Dracula is great!- Page 2

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 11:16am

Ok...someone needs to learn how to crop pics.

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 11:41am

or not steal them from other sources...

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 12:58pm

I'm missing something - it must be someone I have blocked!!!! Muaahahahahahahahhahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 2:14pm

" life ater life after life after life after life after life - a 5 year old could write that stuff."

Well, to be fair, the same could be said of "day after day after day after day after day after day after day..." And we all know who wrote THAT.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 3:23pm

Matt - I love ya - but thats like comparing GWB to, well - just about anyone! Day after day after day...well - it lyrically makes sense (in the context of the song)- the life after life after life line is just banal...I just don't understand what makes a person write the way Frank Wildhorn does - its just boring to me. feels like not an ounce of thought went into any of it.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 3:37pm

I'm with you, redhot, but I don't know the song, so when you took it out of context, it sounds banal (I can't comment on the rest of the song, as I haven't heard it). I was just illustrating that anything taken out of context can sound banal. Even Sondheim. I can understand your feelings about Wildhorn...somewhat. He does have some songs that I do admire. Most of all, I love "When I Look at You". I think it is quite poignant and beautiful. I also have a fondness for "Sympathy, Tenderness". I don't think everything he writes is great or even good, but he does have a few songs I find genuinely respectable.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 4:02pm

Well, in the end, it is all a matter of opinion - and since I respect yours, Matt, I will concede that he might have a hummable tune or two (though I haven't heard them, personally). Lets just say that, for me, he's no Sondheim and never will be. Its tough when you have such a wonderful writer as your personal hero. You (meaning me) tend to hold everyone in comparison to The Great One....LOL....

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 4:48pm

Of course I understand! You're right, he's no Sondheim. But then, nobody is. Only Sondheim can be Sondheim and Wildhorn is not similar in any respect, though I can see how some compare Wildhorn to Lloyd Webber. He hasn't had the lasting hits of Webber, but there are similarities in musical styles.

[Sant]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 6:24pm

Dracula is not that great.