Mildly surprised no-one has mentioned this already. Made Phil Spector's Wall of Sound look like a rickety picket fence. Best known for Meat Loaf and Bat out of Hell of course but I prefer his work with The Sisters of Mercy.
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Mildly surprised no-one has mentioned this already. Made Phil Spector's Wall of Sound look like a rickety picket fence. Best known for Meat Loaf and Bat out of Hell of course but I prefer his work with The Sisters of Mercy.
Sad news - BOOH and the follow up Bad For Good are great albums. Saw BOOH The Musical several times. RIP
I didn't know he did Sisters. Fine work. Another one from the 70s gone.
I did hear it this morning. Sad news.
oooh the memory of playing paradise by the dashboard light at school parties!
RIP
Rest in peace, Jim.
RIP. He was like Meatloaf's Bernie Taupin. I had kind of forgotten about "Lost Boys and Golden Girls." I listened to that song a fair bit.
I was a fan of Steinman's work. "Bat Out Of Hell" is still an amazing album after all these years, and a lot of the other stuff he did was cool. Bombastic and way over the top was how Steinman rolled and I dug a good chunk of it.
Totally Eclipsed...:(
RIP Jim Steinman. As a side note who knew that all of Utopia(including Todd) played on Bat out of Hell?
RIP to a very particular vision. It was almost like Broadway show tunes humping in the alley with 50s rock n' roll. Bat Out of Hell is not an album I play often but when I do I play it LOUD.
Todd and Utopia were the backing band on several of his productions: L by Steve Hillage and Wasp by Shaun Cassidy are another two (War Babies by Hall & Oates had ¾ of the Disco Jets/Faithful lineup on it).
I read that Todd made enough money off Bat Out of Hell to buy his compound in Hawaii
I really loved Jim's flair for dramatic and theatrical rock music. So many of the songs he wrote featured incredible piano work from Roy Bittan, who seemed tailor made to play Steinman's songs. An eccentric guy with a unique musical perspective.
I wrote this week's issue of Michael's Record Collection about Jim's best songs and his musical legacy, if anyone is interested.
good songs are all in the writing... and Steinman was one of the best.
RIP Jim & thx for one of the album that consolidated my youth and sort of prefigured many teens' soundtrack.
I played my vinyl almost transparent back then. Back then, it seemed like every song on it was sêcifically written about or for me as it spoke mainly about my life soundtrack
Yup, extremely well recorded album that allowed for loud playing. Better wall of sound than Spector, TBH.
TBH, a lot of the BOOH sonics seemed almost as much out of a Springsteen album (Bittan & Weinberg) than a Rundgren album
TBH, I only liked BOOH and parts of Bad For Good, but the latter wasn't all that suited for repeated playing/listening (namely that lengthy monologue)
By the time the following Meaqtloaf album was out, I'd grown tired of it all (even if Steinman didn't partake in Dead Ringer) and stopped following it. I borrowed BAAH
from the library, and I'm not even sure I played the album through entirely.
I still spin it now and then, though a lot of it (if not all of it) still gets played on classic rock radios