Year : 1993 (Deluxe Edition 2022)
Style : Melodic Rock , Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 360 mb
Bio:
Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947) is an American musician and actor best known by his stage name Meat Loaf. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell album trilogy consisting of Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose and his powerful vocals over a three-octave range.[citation needed] Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies worldwide.After 35 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best selling albums of all time.Although he enjoyed success with Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and earned a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the song "I'd Do Anything for Love" on the latter album, Meat Loaf experienced some initial difficulty establishing a steady career within his native US. However, he has retained iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the UK, where he ranks 23rd for the number of weeks overall spent on the charts as of 2006. He ranked 96th on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".He is one of the best-selling artists of all time, with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records.He has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows,sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His most notable roles include Eddie in the American premiere of The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He also appeared in David Fincher's Fight Club in 1999 as the character Robert Paulson.
Album:
Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell is the sixth studio album by American rock singer Meat Loaf and was written and produced by Jim Steinman. It was released in September 1993, sixteen years after Meat Loaf's first solo album Bat Out of Hell. The album reached number 1 in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Five tracks were released as singles, including "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", which reached number 1 in 28 countries.When a young singer with a bizarre moniker wandered into a New York theatre to audition for an up-and-coming composer, the universe, if for just a moment, was tilted at the right angle.The collaboration of Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman is one of music’s most inspired. The raw beauty, marathon energy and uncompromising passion of the pair came to life on 1977’s Bat Out of Hell, an album unbelievably shipped to hundreds of record companies over the course of a year before it was finally picked up by Steve Popovich and Cleveland International Records.Popovich was impressed after hearing the opening 20 seconds of the album and went against the advice of his fellow industry bigwigs who predicted failure for Bat Out of Hell. After all, a wacky piano man and his 300-pound star singing ten-minute long theatrical anthems sounding more like Broadway themes or (gasp!) operettas than anything resembling rock and roll seemed like the last thing to succeed. Especially considering its release would come in the middle of the disco era with punk not too far away.Popovich, Steinman, Meat Loaf, and the album’s producer Todd Rundgren (as well as back-up singers Ellen Foley, Karla DeVito, and Rory Dodd) stood by their project. Steinman, especially, refusing to trim his enormous songs for marketability or accepting it when he was told adding more sounds, twists and vibrations to his tunes was slightly overdoing it. Their dedication was rewarded and Bat Out of Hell, with its songs about teenage rebelliousness, love, death, lust, and car crashes, went on to become one of the biggest selling albums of the ’70s, and has since notched up sales of over 35 million.Not only did the album succeed, it revolutionized the rock genre, adding much-needed drama and theatrics.This success was vindication for Meat and Jim that their hard work and monumental struggles had all been worth it. They took the album on the road, playing show after show to eager crowds, happy to witness something new, something grand and seemingly unstoppable. Meat ran his ample body into the ground at every performance, ripping his mammoth voice from deep down in the pit of his stomach. He may have been taking his new fans on an unbelievable musical journey, but he was burning himself out at the same time.The Bat ride eventually ended and Steinman was already planning its follow-up. Bad for Good was intended to be the album’s sequel, however, Meat’s voice was so wasted from touring that he was unable to record its songs. Instead of hoisting them into rock’s wasteland, Steinman went ahead and recorded the vocals himself, releasing the album in 1981 to mediocre success.Both he and Meat went separate ways in their individual careers in the 1980s. While they continued to prove their talents, Loaf with Midnight at the Lost and Found and Blind Before I Stop, and Steinman was his various musical projects (including two phenomenal songs for the 1984 soundtrack to Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire) neither were able to achieve the success experienced when the two of them came together. The magic was gone as quickly as it had arrived, and Bat Out of Hell with its intensity, drama, and larger-than-life qualities, and in an industry where everything old is always new again, no-one had come close to imitating Steinman’s kind of songwriting. The album looked destined to remain a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.But, in the early 1990s, Steinman convinced Meat to rerecord some of the songs from the Bad for Good record. Renamed Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, the album hit in 1993 as it was always intended. The mighty Meat Loaf on vocals delivering powerhouse performances of songs equally epic and just as dramatic and theatrical as those of its predecessor.The new album was proof that the guys’ partnership