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Originally Posted by loaferman61
I remember this very well. VH-1 (and maybe MTV) had been promising a "world premiere" at a certain date and time. Probably due to the success of IDAFL. I thought something was missing when I saw the debut. I have it somewhere in a huge closet filled with old VHS tapes without the CGI. Around 2 days later I caught it again with the CGI and then the channel pretty much just dropped it when it didn't take off like IDAFL did. I remember they were selling the CD single (remember those, I do yet yesterday is rather fuzzy). My local office supply store even had a huge stack of them for like .50 cents each.
I think the expectation of the networks was set too high and they gave up on it too soon. IDAFL is a high bar to set and I think they wanted that again.
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I can see why they stopped investing the mega bucks in the videos after that indeed.
I was a member of the "International Meat Loaf Fan Club" at the time. I paid something like £30 per year for a magazine that never was made (always almost ready to print apparently) but I did get a few updates sent to me in letter form in 1994 and 1995. It promised the next album after Bat 2 would indeed feature "sessions with Jim Steinman". Never heard from the club after WTTN was launched. Pretty ridiculous. If it wasn't for my dad spotting the Meat Loaf show in Rotterdam advertised in a newspaper I'd never seen Meat live at the time probably. The club was useless.
When ILFY dropped I initially did think it was Steinman-esque but didn't sound complex enough to really be him or that it was perhaps penned quickly or something. It wasn't until I got my hands on the album I saw what was going on.
The price tag on my (in a Dutch cd shop) bought cd of WTTN read "Escape From Hell". Too bad I removed it as it may actually have made the CD more rare to own now.
Those were interesting times though without the internet for sure.