Bad for Good seems to me like it was forced into a Bat out of Hell-shaped box that didn’t necessarily fit it and suffered as a result. That may sound damning, but it’s certainly better than Meat Loaf’s follow-up Dead Ringer, which instead feels like an attempt to do a paint-by-numbers of Bat out of…

Bad for Good definitely isn’t perfect and it lacks the consistency of the two Bat out of Hell albums, but it does end on one hell of a high note with “Left in the Dark” and “Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through,” two songs that could easily stand with anything from the more-acknowledged masterpiece albums.…

One of Jim Steinman’s favorite lyrical devices was to use an idiom or cliche and expand on its meaning. The first example of him doing it is “For Crying out Loud,” which is using the phrase in both its typical meaning of an expression of exasperation and also its literal meaning of “for the fact…