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The Devil You Know

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Guilty pleasure: Jim Steinman

In Music on December 16, 2008
The greatest bad songwriter of all time

The greatest worst songwriter of all time

I like to think that I have impeccable, yet Catholic musical tastes. But there’s always been a certain collection of songs that I know violate every rule of good music. They do so without any pretension at subtlety, play on the cheapest human emotions and contain the cheapest of single entendres and bad puns. Treacle and bombast can. and do, coexist.

As a youth, I didn’t know that these songs had anything in common, although I should have: Read the rest of this entry »