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Bat Out of Hell II was my first rock album that I discovered on my own (via happening to tune in to Entertainment Tonight when they were doing a profile on Meat and his comeback, and that's OK because that show was actually worth watching back then), and holy poo poo did it blow my 10 year-old mind which had been raised on a diet of 50s-60s oldies via my dad's mixtapes (which had no Beatles songs for some reason) and the Beach Boys, with my mom providing her vinyl copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller. (I wouldn't actually be familiar with the vast majority of "80s music" until I started my my late teens.) Yeah, the songs were extraordinarily long and lyrically more akin to musical numbers, but who gives a poo poo when the music is that good? Well, a year or two passes and adolescent me, without being able to put it into words, needed to find music that was a bit less campy and overwrought. But I never stopped revisiting that record. There's nothing else like it and the first, and it turned out that Meat and Jim had a bit of a Kirby/Lee relationship in that they brought out the best in each other and never hit their creative apexes again when they stopped working together. Steinman wasn't a singer (though he tried) and Meat was neither a songwriter nor able to find hired guns to fill Jim's shoes. And yes, Streets of Fire is very underrated. As is Walter Hill as a filmmaker but this ain't CD. Just remember that after The Warriors he wanted to make "a rock n' roll fairy tale" action movie and Joel Silver, God bless him, made it happen. Steinman being involved was icing on that cake.
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