Someone must love this song as it was already out by Patti Austin and Randy Crawford before Meat Loaf covered it in 1986.

Song is nothing special but I love Frank Farian's polished production with the synths and that chunky guitar throughout. Farian as a producer in general is underated I feel, as he is often glossy and hi tech but never MOR or too cheesy like say Stock, Aiken and Waterman or even David Foster. His productions were often very well mixed and well recorded aswell, even if "getting away with murder" would hardly win him any awards from music critics.

The "Blind before I stop" album in general, whilst alot poppier then his usual stuff, was not as synthy as "Getting away....", though tracks like "rock n roll mercearies" "burn it down" and the camp Rick Derringer penned "Masculine" (sounding like something off the WWF albums he was involved with at the time LOL) , are very mid 80's and are good fun as they are not typical OTT rock ballads like Meat was and still is famous for.

Interesting. I love synth-pop.

I wouldn't really call that "synthpop". It's just 80s pop / rock with some additional synth parts that, admittedly, are given a very dominant role in the mix. Even Alice Cooper was doing something similar at the time, so it wasn't that rare a phenomenon. The first record I thought of when I heard this song was Todd Rundgren's "The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect", so it might not have been that odd for Meatloaf to go into the direction as well.

Thanks for posting. It was interesting nevertheless.

novabrkr said:

I wouldn't really call that "synthpop". It's just 80s pop / rock with some additional synth parts that, admittedly, are given a very dominant role in the mix. Even Alice Cooper was doing something similar at the time, so it wasn't that rare a phenomenon. The first record I thought of when I heard this song was Todd Rundgren's "The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect", so it might not have been that odd for Meatloaf to go into the direction as well.

Thanks for posting. It was interesting nevertheless.

Well yes your right LOL. I had to put "synth pop" as this song (and some of the album it comes off), is not typical meat loaf and I couldn't think of anything else