After Steinman had seemingly resurrected the career of one of his past collaborators in Meat Loaf, he ended up putting out two covers with his other common collaborator of the past who had since disappeared from the charts in Bonnie Tyler. It’s actually remarkable how well Tyler and Meat Loaf parallel one another after working…

If there is one song that consistently garnered criticism on Bad for Good, it was “Left in the Dark,” not for anything about the song itself but for Steinman’s vocal, which was described as “weak” by the kindest critics and typically described in far worse terms. It was never released as a single (Indeed, “Rock…

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…