My memory of "Blind before I stop": Coming across Meat Loaf's albums when I was a kid was a bit like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. First, probably not surprisingly
, was Bat and Bat 2. Then I noticed Dead ringer (which was after Hits out of Hell where I'd noticed all these songs I hadn't heard before.) Then I saw a magazine advertising a double pack with Bad attitude and Blind before I stop. Saw it in the shop once. We didn't get it. But the same day we saw Blind by itself and picked *that* up. I must have been about 10 or 11? Which probably has something to do with why I like the album more than others have. And I've never seen another copy in any store since. I got my vinyl copy on eBay a couple years ago and then the American vinyl too. Then a couple of the singles.
Also: we imported Bad attitude when I was about 12 and they said 10 weeks, which ended up becoming about 14 weeks, during which the whole store had closed down and opened up under a different name. Remember being surprised when I finally got it that it sounded different to other versions of the songs that I'd heard, because it was the US version that we'd ordered.