Where All Light Tends to Go

L’area appalachiana della Carolina del Nord ospita persone di ogni tipo, ma il mondo in cui vive il diciottenne Jacob McNeely è il più crudele di tutti. Suo padre gestisce un giro di metanfetamine organizzato in modo metodico, con le autorità locali che chiudono un occhio sui suoi traffici. Dopo avere abbandonato la scuola ed essersi isolato dai suoi coetanei, Jacob lavora da anni per questo padre, con la promessa che prima o poi arriverà la sua paga. L’unica gioia che trova è il ricongiungimento con Maggie, il suo primo amore, una ragazza chiaramente destinata a cose più grandi e migliori della loro cittadina di campagna. Jacob si è sempre rassegnato a giocare le carte che gli sono state assegnate, ma quando un errore fatale cambia tutto, si trova di fronte a una scelta: restare e placare il padre, o lasciare le montagne con la ragazza che ama..

After having scored a surprising commercial comeback with 1993's Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, his reunion with songwriter Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf tried to make it on his own, just as he had from 1983 to 1993, and with similarly disappointing results. As with albums like Bad Attitude, a couple of Steinman songs were tossed in, in this case the minor "Original Sin" (from 1989) and "Left in the Dark" (from 1980), a song previously cut by Barbra Streisand. But most of the album's songwriting was provided by a team of people, including pop songwriter Diane Warren, Van Halen lead singer Sammy Hagar, and ex-E Streeter Steven Van Zandt, plus producer Ron Nevison, trying to clone the flamboyant Steinman style and failing to do so. The Warren material especially (which sounded more like the kind of thing she tends to write for Michael Bolton) lacked Steinman's gothic excess, sly humor, and lyrical reach. Meat Loaf, as usual, sang like his life depended on it, while a band that was less distinctive than it should have been, given such notable participants as Kenny Aronoff and Kasim Sulton, churned out sub-metal riffs. The resulting sales fall-off was not as great as it had been before, but it remained true that Meat without Steinman was only half a loaf.

~ The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn; A Saucerful Of Secrets; Soundtrack From The Film 'More'; Ummagumma; Atom Heart Mother; Meddle; Relics; Obscured By Clouds; The Dark Side Of The Moon; Wish You Were Here; Animals; The Wall; The Final Cut; A Momentary Lapse of Reason; Delicate Sound of Thunder; The Division Bell ~

The location is a small remote village, somewhere between North Africa and the Middle East. Since the dawn of time, the women of this village have been forced to go and fetch water from a spring high in the mountains, under a blazing sun. But now they have decided to take a stand. Leila, a young bride, gathers the women of the village together and persuades them they should go on a love strike. They will deny their husbands their conjugal rights unless they agree to fetch the water in their place…

~ The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn; A Saucerful Of Secrets; Soundtrack From The Film 'More'; Ummagumma; Atom Heart Mother; Meddle; Relics; Obscured By Clouds; The Dark Side Of The Moon; Wish You Were Here; Animals; The Wall; A Momentary Lapse of Reason; Delicate Sound of Thunder; The Division Bell ~