Of course, the writer completely glosses over the fact that BfG charted a top 40 single in "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through." Not bad for an album that he dubs a "disaster."
-- Judi
> Mr. Loaf (as the New York Times called him) blew out his
> voice on tour and couldn't record a follow-up for years.
> Frustrated by Meat's debilitation and envious that he
> wasn't yet a star in his own right, Steinman took the
> songs planned for the next Meat Loaf record, yelled them
> himself, and talked the folks at Epic into releasing it.
> The resulting album, Bad for Good, was such an
> over-the-top disaster that neither Steinman's nor, by
> association, Meat Loaf's career ever recovered. By 1983,
> both Tyler and Steinman were at the end of their
> respective ropes.
>
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