Very best of Meat Loaf

[White of High]

I couldn't create a list since The Very Best Of, I find good only a few songs from the last 17 years.

- Couldn't Have Said It Better
- Did I Say That
- Blind As A Bat
- Land Of The Pigs
- Alive
- Song Of Madness
- California Isn't Big Enough For Me

I couldn't choice any song from HIAHB...

[AndrewG]

Originally Posted by White of High

I couldn't create a list since The Very Best Of, I find good only a few songs from the last 17 years.

- Couldn't Have Said It Better
- Did I Say That
- Blind As A Bat
- Land Of The Pigs
- Alive
- Song Of Madness
- California Isn't Big Enough For Me

I couldn't choice any song from HIAHB...

For me there's at least 25 songs over the last 17 years that are better than California isn't big enough excluding the others you mentioned.

[White of High]

Ok, California is not a FCOL, but I don't find it worse than Dead Ringer. It has a vibe. Not complicated at all, but enjoyable. Meat's voice is good, the arrangement also.

[ashkent7]

Originally Posted by AndrewG

For me there's at least 25 songs over the last 17 years that are better than California isn't big enough excluding the others you mentioned.

California Isn't Big Enough was like someone turned around and said "Jim Steinman does dick jokes, we need to give the album a dick joke." Only in a very crude obvious way as opposed to Jim's clever and subtle or funny ones. (Can't you see my faded Levi's bursting apart/You've got the spark I've got wood/erection of the heart to name a few).

"I can barely fit my dick in my pants" is, ironically, not big or clever.

[AndrewG]

It would have to be something very special I think if there is a new Very Best of...



Disc 1)

1 Bat out of Hell
2 Two out of three ain't bad
3 Paradise by the dashboard light
4 For Crying Out Loud
5 I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us
6 More Than You Deserve
7 I'll Kill You If You Don't Come Back
8 Dead Ringer For Love
9 Midnight at the Lost and Found
10 Keep Driving
11 Bad Attitude

Disc 2)
1 Modern Girl
2 Surf's Up
3 Execution Day
4 Blind Before I Stop
5 Rock 'n' Roll Hero
6 I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
7 Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through
8 Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire)
9 Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are
10 Where the Rubber Meets the Road
11 I'd Lie for You (and That's the Truth)

Disc 3)
1 Left in the Dark
2 Amnesty Is Granted
3 Home By Now (new single song version with band / piano intro)
4 Is Nothing Sacred?
5 Couldn't Have Said It Better
6 Did I Say That?
7 Testify
8 The Monster Is Loose
9 Blind as a Bat
10 It's All Coming Back to Me Now
11 What About Love?
12 Peace on Earth
13 Los Angeloser

Disc 4)
1 Song of Madness
2 Prize Fight Lover (HCTB version)
3 All Of Me
4 The Giving Tree
5 Going All The Way Is Just The Start
6 Loving You's A Dirty Job (but somebody's gotta do it)
7 Souvenirs
8 More
9 Graveyard Shift
10 Paradise Lost
11 What Part of My Body Hurts The Most?

Disc 5)
1 Couldn't Have Said it Better (MSO Live)
2 Two Out of Three Ain't Bad (MSO Live)
3 For Crying out Loud (MSO Live)
4 Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire) (MSO Live)
5 Anything For Love (MSO Live)
6 Bat out of Hell (MSO Live)
7 Souvenirs (Live @ Wembley Arena February 2017)
8 More (Live @ Wembley Arena February 2017)
9 Going All The Way is Just the Start (Live @ Wembley Arena February 2017)

5 CD / 8 Vinyl Set

[rockfenris2005]

I would like to see a Jim Steinman release, with something like this.


1. Happy ending - Yvonne Elliman: Food of love (1973)
2. Bat out of Hell - Bat out of Hell (1977)
3. You took the words right out of my mouth (Hot summer night) - Bat out of Hell (1973)
4. Two out of three ain't bad - Bat out of Hell (1977)
5. Paradise by the dashboard light - Bat out of Hell (1977)
6. Rock and roll dreams come through - Bad for good (1981)
7. Dead ringer for love - Dead ringer (1981)
8. Making love out of nothing at all - Air Supply: Greatest Hits (1983)
9. Total eclipse of the heart - Bonnie Tyler: Faster than the speed of night (1983)
10. Holding out for a hero - Footloose (1984)
11. Nowhere fast - Streets of fire (1984)
12. Tonight is what it means to be young - Streets of fire (1984)
13. Loving you's a dirty job (But somebody's gotta do it) - Bonnie Tyler: Secret dreams and forbidden fire (1986)
14. Good girls go to Heaven (Bad girls go everywhere) - Pandora's Box: Original sin (1989)
15. It's all coming back to me now - Pandora's Box: Original Sin (1989)
16. I'd do anything for love (But I won't do that) - Bat out of Hell 2 Back into Hell (1993)
17. Rock and roll dreams come through - Bat out of Hell 2 Back into Hell (1993)
18. Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are - Bat out of Hell 2 Back into Hell (1993)
19. Original sin - The Shadow (1994)
20. Making love out of nothing at all - Bonnie Tyler: Free Spirit (1995)
21. It's all coming back to me now - Celine Dion: Falling into you (1996)
22. No matter what - Songs from Whistle down the wind (199
23. Is nothing sacred - The Very Best of Meat Loaf (or duet version) (199
24. Going all the way is just the start - Braver than we are (2016)
25. Who needs the young? - Braver than we are (2016)
26. What part of my body hurts the most? - NEW
27. We're still the children we once were - NEW

