{"id":3164,"date":"2005-02-22T23:27:43","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T07:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/22\/jim-steinman\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T09:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T17:22:35","slug":"jim-steinman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/22\/jim-steinman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Steinman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8885,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Jim_Steinman&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260210163125\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Jim_Steinman&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 15:37:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 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brainless background work-safe music that I wasn&#8217;t really paying much attention to. One song came on that caught my ear, so I stopped to take a closer listen to it. I had no idea what it was or who was singing, but the more I listened to it, the more a certain suspicion grew.<\/p>\n<p>So I called up the radio station.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mix 103.1, what can I do for you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just need to know what the song you just played was &mdash; but before you tell me, I want you to check something out for me. By any chance was that song written or produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Steinman\" title=\"Wikipedia: Jim Steinman\">Jim Steinman<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What? I haven&#8217;t got a clue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Could you check?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um&hellip;sure, hold on.&#8221; The DJ must have thought that I was nuts. A moment later, he got back on the phone. &#8220;Actually, yeah, you&#8217;re right. Written and produced by Jim Steinman. How did you know that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I laughed. &#8220;It just sounded like him. He&#8217;s the guy who wrote and produced both of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meat_Loaf\" title=\"Wikipedia: Meat Loaf\">Meat Loaf<\/a>&#8216;s big albums, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0001XAS1M\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Meatloaf: 'Bat Out of Hell'\">Bat out of Hell<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000002OMN\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Meatloaf: 'Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell'\">Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell<\/a>. Whatever that song was, it <em>sounded<\/em> like a Meat Loaf song, only it was someone else singing, so I figured it was probably Steinman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks. So who was it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%e9line_Dion\" title=\"Wikipedia: Celine Dion\">Celine Dion<\/a>. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253FselectedItemId%253D892643%2526playListId%253D892634%2526originStoreFront%253D143441%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"iTMS: Celine Dion: All the Way...a Decade of Song: It's All Coming Back to Me Now\">It&#8217;s All Coming Back To Me Now<\/a><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh. Crap, I just liked a <em>Celine Dion<\/em> song?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Sigh.)<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. There&#8217;s one Celine Dion song that I do have to admit to liking. In my defense, though, it has nothing to do with Celine &mdash; it&#8217;s all about Jim Steinman. Overproduced, bombastic, and very often tongue-in-cheek rock and roll. I love it when Meatloaf&#8217;s singing it, and I even like it when Celine&#8217;s singing it.<\/p>\n<p>Just another addition to my many guilty pleasures.<\/p>\n<p>(This confession inspired by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/39787\" title=\"MeFi: I've Lost My Love Machete (In the Dense Jungle of Your Heart)\">MeFi pointer<\/a> to this list of <a href=\"http:\/\/ilx.p3r.net\/thread.php?msgid=5505295\" title=\"This Thread is Dedicated to Making Up Silly Jim Steinman Song Titles\">parody Steinman song titles<\/a>, which isn&#8217;t really as amusing as I&#8217;d hoped it would be.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FsongTerm=You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)' on the iTMS\">You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DMeat Loaf%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Meat Loaf on the iTMS\">Meat Loaf<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FalbumTerm=Bat Out of Hell%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Bat Out of Hell on the iTMS\">Bat Out of Hell<\/a><\/em> (1977, 5:05).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just need to know what the song you just played was &mdash; but before you tell me, I want you to check something out for me. 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