Welcome to the Neighbourhood was the very first Meat Loaf album I ever heard, and this was 1995. I can remember it very well watching "The top 30 hits" on RTÉ, (fellow Irish fans like Nikox know what show I'm talking about I hope) and I remember watching the video for "I'd Lie for you (and that's the truth) and I didn't like it that much, because to be honest I was young, and didn't know anything about Meat Loaf until then. Having said that my brother liked Meat Loaf and he turned to my father in the kitchen after watching that video on the "The Top 30 hits" and said he wanted that album for Christmas, so my father who is also a Meat Loaf fan said no problem. So when Santa Claus landed on my rooftop on the Christmas of 1995, he brought my brother the album "Welcome to the Neighbourhood" and left it under the Christmas tree once he got down the chimney. Now I can't remember how it all unfolded, I can vividly recall being a brat always, and always doing the opposite of what I'm told, so I took my brothers tape and went into the sitting room, I remember putting the tape into the player which from memory was a JVC make I can't be sure. I clicked play, and I remember hearing someone saying.."45 seconds of ectasy" in a womans voice, and thinking to myself what the hell is this all about? so I played away with the settings, and I remember I landed on the song "Not a dry eye in the house" and can remember thinking to myself my god this stuff is actually quiet good. Now I was 7 years of age at the time, and the world was still a very new place to me, and I was only slowly getting into music. I will be honest I never became a big fan until 2003 when I was 15, but WTTN and in practicular the song "Not A Dry Eye in the house", was how I got to like Meat Loaf, and is actually my first memory of him. I was too young to remember Bat 2. Even though I can recall my first day in primary school very well in September 1992.
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