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Originally Posted by Steve6
The only thing that ruined "BAD FOR GOOD" was the sound quality.
It seemed like a rushed production.
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I actually think the quality is WAyyyy ahead of its time! With some awesome arrangements and a very good recording all round. Remember it's 1981 we're talking about. I certainly think the sound quality of the drums, orchestra, guitar and piano is much more balanced, better mixed and more clear than "Dead Ringer" and even "Bat out of Hell" for that matter. Also the cover is quite something I think.
I also think you can easily "hear"/understand they had a lot more money to spend on this album than they did on "Bat out of Hell". I think if they had managed to record "Bad for Good" with Meat's voice over the songs it would have been quite successful. Probably a mix of this album and the better songs from Dead Ringer is what fans would have died for at that time.
The only negative thing I can say about "Bad for Good" is on the order of the songs, I don't think "Lost Boys" should have followed "Bad for Good" and should have appeared later on on the album (much like Bat 2). I would have preferred this order (using all 10 songs, which is maybe not fair as it was an LP at the time I suppose):
1 Bad for Good
2 Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through
3 Surf's Up
4 American Guitar
5 Stark Raving Love
6 Out of the Frying Pan
7 Dance in My Pants
8 Lost Boys and Golden Girls
9 The Storm (probably a different arrangement Including some softer bits with themes from other songs on the album) Ideally a bit like Prayd Lewd but of course It's All coming back wasn't written at this time.)
10 Left in the Dark (without that darn spoken intro but with an angels singing like intro, very much like the excellent Swedish cover "Lämnad I Mörkret" by Cecilia Vennersten)