The live version that Wario linked above is incredible. If it was like that on the recording, it would hands down be one of the best songs in Meat's catalogue.
But it's not. People complain about Bat out of Hell III mutilating all the Steinman songs, but what was done to Left in the Dark is worse than anything on Bat 3. It's not bad, but it's just a gigantic missed opportunity. It could have been so much better. It needs the emotion that's in that live recording, because on Welcome to the Neighborhood, it sounds metallic and lifeless. It doesn't sound like the musicians are feeling the song, they're just playing the notes. It's just...forced. I mean, what the hell happened to the solo? They took an awesome piano solo with an
entire orchestra backing it and replaced it with a repetitive five or six note phrase O.O That, and the lack of Jim's monologue made this very disappointing for me
Each to their own, I guess.
The live recording easily gets a 10 from me.
The studio version gets a 5.