Listening to another of the better albums he did without Jim's involvement.
Bad Attitude does include two Steinman songs, Bad For Good's Surf's Up and Nowhere Fast from the film Streets Of Fire, and the rest of the tracks all come across as Steinman lite. It's a good collection of songs, though, a big step up from the previous two records, and it features my favorite non-Steinman Meat Loaf track, Modern Girl.
Bad Attitude was conceived and marketed as a return to form and though it's a long way from a Steinman reunion, it was the closest we could get at the time, boasts a duet with Roger Daltrey on the title track and spawned a decent tour.
I hate the amateurish album cover, but could have loved it if it had been properly executed. Using the Meat Loaf font from the Steinman albums was a good move, associating this record with bat Out Of Hell, but the paste job on the images is obvious and, oh man, the scale of the bike to the cars in the demo pile is way off. It's terrible. She's supposed to be sitting on top of the pile, but the cars are smaller than the bike. They did do a decent job of dressing out a real bike to resemble the Bat Out Of Hell motorcycle.
I don't think anyone would argue that Meat Loaf didn't do his best work with Jim Steinman and I know it's not a secret that his albums away from Jim are hit and miss. They vary from very bad (I'm looking at you Blind Before I Stop) to pretty damned good
(like Bad Attitude), sometimes from one track to the next not just album to album, but he did put out some good records. I think the key to the good ones is the level of competence of the songwriters who tried to imitate Steinman and the wisdom of those who knew they couldn't so didn't try to.
This was a record Meat Loaf was very proud of and I'm enjoying it right now.
Listening to another of the better albums he did without Jim's involvement.
Bad Attitude does include two Steinman songs, Bad For Good's Surf's Up and Nowhere Fast from the film Streets Of Fire, and the rest of the tracks all come across as Steinman lite. It's a good collection of songs, though, a big step up from the previous two records, and it features my favorite non-Steinman Meat Loaf track, Modern Girl.
Bad Attitude was conceived and marketed as a return to form and though it's a long way from a Steinman reunion, it was the closest we could get at the time, boasts a duet with Roger Daltrey on the title track and spawned a decent tour.
I hate the amateurish album cover, but could have loved it if it had been properly executed. Using the Meat Loaf font from the Steinman albums was a good move, associating this record with bat Out Of Hell, but the paste job on the images is obvious and, oh man, the scale of the bike to the cars in the demo pile is way off. It's terrible. She's supposed to be sitting on top of the pile, but the cars are smaller than the bike. They did do a decent job of dressing out a real bike to resemble the Bat Out Of Hell motorcycle.
Currently listening to Live With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra high on edibles and flower and it is fucking pyrosexualmaniacal.
Throughout my Meat Loaf library, I'm very anal about tagging Paradise By The Dashboard Light with the full title which is...
Paradise By The Dashboard Light (I. Paradise/II. Let Me Sleep On It/III. Praying for the End of Time)
I never knew Meat was a Monkey Hanger.
I don't think anyone would argue that Meat Loaf didn't do his best work with Jim Steinman and I know it's not a secret that his albums away from Jim are hit and miss. They vary from very bad (I'm looking at you Blind Before I Stop) to pretty damned good
(like Bad Attitude), sometimes from one track to the next not just album to album, but he did put out some good records. I think the key to the good ones is the level of competence of the songwriters who tried to imitate Steinman and the wisdom of those who knew they couldn't so didn't try to.
This was a record Meat Loaf was very proud of and I'm enjoying it right now.