One of the things Jim Steinman is most known for his the sheer length of his songs. Many stretch to eight minutes or more, with a handful [perhaps most notable “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”] reaching double-digit minutes in length. So, when one of his songs clocks in under two…

Once again plundering the early Steinman catalogue, here we get a cover of a song written for the musical that became More than You Deserve, the show that first united Meat Loaf and Steinman in 1973. One of the sad elements of Braver than We Are is that it has to cull so much from…

Showing that he’s not shying away from Steinman songs that people might already know, the fourth track on Braver than We Are finds the ragged-voiced “hero” taking on an originally Steinman-produced track from Bonnie Tyler’s Sacred Dreams and Forbidden Fire album. The title has a very small alteration, but the arrangement is in fact quite…