Popdose covers TIWIMTBY in their 'Bottom Feeders' round-up of singles that failed to make it to the Billboard top 40:
Fire Inc.
“Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young” — 1984, #80
You can either love or hate Jim Steinman, but at the very least you should be able to immediately tell when you’re listing to one of his songs. In fact, many times you can tell it just by the grandiose title. “Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young” is a great example of a Steinman title and the song sounds like everything else from him (I know someone is going to have a problem with the phrase “everything else” here).
Fire Inc. was a semi-super group put together by Steinman, who wrote two songs for them on the Streets of Fire soundtrack. They never recorded anything else under this moniker. Some of the whopping 14 members in Fire Inc. include Rick Derringer, Max Weinberg, and Davey Johnstone as well as a few of Steinman’s frequent collaborators, like vocalists Holly Sherwood and Rory Dodd. Despite the male harmonies sounding a lot like Meat Loaf, he isn’t part of the group.
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