Bad For Good
by Jim Steinman
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/29/2025 16:38 | tim0505 | 4,417 | 82/100 |
| ! | 05/02/2025 00:35 | culwin | 1,570 | 75/100 |
| ! | 02/02/2025 15:58 | mostlymor | 6,993 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/11/2023 15:16 |  MetalMan67 | 6,211 | 71/100 |
| ! | 03/18/2023 09:39 |  Igtonumama | 10,784 | 63/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 65.8/100, a mean average of 63.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 63.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.4.
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Some great songs, but some mid ones as well. As others have said, yes these are hampered by Steinman's singing, but Meat Loaf himself would cover 6 of these tracks on his own albums up to Bat Out Of Hell II, and not all of them are great there either. Out Of The Frying Pan is without a doubt the best thing here, with Rock & Roll Dreams a close second - both a little better on BOOH2 but then they had a lot of time in between. Love & Death And An American Guitar is almost as good as Meat's version, and truly epic. Surf's Up and Lost Boys And Golden Girls are kind of mediocre no matter who sings them. The Storm is a very long instrumental which is fine, I guess. Overall still a good album, but some singing lessons and editing could have elevated this to perhaps a great album. (Edited)
Fischman 01/12/2017 00:06 | #182318
Awesome songs hampered by Steinman's mediocre vocals. These would have been so great had they been sung by any of the other great vocalists Steinman wrote for through the years. (Edited)
It's safe to say Bat Out of Hell 2 came out of this.
ProfessorSquid 03/22/2013 15:13 | #69514
Surely the original cover of this reord didn't have a "The Nice Price" sticker on it.
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