I did already briefly mention this recording on Songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s “Whistle Down the Wind,“ but I just want to write a more fully-fledged post for a few reasons. Immediately, Roy Bittan begins delivering a lightning-speed, extremely baroque-sounding version of “If Only.” A distorted guitar from Eddie Martinez joins in,…

Apparently recorded for Welcome to the Neighborhood back in 1995, The Very Best of Meat Loaf also offered the first release of this Steinman song with lyrics by Don Black. Celine Dion also recorded but did not release the song for her 1997 Let’s Talk about Love album. In the end, its only actual release…

The greatest hits collection The Very Best of Meat Loaf (which is seemingly the same collection that appears now as The Essential Meat Loaf–I don’t know why the name change has occurred) included three newly-recorded tracks written or co-written by Jim Steinman, all of which were produced by Steinman and co-produced by Steven Rinkoff. In…