Meat Loaf | Original Sin

Like yesterday this pick is imagining Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman actually made an album called Original Sin. In reality Steinman made it with a band he made that he called Pandora's Box. It was a decent album with a bunch of good songs. Several songs that Meat did later for his other albums. I left a couple of instrumentals and spoken word stuff that no one else did as Pandora's Box. There were a couple of covers, I put versions in that liked better. I remixed one of the covers. And Back To Hell. I put a couple of extra tracks in as a surprise and the ones I messed with in case you want the originals instead. You'll see. One extra track was the B-Side of a 12" (16 minutes long). Not for every day, but fun to listen to every now and then. I redid the cover. It's more in between styles of the original and what I imagine Meat Loaf would have used (Bat Out Of Hell influences).

Meat Loaf - Original Sin

01 Pandora's Box - The Invocation

02 Meat Loaf - Original Sin

03 Doors - Twentieth Century Fox (Original Sin Remix)

04 Love - My Little Red Book

04 Pandora's Box - Safe Sex

05 Meat Loaf - Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)

06 Meat Loaf - Back Into Hell-(Requiem Metal For) A Teenager In Love

07 Pandora's Box - I've Been Dreaming Up A Storm Lately

08 Meat Loaf & Marion Raven - It's All Coming Back To Me Now

09 Pandora's Box - The Opening Of The Box

10 Pandora's Box - The Want Ad

12 Meat Loaf - It Just Won't Quit

13 Pandora's Box - Pray Lewd

14 Meat Loaf - The Future Ain't What It Used To Be

Meat Loaf | Renegade Angel (Bad For Good)

In 1977 rock and roll was hit with a monster album by Meat Loaf (and Jim Steinman): Bat Out Of Hell. People wanted a followup album, but Meat Loaf was having issues (with his voice, his house, etc). Not important. But Steinman had an album pretty much written and was pressured to make the album. It took until 1981 to get released and he called it Bad For Good. It didn't do that badly, because people wanted it, but Steinman (and Rory Dodds and much of the same crew from Bat) wasn't Meat Loaf. Over the years after that album was released Meat recorded and released many of the songs on other albums. I always wondered what would the album sound like if they had released it together. This pick is as close as you will get. All the versions Meat did. Only two songs that he didn't quite do. One was The Storm (an instrumental) they did record an excerpt on Bat III. I put it here, but the Steinman album version is better, so it's here too. And the one song that never was redone: Dance In My Pants which kinda got panned and will remind you of another track in the first Bat. I put the Steinman version here. The Meat Loaf album was going to be called Renegade Angel, so that's what you get.

Meat Loaf | Renegade Angel (Bad For Good)

01 Meat Loaf - Seize The Night (The Storm Excerpt)

02 Jim Steinman - The Storm

03 Meat Loaf - Bad For Good

04 Meat Loaf - Wasted Youth

05 Meat Loaf - Lost Boys and Golden Girls

06 Meat Loaf featuring Jim Steinman - Stark Raving Love

07 Meat Loaf - Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)

08 Meat Loaf - Surf's Up

09 Jim Steinman with Karla DeVito - Dance In My Pants

10 Meat Loaf - Left In The Dark

11 Meat Loaf - Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through

Jim Steinman

Today's the remembrance day for Jim Steinman, he died in 2021. Unfortunately not bombastically or over the top like his songs, but of kidney failure after having been ill. Listening to his songs over the years, he had some amazing ones. I first heard Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell like probably most people, but he had songs before that. Lots of stuff I could have used, but chose not to. If you have to hear the other version (perhaps even the better version - ok for sure the better version) of Total Eclipse click there. And one day I will make my version of my favorite hours worth of Meat Loaf (well, I already have it made, but when will I post it?). I chose these to spread it out trying to give each artist a chance, but I still left out Brown, Lane, Hannah, Pandora's Box, Take That and even Steinman himself solo. Maybe I will post part two next year. Or maybe Meat Loaf doing the full albums he didn't do with Steinman (they sound great - the albums that could have been) For now you get this pick.

Jim Steinman

01 Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now

02 Boyzone - No Matter What

03 Taylor Dayne - Original Sin

04 Barry Manilow - Read 'em And Weep

05 Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

06 Todd Rundgren - Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

07 Barbra Streisand - Left In The Dark

08 Westlife - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Sunset Strippers Verse Club Mix)

09 Air Supply - Making Love Out Of Nothing At All

10 Fire Inc. - Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young

11 Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion

12 Joss Stone - Holding Out For A Hero

13 Bonnie Tyler With Todd Rundgren - Loving You's A Dirty Job But Somebody's Gotta Do It