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Tag: Jim Steinman

  • A Brief Interlude and a Midsummer Night’s Fling: Steinman Covers

    A Brief Interlude and a Midsummer Night’s Fling: Steinman Covers

    As I near the end of the Steinman project, I’m planning to end the last appearances of the song that have been covered multiple times by ranking every version of them, just for fun. However, there are some of his songs that have multiple covers but are not going to be showing up again, so…

  • “Cry to Heaven” by Meat Loaf

    “Cry to Heaven” by Meat Loaf

    As is tradition, Meat Loaf ends his pseudo-Bat out of Hell with a soft ballad. (“For Crying out Loud” is rather big and booming to be called a “soft” anything, but, for narrative’s sake, we’ll just go with that for now.) While some sources list this song as having been slated for Batman: The Musical,…

  • “The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be” by Meat Loaf

    “The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be” by Meat Loaf

    After losing his voice and then disappearing for essentially the 1980s, Meat Loaf reunited with Steinman and then spent another decade plundering what Steinman had done without him. Of the nine non-orchestra songs on Bad for Good, Meat Loaf would eventually cover six, leaving only “Stark Raving Love,” “Surf’s Up” (though it’s arguable that “Surf’s…