
So if there was no Bat, Meat would have been well enough to do Bad For Good, so that would have been his first album (excluding ML&S) in 1981.
What was Jim's second album called again?
BFG, although a lot of folks like it, is not a career creating album like Bat was.
Dead Ringer was released as an album of a established artist, and so did resonablly well. But i'm not convinced that Meat would have set the world ablaze with his version of BFG if it was his first offering.