The Album I am Re-listening To Is..................

[mtthwibrahim]

Loveless, over and over again

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Jim Steinman "bad for good"

1981 debut release from the writer/producer of Bat Out Of Hell,
the tracks on this, the Steinman album are far superior to those on the Meatloaf set, but the thing that truly lets this one down a little bit is his vocals, although Jim has a voice that most other rockers would love to have, and although through these tracks we can imagine Meatloaf singing them JS lacks the depth and octave range that The Meat has,
other than that little hiccup this is a mighty fine blistering attack on the aural senses!

[gryphon]

<After his success in England on Charisma records the thought were to try and break Clifford in America............To do this he needed to change his approach and production and this album was supposed to do that for him. The production here is much more mid Atlantic as is the song writing and sound.

The tracks on here are slightly more commercial than on the earlier albums ........[video=youtube;0XkNLkWEoV0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XkNLkWEoV0[/video]

Clifford is on good form but somehow the whole thing is not quite what it should be in terms of support from marketing and he record company. Charisma had lost it's way and Philips did not have the same eccentric drive that old Stratten -Smith could inject.

The album did have several interesting points though.

Clifford did get extensive cover from this album

The atmospheric Up In The World [video=youtube;FGcw7dPGXqc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGcw7dPGXqc[/video]

Was covered by Cliff Richard<br><br>[video=youtube;EjiHuPdH04w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjiHuPdH04w[/video]

And Ringo Starr reworded Lady Gaye:

There is apart of Clfford's unfinished work on Lord Of The Rings work.................Gandalf...............

This is an overlooked album which has been remastered and is again available for all to hear and is well worth the effort to find.