12 Most Overlooked Meat Loaf Songs From Every Album

2. Hell In A Handbasket (2011) - Another Day

The standout track from Meat Loaf's last Steinman-free album (his second-to-last record, released only eighteen months after 2010's Hang Cool Teddy Bear) - is an oddly affecting power ballad, built around a hesitant, tremulous piano figure and accompanied by shimmering organ and echoing percussion.

Oddly affecting is an apt catch-all description of most of the songs on Hell In A Handbasket, al album which showcases Meat Loaf at his most vulnerable and least bombastic - and the big fella pulls it off, actually sounding really good letting the outsize characters and theatrics drop for a set. He would probably argue that he’s still playing a character… just a more understated one.

Regardless, here we've got him, an agonised third person omniscient narrator, describing the failing life of a middle-aged woman who, try as she might, sees the best part of her life in the rear view mirror. If Todd Rundgren was convinced that Bat Out Of Hell was a Springsteen parody - well, this is the real thing, Meat sliding into the Boss's shoes with unaccustomed grace and subtlety.