[Closed] RIP Jim Steinman

Oh crikey, a big part of my youth travelled through his music.

RIP. What a writer.

Meh. That previous one wasn't over the top enough..

Has to be done:

He was certainly pretty bonkers

RIP - Bat out of Hell was the first album I ever bought

Waiting at a airport, there was a free to play piano my daughter was sat at. I said to her 'play some meatloaf'. Other passengers shouted the same thing.

Bat out of hell was in the US billboard 100 for 10 years!

Musical genius. - if he had the voice he wanted - meatloaf may never have been discovered.

Amazing songwriter. For Crying Out Loud remains my underrated favourite

Oh bugger!

"On a hot summer night
Would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?
Yes!
I bet you to say that to all the boys!"

OH and I very much enjoying the album playthrough of bat out of hell on the radio right now!

Turns out though that neither of us actually know the opening line to bat out of hell (the song)- anyone care to share what they think it is without checking?

That really sucks. I first heard BOOH a year or so after it came out and that was over 40 years ago. I still listen to it now and it still rocks.

RIP man.

“When the summons are screaming and the fires are howling down in the shadows tonight..”

...is what I always sing.

Edit: arse 😀

“When the [s]summons[/s] are screaming and the fires are howling [s]down in the shadows[/s] tonight..”

Sirens. Way down in the valley.

Spoilsport!

I had ‘somebody’s screaming in the fires of hell and way down in the valley tonight’.

OH, a self-proclaimed massive meatloaf fan apparently just makes tuneful noises that to me sounded like ‘salmon are spawning in the fires of hell...’

My dad went to see Meatloaf live, he said Jim Steinman had to hands bandaged because they were bleeding from playing so hard and Meatloaf was carried off in an oxygen mask.

I'm going to sound like an old man now but you just don't get shows with passion like that these days.

Wendy's hymen's a-screeching and my piles are howling - no ?

Saw Meatloaf in Brighton back in '85. Awesome concert. Remember it like it was yesterday.

Meatloaf. 1982. Edinburgh Playhouse. He was doing somersaults on stage by running up the side and flipping over.

Did he invent parcours?

I didn't like his music much, but he was funny in the Spice Girls movie, and hilarious when he was a guest on Gordon Ramsay's show.

"The sirens are screamin and the fires are howlin way down in the valley tonight" innit?

Very sad... Love a bit of Meatloaf, they were a perfect partnership. Lost Boys and Golden Girls might be one of the most perfect rock ballads ever. Not the album version with the annoying backing vocals, the more stripped down live takes. We'll never be as young as we are right now...

Errr....no. To lightduty for me. Besides, it all sounds the same.

I didn’t like his music much, but he was funny in the Spice Girls movie,

I think the whole thing was close to a parody act, but the BOOH album perfectly nailed teenagers. Not musically sophisticated, but cheerful fun. One of my favourites from when I was at high-school.

Amazing songwriter. For Crying Out Loud remains my underrated favourite

Completely agree.

I love Steinman / Meat loaf - and still dig out the biggies now. Meat Loaf wasn't that great live actually, a big disappointment. But the recordings were great.

The Bat out of Hell musical was good a recent-ish revival.

And the hidden gem of Walter Hill's Streets of Fire with Steinman tunes was a regular watch in my youth.

Such epic stuff. Genius composer.

Meat Loaf can't be in that good health these days though. Not heard much about him recently.

On the basis of this news/thread I'm re-listening to BOOH - quite a revelation compared to the last time I listened to it when I was 14 on the way to Oban from Surrey, on a cheapo Matsui walkman with tinny, raspy headphones.

Such epic stuff. Genius composer.

For Crying Out Loud was my favourite then.... and nothing has changed. A more epic rock ballad simply doesn't exist.

The Bat out of Hell musical was good a recent-ish revival.

I thought it was fairly average as musicals go... until the slightly more than middle aged audience participation started and the emotions got to both the audience and the actors - the whole thing ramped up from there.

For Crying Out Loud was my favourite then…. and nothing has changed. A more epic rock ballad simply doesn’t exist.

I'd always thought I had a minority view on this, but obviously not.

Hadn't realised he'd written Whistle Down the Wind with Andrew Lloyd Webber. There's a couple of hours of my life I'll not get back, sat in a West End theatre with the whole audience waiting for the one (awful) song they knew....

I bought Bat out of Hell on cassette and wore it out.

I'll always be a huge fan of his work and when that album goes on I can still sing every word all the way through lol.

For crying out loud get the hairs standing up on the back of my neck every time.

Mental genius. My first ever gig was Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell 10th Anniversary World Tour at the Manchester Apollo, Friday 27 March 1987

Fab night, seats right in the middle of the circle with a good view and excellent acoustics. Compare that to seeing him at g-mex a few years later which was quite probably the worst gig I’ve ever attended, the acoustics and visibility (we were on the floor) was awful.

I also loved Jim's solo Album Bad for Good
https://open.spotify.com/album/1IzqC9ywIOb5bjnLW4Ly3I

and his later "group" project Pandora's Box
https://open.spotify.com/album/4mE8zpWLCRcnPep4qHfsp0

Ah yes, Good Girls go to Heaven.....

Listened to his Sister's of Mercy stuff on the way to work.

His sound was epic.

RIP

I had the single of bat out of hell when I was 12. Mentioned to my mate in front of his Dad who put the album version on his fancy record player. Been a fan ever since.

Did you hear the tributes yesterday, apparently when entertaining in restaurants he ordered every bottle of wine and every dish on the menu. Sounds like a brilliant meal buddy, he wrote Bonnie Tyler total eclipse of the heart too.

Brilliant epic lyrics but also brilliant almost inappropriate ones.

Surfs up - so am I.
Good girls go to heaven - bad girls go everywhere.
And I need all the love I can get. And I need all the love that I can't get too.

Brilliant epic lyrics but also brilliant almost inappropriate ones.

"And can't you see my faded Levis bursting apart"

I always thought Steinman and Whitesnake had the "inappropriate lyrics" thing sorted. Then I saw Steel Panther for the first time.....

His "there's no such thing as too much" approach was everywhere when I was in my late teens... and nothing sounds quite like it even now.

I'm going back into the Sister of Mercy stuff this morning... the rest needs many beers to properly appreciate (and to get everyone singing along to the lovable nonsense).

I’m going back into the Sister of Mercy stuff this morning

I knew he did Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler, but had no idea he wrote produced This Corrosion!

Hey now, hey now now!

Hey now, hey now now!

Good flowchart..

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I skipped out of work early and figured I deserved to get drunk and listen to BOOH for the first time in 3 decades. Just as brilliant and horribly corny as I remember. Just got to "I was nothing but a lonely boy looking for something new...' gave me a big flashback to high-school and this girl that did not reciprocate my crush. Wonder if she's still hot, maybe that dick that she went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show has moved on and she's available now.

Wonder if she’s still hot, maybe that dick that she went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show has moved on

Or maybe he's praying for the end of time?

Or maybe he’s praying for the end of time?

I'm crying icicles instead of tears.

This songwriting thing is more complex than I thought...