RIP Jim Steinman (04/19/21)

Raindog · Fri Apr 23, 2021 1:59 am

I see that no one has yet mentioned it but we lost Jim Steinman, the "Wagner of Rock and Roll." Without him, there would never have been a Bat Out of Hell album and maybe, no Meat Loaf. He wrote many other epic power ballads like Total Eclipse of The Heart, Holding Out For A Hero and Celine Dion's It's All Coming Back To Me Now. He was also a pretty good piano player. Take a good listen to the keyboard on the BOOH albums. He died of kidney failure due to multiple strokes in the past,

BOOH is still in my top 10 favorite albums after all of these years. I fell in love with it when I first heard it at 16 years old and now, at 60, I still listen to it fairly regularly. RIP Jim Steinman.

thepezident · Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:03 am

Yep...BOOH is on my top 10 list.
It covers a lot of ground.
It's got hard rock, boogie woogie, ballads....

toomanycats · Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:32 am

I've been searching for an album called BOOH and couldn't find it. Duh, "Bat Out of Hell." Now I get it. Little slow in the uptake this morning. With that I'll leave you with this Steinman composition:

Gergo · Fri Apr 23, 2021 9:50 am

Jim Steinman was always a guy who I could never figure out whether I liked or I didn't like. There is no doubt that he was amazingly talented. I have to just be in the right mood for his stuff I suppose. Sometimes his stuff is amazing and sometimes it just sounds a bit too overblown and over the top. I guess I just don't completely get it. I did like BOOH when I was a kid though and I also liked his solo album that no one talks about. I think it was called "Bad For Good", or something like that. Anyways RIP Jim, you made your mark on popular music for sure.

sabasgr68 · Fri Apr 23, 2021 1:30 pm

toomanycats wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:32 am I've been searching for an album called BOOH and couldn't find it. Duh, "Bat Out of Hell." Now I get it. Little slow in the uptake this morning. With that I'll leave you with this Steinman composition:

I love that song, but never knew it was his.

sabasgr68 · Fri Apr 23, 2021 1:33 pm

I don´t know much of his work, but I knew he wrote two of the songs that marked me as a young lad, and still are my favorites: "Tonight is what it means to be young" and "Nowhere fast", from the love it or hate it movie Streets of Fire - I know it´s far from perfect, but I love it

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Rollin Hand · Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:51 am

I have always liked Jim Steinman's stuff. He wrote like it was all for Broadway, with a lot of ambition and big choruses, which I really like. Yes, a lot of it was overblown, but sometimes that's fun. And he wrote some bona fide classics.

I will say this: when I heard he worked with Def Leppard, I thought "whoa, that's not a fit," and it turned out Def Leppard felt the same way.