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- 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
- Message-ID: <63104@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 06:12:53 GMT
- References: <1hnkqhINNs9m@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park
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- 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
-