- Awesome Music: Dude managed to invent an entire genre of music named "Wagnerian Rock", which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: An offshoot of Progressive Rock that is centered around bombastic, melodramatic, operatic, and lengthy songs. There's a good reason why that Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, and Céline Dion have their thanks to him...
- Cliché Storm: Loved the themes common to pop songs from The '50s and The '60s, and put them in his own music completely unabashedly.
- Covered Up: Different versions of his own songs cover themselves up. Most of the songs on his solo albums Bad For Good and Original Sin (which was performed by Pandora's Box) have been recorded more memorably by artists like Meat Loaf or Céline Dion.
- Taylor Dayne covered "Original Sin" on the soundtrack from 1994's The Shadow.
- The Pandora's Box song "Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)", released in 1989, was also covered in Japanese by singer Shiina Megumi as Kanashimi wa Tsuzukanai
, the opening theme to the 1986 TV drama "このこ誰の子?" (Kono Ko Dare no Ko?).
- Narm: Recognized as one of the world's greatest exponents of musical Narm. As noted on that page, Steinman's work is the sort of thing that rushes headlong into narmland in the hopes of coming out awesome on the other side. He very often succeeded.
- Ham and Cheese: His melodramatic songwriting tended to be paired up with equally melodramatic performers, which led to a lot of his songs running on Narm Charm.
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