Hang Cool Teddy Bear

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Hang Cool Teddy Bear
Studio album by Meat Loaf

Publication
(s)

April 23, 2010

Label (s) Mercury Records

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

13

occupation
  • Randy Flowers: guitar, vocals
  • CC Coletti: vocals
  • Rick Brantley: guitar, vocals

production

Rob Cavallo

chronology
Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
(2006) 		Hang Cool Teddy Bear Hell in a Handbasket
(2011)
Rock singer Meat Loaf (photo) became widely known through Bat Out of Hell in 1977 .

Hang Cool Teddy Bear is the eleventh studio album by US rock musician Meat Loaf . The album was released in Great Britain on April 19, 2010, in Germany on April 23 and in the USA on May 11. The album landed at number 4 on the UK charts.

Emergence

On the album are Brian May , Steve Vai , Justin Hawkins , Jack Black and actor Hugh Laurie as guest musicians there. It was produced by Rob Cavallo, who has also worked with Green Day , My Chemical Romance , Paramore and Fleetwood Mac .

Killian Kerwin , who normally works for Hollywood as a screenwriter , wrote the story on which all of the album's lyrics are based.

Lyrics

Each song presents "a different scenario of its [Meat Loafs] future".

The text is about a soldier in war. Each song is about a different vision of the dying soldier, but instead of looking back at his life, there are prospects for a future that could have happened as well. According to Meat Loaf, it is an "indefinite soldier" in an "indefinite war" whose friend is killed on the battlefield. The descriptions are kept "very graphical".

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
colspan = '6' style = 'font-size: 95%; font-weight: bold;'   DE 4th 07/05/2010 (7 weeks)
  AT 11 07/05/2010 (4 weeks)
  CH 4th 05/02/2010 (7 weeks)
  UK 4th 05/01/2010 (7 weeks)
  US 27 05/29/2010 (3 weeks)
  1. "Peace on Earth" - 6:38
  2. "Living on the Outside" - 5:03
  3. “Los Angeloser” - 4:09
  4. "If I Can't Have You" - 5:00
  5. "Love Is Not Real" - 7:33
  6. "Like a Rose" - 3:16
  7. "Song of Madness" - 5:31
  8. "Did You Ever Love Somebody" - 4:01
  9. "California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl)" - 4:43
  10. "Running Away from Me" - 3:54
  11. "Let's Be in Love" - ​​5:11
  12. "If It Rains" - 3:56
  13. "Elvis in Vegas" - 6:01

Los Angeloser was also released as a single. There is a music video for the song.

Guest appearances

Patti Russo (photo) takes on the female part of the duet in Let's Be in Love .

reception

Critics and fans alike received the album differently. While the many guest appearances in particular were criticized, others particularly praised the “powerful singing”.

The Independent criticizes the album for excessive “borrowing” from other bands (e.g. Bruce Springsteen , Beastie Boys ), while Lee Davis finds it “redefines the word 'awful'”. Allmusic thinks Meat Loaf somehow needs the guest musicians to spice up the album and is of the opinion:

Not that dignity was ever that important to Meat Loaf, but the shallow spectacle of Hang Cool Teddy Bear lacks the absurd joy of his best: you can hear everybody involved working far too hard to achieve next to nothing.

“Not that Dignity Meat Loaf ever meant anything, but the superficial drama of Hang Cool Teddy Bear lacks the absurd joy of his best [albums]; you can hear how everyone tries too hard just to achieve next to nothing. "

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Review at Allmusic

Aaron Mayagoitia, who starts his review with the question “Should you be interested in a Meat Loaf album without songs by Jim Steinman ?” Concludes that it is a “solid album” and gives it 9 out of 10 points .

Musically, the album is "the heaviest recording Meat has ever made", but according to sputnikmusic.com that is exactly what will be her undoing:

“Unfortunately for meat, the nature of the music works to sabotage him, turning his powerful voice into another instrument fighting to be heard through the wall of noise. He was an overpowering presence on the two Bat albums that dominated the charts, while here he sounds like another actor in an ensemble cast. "

“Unfortunately, this kind of music sabotages Meat, it turns his powerful voice into another instrument that struggles against a wall of noise. On the two Bat albums he was an overpowering figure who dominated the charts, while here he is just like another actor in the cast. "

- sputnikmusic.com

Meat Loaf himself is of the opinion that Hang Cool Teddy Bear is the best album of his career.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Album: Meat Loaf, Hang Cool Teddy Bear (Mercury) . Andy Gill in The Independent (Retrieved June 19, 2010)
  2. ↑ a b Lee Davis: Meat Loaf: Hang Cool Teddy Bear  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 19, 2010)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.inthenews.co.uk  
  3. ↑ a b Dr Rock: Hang Cool Teddy Bear: A Meat Loaf Interview (Retrieved June 20, 2010)
  4. ↑ The Guardian : Meat Loaf: Hang Cool, Teddy Bear (accessed June 17, 2010)
  5. ↑ a b Anthony Lund: Meat Loaf - Hang Cool Teddy Bear Album Review (Retrieved June 20, 2010)
  6. ↑ npr.org : Meat Loaf Starts Over With 'Hang Cool Teddy Bear' (Retrieved June 20, 2010)
  7. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  8. ↑ a b Aaron Mayagoitia: Meat Loaf - Hang Cool Teddy Bear Review ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed June 20, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.411mania.com
  9. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Review at Allmusic (accessed June 20, 2010)
  10. ↑ a b sputnikmusic.com : Meat Loaf Hang Cool Teddy Bear (Retrieved June 20, 2010)