Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell (Deluxe Edition)
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Artist: Meat LoafEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-06-25
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
- Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back
- Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through
- It Just Won't Quit
- Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)
- Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
- Wasted Youth
- Everything Louder Than Everything Else
- Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)
- Back Into Hell
- Lost Boys And Golden Girls
- Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
- I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (single edit)
- Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through (radio edit)
- Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back (radio edit)
- Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are (Wild
- I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (longer edit)
- Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back (Ty Cobb edit)
- Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are (Wild
- Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through (Knute Rockne edit)
- Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back (1998 remix)
Music reviews of Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell (Deluxe Edition)
Music Review: Worth getting just for the remastered sound.
Rating: 5 Stars
While I realize that the 1st Bat out of Hell album is regarded more highly than the 2nd album, Bat out of Hell 2: Back into Hell will always be my personal favorite of the 2 as well as my favorite Meat Loaf album of all time.
Origianlly released in 1993, this release put Meat Loaf back on top of the music world after a massive slump (especially here in the states) during the 80's in which most people had forgotten about him and written him off as a has been or a one album wonder.
Composer Jim Steinman (who also arranged everything) took over production duties on this album and it is just pure unadulterated Steinman. This is what Steinman's 1980 solo album Bad to be Good (which was supposed to be the true followup to Bat out of Hell) might have been like in terms of quality if Meat Loaf hadn't gotten strung out on drugs and lost his singing voice for a short time.
I can't really say much more positive about this album that people haven't already done on the multitude of reviews for the regular CD. Truly great music and it never fails to get me in a good mood when listening to it as well, which I can't say that about a lot of music. While the songs are very long at times, they never outstay their welcome.
Anyway, the main purpose of my review is to review the 2002 reissue (or deluxe edition) of the 1993 album.
While I had had the original 1993 CD since it came out, I was always a bit let down by the mastering job on the CD. The overall volume could have been done a bit higher and the album just lacked a certain punch in terms of the overall audio at times. This is especially surprising since by 1993 pretty much CD had completely taken over by that point and people had figured out how to properly master stuff for CD audio as well. The CD didn't sound bad per se, but it could've been done better at the same time.
This 2002 deluxe edition fixes all of the mastering issues I had by doing a 24 bit digital remastering of the album. All I can say is that my jaw was on the floor as to how much better the album sounds now. In fact, it finally sounds perfect!
the overall volume level now maxes out without having any digital clipping issues and the overall sound just sounds more vibrant with more clarity between all of the instruments/vocal parts. There is more punch to the low end as well without the mix being altered. Basically, this album now sounds absolutely perfect and this is the way the CD should have been mastered in the first place.
The 2nd CD is pretty much pointless and redundant as it just feautres edited single versions of album tracks along with some remixes. No live cuts are present which should have been included as well. I guess this is cool from a historical/completist viewpoint, but no one will ever listen to Disc 2 for the most part.
But I bought this mainly due to the remastered sound and in that respect I wasn't disappoitned. If you are an audiophile and like to have the absolute best sounding version of your favorite albums (or classic releases like this), then you owe it to yourself to upgrade to this deluxe edition if you are as big of a fan of Bat out of Hell 2 as I am.
Highly recommended!
Description of Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell (Deluxe Edition)
At a certain point, bad taste and bombast become so excessive and so grandiose that they're no longer an easily dismissed irritation but an astonishing monument to warped imagination. Such a monument is Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, the long-delayed sequel to 1977's Bat out of Hell. Once again songwriter-producer Jim Steinman has isolated high-school parking-lot aphorisms and inflated them to Wagner-on-Broadway proportions, casting Mr. Loaf as a heavy-metal Ezio Pinza. Typical of the album's strategy is its big hit single, "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)." Steinman piles on the guitars, drums, synthesizers, and choral voices as if he were Phil Spector producing Kiss playing the Who songbook. The rest of the album tackles the themes of teenage lust, frustration, and rock & roll fantasies in similar fashion. It's somehow beside the point to complain about the puerile lyrics, the leaden rhythms, the derivative melodies, the histrionic vocals, or the overblown arrangements. Steinman knows how to push his audience's buttons, and with Meat Loaf's help, he hits those buttons with a sledgehammer. --Geoffrey HimesGeneral CDs
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