Midnight At The Lost And Found

(EPIC 1983)

Created during a rift between Meat and Steinman, Midnight features a crack studio band that included Rick Derringer and Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington. Fun fact: two of the songs Steinman originally slated for the album and sold to other performers became massive hits: both Air Supply’s Making Love (Out of Nothing At All) and

Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse Of

The Heart would have been on Midnight had the fellas not been feuding. Still, even without those coulda-beens, Midnight retains the ‘classic’ Meat Loaf sound, and even though he (and most people, really) hate it, it has its deep-cut 70s FM radio charms.