I don't have an intro bit for this. Let's just jump right in.
Again, the opening notes are more aggressive, and the musical stings themselves are more drawn out, as opposed to previous songs trying to make things shorter. The first verse sounds like the singer is trying to do a Tim Curry impression. He sounds a little stuffed up, but it works out I guess. I'm a bit torn here—on the one hand, it sounds like the singer is putting in more effort than the previous four singers (excepting Brad in "Dammit"), but on the other hand, there's nothing new here.
Fortunately, the second verse drops the act, and the singer's got a damn good voice and it using it effectively. There's a weird mismatch between the music and the lyrics—one goes up, the other goes down, and vice versa—and I don't know if it's a synching error or intentional. It's not anything horrible, though. If anything this is shaping up to be the best yet.
And "I'm just a sweet..." drops the pretense that the singer and the musicians were even on speaking terms at the time, as they go off in completely different directions, the latter drowning the former out on occasion. Guys, hate to break it to you, but you're not Led Zeppelin. You can't all be doing different stuff and have it magically sound amazing next to each other.
The next verse syncs up slightly better, and it gradually improves from there. I had to admire the singer here, as he's just barely clinging to the original inflections as the musicians are incredibly faithful to the original. YMMV on whether that's a good thing, but I like it.
As we slip back into verse-1 style lyric-punctuated-by-music, everything evens out and it becomes a really good listen. Everyone finally seems to be on the same page. Naturally, the song stops dead for ten seconds with "antici*". Now, that's fine in the original, where we have context, but this is just the music. Everything just stopping dead irks me. I mean, if this was an original cast recording, fine, but this is a cover, and there's no need for this. This song is not going to be in the movie. But I digress.
I'm not sure what to make of this. It's all over the place. I'll leave you to decide for yourselves.
