Meat Loaf Hits out of Hell (1991)

Though Hits out of Hell shares the title of Meat Loafs 1984 greatest hits album the tracklisting is not quite the same curiously the DVD omits Dead Ringer for Love Midnight at the Lost and Found and All Revved Up with No Place to Go but includes perhaps by way of compensation More Than You Deserve and If You Really Want To Such considerations are of course of only superficial importance once producer and songwriter Jim Steinman had patented the Meat Loaf template on 1977s 30millionselling Bat Out of Hellan engagingly preposterous synthesis of Springsteens Born to Run Spectors Be My Baby Wagners Ride of the Valkyries On the DVD This DVD offers a choice of Dolby Surround Sound or PCM Stereo and has a refreshingly simple and easy to navigate menu offering instant access to different tracks The special features are desultory in the extreme a brief biography of the Meat Loaf phenomenon and a discography