I saw Meatloaf in concert in West Berlin. His last concert in Berlin I saw was "Welcome to the Neighborhood."
@Temporal_Assassin5 ай бұрын
I was surprised that you mentioned Fire Inc. and Pandora's Box. But you did not mention that Bonnie Tyler did not just do a song or two of his, he Produced at least two of her albums. You can hear his influence on songs he did not even write. He also Produced 1980's hit group "Air Supply". Even then, you can HEAR Jim Steinman's influence on their bubblegum ballads. There are just those creative talents, Steinman, and for example Prince, where you can hear anyone do a song and know that that is a Steinman or Prinz song, or that they at least produced the music. Many of Meatloaf's hit songs were written by one D. Warran, when it was not Steinman, but I cannot say that "That is a D. Warran song!", only that it is NOT a Steinman song, so it is likely D. Warran. There is talent the as well, but not epic generous. Critics said his music was to big, it would never work on the radio, it was far to long in a world of 3 min. radio songs. They were wrong. Cheers on the video, I enjoyed it.
@mikeholmanlovesyou5 ай бұрын
One of my dreams was to meet Jimmy and tell him how important his music was to me. I'm glad there are others that appreciate him as much as I do.
@xBushxWookiex5 ай бұрын
Bro how you gonna skip ANIMA like that. Put some respect on the name.
@acf28025 ай бұрын
15:00 "And so I PULL OUT MY GUN"
@YungSaber4125 ай бұрын
Piko Piko is evangelion if it was actually good
@NintendoHighSchool6 ай бұрын
What emotionally affected me the most in the manga was the scene where Toji broke down crying and told Shinji HE was the pilot and he was so god damn scared. And then the gut punch afterwards when Toji dies instead of just losing a leg hits even harder.
@NintendoHighSchool6 ай бұрын
Gendo achieved a power stronger than any other. The forbidden union of Adam and Lilith. HE GOT AN AT FIELD AND A GUN!
@24Kzombtism6 ай бұрын
i remember when i was 12-13, i went to Half Priced Books to only find “Neon Genesis Evangelion Campus Apocalypse”…i was obsessed with Evangelion at the time (and still am) and it was actually pretty good. and it was cheap!! I’m pretty sure it’s super unlikely to find the manga now, but i remember little me being pretty blown away that Shinji carried around a handgun as a replacement for an “EVA”..but anyways, thank you to whoever sold and gave away those Evangelion Spin-off mangas to Half Priced Books, younger me ate that shit up
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Neon genesis has some pretty interesting story telling decisions. You are brushing away the importance of asuka’s first scene in the anime. If you remember Rei’s first scene with Shinji where shinji goes over to rei’s house, when shinji sees her naked, rei doesn’t react. On the other hand, asukas first scene is a complete reversal of what happened. Asukas character is all about how she uses her sexuality to prove that she is an adult and that she has control. Seems like you are not giving it enough thought because the scene made you uncomfortable. Do better next time.
FINALLY some one understands my LOVE for Paris! Such an underrated song imo
No it's not it's better than the anime
I loved the anime and actually really disliked the manga changes. And I couldnt stand reading Toji's dialogue omg so bad. Not even worthy of being on my book shelf xD
Jim was my icon in the 80's
I strongly disagree with the consensus that BotH3 is a weak album - It's my favourite of the three by a long shot. I don't care for the controversy behind it, and I won't let that change my opinion. All three albums are among some of the best works ever created in their own ways, and The Monster is Loose is a worthy sequel to the first two. I find myself sometimes skipping tracks toward the end of BotH2 once I get beyond Objects, because they start to drag in my opinion (depends on my mood at the time, sometimes I'll listen to them), and I'll sometimes skip All Revved Up because the clash from it and the end of Heaven can Wait is jarring as all hell. There simply isn't anything like that in 3, the cohesion between tracks and the flow of the album, how it tells its story, is just perfect. Lyrically it's a little weaker, sure, but cohesively it just fits so much better than the other two, and Monstro into Alive is the motor that keeps me running each morning.
