From: sjsmith@cs.umd.edu (Stephen Joseph Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Jim Steinman [was Re: Best of Stephen Smith's extensive quotes]
Keywords: Meat Loaf, Marcus Aurelius, Jim Steinman
Date: 30 Dec 92 06:12:53 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park

mshort@heisenberg.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Short) writes:
>[I write:]
>:  "...There's nothing wrong with going nowhere baby
>:  But we should be going nowhere fast..."
>:	--- "Nowhere Fast," Meat Loaf, _Bad Attitude_
>
>Wasn't the song written by Jim Steinman, who also wrote the songs
>for Meatloaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" album? The song was also sung/
>lip-synched by Diana Lane (?) in the movie "Streets of Fire".

For the five people out there in net-land who are still following this
thread, the answer is Yes, Jim Steinman apparently wrote the songs for _Bad
Attitude_ as well as _Bat Out of Hell_ and _Dead Ringer_.  Don't think he
did _Blind Before I Stop_ though.

The Meat Loaf version of "Nowhere Fast" shares only the chorus with the
_Streets of Fire_ version.  The verses are different.  

"Godspeed, Godspeed, Godspeed, speed us away..." appears only in the
_Streets of Fire_ version of "Nowhere Fast"... *and* in "Bad For Good" off
_Bad For Good_.

Jim Steinman likes to recycle music.


For those of you in net-land familiar with Jim Steinman, is there a mailing
list?  Is there anything he's done that I don't have?  What is he doing
now?  Does *anyone* have a copy of the soundtrack from the play _More Than
You Deserve_, which he wrote circa about the time I was born?  [It's
therefore Not My Fault I don't have a copy of this, and if you do, I'd love
to hear it, copy it, whatever.  I am usually pretty sensitive about
copyright laws, but I can be a trifle annoyed when something goes out of
print... what are you supposed to do?  There's no way the author can get
your $$$ any more.  And yes, I just realized that I wrote "circa about" up
above.]


For those of you in net-land unfamiliar with Jim Steinman, he wrote [with
heartfelt apologies to Joyce Raynor]:

All of _Bat Out of Hell_ by Meat Loaf [including "You Took the Words Right
Out of My Mouth" and "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"]

All of _Dead Ringer_ and _Bad Attitude_ by Meat Loaf

The songs "Nowhere Fast" and "Tonight is What it Means to be Young" from
_Streets of Fire_

His own _Bad for Good_

"Total Eclipse of the Heart," Bonnie Tyler, off _Faster Than the Speed of
Night_

"Holding Out for a Hero," [co-written with Dean Pitchford], Bonnie Tyler,
off _Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire_ and the _Footloose_ soundtrack

Bonnie Tyler songs including "Ravishing," "Loving You's a Dirty Job but
Somebody's Gotta Do It," "Rebel Without a Clue" [before Tom Petty and
maybe, or maybe not, before the Cure] and "Faster Than the Speed of Night"

"Making Love Out of Nothing at All," Air Supply, _Greatest Hits_


ObQuote: [I have to come up with a *new* Jim Steinman quote on the spot?  Ok.]

"Goddamnit, Dad!  You may know about love, but you have an awful lot to
learn about rock and roll!"

	--- "Love and Death and an American Guitar," _Bad for Good_

"Every now and then I get a little bit helpless and I'm lying like a child
in your arms..."

	--- "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

- Stephen