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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,…

Apparently recorded for Welcome to the Neighborhood back in 1995, The Very Best of Meat Loaf also offered the first release of this Steinman song with lyrics by Don Black. Celine Dion also recorded but did not release the song for her 1997 Let’s Talk about Love album. In the end, its only actual release…