Further Musical Stuffs: Pimpernel

[kiffie]

"You Are My Home" as a romantic love song is, and probably always will be, made of 100% DO NOT WANT.

I have the concept album, see, and... ah. Ew.

Most of the other songs are nice, though they are very much concept material. This Percy needs about ten cups of coffee to make him sound "right" to me, but then again, I heard Sills first, and that man is a jackrabbit. It's unlikely that anyone else can get that worked up and not be on speed.

I do admit to really, really liking this version of "The Riddle," though. No Percy, just Chauvelin and Marguerite digging into eachother. It's a lot more brutal than the eventual finalized version. It works.

"The Creation of Man," on the other hand, makes me wince. It's close to its final version, but not nearly close enough to be enjoyable. Almost like looking at a car that's still getting Bondo'd. The lyrics have some differences, and I agree with all of the changes made to the Broadway version. This one doesn't flow nearly as nicely. Strangely, they seem to have flip-flopped around on the staging over the years; This one features only the Bounders. The Broadway version was a song to the Prince of Wales, to throw him off the Bounders' scent. Now, in its current version, it's again solely a Bounders song, with Percy riling up his men. Go figure.

I'll probably end up putting this on repeat for a while.

At least it's slowly forcing the creepy, ohgodwhy that was the Dracula concept album out of my head. I like Douglas Sills. I do. But I never, ever want to hear him singing about eating people, ever again. D:

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[lilblueunicorn.livejournal.com]

And this is about the time Sparky asks...

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK?! D:

-§parky

[random-redshirt.livejournal.com]

"You Are My Home" should never be romantic. *glares at more recent stage version*