Sloane heads into Raven’s bedroom, clearly dressed inappropriately, and gives Raven a gift: her father’s old biker jacket. She can see that Raven has been crying and notices that Raven is now wearing Strat’s shirt (which she put on during “It Just Won’t Quit”). Sloane pleads with Raven not to make the same mistakes she did, to “be free and fall in love” instead of winding up with someone like Falco. Sloane then sneaks out, and Raven goes after her.

There is a sudden transition to seemingly mid-conversation with the Lost as Strat shouts, “It’s jugular, Tink! It’s not skin, not bones, not veins! It’s jugular! I have to see her! Every nerve in my body is on fire! Every muscle is in revolt! Tonight–I’m going to get her tonight!” Strat, Tink and Ledoux briefly discuss the idea of kidnapping Raven and holding her for ransom. Strat apparently doesn’t consider the fact that asking for ransom implies a willingness to return her, or perhaps he doesn’t really understand the concept correctly.

The piano line from “Out of the Frying Pan” starts behind the end of this conversation and the guitar/piano chord stings that open the song mark the end of the conversation before Strat delivers the opening lines. Strat, Ledoux, and Blake (another Lost whose name I don’t think we’ve seen before) trade leads in various combinations–Strat is the one with the most solo time in the lead but much of the song is sung by multiple at once.

The arrangement of the song is essentially unchanged from the Meat Loaf version, except that the guitar solo is excised. There are some horns used essentially where the strings were in Steinman’s solo version but they’re not terribly noticeable.

It’s a fantastic rendition of this song, because all of the vocalists, even though they don’t deliver things in the same way as each other or as Steinman, deliver the kind of half-crazed vocal that was so appealing about Steinman’s original recording. The three versions of this song under this title are all very similar, and ranking them amongst each other is essentially meaningless because the distinctions are so fine.

Ranking the Versions

1. Jim Steinman-Bad for Good
2. Jim Steinman’s Bat out of Hell: The Musical
3. Meat Loaf-Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell
4. The Everly Brothers-“A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste”
   • I don’t know whether it’s fair to call this one a version of the same song, but the synth hook is exactly the same as the guitar hook in “Out of the Frying Pan” and the chords match exactly. The melody is also at least very close, if not identical. It’s a very different arrangement and the lyrics are completely changed but it feels so recognizably the same to me that I’m counting it. It’s a less-rock version and the Everly Brothers in 1988 (released in 1998 but recorded a decade earlier) are mediocre singers, but it’s a testament to how great “Out of the Frying Pan” is that this recording still works in spite of being something of a cheap, highly electronic recording with mediocre vocals. Notably, this song is often listed places as being an early version of the song of the same title from Whistle Down the Wind, but some lyrical ideas (many of them ideas that Steinman used many times over the years, like “if only are the loneliest words you’ll ever know”) are the only things that connect them.