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This article is about the album. For the title track, see Midnight at the Lost and Found (song).
Midnight at the Lost and Found Studio album by Meat Loaf Released May 1983 Recorded 1982-3 Genre Rock Length 35:26 Label Epic Producer Tom Dowd Meat Loaf chronology Dead Ringer
(1981)Midnight at the Lost and Found
(1983)Hits out of Hell
(1984)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1]
Midnight at the Lost and Found is a 1983 album by Meat Loaf. This was the last album that Meat Loaf did with the record label Epic until the 1998 release of The Very Best of Meat Loaf.
Following a dispute with his former songwriter Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf was contractually obliged to release a new album. According to Meat Loaf, Steinman gave him "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Making Love (Out of Nothing at All)" for the album, but Meat's record company refused to pay for Steinman. Steinman's songs were then given to Bonnie Tyler and Air Supply respectively, becoming huge hits.[2] Struggling for time and with no resolution to his arguments with Steinman seemingly on the horizon (eventually, Steinman and Meat Loaf would sue one another), he was forced to find songwriters wherever he could, including writing the songs himself.
Meat Loaf is credited with being involved in the writing of numerous tracks on the album, including the title track. However, as Meat would later admit, he was not much of a songwriter (and he did not like the songs he had written for the album), and the album was regarded by many as being pretty poor. Fans were disappointed to see that the iconic pictures on the covers of Bat out of Hell and Dead Ringer were replaced by a black-and-white photograph of Meat Loaf. (On some later re-releases, a color image of a screaming Meat Loaf was used as the cover image.)
Contents
Track listing
Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Razor's Edge" Steve Buslowe/Paul Christie/Mark Doyle/Meat Loaf 4:07 2. "Midnight at the Lost and Found" Buslowe/Christie/Meat Loaf/Dan Peyronel 3:36 3. "Wolf at Your Door" Leslie Aday/Buslowe 4:05 4. "Keep Driving" Christie/Paul Jacobs/Meat Loaf 3:30 5. "The Promised Land" Chuck Berry 2:44 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 6. "You Can Never Be Too Sure About the Girl" Buslowe/Meat Loaf 4:28 7. "Priscilla" Sarah Durkee/Jacobs 3:33 8. "Don't You Look at Me Like That" (Duet with Dale Krantz Rossington) Marshall James Stiler 3:27 9. "If You Really Want To" George Meyer/Ted Neeley 3:38 10. "Fallen Angel" Dick Wagner 3:38 Personnel
- Meat Loaf — lead vocals, backing vocals (track 10)
- Mark Doyle — guitars, piano (tracks 1, 2, 4), bass (track 4), synthesizers (track 9), vocals (tracks 4, 5)
- Rick Derringer — guitars (tracks 2-4, 6-9), bass (track 7)
- Tom Edmonds — guitars (track 4)
- Gary Rossington — guitars (track 8)
- Steve Buslowe — bass
- Paul Jacobs — piano (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8-10)
- Dave Lebolt — synthesizer programming (track 9)
- Max Weinberg — drums
- Dale Krantz Rossington — featured female vocals (track 8)
- Chuck Kirkpatrick — vocals
- John Sambataro — vocals
Singles
"Razor's Edge", "If You Really Want To" and the title track were released as singles, but none made top chart positions. The title track still regularly forms part of Meat Loaf concerts, and was one of very few 1980s songs to feature on the 1998 hit album The Very Best of Meat Loaf.
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Adams, Cameron (October 26, 2006). "Meat Loaf's a Hell raiser". Herald Sun. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20642893-5006024,00.html. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
Meat Loaf 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 Neighbourhood (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)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) • 3 Bats Live (2008)Compilations Hits out of Hell (1984) • The Big Ones (1984) • Heaven & Hell (1989) • Paradise By The Dashboardlight (The Very Best of) (1991) • Back From Hell! The Very Best of Meat Loaf (1993) • Back From Hell Again! - The Very Best of Meat Loaf Vol. 2 (1994) • Alive In Hell (1994) • Heaven Can Wait – The Best Ballads of Meat Loaf Vol. 1 (1996) • The Very Best of Meat Loaf (1998) • Piece of the Action: The Best of Meat Loaf (2009)Videography Live • Hits out of Hell • Bad Attitude - Live! • Bat out of Hell II: Picture Show • VH1: Storytellers • To Hell and Back • Bat out of Hell: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra • 3 Bats Live • Meat Loaf: In Search of ParadiseTours Bat Out of Hell (1977-78) • Dead Ringer (1981) • Meat Loaf & The Neverland Express Euro '82 (1982) • World Tour / Monsters of Rock (1983) • Bad Attitude (1984-85) • 20/20 (1986-87) • Lost Boys & Golden Girls / Bat Out of Hell 10th Anniversary (1988-89) • Everything Louder (1993-95) • Born to Rock (1996) • The Very Best of... (1999) • Storytellers (1999-2000) • Night of the Proms (2001) • Just Having Fun... (2002) • Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003-04) • The Hair of the Dog (2005) • Seize the Night / The Three Bats (2006-07) • Casa de Carne (2008) • Hang Cool (2010-11) • Guilty Pleasure (2011-12)Singles "What You See is What You Get" • "It Takes All Kinds of People" • "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" • "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" (w/ Ellen Foley) • "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" • "All Revved Up with No Place to Go" • "Bat Out of Hell" • "I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us" • "Dead Ringer for Love" (w/ Cher) • "Read 'Em and Weep" • "Peel Out" • "In Europe '82 (4 Track EP)" • "If You Really Want To" • "Razor's Edge" • "Midnight at the Lost and Found" • "Modern Girl" • "Nowhere Fast" • "Surf's Up" • "Sailor to a Siren" • "Piece of the Action" • "Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries" (w/ John Parr) • "Getting Away with Murder" • "Blind Before I Stop" • "Special Girl" • "A Time for Heroes" (w/ Brian May) • "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" (w/ Lorraine Crosby) • "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back" • "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" • "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are" • "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" (w/ Patti Russo) • "Not a Dry Eye in the House" • "Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)" • "A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" (w/ Bonnie Tyler) • "No Matter What" • "Is Nothing Sacred" (w/ Patti Russo) • "Did I Say That?" • "Couldn't Have Said It Better" (w/ Patti Russo) • "Man of Steel" • "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (w/ Marion Raven) • "Blind As a Bat" • "Cry Over Me" • "Los Angeloser" • "If I Can't Have You" • "All of Me"Related articles Discography • Neverland Express • Stoney & Meatloaf • Jim Steinman • Patti Russo • Shaun Murphy • Amanda Aday • Pearl Aday • The Seize the Night Tour • The Casa de Carne Tour • The Hang Cool Tour • The Celebrity Apprentice 4Categories:- Meat Loaf albums
- 1983 albums
- Albums produced by Tom Dowd
- Epic Records albums
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