was meant to be. Suddenly the energy was back, still as raw as ever. With the album’s cuts written at the height of the success of Bat Out of Hell, time hadn’t been allowed to stale Steinman’s ability to create magic. The erratic, rebellious, and vulnerable characters documented on the first album remained as impassioned as they were in songs like “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”, “You Took the Words Right out of my Mouth”, and “Two out of Three Ain’t Bad”.Meat Loaf was the comeback kid of 1993, with his single “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” a major hit around the world, the album going five times platinum and remaining on the Billboard charts for an incredible 88 weeks. The boys were back in town, and they were kicking ass again.Almost ten years after the release of the sequel album (and 25 years after the release of the original Bat Out of Hell), a deluxe two-disc set has arrived. The glorious package features the digitally re-mastered original sequel album alongside a second disc of single and radio edits and remixes (if you’re short on time and want to hear such hits as “I’d Do Anything” in less than 15 minutes) all wrapped up inside flashy and gothic artwork.The album is timeless. It’s just as satisfying to hear to Steinman’s stories as told by Meat Loaf as it was in 1977 and 1993. Everything necessary to create the perfect rock song — sex, love, violence, and defiance — is still as exciting. The The Wall-type cries (“What about your school? — It’s defective! What about your friends? — They’re defective! What about your Gods? — They’re defective!”) on “Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back” remain inspiring; the concentrated imagery (“There are times I think I see him peeling out of the dark / I think he’s right behind me now and he’s gaining ground”) of “Objects in the Mirror May Appear Closer than they Are” is just as evocative, and the anxious and confessionary (“It’s never been this hot and I’ve never been so bored / And breathing is just no fun anymore”) feel of “Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire)” is still just as tragic.Steinman’s incredible lyrical ability and intense grasp of rhythm and rhyme remains evident as each song crescendos with haunting efficacy. His desire to write long sentences and involved musical solos in order to capture just the right feeling is so majestic and the entire piece comes together like a rock and roll nightmare of ecstasy and torture.While the fantastic album was a huge success, Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf, one of music’s finest partnerships, haven’t elected to churn out anything new since. And while the music of the sequel was intended to be the end of the story, it really isn’t, because the magical fervor and intelligent flashiness of this sequel does the exact same thing the original album did — leaves one begging for more. Fifteen years after the first Bat that wish was granted, so here’s hoping. For now though, the Deluxe Edition of Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell is a hell of a ride.
Line-Up:
Michael Lee Aday - Meat Loaf - Vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion
Jim Steinman – arranger
Todd Rundgren – background vocal arranger
Band on live tracks:
Mark Alexander – piano, backing vocals
Steve Buslowe – bass guitar, backing vocals
John Miceli – drums
Patti Russo – female lead vocals, backing vocals
Kasim Sulton – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Pat Thrall – lead guitar, backing vocals
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
02. Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back
03. Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through
04. It Just Won't Quit
05. Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)
06. Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
07. Wasted Youth
08. Everything Louder Than Everything Else
09. Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)
10. Back Into Hell
11. Lost Boys And Golden Girls
CD2:
01. Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are (AC Radio Edit)
02. I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (Single Edit)
03. Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through (Radio Edit)
04. Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back (Radio Edit)
05. Objects In The Rear View Mirror (AC Edit 2 aka Wild Bomb AC)
06. I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
07. Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back
08. Objects In The Rear View Mirror (AC Edit 3 aka Wild Car)
09. Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through (Knute Rockne Edit)
10. Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back (1998 Remix)
11. Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are (Edit)
CD3:
01. Bat Out Of Hell (Live From The United States / 1993 / Remastered 2006)
02. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Live From United States / 1993 / Remastered 2006)
03. Heaven Can Wait (Live From United States / 1993 / Remastered 2006)
04. All Revved Up (Live From USA / 1993 / Remastered 2006)
05. Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad (Live From United States / 1993 / Remastered 2006)
06. Paradise By The Dashboard Light (Live From United States / 1993 / Remastered 2006)
07. For Crying Out Loud (Live From United States / 1993 / Remastered 2006)
08. I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (Live From The Hudson Theatre, United States / 1993 / Remastered 2006)
09. Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back (Live From The Beacon Theatre, New York, United States / 1995)
10. Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through (Live From The United States / 1994)
11. Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire) (Live From The United States / 1993)
12. Everything Louder Than Everything Else (Live From New York, USA / 1993)
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