#jim-steinman — Public Fediverse posts
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"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" is a song written by #JimSteinman and performed by American rock singer #MeatLoaf with additional vocals by #LorraineCrosby. The song was released in August 1993 as the first single from the singer's sixth album, #BatOutOfHellIIBackIntoHell (1993). The last six verses feature Crosby, who was credited only as "Mrs. Loud" in the album notes. She does not appear in the accompanying music video, directed by #MichaelBay.
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This morning, I woke up with Celine Dion's It's All Coming Back To Me. https://musiccloud.io/Kv1fn
A classic written by Jim Steinman
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5 years ago today, #JimSteinman, American Grammy Award-winning #songwriter and #recordproducer (Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell; Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart), died of #kidneyfailure at 73.
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I also added some more items to my #JimSteinman #JPop collection, with "Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)" by Megumi Shiina on 7" vinyl, "Our of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire) by Miyuki Maruyama on 3" CD, and a two disc complete collection of Saint Four which includes their version of "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through".
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"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is the lead single by Welsh singer #BonnieTyler from her fifth studio album, #FasterThanTheSpeedOfNight (1983) written and produced by #JimSteinman and recorded in 1982, released as a single by #CBS/#Columbia in 1983. The song became Tyler's biggest career hit, topping the #UKSinglesChart, and becoming the #fifthbestsellingSingleIn1983 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the single spent four weeks at the top of the charts.
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"Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" is a #powerBallad performed by the American musician #MeatLoaf. It is a track off his 1977 album #BatOutOfHell, written by #JimSteinman. It spent 23 weeks on the #Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 11, and earned a million-selling #GoldSingle from the #RIAA, eventually being certified platinum. It remains his second-highest-charting hit in the US, behind "#IdDoAnythingForLoveButIWontDoThat" (1993).
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#StreetsOfFire by #WalterHill. Favourite of my early teens. It immediately catches me again. First shot, the neon lights reflected on the wet street. Then going all-in with #JimSteinman's music, strong colours, the audience at the rock concert turning into an impersonal, billowing silhouette. #DianeLane, wow, Diane Lane! The threatening entrance of the incredibly evil looking #WillemDafoe and his gang. The sudden high-carnage fight and kidnapping with acts of totally gratuitous violence.
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#OnThisDay in 1947, #JimSteinman, American Grammy Award-winning #songwriter and #recordproducer (Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell; Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart), born in New York City (d. 2021).
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This week's Tune Tuesday theme is Big Crescendos.
So, let's make it an ode to Jim Steinman, the King of Crescendos, with a short list of hits.
Air Supply - Making Love Out of Nothing at All https://song.link/s/1qQkXsvHcyenlqtPlGL9kn
Céline Dion - It's All Coming Back to Me https://song.link/s/5EQzuYfTZt7B2LqlvTF49l
Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything for Love https://song.link/s/1k2NivgsLlf1jgn13QqEcd
Bonny Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart https://song.link/s/7wuJGgpTNzbUyn26IOY6rj
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"And all the morons
And all the stooges with their coins
They're the ones that make the rules
It's not a game it's just a route"
-Jim Steinman, "Life is a Lemon and I want My Money Back" - recorded by Meat Loaf in 1993Something about the world today made me hone in on those lyrics...
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Deep Thoughts: If Jim Steinman were alive, writing K-Pop songs, they would sound like Your Idol from K-Pop Demon Hunters
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#OnThisDay in 1993, Single "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" sung by #MeatLoaf and composed by #JimSteinman is released. Goes on to be No. 1 in 28 countries.
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#OnThisDay in 1993, MCA and Virgin Records release album "Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell" by singer #MeatLoaf, written and produced by #JimSteinman; it arrives 16 years after the first installment of eventual trilogy, and features the hit "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)".
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"It's All Coming Back to Me Now" is a #powerBallad written by #JimSteinman. According to Steinman, the song was inspired by #WutheringHeights, and was an attempt to write "the most passionate, romantic song" he could ever create. The Sunday Times posits that "Steinman protects his songs as if they were his children". #MeatLoaf, who had collaborated with Steinman on most of his hit songs, had wanted to record the song for years, but Steinman refused.
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YouTube knows what I want after #Eurovision...some big #JimSteinman energy!
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"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" is a song written by #JimSteinman, and recorded by American rock singer #MeatLoaf featuring #LorraineCrosby. The song was released in August 1993 by #MCA and #Virgin as the first single from the singer's sixth album, #BatOutOfHellIIBackIntoHell (1993). The last six verses feature Crosby, who was credited only as "Mrs. Loud" in the album notes. She does not appear in the accompanying music video, directed by #MichaelBay.
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Last night I played three songs for my kids, all written by Jim Steinman. They very clearly could see the connection between the songs, but then asked me if they could hear some happy Jim Steinman songs since these were all sad songs about love.
And...I coudn't think of any offhand.
Anyway - here's the songs.
Meat Loaf - Two Out of Three Ain't Bad (1977) https://song.link/us/i/991385388
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (1983) https://song.link/us/i/1504111288
Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now (1996) https://song.link/us/i/1450020821#Music #JimSteinman #MeatLoaf #Parenting #BonnieTyler #CelineDion
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@intimate @unit15 I should probably add that I'm not personally against mistreating musical instruments. A lot of good music requires it. What I jokingly posted was a quote from the spoken word poem "Wasted Youth" by #JimSteinman
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First #JimSteinman track of the year; an old but perfect Final Fantasy AMV for "Braver Than We Are"
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#BonnieTyler should cover Let It Go.
