I’ve gone back and forth with myself about whether to cover these, but I decided it seems worthwhile. On Meat Loaf’s Bad Attitude album in 1984, he covered two Jim Steinman songs, “Nowhere Fast” and “Surf’s Up.” Steinman did not actually work on the album at all and while it was a hit in Europe,…

The last original song Jim Steinman would ever write for Bonnie Tyler (by track order), “Rebel without a Clue” is at once both a very Steinman song and a very weird Steinman song. On the weird side, a huge percentage of the song is instrumental, there are some weirdly abrupt transition moments that almost make…

It’s been a few years at this point since Steinman’s last duet. Each of the Bat out of Hell follow-ups of course had one, but since then, the closest we’ve had is “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” which does have a prominent opposite-sex counterpoint vocal but I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone call a…