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Chris
18 Apr 2006, 22:19
I've gradually started trying to sort out my Meat collection and have found a VHS tape labelled as:
MEAT LOAF
HITS OUT OF HELL

SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, INC
IN-STORE PROMOTIONAL USE

Has anyone ever heard of this before? or know how it differs from the regular Hits out of hell?
I have neither hits out of hell to check it against nor a VHS player!
RadioMaster
18 Apr 2006, 23:35
i canīt understand your problem. Where should be a difference to what?
Ross
18 Apr 2006, 23:42
i canīt understand your problem. Where should be a difference to what?

Chris is wondering whether the VHS Hits out of Hell is the same as the regular album!
RadioMaster
18 Apr 2006, 23:47
There is an album HOOH?
I only know the VHS/DVD version.
Ross
18 Apr 2006, 23:58
Ok courtesy of Amazon:

CD Track Listings
1. Bat Out Of Hell
2. Read 'Em And Weep
3. Midnight At The Lost And Found
4. Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
5. Dead Ringer For Love
6. Modern Girl
7. I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us
8. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth
9. Razor's Edge
10. Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Video Description
Includes the following:
1. Programme Start
2. Bat Out Of Hell
3. Read 'em And Weep
4. Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
5. Razor's Edge
6. More Than You Deserve
7. I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us
8. If You Really Want To
9. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
10. Paradise By The Dashboard Light:
i. Paradise
ii. Let Me Sleep On It
iii. Praying For The End Of Time
Thank You(s) and Closing Credits

Amazon.co.uk Review
Though Hits out of Hell shares the title of Meat Loaf's 1984 greatest hits album, the tracklisting is not quite the same: curiously, the DVD omits "Dead Ringer for Love", "Midnight at the Lost and Found" and "All Revved Up with No Place to Go", but includes, perhaps by way of compensation, "More Than You Deserve" and "If You Really Want To". Such considerations are, of course, of only superficial importance: once producer and songwriter Jim Steinman had patented the Meat Loaf template on 1977's 30-million-selling Bat Out of Hell--an engagingly preposterous synthesis of Springsteen's Born to Run, Spector's Be My Baby, Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries", Led Zeppelin IV and the Broadway musical--he didn't tinker much with the formula. The video clips that accompany the songs tend either to be workmanlike "live" performances or complicated mini-operas--the latter have not dated tremendously well.
Chris
19 Apr 2006, 09:28
Close!

I own an in-store promotional copy of the VHS (the sort of thing they loop on the video walls in record stores) and am wondering what the difference between this and the VHS that you can go out and buy is.
Ross
19 Apr 2006, 10:57
Close!

I own an in-store promotional copy of the VHS (the sort of thing they loop on the video walls in record stores) and am wondering what the difference between this and the VHS that you can go out and buy is.

LOL just to be a wee bit different, eh Chris?! :cool:
Diane
19 Apr 2006, 14:31
Chris, is there a track listing on the box or tape?

Diane
Chris
19 Apr 2006, 15:06
The box is just a plain black cardboard sleeve.

The only label on the tape says

MEAT LOAF
HITS OUT OF HELL
19V-49079
VHS NTSC COLR TRT: 58 MINUTES
COURTESY SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
PROMOTIONAL IN STORE PLAY ONLY
Came from a chap doing a refit at a london record store. They found a box full of promotional material. This was the only Meat item.
Diane
19 Apr 2006, 17:07
The box is just a plain black cardboard sleeve.

The only label on the tape says

MEAT LOAF
HITS OUT OF HELL
19V-49079
VHS NTSC COLR TRT: 58 MINUTES
COURTESY SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
PROMOTIONAL IN STORE PLAY ONLY

Came from a chap doing a refit at a london record store. They found a box full of promotional material. This was the only Meat item.

The fact that it's in NTSC suggests that this is the American release which has a running time of 58 minutes. The catalogue number 19V-49079 also ties in with this theory.

Later UK versions, post 2000, had the same catalogue number and running time but they are in PAL.

Diane
Diane
19 Apr 2006, 17:12
Shamelessly off topic but ............... Michelle???? :? Is this your Rocky Horror alter ego Chris? Think it's about time we saw some :pics:

Diane
Chris
19 Apr 2006, 17:13
Cheers Diane.
Hypnobabe
19 Apr 2006, 17:15
Yay!! :pics: :pics: :pics:
Chris
19 Apr 2006, 17:17
If you play deep enough in the archives, there are pictures of me in make upa dn nail varnish.

The ones of me in full Rocky Horror getup are in the private collection of one of our female members. Someone who knows full well the consequences of them becoming public!
GOD
19 Apr 2006, 22:21
But Chrissy, you forgot to mention how easily I can be swayed by anyone clutching Toblerones, Creme Eggs and Vodka.