I have often said that I’m not really a Meat Loaf fan; I’m a Jim Steinman fan. As such, it’s unsurprising that I really don’t acknowledge the album titled Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose as a Bat out of Hell album. I feel like the Bat out of Hell albums are…

Jim Steinman’s career was marked by crazy peaks and then extended fallow periods. After Bat out of Hell, he really took until “Total Eclipse of the Heart” to regain any kind of momentum, at which point he had one of the biggest hit songs of the decade and another song that only didn’t make number…

I did already briefly mention this recording on Songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s “Whistle Down the Wind,“ but I just want to write a more fully-fledged post for a few reasons. Immediately, Roy Bittan begins delivering a lightning-speed, extremely baroque-sounding version of “If Only.” A distorted guitar from Eddie Martinez joins in,…