“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,…

Where “It Just Won’t Quit” was little-changed from the Bad for Good recording, “Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire)” is surprisingly different, even if it feels like it’s not. The lyrics, melody, main guitar riff and piano interplay with it are intact, but much of the rest of the song sees some…