> > What you also have to consider is the different record
> > labels. The record label that released "Original sin",
> > "Bat out of Hell II" and "Welcome to the Neighbourhood"
> > have put out remastered and/or repackaged releases of
> > these albums, but the record label which controls "Bat out
> > of Hell", "Bad for good" etc. - Sony - have so far given
> > us only special releases of "Bat" and "The Very Best of
> > Meat Loaf". So if the other label had released "Bat" and
> > "Dead ringer", well, sigh...
>
> That's a very interesting point. I am guessing that all
> the different record companies involved with various Jim
> recordings is what makes a Jim Steinman's Greatest Hits
> album impossible. I would love to see an album that really
> is the very best of Jim, including artists like Celine
> Dion, Air Supply, Barry Manilow and Barbra Streisand. At
> least the joint Meat Loaf/Bonnie Tyler Greatest Hits
> package managed to get TEOTH and BOOH on the same album.
But the problem with that is that they're edits.
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