Track Listing

1. Bad For Good
2. Lost Boys And Golden Girls
3. Love And Death And An American Guitar
4. Stark Raving Love
5. Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)
6. Surf's Up
7. Dance In My Pants
8. Left In The Dark

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11719 in Music
• Released on: 2000-02-14
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

5 stars are not enough!!!
A five star score is what I would give most of Meatloaf's LPs but "Bad for Good" is extraordinary. I disagree with other comments that Jim's voice struggles. I actualy prefer it to Meatloaf's.

I also remember that the LP was accompanied by an EP with two excellent tracks one of which, if I remember well, was called "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through". The CD does not seem to have these tracks.

For those who like Jim's music there is also (besides Meatloaf) Pandora's Box. It's not as good as "Bad for Good" but still a 5 star purchase in its own right.

AS GOOD AND BAD AS BAT OUT OF HELL
Meat Loaf's collaborator Jim Steinman tried here to equal the incomparable Bat Out Of Hell and he nearly succeeded. It's mighty impressive album with the same grand rock orchestration as Bat and although Steinman's voice isn't quite as vast and melodramatic as Meat Loaf's, he certainly gives it all he's got. The result is a magnificent rock classic with grand passionate ballads like the title track, flowing rock ballads like Lost Boys And Golden Girls, the hilarious spoken Love And Death And An American Guitar with its rock clichés and the straightforward rock of Stark Raving Love that reprises some lyrics from the title track. Out Of The Frying Pan is a brooding number with nervous guitar and sparkling touches of piano, whilst Surf's Up is a more gentle ballad where his voice soars on the loveliest lyrical imagery. The tempo speeds up dramatically for Dance In My Pants, a buzz of a party song in the form a conversation a female vocal and Steinman, very much like Bat Out Of Hell's Paradise By The Dashboard Light with solo and duet parts, rolling piano, nervous drumming, soaring vocals and a killer melody line. The passionate ballad Left In The Dark, a tale of regret and betrayal with a spoken intro and exit, concludes this blockbuster of an album on a rather mournful note. Albums like Bat Out Of Hell only comes around once in a lifetime but as for overall sound this is as near a carbon copy as is possible. Having said that, the songs are all hook-laden, gripping pieces of rock 'n roll mini-operattas. Now if Meat Loaf were to record this album in its entirety, the results would be more than interesting.

BAD FOR GOOD -THE SECOND ALBUM MEAT LOAF SHOULD HAVE DONE!
When Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf stopped working together it was a killing made in heaven or hell. This was always going to to Meat Loaf's second album. Bad For Good was and still is his true second album after his first album Bat Out Of Hell album! A few of the songs on Bad For Good have turned up on later Meat Loaf albums but it is here that Steinman wished to have all these songs together. It is here you feel the same things found in the Bat Out Of Hell album. This is the second part of this great story of love. As a big fan of Steinman and Meat Loaf you must or should have had Bad For Good right next to Bat Out Of Hell. Its a little old these days but then again so is Bat Out Of Hell too and we all have that on our CD's don't we!