Thank you for your in-depth research! I'm not sure how the Mindscape version got authorized hahaha! The Sega Genesis version remains my favorite, despite its harsh no deaths allowed stipulations. In the Sound Test there is a motorcycle, which is not heard anywhere in the final release. This means that there was most likely a chase level that was unfortunately removed.
The Mindscape version came a couple years after Silius, around the time of Terminator 2, and the rightsholders had clearly loosened up their stance on game adaptations at that point. Their loss, really.
While it may be a work of fan fiction, and involve some hentai elements but hear me out, the Evangelion Re:Take manga's are fantastic. They write a new ending across 5 volumes that starts right where End Of Evangelion leaves off. Some of the most faithful fan art I've ever seen and it still hits upon each characters main themes all while having a satisfying ending to the series. For those worried about the hentai elements you can pretty much skip all that as it doesn't play too much into the story and only takes up about 40 pages in total across the entire 5 volumes. It's a fantastic read
Love this! Thanks for doing the legwork here. FYI, there’s a 3rd version of “A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste” that is covered by Meat Loaf. It appears on the “Whistle Down The Wind” album (different than the cast recording) and is also on “The Essential Meat Loaf” compilation. 16:04
Nah, the anime was better than Sadamoto's manga. That manga toned down the story, I'm sure that somebody who loves shounen and seinen stories might prefer the manga but I hate shounen and seinen stories... the anime is more real to Japanese culture.
Evangelion always was an pretty overated story with every ending more trash than the others . The manga is easly the best version of the show
@@ConstantinDOSSOU-vy1zo Let me guess.. you love Marvel movies. xD
@@victorfergn No I didn't even see 5 Marvel films 🤦🤦🤦. I just speak facts. Evangelion is a serie about his character but their devloppment was always sucks . Somehow fanboys only saw Anno's shitty writing in the rebuild movies like the writing in original anime hadn't this flaws in the first place.
@@ConstantinDOSSOU-vy1zo oh please shounen boy, I know you love Marvel.
@@victorfergn it is excactly why I say Evangelion fans are just arrogant who refuse to see how it isn't deep at all. Poor clown , I personnaly never love Marvel 🤦🤦🤦🤦. But unlike you , I don't think I am better than Marvel 's fans. If I was like you a person who can't make an argument I would just say Evangelion is only loved by people who were depressed and saw themselves in the pathetic characters from Evangelion. But it is is still better than you because the majority of Evangelion fans said it and I never hated them for this, I just hate the fact they tried to do like Evangelion is deeper than it was in reality.
‘Lets get a circle pit going audiotree’ will go down as my favorite quote ever said on an audiotree set
Jim Steinman and Meat were pure magic together. I can't imagine one without the other. I'm not sure Meat ever could either. He sure didn't stick around long after Jim left us.
what is the interview where the clap is mentioned it has me ROLLING 😭💀
28:36 the background lol
18:13 damn
manga #10 of shinji ikari raising project features shinji cross dressing for a cultural festival
Get in the robot Shinji
I just finished reading Sadamoto's manga, and man. It's amazing. I also agree it's better than the anime. I thought this video would be just about the manga, but seeing these other weird adaptations is just as good lol. Now to watch the rebuild movies
29:45 you do realize that they're 14 right...
As of the rebuilds, we now know all of these are very possible canon yippee
This feels like a less chaotic scott the woz video
4:26 that’s not at all what this scene is. Misato was too late. Shinjis train left. It was his conversation with his school friends that allowed shinji to decide to stay for himself. He didn’t decide while the two were staring at each other. He had already decided. That’s why the scene holds on them so long. It’s about misato realising shinji decided for himself, and shinji getting confirmation that misato did want him to stay afterall
There was a really good demo of A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste by Rory Dodd, with the intro melody of Out of the Frying Pan. Its a whole new song and has no connection to the MeatLoaf version. Shame it was never released...
Oh no my queen! 😭😭😭
18:41 this had me laughing so hard
Great job on the video. I'd say I'm more surprised you made no mention of It's All Coming Back to Me Now by Pandora's Box than Celine Dion & finally Meatloaf & Marion Raven. I did discover that Braver Than We Are was a Jim Steinman written album. So thanks for that.
