Typically, I call Pyromania by Def Leppard my favorite album of all time, even though I would take the start of Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell over it any time, because I feel like the latter loses some steam after it opens with six all-time great songs. Listening back to it, I…

Here we have the second and final cover from the Original Sin album (I covered the original here.); and, while there are some changes here, it is not incredibly different from its predecessor. Completely unchanged from the Pandora’s Box version are the lyrics, the structure, and the melody. Meat Loaf obviously replaces Holly Sherwood in…

“Wasted Youth” is just “Love and Death and an American Guitar” from Bad for Good with some different sound effects. I don’t even know that it’s a different recording of Steinman’s voice. (Though I will say that Steinman was able to deliver it at least very nearly identically live a number of times and so…