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  • “Original Sin” by Meat Loaf

    “Original Sin” by Meat Loaf

    While Steinman had gone to producing others’ work after Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, Meat Loaf immediately jumped on trying to continue his career revival. Apparently, Steinman advised him to do something completely unlike Bat out of Hell for his next album, but instead Meat Loaf assembled a band mostly of Bat…

  • “Original Sin (Theme from The Shadow)” by Taylor Dayne

    “Original Sin (Theme from The Shadow)” by Taylor Dayne

    Fresh off the success of Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, Steinman lent one of the Original Sin tracks to Hollywood to be used as a theme to the film The Shadow (Russell Mulcahy, USA 1994), based on a 1930s character probably best known from a 1937 radio drama series. (“Who knows what…

  • “Lost Boys and Golden Girls” by Meat Loaf

    “Lost Boys and Golden Girls” by Meat Loaf

    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…