One of Jim Steinman’s favorite lyrical devices was to use an idiom or cliche and expand on its meaning. The first example of him doing it is “For Crying out Loud,” which is using the phrase in both its typical meaning of an expression of exasperation and also its literal meaning of “for the fact…

I have a pet hypothesis about “Dance in My Pants.” There are some reviews and such that talk about Meat Loaf returning to the studio to record Dead Ringer while this album was also still in the works and there being some swapping of songs. The reports vary some but nearly universally say that Steinman…

The Bad for Good equivalent of “Two out of Three Ain’t Bad” is Beach Boys-inspired ballad. The earlier track was more Eagles-inspired, a pop ballad bordering on country telling a tale of love gone wrong twice. This time, as befits being more of a Beach Boys sound, this song is, frankly, a beautiful build-up to…