Bad for Good definitely isn’t perfect and it lacks the consistency of the two Bat out of Hell albums, but it does end on one hell of a high note with “Left in the Dark” and “Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through,” two songs that could easily stand with anything from the more-acknowledged masterpiece albums.…

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…