The Very Best of Meat Loaf

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The Very Best of Meat Loaf
Compilation album by Meat Loaf

Publication
(s)

November 1998

Label (s) Virgin Records

Genre (s)

skirt

running time

116: 57

chronology
Live Around the World
(1996) 		The Very Best of Meat Loaf VH1: Storytellers
(1999)

The Very Best of Meat Loaf (English for: " The very best of Meat Loaf ") is an album released in 1998 that spanned the first 21 years of Meat Loaf's musical career. Although the album did not reach the top 10 on the UK charts, it went platinum and went platinum in other countries shortly after its release.

content

The double album includes all of Meat Loaf's well-known songs as well as some from his lesser-known 1980s albums.

In addition to hits like Paradise by the Dashboard Light and I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) , this CD contains three new tracks. Two of them were written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman and adapted from their musical Whistle Down the Wind . The third new track, Is Nothing Sacred , was written by Steinman and copywriter Don Black. The single version of this song is a duet with Patti Russo , while the album version sings Meat Loaf alone. The single version later appeared on CD VH1: Storytellers .

Bat out of Hell is represented with 5 songs, Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell with 4 songs, while no single from the album Blind Before I Stop is represented, which has been criticized by some.

Track list

CD 1:

  1. Home by Now / No Matter What - 8:25 (Andrew Lloyd Webber / Jim Steinman)
  2. Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back (Remix) - 8:07 (Steinman)
  3. You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) - 5:04 (Steinman)
  4. Two out of Three Ain't Bad - 5:23 (Steinman)
  5. Modern Girl - 4:24 (Paul Jacobs / Sarah Durkee)
  6. Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through - 5:41 (Steinman)
  7. Is Nothing Sacred - 6:37 (Steinman / Don Black)
  8. Paradise by the Dashboard Light - 8:28 (Steinman)
  9. Heaven Can Wait - 4:36 (Steinman)

CD 2:

  1. I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - 11:52 (Steinman)
  2. A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste feat. Bonnie Tyler - 7:37 (Webber / Steinman)
  3. I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth) feat. Patti Russo - 6:48 ( Diane Warren )
  4. Not a Dry Eye in the House - 5:54 (Warren)
  5. Nocturnal Pleasure - 0:38 (Steinman)
  6. Dead Ringer for Love - 4:21 (Steinman) Duet with Cher
  7. Midnight at the Lost and Found - 3:36 (Meat Loaf / Steve Buslowe / Paul Christie / Dan Peyronel)
  8. Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are - 9:45 (Steinman)
  9. Bat out of Hell - 9:48 (Steinman)
  10. I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) (live) (Japan Bonus Track) - 12:58 (Steinman)