Meat Loaf - Braver Then We Are (2016)
Meat Loaf - Braver Then We Are (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 379 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 155 Mb
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429 Records #FTN16127 | Unofficial Release
Classic Rock / Hard Rock / Arena Rock
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 379 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 155 Mb
Full Scans | 00:55:21 | RAR 5% Recovery
429 Records #FTN16127 | Unofficial Release
Classic Rock / Hard Rock / Arena Rock
Braver Than We Are is the twelfth and final studio album by American singer Meat Loaf, released in Europe on September 9, 2016 by Caroline International S&D and released in the United States on September 16, 2016 by 429 Records. It is the last album released in which Jim Steinman participated in the majority of the songwriting before his death in April 2021, as well as Meat Loaf's final album before his own death in January 2022.
Jim Steinman parted ways with Meat Loaf sometime after their improbable 1993 blockbuster Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell. He contributed a couple of songs to its 1995 sequel, Welcome to the Neighborhood, but by the time Meat Loaf was ready to do a third installment of Bat Out of Hell, Steinman opted out for unspecified reasons, leaving the singer to use five previously released Steinman songs as produced by Desmond Child – a satisfactory compromise that at the very least illustrated how Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" should've been on a Bat Out of Hell album. Through a series of circumstances, Meat Loaf and Steinman wound up reuniting for 2016's Braver Than We Are, which was produced by Paul Crook, just like its 2012 predecessor Hell in a Handbasket. While the record bears some slick modern hallmarks, it is very much a throwback, evoking memories of Todd Rundgren's overblown Springsteen parody of 1977 as well as the earnest re-creation of 1993. Steinman's songs are suitably theatrical – the opening "Who Needs the Young" feels like it's a Broadway reject – and while he slyly winks at his past with "Going All the Way Is Just the Start (A Song in 6 Movements)," a song that features a cameo from "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" singer Ellen Foley, he also seems unaware that Ratt also got to the title "Loving You Is a Dirty Job" in 1990 (albiet after Steinman whose composition first appeared as a Bonnie Tyler single in 1985). That isolation is ultimately a benefit because Braver Than We Are feels caught between nostalgia and indifference, an album so old-fashioned it seems happily ignorant of modernity even when it threads EDM rhythms and metallic guitars into "More." The other way it's possible to tell this album was released in 2016 is Meat Loaf's performance. Thin and sometimes breathless, he's no longer the colossus of the '70s, but the diminishment of his range humanizes him and adds a bittersweet tinge to this reunion. Through Meat Loaf's voice alone, mortality becomes evident and it makes this third reunion with Steinman all the sweeter. Braver Than We Are may have its flaws – it's too staid and self-conscious, for one – but Steinman never found a better interpreter for his songs than Meat Loaf, and Meat Loaf never sounds more like himself than he does when singing Steinman, and that's why the album works.~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music
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Track List:
01. Who Needs The Young [5:28]
02. Going All The Way (A Song In 6 Movements) [11:29]
03. Speaking In Tongues [4:24]
04. Loving You Is A Dirty Job (But Somebody`s Gotta Do It) [6:10]
05. Souvenirs [8:18]
06. Only When I Feel [1:57]
07. More [6:07]
08. Godz [3:35]
09. Skull Of Your Country [3:35]
10. Train Of Love [4:24]
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Meat Loaf / Braver Then We Are
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Meat Loaf / Braver Then We Are
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Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
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