Yes, I'd have loved to hear what Meat could do with this song .. James Michael writes some superb stuff I think. I'd also have loved to hear Meat put his unique take and passion into Making Love Out of Nothing at All .. for me he synthesises "power" and "ballad" in a way no other can

That and Total Eclipse were supposed to appear on MATLAF but the record company weren't prepared to pay for them. I suspect if Meat was going to sing Making Love he would have by now.

I would love to hear him do it though. Bonnie Tyler's version was fantastic in spite of her vocals. :lol:

I know ... I don't expect to hear it, just said I would have loved to have done back when the possibility was there .. both of them in fact

Personally that's what turns me off her records

IMO that's her song.

Him doing TEOTH would be like her covering "Two Outta Three Ain't Bad".

Total Ecplise, Making Love, Safe Sex and It's all coming back to me now really seem like women songs to me. Sorry if that sounds degrading and sexist but staying in those kind of conventions in Steinman land these simply don't appear as songs that would be sung by men to me.

As these songs were quite successful in their own right by the original artists (or other covers) I see totally no point in Meat revisiting those. IACBTMN was a poor excuse to create a duet in my opinion.

That was a mental cover.
It sounded like Steinman trying to make sense out of dance music, which was weird. But it was not as bad as Todd Rundgren's cover which is one of the worst things I've ever heard in my life.

I wonder if PFL will be on the album? And if it is, will it be re-recorded and re-arranged/produced?

It doesn't need to be redone. It would be a wonderful surprise if it were included but it sounds like there may be too many songs already. Note not every song that is recorded always makes it onto an album.

Agreed, but I'd imagine it would be re-recorded if used, as the original - as great as it is - still has a little 'demo-ish' vibe about it. Like it's almost there, just pick up the vocal in the first verse and add some slightly heightened production to it. Besides, I'd imagine if it was included it'd need to fit in with the production of the rest of the album. I'm hoping for something really cohesive with this one.

I have always wanted Meat to cover " Vaults of Heaven". I also think a cover of a Zevon song would be great. In Zevon's album " life will kill ya" he has a song called " don't let us get sick".

"...[B]Don't let us get sick
don't let us get old
don't let us get stupid , all right?
just make us be brave
and make us play nice
and let us be together tonight...."[/B

It is a little closing song like " cry to heaven".


I think right now , Sailor to a Siren from the Blind album is GOLD just sitting in that album. It is one of my very favorites and it is sad to see it just sit in that album so long ago.
There are other songs I want to hear done, Souvenirs for one. Safe sex and several others are female songs. I do think songs have a gender. I recall the song " Original sin" was sung by a female. It was a great song but it begged for a male voice. Meat's cover of it was perfect.

Personally, if you're talking Zevon, I prefer 'My Shit's F*cked up'.
But I really don't think Meat Loaf should record it :P

Correction, Sailor to Siren is on Bad Attitude album.
Warren zevon and Leonard Cohen are two of the other artists I will still spend money on.

Songs of zevon that I would like to hear Meat cover,
Mutineer, Genius, Searching for a heart, The envoy, Splendid Isolation.
As far as Cohen, any number of his songs are worthy.


I like Zevon's " My S*it F**ked Up" and "I'll sleep when I'm dead " too. doubt Meat sould want to cover them, but he did cover " lawyers , guns and money" and it was great.

Couldn't agree more. But with SIXX AM doing so well I am actually surprised that James Michael is doing anything for anyone else right now. Paul Jacobs was the musical director for one of Jim's plays back in the day so I'm not surprised that he can write in the same vein as Jim does. MODERN GIRL is a great song.

SO EXCITED!!

This musical seems to be stuck is a state of Development Hell! It was supposed to be written by Monty Python's Terry Jones (of all people, not a bad thing just unexpected), they had a whole team behind it, it was meant to open in London 2005 but all we know is 'Jim is working on it' and apparantly they're looking at a Broadway launch. Jim hasn't blogged since 2008, I know he's been unwell though.

I guess because it is supposed to be a huge show with motorcyclists etc an issue is finance, but reading about the premise and how it's been redone as a stageplay and screenplay several times over the years - it would be nice to hear the songs in a context that was truly intended by Steinman; this won't be YET ANOTHER 'jukebox musical'. . Unless Meat does a run as Hook or something no it won't be a Meat Loaf show, but it's still Bat Out of Hell by the original creator.

However there is a chance the show could potentially carry the legacy and bring it to a new audience - soundtrack albums, concept albums maybe a movie.

But back onto topic the album sounds mega exciting - even if it's 6 Jim songs we know done by Meat Loaf for the first time that would be amazing - especially after BAT 3.

Good post Danny. Normally I always just like a post and think that is sufficient but just wanted to point out it sums up the stuff about Jim's musical quite well.

I agree 6 Jim songs or even if it is less sounds very exciting indeed.

How about Desperadoes Under The Eaves or Nobody's In Love This Year for a closer?