Kaworu at the bottom of best girl tier list is some bs
Hulk Hogans Theme is an instrumental version of "Ravishing" by Bonnie Tyler.
Im sad that im a year late, there so much talent here. I hope to see more content soon, passion beats greed.
Christ bless you, EVA slice of life was something i didnt know i needed lol
Do you know where to find the other volumes asides from the first 2?
I read the Manga like 17 or 18 years ago and watched the anime for the first time about 10 years later - This is one of the few instances where indeed watching the anime first is the right choice imo. Without taking the time to compare the two releases or even rereading the manga once over the time, I was slightly annoyed by Shinjis behaviour and the fact that everything feels 20% more confusing. Also watching the anime should be much easier/cheaper today than geting a copy of the manga.
It's 2024. She's beginning a new era AND STILL NO SIGNS ON WANTING TO DROP THIS MASTERPIECE. 😢😢
i have the mangas deluxe all!!!
Great job! Thank you very much! Over the years i have listened to quite a few of Rorys songs and found him to be ok, just a guy, nothing special, but not bad. Curious as to which of his songs you thought could rival Meat, because i never saw that, but admit i may not have listened to the right one? I don't think anyone could ever sing like Meat. He was a one an only. That is what made him great. So far, to me Rory was just a singer.
Excellent review. I have become obsessed with steinman including listening to dance of the vampire in german on repeat just for.kicks. you are right everything he did was to create bat out of hell the musical he just didnt know the big picture just one piece at a time
I've been trying to find the source for this particular version of Total Eclipse, which i can only find in this demo for what uploader MLBF calls "Bat Out of Hell 2100", a supposed proof of concept demo for a Bat Out of Hell musical film. The song plays at approximately 53:00 in the video. After doing some digging, I found a site hosting the demos, which claim it was dated 1997. and identifies the singers as Laurie Beechman and Marcus Lovett.
Thanks for the laughs! He wrote a song for Barry Mannilow: “Read Em and Weep” and one for Air Supply: “Making Love Out of Nothing at All.” The latter sounds like a vampire inspired song and has a bit of Jim's signature theatricality. I would say he probably repurposed both songs.
Thank you for this video - it's really cool to see all these origins compiled! Maybe somebody has said it already, but about the Tanz der Vampire musical: it's based on Roman Polanski's "The Fearless Vampire Killers", just adapted a litte. And the German language version (I'll call it the "original" version although it has been shortened since the very first production) is not in any way the same as the Broadway disaster that absolutely flopped (and rightly so). The bit you quoted was from that US version; the Austrian/German version has actually very different lyrics. I'll try to link a nice bootleg with pretty much accurate English subtitles. Michael Kunze wrote those lyrics, a very prolific and successful (musical) writer / songwriter in the German speaking world - and he captured the Steinman essence really well IMO. I'll stop obsessing over my fav musical now - here's the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/laiguppqqpuniKw.html Oh, and btw: Tanz der Vampire is currently playing in Hamburg, Germany with none other than Rob Fowler as Graf von Krolock (the male lead). He was Falco in the Bat Out Of Hell musical.
18:15 daym😂😂
I loved Bad for Good, a very underrated piece of work. And don't get me started on "Streets of Fire". I was madly in love with Diane Lane.
When it comes to rock ballads as an adolescent you could not have been luckier to have been born in the time of Jim's and Meat's heighday. And I was. Unfortunately, those ballads did not get the credit they so richly deserved. One female reactor hit the nail on the head referring to "For crying out loud": "If I wanted my boyfriend to write me a lovesong, it would have to be like this one."
