The musical More than You Deserve is largely forgotten in history except for one thing: it’s where Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman met. I’ve read through the script and am really not interested in hearing/seeing it. Michael Weller wrote the book, Jim Steinman wrote the music, and they co-wrote the lyrics. Meat Loaf would regularly…

To my reading, among Steinman fans, there are really two standout songs on this album: the titular “Dead Ringer for Love” and this one, and I agree on both counts. Both are very clearly Steinman works but neither is really the kind of soaring ballad he’s best known for. And while “Dead Ringer for Love”…

Bad for Good seems to me like it was forced into a Bat out of Hell-shaped box that didn’t necessarily fit it and suffered as a result. That may sound damning, but it’s certainly better than Meat Loaf’s follow-up Dead Ringer, which instead feels like an attempt to do a paint-by-numbers of Bat out of…