Midnight at the Lost and Found
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Midnight at the Lost and Found (English for: " At midnight in the lost property ") is Meat Loaf's third studio album, which was released in 1983 as the successor to Dead Ringer . It was the last album on the Epic Records label until The Very Best of Meat Loaf was released in 1998.
background
After the dispute between Meat Loaf and his former songwriter Jim Steinman , they parted ways, but Meat Loaf was contractually obliged to release a new album. Despite the differences, Steinman offered Total Eclipse of the Heart and Making Love (Out of Nothing at All) for the album, but Meat Loaf's record company refused to pay Steinman for them. Steinman's songs were then given to Bonnie Tyler and Air Supply and enjoyed great success. Meat Loaf said in an interview: "The record company was anti-Steinman at the time, I was anti-record company. So we were even".
After the long-running disputes between Meat Loaf and Steinman, in which an agreement was not in sight (in the end they sued each other), Meat Loaf was forced to look for songwriters and to write songs themselves. Meat Loaf is listed as the author of several songs on the album, including the theme song. However, Meat Loaf later admitted that he was a bad songwriter and that many found the album lousy. Fans were disappointed to see that the iconic images of the covers of Bat out of Hell and Dead Ringer were replaced with a black and white photo of Meat Loaf, while a color photo of a screaming Meat Loaf was used on later releases.
Track list
- Razor's Edge - 4:07 (Steve Buslowe / Paul Christie / Mark Doyle / Meat Loaf)
- Midnight at the Lost and Found - 3:36 (Steve Buslowe / Paul Christie / Dan Peyronel / Meat Loaf)
- Wolf at Your Door - 4:05 (Steve Buslowe / Leslie Aday)
- Keep Driving - 3:30 (Paul Christie / Paul Jacobs / Meat Loaf)
- The Promised Land - 2:44 (Chuck Berry)
- You Never Can Be Too Sure About the Girl - 4:28 (Steve Buslowe / Meat Loaf)
- Priscilla - 3:33 (Paul Jacobs / Sarah Durkee)
- Don't You Look at Me Like That - 3:27 (Marshall James Styler)
- If You Really Want To - 3:38 (Ted Neeley / George Meyer)
- Fallen Angel - 3:38 (Dick Wagner)
Single releases
Razor's Edge , If You Really Want To and the theme song were released as single, but none reached a top position in the charts. Midnight at the Lost and Found is one of the very few songs from the 1980s that can be heard on the album The Very Best of Meat Loaf .
Contributors
- Meat Loaf - vocals
- Mark Doyle - guitar , piano (tracks 1, 2, 4), bass (track 4), synthesizer (track 9), vocals (tracks 4, 5)
- Rick Derringer - guitar (tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9), bass (track 7)
- Tom Edmonds - Guitar (Track 4)
- Gary Rossington - guitar (track 8)
- Steve Buslowe - bass
- Paul Jacobs - piano (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10)
- Dave Lebolt - Synthesizer Programming (Track 9)
- Max Weinberg - drums
- Dale Krantz Rossington - female vocals on 'Don't You Look at Me Like That'
- Chuck Kirkpatrick - vocals
- John Sambataro - vocals
Individual evidence
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Studio albums: Stoney & Meatloaf (1971) | Bat Out of Hell (1977) | Dead Ringer (1981) | Midnight at the Lost and Found (1983) | Bad Attitude (1984) | Blind Before I Stop (1986) | Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993) | Welcome to the Neighborhood (1995) | Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003) | Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006) | Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010) | Hell in a Handbasket (2011) | Braver Than We Are (2016)
Live albums: Live at Wembley (1987) | Live Around the World (1996) | VH1 Storytellers (1999) | Bat Out of Hell: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (2004)
Compilations: Hits out of Hell (1984) | Heaven & Hell (1993) | Rock 'n' Roll Hero (1995) | The Very Best of Meat Loaf (1998) | Piece of the Action - The Best Of (2009)