40th Anniversary Remaster. Scroll down for description.
00:00 - 01. The Storm - Prologue (The New York Philharmonic Orchestra)
04:32 - 02. Bad For Good
13:17 - 03. Lost Boys And Golden Girls (Feat. Rory Dodd)
17:53 - 04. Love And Death And An American Guitar
20:32 - 05. Stark Raving Love
27:54 - 06. Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)
34:06 - 07. Surf's Up (feat. Rory Dodd)
39:31 - 08. Dance In My Pants (feat. Karla DeVito)
47:28 - 09. Left In The Dark
55:31 - 10. Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through - Epilogue (Feat. Rory Dodd)
Here's a treat for Jim's (and Meat Loaf's) fans: Jim Steinman's only album using his own name, now sounding a lot better! This is not a brickwall-compression "remaster", but an attempt at giving the album a decent EQ.
I've heard about 4 or 5 sources of this album and sometimes it's been missing the two EP tracks, sometimes it's had too bright and kinda distorted treble but they all shared the same characteristic: This album sounds flat. The best sounding source I could find was a 1992 CD reissue that I based this on, and used an EQ profile from the song that was the most balanced already (Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through) as well as some other tricks to make the entire album sound way better. I chose to let the album tracklist have the intended order. (At least I think it is supposed to be?)
Enjoy! Support Jim Steinman by buying his music whether it be this album, Pandora's Box, Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler and so on.
Album credits:
Words and music, lead vocals and assorted keyboards: Jim Steinman
Produced by Todd Rundgren and Jim Steinman
Arranged by Jim Steinman with Roy Bittan and Todd Rundgren
Mixed by and produced with John Jansen
EP Selections:
"The Storm"
Performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Steven Margoshes
Produced by Andrew Kazdin
"Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through"
Produced by Jimmy Iovine and Jim Steinman
Engineered by Shelley Yakus and John Jansen
The musicians:
Guitars: Todd Rundgren
Piano: Roy Bittan*
Drums: Max Weinberg*
Drums: Joe Stefko
Bass: Kasim Sultan
Bass: Steve Buslowe
Featured vocals: Rory Dodd and Karla DeVito
Background vocals: Rory Dodd, Todd Rundgren, Kasim Sultan, Eric Troyer, Ellen Foley
Synthesizers: Roger Powell
Additional guitars: Davey Johnstone
Percussion: Jimmy Maelen
Additional musicians: Larry Fast, Neal Jason, Alan Schwartzberg, Steven Margoshes
*Appear courtesy of the E Street Band
