It always drives me crazy when somebody says something like "Steinman's songs all sound the same..." unless by same you mean good. I mean really... Life is a Lemon, Bat out of Hell, Lost Boys and Golden Girls... they don't sound at all similar.
> Popdose covers TIWIMTBY in their 'Bottom Feeders' round-up
> of singles that failed to make it to the Billboard top
> 40:
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> 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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