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Here we have the second and final cover from the Original Sin album (I covered the original here.); and, while there are some changes here, it is not incredibly different from its predecessor. Completely unchanged from the Pandora’s Box version are the lyrics, the structure, and the melody. Meat Loaf obviously replaces Holly Sherwood in…

“Wasted Youth” is just “Love and Death and an American Guitar” from Bad for Good with some different sound effects. I don’t even know that it’s a different recording of Steinman’s voice. (Though I will say that Steinman was able to deliver it at least very nearly identically live a number of times and so…

After the overflowing-with-excitement “Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire),” Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell makes an abrupt turn to its most delicate ballad, a true Steinman masterpiece that I think may actually be my favorite song he has ever written. Almost like tiptoeing footsteps leading us into the song,…