Crowd of Full Pockets

In 2000, Jim Steinman planned a project called Bat out of Nashville that would be getting a bunch of artists to record country versions of Bat out of Hell songs. I was horrified. It never came to fruition. But there was at least some logic to the concept. I probably would not have understood it…

After Steinman had seemingly resurrected the career of one of his past collaborators in Meat Loaf, he ended up putting out two covers with his other common collaborator of the past who had since disappeared from the charts in Bonnie Tyler. It’s actually remarkable how well Tyler and Meat Loaf parallel one another after working…

If there is one song that consistently garnered criticism on Bad for Good, it was “Left in the Dark,” not for anything about the song itself but for Steinman’s vocal, which was described as “weak” by the kindest critics and typically described in far worse terms. It was never released as a single (Indeed, “Rock…