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rockfenris2005 10:20 am UTC 04/03/13 |
| In reply to: | Midnight At The Lost And Found - steven_stuart 01:54 am UTC 04/03/13 |
> > Yep, he blamed Tom Dowd for this one lol. > > Hee hee. Although, I love the title for that album. It's a great title. I also don't mind the song. > > More from Wikipedia: > > Following a dispute with his former songwriter Jim > Steinman, Meat Loaf was contractually obliged to release a > new album. According to Meat Loaf, Steinman gave him > "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Making Love (Out of > Nothing at All)" for the album, but Meat's record company > refused to pay for Steinman. The songs Steinman had given > to Meat Loaf were then given to Bonnie Tyler and Air > Supply respectively, which both became hits in their > respective countries and worldwide.[2] Struggling for time > and with no resolution to his arguments with Steinman > seemingly on the horizon (eventually, Steinman and Meat > Loaf would sue one another), he was forced to find > songwriters wherever he could, including writing the songs > himself. > > Meat Loaf is credited with being involved in the writing > of numerous tracks on the album, including the title > track. However, as Meat would later admit, he was not much > of a songwriter and did not like the songs he had written > for the album. It was also regarded by fans and critics > alike as a poor effort whether compared to previous > releases or on its own merit. Those same fans and critics > were disappointed to see that the iconic pictures on the > covers of Bat out of Hell and Dead Ringer were replaced by > a black-and-white photograph of Meat Loaf. (On some later > re-releases, a color image of a screaming Meat Loaf was > used as the cover image.) > Yes, the cover was just a black and white picture in stark contrast to the fantasy art from the two previous albums. Somehow that works for me. It's like symbolic because Jim wasn't involved with the album and Meat wasn't happy with it? I remember when Meat was down here in 2003 and he was on TV doing an interview and the interviewer went into someone's house, a big Meat Loaf over here who used to post on the Meat Loaf forum also (not sure if he still does?), and they were looking at some framed albums on the wall, and they were "Bat out of Hell" and "Midnight", and Meat saw "Bat" and said, "Love that album", and then he saw "Midnight" and well his reaction was a bit different.. | |
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