Right off the bat you are off. Total Eclipse of the Heart WAS WRITTEN as a song from the view point of a Vampire, then Tyler recorded it, then when Steinman developed Tanz der Vampire, he dusted it off as a vampire song and tweak ed for the screen play. But it was ALWAYS a Vampire song. As for Tanz der Vampire, you should really be more specific, it is not a German musical, it was a German Language musical or an Austrian musical, Austrians do not like being called "German", it was also the longest running musical in Austrian history. I must also mention Michael Kunze, who did an absolutely spectacular job rewriting Steinman's music. Translating lyrics from one language to another, while fitting the music AND keeping faith to the original spirit and meaning of the song is no small feat. As an example, "Sarah", the English version is more about loyalty and finding and protecting her, I gave it ti my daughter Sarah upon my divorce. The German version is more about actual danger, about love, and being with her forever. Giving that to my daughter would have raised eyebrows! Yet, both do the job for their intended audience per language and culture. The gold standard is Steve Burton singing the German music. Steve Burton was once understudy to Michael Crawford in "Phantom of the Opera". You will find claims he 9/11 killed the English version, but any true multilingual fan will stand fast as do my wife and I, that Crawford was the sole death of that show. His ego demanded money, demanded creative control, demanded other characters had more funny lines and that he should have them, and his ego gave us a Eastern European, supposedly evil vampire, cracking jokes and speaking like a poorly acted Italian clown! Granted he can sing, but he made Krolock a laughing stock. You can here it in you tube videos. Some believe he was also enraged that Steve Burton, HIS former understudy, was so beloved and he did not want to play Burton's character, so wanted to make his own. We lost Steve Burton far to soon, and I pray one day another attempt will be made to create this once again in the states, but more true to the original Austrian one, with a scary evil Krolock and not an italian bafoon. But I guess I am ranting.
Streets of Fire was an actual Steinman brain child, It is what made me take note of Steinman, I knew his music through growing up with Meatloaf, but not his name. But when I saw that movie by chance, I think only because Michael Pare was in it. It blew me away, and if you find a copy of the original CD, on the back cover is a statement from him. He wanted to make a movie with everything he loves, tough men, beautiful women, guns, action, Neon, and kissing in the rain. I don't remember the exact words used other than the kissing in the rain. That movie was Stineman's baby from the start. There is a second version that uses some of the music. Pare's character's daughter is now a singer in a band that uses much of her mothers music. There are a few videos on KZread, but I have found the movie nowhere. Streets of Fire was my soundtrack through much of my Army life, and I saw Meatloaf in concert in West Berlin. His last concert in Berlin I saw was "Welcome to the Neighborhood."
I was surprised that you mentioned Fire Inc. and Pandora's Box. But you did not mention that Bonnie Tyler did not just do a song or two of his, he Produced at least two of her albums. You can hear his influence on songs he did not even write. He also Produced 1980's hit group "Air Supply". Even then, you can HEAR Jim Steinman's influence on their bubblegum ballads. There are just those creative talents, Steinman, and for example Prince, where you can hear anyone do a song and know that that is a Steinman or Prinz song, or that they at least produced the music. Many of Meatloaf's hit songs were written by one D. Warran, when it was not Steinman, but I cannot say that "That is a D. Warran song!", only that it is NOT a Steinman song, so it is likely D. Warran. There is talent the as well, but not epic generous. Critics said his music was to big, it would never work on the radio, it was far to long in a world of 3 min. radio songs. They were wrong. Cheers on the video, I enjoyed it.
One of my dreams was to meet Jimmy and tell him how important his music was to me. I'm glad there are others that appreciate him as much as I do.
Bro how you gonna skip ANIMA like that. Put some respect on the name.
15:00 "And so I PULL OUT MY GUN"
Piko Piko is evangelion if it was actually good
What emotionally affected me the most in the manga was the scene where Toji broke down crying and told Shinji HE was the pilot and he was so god damn scared. And then the gut punch afterwards when Toji dies instead of just losing a leg hits even harder.
Gendo achieved a power stronger than any other. The forbidden union of Adam and Lilith. HE GOT AN AT FIELD AND A GUN!
i remember when i was 12-13, i went to Half Priced Books to only find “Neon Genesis Evangelion Campus Apocalypse”…i was obsessed with Evangelion at the time (and still am) and it was actually pretty good. and it was cheap!! I’m pretty sure it’s super unlikely to find the manga now, but i remember little me being pretty blown away that Shinji carried around a handgun as a replacement for an “EVA”..but anyways, thank you to whoever sold and gave away those Evangelion Spin-off mangas to Half Priced Books, younger me ate that shit up