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Bad for Good is the only studio album by American songwriter Jim Steinman. Steinman wrote all of the songs and performed on most, although Rory Dodd contributed lead vocals on some tracks. The songs were originally intended to be recorded by Meat Loaf as a follow-up to Bat Out of Hell, titled Renegade Angel.
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"Bad For Good" est le premier album solo de Jim Steinman, compositeur de comédies musicales et de chansons Rock ("Total Eclipse Of The Heart" de Bonnie TYLER, c’est lui). C’est également lui qui avait écrit "Bat Out Of Hell" de MEAT LOAF, connaissant ainsi un succès phénoménal, surtout en Grande Bretagne, l’année même où les ...
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Bad for Good is an 1981 album by Jim Steinman. Steinman wrote all of the songs and performed on most, although Rory Doddcontributed lead vocals on three tracks.
In a 1981 BBC Rock Hour Specialinterview, Steinman recalls the writing process: The first two songs, "Bad for Good" and "Lost Boys and Golden Girls", were two of many songs written by Steinman under the inspiration of Peter Pan and lost boys who never grow up. This is reflected in lyrics in "Bad for Good" such as "You know I'm gonna be like this fo...
After the success of Bat Out of Hell, desperate for a follow-up, management and the record company put pressure on Jim Steinman to stop touring in order to write the next album, provisionally titled Renegade Angel. Steinman joined Meat Loaf and the band for a live performance in Toronto, Canada in 1978, with the intention of going through the songs...
Recording
While waiting for Meat Loaf's voice to recover (it was now 1980, a year since the planned release date), Jim (along with Todd Rundgren and mixer John Jansen, who were brought in at the label's insistence to recreate the sound established on the first album) began laying down the basic instrumental tracks so that their time wouldn't be totally wasted. The session work was once again undertaken, for the most part, at Bearsville Studios. Rory Dodd contributed lead vocals on what were supposed to...
Post-production
When Meat Loaf's voice was finally starting to improve, after he'd taken time off from touring, played some baseball, detoxed, and made two movies, he told Steinman that he was so traumatized by the experience that he couldn't deal with the songs he'd been rehearsing because they reminded him too much of bad memories, and walked away from the album. Not being able to "bear for people not to hear those songs," Steinman decided to go back to the tracks in the can, add his own lead vocals, and r...
The album reached number 63 in the Billboard Pop Albums chart, but peaked at number 14 in the Swedish Top 60 Albums. "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" was released as a single, reaching 14 in the Mainstream Rock chart, and number 32 in the Pop Singles chart. The critical reaction to the album was rather mediocre. Many reviews commented that Stein...
Lead Vocals, Assorted Keyboards - Jim SteinmanGuitar (Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10), Guitar Solo (Track 7), Backing Vocals (Tracks 2, 3, 5- 8, 10) - Todd RundgrenAdditional Guitars (Track 2), Multiple Guitar Finale (Track 5), Guitars/Mandolin (Track 7), Acoustic Guitars (Track 10) - Davey JohnstoneBass (Tracks 2, 6, 7), Backing Vocals (Tracks 2, 3, 5-8, 10) - Kasim SultonBad for Good, an Album by Jim Steinman. Released in April 1981 on Epic (catalog no. FE 36531; Vinyl LP). Genres: Rock Opera. Rated #489 in the best albums of 1981. Featured peformers: Jim Steinman (music, arrangements), Todd Rundgren (arrangements), Roy Bittan (arrangements), John Jansen (mixing), John Jansen (engineer), Gray Russell (recording ...
1 avr. 1981 · Album review. After penning the songs for Meat Loaf's massively successful Bat Out of Hell album, Jim Steinman decided to step into the spotlight himself when his singer's voice was too damaged to record a follow-up. The result was 1981's Bad for Good, an epic slab of operatic rock that is very much in the same vein of Meat Loaf's ...
