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What A Boring Musical World It Will Be Without Meat Loaf
The Meat Loaf/Steinman madcap musical universe of sex, and drums, and way over-the-top rock and roll comes to an end
Our friend Kristin Devine already explained Meat Loaf so well during her deep dive into the auditory rabbit hole that is Jim Steinman music that all that is required here is to repeat it:
Listening to a song by Jim Steinman is an exercise in musical gluttony. If a human being was a Steinman song, that human being would look pretty much exactly like 70’s era Meat Loaf.
With the passing of both Steinman in April of 2021 and now Meat Loaf yesterday at the age of 74, the music world is a much less interesting place.
I unapologetically love Meat Loaf’s music. The alarm on my phone for years has been the bombastic, full-throated pipe organ opening of “Home By Now (No Matter What), yet another of the seemingly endless Steinman/Meat Loaf collaborations that ranged from the twisted adolescent ragers to ballads that could be soaring or touching, and often both. Steinman’s theory on musical imagery being that if less is more, imagine how much more more would be found its perfect conduit in Michael Lee Aday. Pitched in the abstract, the over weight, over dressed, over acting, perpetually…
