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Track Listings

1. When the Rubber Meets the Road

2. I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)

3. Original Sin

4. 45 Seconds of Ecstasy

5. Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)

6. Fiesta de Las Almas Perdidas

7. Left in the Dark

8. Not a Dry Eye in the House

9. Amnesty Is Granted

10. If This Is the Last Kiss (Let's Make It Last All Night)

11. Martha

12. Where Angels Sing

Tracks:

Where The Rubber Meets The Road
I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth)
Original Sin
45 Seconds Of Ecstasy
Runnin' For The Red Light (I Gotta Life)
Fiesta De Las Almas Perdidas
Left In The Dark
Not A Dry Eye In The House
Amnesty Is Granted
If This Is The Last Kiss (Let's Make It Last All Night)
Martha
Where Angels Sing

Customer Reviews:

great album .......2006-12-24

i would rate meatloaf albums in this order=bat out of hell one and two are the best followed by bat three,than welcome to the neighborhood,than chsib.his eighties albums did not do much for me at all.i think this is a great album and liked every song.unlike another reviewer i thought his voice is excellent.if you are a meatloaf fan you will love this album.where angels sing is a beautiful song ranking up with heaven can wait.

Meat is the man!.......2006-11-06

Great album by a great singer!Most songs are grade A!Meats voice is amazing.These songs are more ballads and rock songs than opera.if stienmans name was slapped on the album this would have been even more popular.

Welcome to the Neighborhood.......2006-10-29

This is great album.Of course not better than Bat I and II. But it belongs to the group of his best records. Even it was able to enter top 20 in the USA( I think 17th place and was platinum for almost million sold coppies)and it is not so usual.And for the rest of the world it was big success( in the UK reached 2nd place).The song I'd lie for you is amazing and Original sin too. Meat is really able to make a great album without Jim Steinman( wrote only two songs).

I really recomend this album.

Great music, Ok album.......2006-10-02

The title to this review says it all. The music is great. All the composers involved try to stay in the signature Steinman sound, yet they all have their individual differences. The problem with this album does not lie with the producers, composers or instrumentalists, it lies with Meat himself. It almost sounds painful to hear him try and sing. His voice is not what it used to be. His age shows especially as you listen to songs, such as Martha and Where Angels Sing, as he gasps for air and can barely squeak out many of the higher parts. Operatic, thunderous voice, not here folks. If you want a newer album of his that is good, buy Couldn't Have Said it Better. Totally different voice.

coulda been better.......2006-09-03

'If you need an experience of pure meaningless noise, this one's for you.
However, dont expect it to change your life much.

The price listed above for the album is a very good example of the old cliche, "you get what you pay for."'
09/02/06

REVISION

The above review, written several months ago, is a perfect example of the type of review I don't like, as it is not really a review at all but more an opinion. I was guilty of writing the above opinion in September 2006 purley on implulse, but now I realize that it was not fair of me to write it without explaining -- as this is what a review is.

I generally dislike reviews that say stupid things like: get this cause I like it. Or get that cause my husband likes it. Even if those statements are positive, they still are opinoins and not reviews. Then there are those who write really long opinoins diguised as reviews. That should not be done either; and Amazon should reject those kinds of things ideally.

Now I'd like to take the time to explain why I gave this album one star. I came across this album quite by mistake. I purchased it from the now-extinct Tower records for about $7 (full price)thinking it was an early meatloaf album [possibly cause of the cover]. When I opened the CD and actually discovered that it really was released in 1995, I was a bit taken aback, but decided to keep it anyway and see what it was about.

When I first played it, it sounded alright. I even discovered that it had a song I recognized: "I'd Lie for you and that's the Truth". On first impression, none of the songs were that bad. Only one thing got me pissed at Meatloaf instantly upon my first listen of this album, which I will discuss later. But for now I'd like to continue what I was saying before. Anyway, I listened to this album again. Then again. Then a few more times. After that I stopped. It just went stale on me. Even now it sits in my house; I never touch it. I don't know why I still keep it.

Why did it go stale, you ask? Because I just grew tired of hearing it after several listens. Because after several listens, I could smell the gimikry of this album a mile away--no foolin'! Firstly, this album is really just a collection of generic tunes created to appear like Meatloaf was really trying to do something serious. It has a very 80's retro sound to it, yet without any intrinsic quality, as if the songs where written as imitations of good 80's songs that where good enough sung originally. "Where the Rubber Meets the Road" may have some good imagery in the lyrics, but that one sounds like Meatloaf was copying his previous release. "Original Sin"--just listen to various early-eighties metal albums to hear many songs that sound like this. Ozzy Ozbourne's early solo albums have many songs that can sound like "Original Sin". "Left in the Dark" can easily be compared with many 80's new wave songs (the Motels come to mind for some reason).

I got one comment that "Not a Dry Eye in the House" is a good song. Well just compare that one to several songs on Meatloaf's own "Dead Ringer" album. The last two on the WTTN album can be placed that way as well. Then what about "Amnesty is Granted"? Well, lyricwise, it is an okay song, but musically...it's completely generic. Just compare it with anything Sammy Hagar sung before and you'll have a much more authentic experience.

Now getting to the subject of what instantly peeved me about this album on my first listen. It's simple! What does the album cover show? A 1940's female in fright on some stairs. What does this make one think of? 1940's detective stories and such, of course. When we open the jewel case, we even see Mr Meatloaf himself dressed as a 1940's private-eye. When we look through the sleeve, we see a listing of the album-tracks with an illustration to go with each track, all related to 1940's detective genre imagery. Yet no song on the album has ANYTHING to do with 1940's detective storytelling in any way. No song on this album even makes you thik of the 1940's in any respect! Except maybe for the above-mentioned "Not a Dry Eye", and that one more because of its lyrics. Then maybe that short Spansih-sounding instrumental montage that falls somewhere between tracks 5 and seven or something.

Why couldn't Meatloaf, if he's gonna use 1940's imagery, put some of that into the music and make it interesting. He could have utilized swing elements; he could have put some jazzy sounds into it; maybe some big-band sounds here and there and mixed it with the modern hard rock sound. Instead, the tracks on this album are just straight-forward modern hard rock. If anything, they make you think of the 80's more than the 40's. What was Mr Aday really trying to do, imitate early Rick Springfield? That's exactly what Rick Springrield did in his Comic Book Heroes album--the exact same thing! He used comic-book images and tried to associate them with the song titles, yet only one or two songs on the album really had anything to do with comic books or heroes all together!

Ultimately, my reason for giving this album one star, is not as much in criticism of the album itself, but more to critisize the ARTIST, who in my belief did not and still does not make much effort to try harder.

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Binding: Audio CD

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1. When the Rubber Meets the Road
2. I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)
3. Original Sin
4. 45 Seconds of Ecstasy
5. Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)
6. Fiesta de Las Almas Perdidas
7. Left in the Dark
8. Not a Dry Eye in the House
9. Amnesty Is Granted
10. If This Is the Last Kiss (Let's Make It Last All Night)
11. Martha
12. Where Angels Sing