Question for of all people Wario !!

[wolfy35]

This is something I have wondered about for some time & considered posting a question to ask Meat but considering how busy Meat will be & the seemingly endless archives of rare Meat recordings that Wario has I thought he would be a better shot.

I have several live recordings, both official & unofficial, of MATAF but in all of the ones I have Meat sings the "wrong" words in the last verse. By that I mean he repeats the words

"Everybody at the back of the line, it's midnight at the lost and found"

Instead of the "correct" album version of

"Everybody get back in line, last call for the lost and found"

The question is does a live recording exist where Meat sings the album version of the lyrics?

[Evil One]

Yes. There is one from Wembley Arena 1983 that he gets all the words right. Unfortunately he also sounds a bit tipsy. :shrug:

[wolfy35]

Yes. There is one from Wembley Arena 1983 that he gets all the words right. Unfortunately he also sounds a bit tipsy. :shrug:

I did see him live once when he sang the first part, as in everybody get back in line, then finished it off with its midnight at the lost & found.

[Wario]

Yes I have a few were he sings it correct. I prefer the mistake version, it flows better live. He stopped singing "last call for the" circa 1985 and replaced it with "It's midnight at the Lost & found" which works better live.

Three of those shows I have are gonna be complete shows eventually:

Midnight at Wembley 1983
Midnight in Glasgow 1983
Hammersmith Odeon, 1985

But you really don't need to go for. He clearly says "Last call for the lost And--" on Bad Attitude Live.

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00:16:42 Midnight at the Lost & Found

[wolfy35]

All hail Wario for he... almost.... provides the answer.

Meat does on that video indeed sing "last call for the lost & found" but he precedes that with "everybody at the back of the line" & not the full album lyric of "everybody get back in line"

A copy will exist somewhere, Probably somewhere in a safe owned by Meat & marked never to be opened because of how vocal he has been about not liking the whole MATLAF album.

[Wario]

A copy will exist somewhere, Probably somewhere in a safe owned by Meat & marked never to be opened because of how vocal he has been about not liking the whole MATLAF album.

Ya, the Wembley 1983 version Evil One said still says "back of the line"

Its strange cause I never cared. Its far better live

This is the one Evil One was talking about BTW. the full radio show will be on YouTube eventually but in the mean time heres my sound cloud upload:
https://soundcloud.com/warioloaf/meat-loaf-midnight-live-in

[wolfy35]

OUCH!!!!!!!!

The synth on that one is terrible, it takes over the whole track in a way that until this I never believed keyboards could.

First time I saw Meat live was Sheffield 85 when I was 14 & thankfully by then the keyboards had been reigned in to the point they made the music better instead of destroying it.

[Evil One]

I liked the synth intro, but the loud drums that came a few years later were much better.