Back when I covered the original recording of “Bad for Good,” I mentioned that lots of articles about Steinman after his death had mentioned the song as a highlight from his non-Meat Loaf work. I didn’t mention it there because I knew I would cover this later, but part of why I found that odd…

I have often said that I’m not really a Meat Loaf fan; I’m a Jim Steinman fan. As such, it’s unsurprising that I really don’t acknowledge the album titled Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose as a Bat out of Hell album. I feel like the Bat out of Hell albums are…

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…