[ThatWriterGuy]

Originally Posted by rockfenris2005

I would like to see a Jim Steinman release, with something like this.


1. Happy ending - Yvonne Elliman: Food of love (1973)
2. Bat out of Hell - Bat out of Hell (1977)
3. You took the words right out of my mouth (Hot summer night) - Bat out of Hell (1973)
4. Two out of three ain't bad - Bat out of Hell (1977)
5. Paradise by the dashboard light - Bat out of Hell (1977)
6. Rock and roll dreams come through - Bad for good (1981)
7. Dead ringer for love - Dead ringer (1981)
8. Making love out of nothing at all - Air Supply: Greatest Hits (1983)
9. Total eclipse of the heart - Bonnie Tyler: Faster than the speed of night (1983)
10. Holding out for a hero - Footloose (1984)
11. Nowhere fast - Streets of fire (1984)
12. Tonight is what it means to be young - Streets of fire (1984)
13. Loving you's a dirty job (But somebody's gotta do it) - Bonnie Tyler: Secret dreams and forbidden fire (1986)
14. Good girls go to Heaven (Bad girls go everywhere) - Pandora's Box: Original sin (1989)
15. It's all coming back to me now - Pandora's Box: Original Sin (1989)
16. I'd do anything for love (But I won't do that) - Bat out of Hell 2 Back into Hell (1993)
17. Rock and roll dreams come through - Bat out of Hell 2 Back into Hell (1993)
18. Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are - Bat out of Hell 2 Back into Hell (1993)
19. Original sin - The Shadow (1994)
20. Making love out of nothing at all - Bonnie Tyler: Free Spirit (1995)
21. It's all coming back to me now - Celine Dion: Falling into you (1996)
22. No matter what - Songs from Whistle down the wind (199
23. Is nothing sacred - The Very Best of Meat Loaf (or duet version) (199
24. Going all the way is just the start - Braver than we are (2016)
25. Who needs the young? - Braver than we are (2016)
26. What part of my body hurts the most? - NEW
27. We're still the children we once were - NEW

I'd hang fire on this idea for a little while, as you'll have a LOT of new recordings to work from in the very near future (including but NOT limited to the BAT Cast albums).

[rockfenris2005]

Yeah, but I want the originals, except for the last two obviously.

[Paul Richardson]

I would go for a single cd if only to include only the very best and to make the choice much more challenging ...

How about :

Bat Out Of Hell
Took The Words
Two Out Of Three
Paradise
For Crying Out Loud
Dead Ringer
Anything For Love
Rock & Roll Dreams
Objects
No Matter What

Nothing since comes close ... but may be that will change with BTWA !

[Frying Bat]

Originally Posted by Wario

nothing at all was wrong with the selection on the very best of CD.

If anything they forgot Rock n Roll Mercenaries cause it was a hit.

You are right it is a pretty decent selection of songs. (although the `98 version has a better track order)
Rock and roll mercenaries would be a good replacement for Nocturnal Pleasure, never understood why they put it on there.

The only let down i have with the album, is that each disk is less then 60 minutes, while at that time the minimum for CD recording was 75? (not sure 80min). So they could easily put more tracks on it. Below is my improved version

CD 1

1. Home by now
2. Life is a lemon
3. Piece of the action
4. You took the words
5. Two out of three
6. Modern girl
7 Rock and roll dreams
8. I'm gonna love her
9. Is nothing sacred
10. A Time for heroes
11. Paradise
12. Heaven can wait

CD 2

1. I do anything for love
2. A kiss is a...
3. If you really
4. I'd lied for you
5. not a dry eye
6. Rock and roll mercenaries
7. Deadringer for love
8. Midnight at the lost
9. Read'm and weep
10 Objects
11. Bat out of hell

[madagascar]

Any 'best of' without FCOL is not a 'best of' at all.

[Frying Bat]

Originally Posted by madagascar

Any 'best of' without FCOL is not a 'best of' at all.

I think you take (well most people in general) take the term "Best of" a little to strict.

What i believe it means is " an overview of an artist songs, that where in the charts, during a period of time"

8 of the 9 Best of's are (hit) singles overviews ( talking about artists in general).

No matter how much i adore For crying out loud, i don't think its suitable for a compilation like the VBO.