Midnight at the Lost and Found

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.)

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

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ 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.