It's basically on its way to being a #JimSteinman song anyway.
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Bat Out of Hell
Meatloaf releases "Bat Out of Hell" on October 21, 1977. Jim Steinman is the composer, Todd Rundgren the producer. It's #343 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Listen to Bat Out Of Hell by Meatloaf on Amazon Music ... #meatloaf #batoutofhell #70srock #classicrock #glamrock #jimsteinman #rockopera
https://robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024/10/21/bat-out-of-hell/
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The next spotlight in our new “II Much II Listen II” series is number 786 in The List, submitted by kyonshi. Note for simplicity (i.e., too many – or “II” many – punctuation marks), I shortened the album name in the blog post title from Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell.
In this series, we consider how an album named “II” relates to the “I” that came before it. Bat Out of Hell (1977) was Meat Loaf’s wildly successful first solo album, a concept album developed largely out of Jim Steinman’s futuristic Peter Pan musical named Neverland, written in 1974 (as well as bit from a musical Steinman wrote while in college in the late 60s, The Dream Engine). Steinman and Meat Loaf had met the previous year, when Meat Loaf was cast in another musical of Steinman’s (More Than You Deserve). Following the success of Bat I, they would continue their collaboration – and the storyworld of Bat I – with Bat II, which was both written and produced by Steinman.
A lot could be said about the over-the-top but brilliant Bat albums and the duo of Meat Loaf and Steinman – the trials and tribulations of getting the albums made but then their ultimate success…the duo’s somewhat dramatic (if not tragic love-story-type) of relationship, complete with legal disputes (e.g., to get Bat Out of Hell III [2006] made without Steinman’s direct involvement) and the two dying just months apart…how “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” was originally meant for Bat II but then was replaced by “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”, and then how Céline Dion’s spectacular cover essentially stole the thunder as it came out before Bat III…whether or not Mr. Loaf actually says what the “that” is that he wouldn’t do for love…
While wondering what to focus on for this spotlight, though, Mastodon dropped an utter gem in my lap. As it turns out, Michael Whelan, the renowned sci-fi/fantasy artist whose brilliant work has graced hundreds of book, magazine, and album covers, decided to share a lovely behind-the-scenes look into the development of his original painting created for the Bat II cover, right on Mastodon (his handle is @MichaelWhelan). With Whelan’s permission I’m quoting the text of his 5-post thread here, but make sure you click here to see the art he’s attached to each post, including the final full-sized acrylic painting (BACK INTO HELL [1993], 30″ x 20″) that would be cropped to fit the cover of Bat II.
Like everyone else in the world, I was aware of the epic piece Rich Corben had done for the first BAT OUT OF HELL cover—so my first feeling was a sinking one.
I felt dismay at the prospect of trying to do a follow-up to such an signature effort. I was thinking maybe I could palm off something I’d already done so I wouldn’t have to squeeze in another commission I had no time for.
I showed Meat Loaf a concept sketch I’d done titled BIRD OF PREY, and his eyes lit up. “Yeah, yeah, this is what want, only different!”
As it turned out, he had a rather specific idea of what he wanted, but his songwriter Jim Steinman had a different idea entirely. It took no little back-and-forth before we arrived on a concept that was acceptable to both of them.
In the end I resigned myself to getting little sleep and working round the clock to get the painting done. BAT OUT OF HELL II ended up being a landmark comeback album for Meat Loaf, and it was named Cover of the Year by “CD Review” Magazine.
Whelan has also painted the covers for a couple other albums also on The List (Cirith Ungol’s Frost and Fire and Sepultura’s Beneath the Remains), so we’ll see his work again soon (spoilers: very soon, in fact)! But for now, enjoy the art of Bat II, and, as always, happy listening.
- Songlink: Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell
- Discogs: Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell
- Website: Michael Whelan
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/07/23/ii-much-ii-listen-ii-meat-loaf-bat-out-of-hell-ii-1993-us/
#1001OtherAlbums #1990s #conceptAlbum #hardRock #IIMuchIIListenII #JimSteinman #MeatLoaf #MichaelWhelan #rock
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🎵 But I'll never do it better than I do it with you
So long, so long
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love but I won't do that 🎵----
In 1993, Meat Loaf released his recording of I Would Do Anything for Love. It was an amazing track. The music video, directed by Michael Bay, was a wild Beauty and the Beast story.
Here's Walt playing "The Beast" from the video for Music Monday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_ViIPA-Gc
#ACNH #AnimalCrossing #VideoGames #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch #ACNHScreenshots #ACNHCommunity #CozyGamer #CozyGaming #MusicMonday #Music #MeatLoaf #IdDoAnythingForLove #JimSteinman
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How about some cinematic #JimSteinman with "Nowhere Fast" from #StreetsOfFire?
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Ok...time for the #JimSteinman "boner anthem"
The #MeatLoaf version of "Surf's Up"
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I'm not really a #BarbraStreisand fan but when she's singing #JimSteinman hell yes!
