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Originally Posted by Radiomaster
May I comment some things, although it might be a litte late.
Does anybody know why there are two different versions from the very best of out? Mine has the following tracklist:
Disc 1
1. Bat out of Hell
2. Dead Ringer for Love
3. Two out of three aint bad
4. Rock n Roll Dreams come through
5. I´d lie for you (and that´s the truth)
6. Modern Girl
7. Midnight at the Lost and Found
8. Objects in the Rear View Mirror may appear closer than they are
9. Life is a Lemon (and I want my Money back)(Remix)
Disc 2
1. I´d do anything for Love
2. You took the words right out of my mouth
3. Heaven can wait
4. Not a dry eye in the house
5. Paradise by the Dashboard Light
6. A Kiss is a terrible thing to waste
7. Is nothing sacred
8. Home by now/No matter what
9. Nocturnal Pleasure
Did anybody notice that the HCW version is not the original BOOH version? The instrumentation is a little bit different and there is something like a storm effect at the very beginning.
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We discussed this not all that long ago. First released in 98 with the original tracklist, they rejigged it in 2001 or some such with the track order you have, for the sake of calling it a re-release I guess. God knows why they did it.
More to the point tho: It's very interesting that your version has crap at the beginning of HCW. INTERESTING, because this means that whoever put the re-release VBO together IS truly imcompetent.
On the 98 VBO with the original track listing there is an ominous wind tunnel noise that begins over the fade out of Paradise by the dash and continues over to just over the beginning of HCW. Links the songs together a little bit. It's kinda cool.
But whoever put together the crap version a few years later when they felt the need to rearrange the tracks, instead of getting the original master from which they worked the first time they simply cut and pasted what they had.
And alot of the songs on the album have been remixed slightly. The booklet says by Jim and Meat. The solo in Modern Girl has been played with and sounds way thinner and tinnier than on Bad Attitude and last bars with the fading echo of the backing singers ("modern girl") are slightly different.
The second half of the first section of Paradise by the Dash ("gonna go all the way tonight") has been played with too and swings harshly from left to right. It's really distracting. (I'm willing to beleive that was Jim's going - he did the same thing with the solos in Good Girls on Bat 2, and IDAFL as well. Sounds terrible thru headphones).
Does your VBO come in a cardboard O-ring around the jewel case? I very enarly bought the 2001 re-release version of VBO the other day cause it came in a cool cardboard sleeve with a white sticker on the front with the words on it instead of "Meat Loaf" being printed straight onto the artwork... looked pretty cool.