Top 10 Jim Steinman songs of all time: medal positions!
Friday, 23 Feb 2024, 15:39
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Edited by Gabriel Spreckelsen Brown, Friday, 23 Feb 2024, 15:42
2. Paradise by the Dashboard Light (Meat Loaf, 1977)
This song is almost a musical in its own right, falling into four separate narrative ‘scenes’ which build to a crescendic climax which the characters never quite get in their night together. The exuberantly pouncy music and ebullient couplets in the first section evokes youthful naïvety, before moving into the bizarrest way of portraying a love tryst: racing commentary. However, it's when Ellen Foley's character (apparently recorded in one take) becomes standoffish in the third section when the song turns farcically hilarious and a joy to behold. The fourth section is a cumulation of what's gone before and if you haven't started dancing and screaming along by that point then I can't help you.
Most Steinamnesque line: 'Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife'
Top 10 Jim Steinman songs of all time: medal positions!
2. Paradise by the Dashboard Light (Meat Loaf, 1977)
This song is almost a musical in its own right, falling into four separate narrative ‘scenes’ which build to a crescendic climax which the characters never quite get in their night together. The exuberantly pouncy music and ebullient couplets in the first section evokes youthful naïvety, before moving into the bizarrest way of portraying a love tryst: racing commentary. However, it's when Ellen Foley's character (apparently recorded in one take) becomes standoffish in the third section when the song turns farcically hilarious and a joy to behold. The fourth section is a cumulation of what's gone before and if you haven't started dancing and screaming along by that point then I can't help you.
Most Steinamnesque line: 'Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife'