Remastered Bat Out Of Hell

[Adam]

Has n e one bought the new remastered version of bat out of hell? If so could u please tell me if there is a breif drop in volume 6 minutes and 17 seconds into the first song because i would like to know if it is in the recording or just on my CD. Please reply, Thanx.

[Dave]

All of the songs on BAT OUT OF HELL 2001 sound 100% better.

David
http://www.mirrorofthesoul.com

[Meatles]

I have the remastered version with the live
bonus tracks : "Bolero" , and "Bat Out Of Hell". I didn't notice a brief drop in volume. It is probably your cd. That is very strange ! , if you have the receipt you should take it back and get a new copy of
the same version and see if all of them are
like that , you have nothing to lose .

[Steve]

Maybe not 100% - but certainly a good 96%.

[Shane]

I saw a review for the remastered version in a magazine (I think it was Q maybe) and it said that the re-released version contained Dead Ringer For Love. Is there more than one re-released version?

[Alex]

The three 'main' releases of Bat Out Of Hell to my knowledge.

1977 - First release, 7 tracks, last track is FCOL.

1993 - the 'ReVamped' edition.... includes all original tracks plus Dead Ringer For Love.

2001 - Another release. This one including Dead Ringer For Love again, Bolero and Bat Live in addition to the 7 original tracks

There have been various releases of these different track combo's (Vinyl etc), but there appears never to be any quality loss in any song (to answer initial question!)

Have fun batting!
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Alex

[Chris]

Hi,

There was also a re-release of Bat in 2000. This was the original album with no extra tracks but was on a gold CD. I think it was only available in the UK.

The CD sleeve also unfolds to form the original LP sleeve with cover on one side and lyrics on the other side.

Also does anyone know who the other two people are with Meat on the original sleeve. I think the fella is Steinman but am probably wrong.

Thanks, Chris

YOU GOT NOTHING TO DO AND EVEN LESS TO LOSE

[Timewarp.nl]

The Guy is indeed the one and only master of rock, Jim Steinman. Who the girl is, I don't have a clue, she doesn't look like Karla Devitto or ellen Folley. Does anyone know who she is?????
Bye Timewarp.nl

[Alex]

She may not look like her. But other pictures around that seem to be from the same photo shoot show that it really is Karla DeVito. Meat's lead female vocalist on the Bat tours (also sang back up on Jim's album ./icons/icon7.gif

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[Timewarp.nl]

It's hard for me to imagine that the girl on the photo is karla, because I know carla as a woman with curly black hair, and the woman on the photo has got brown uncurled hair.
But if you say so i believe you.
Woman can do anything with hair
And by the way, as a die hard meat fan, I know who karla is and what she did.
but that's alright.

bye bye for now
Timewarp.nl

[Meatles]

I am pretty sure that the woman in that picture inside the Bat sleeve is Ellen Foley , she had long blonde hair and is around that height. Karla wasn't with Meat Loaf when that picture was taken (remember people , Karla wasn't part of Meat until the tour began, after that pic was taken).

[Timewarp.nl]

you got some good points.
to it is a mystery, and i like a mystery girl.

Greetz.

[Tim]

I don't now if it's Karla or Ellen on the picture. Maybe it's just a girl (i think, now i'm looking at the picture, that it is not Ellen Folley, because she had blond hair). I do know that it's a great photo, and i thought i heard in an interview that that photo was a perfect Rock 'n' Roll photo. With Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf, both with the woman, one hand on the ass of the woman. Typicaly Rock, according to Jim Steinman in an interview.

And why do they re-release an album? I mean, the original Bat out of Hell is great, and it sounds great. Why a re-release? I don't get that, not this is with Meat Loaf albums, but with a lot more artist and albums. And who's idea is that? One from the record company?

[Gina]

The girl in the photo was a girl Meat and Jim met in the Rainbow Room club in LA. She has a twin sister too! Meat dated her briefly. :wink: Sorry..don't know her name. It is a cool picture!! One of the greatest in Rock History! 8) Take Care all!

All The Best
~Gina 8)

[Steve]

The answer to this one is simple - no self-respecting young rocker will buy an old album (unless they have been indoctrinated by their parents!! (tee, hee)). So to catch a new audience, you have to repackage and re-release - then a new generation of buyers will be satisfied that it is a new release because they're too damned young to remember it the first or second time round!!!

An old marketing strategy that works from toffee to toilet rolls - so why not music??

[Tim]

Well, Steve, i know what you mean, and i can understand it, but is it, maybe, also a money issue form the record company?

But you're right about the generations that don't know what cool music is, and who has to learn to know them by a re-released album.
I grandma loved Meat Loaf, so my love for his music have i got from her :D

[Tom B]

I wonder if it's one of the twins on the Tetley Interviews... Picture Disc 12" ... I don't have either at hand tho'

[Shane]

I believe there are commercial reasons for re-release of an album.

First of all, most fans (including me) would go and buy the re-release. Imagine if everyone who bought one initially (in 1977) bought the re-release. I know that wouldn't happen, but I believe many people would, so the total number of Bat Out Of Hell albums sold would skyrocket. If 30 million people had bought one copy each (making 30 million), and each of those people bought it again, that would make 60 million. This would help to push the album up into the top albums of all time (in terms of sales). Bat Out Of Hell used to be in the top 3, but at the moment I think it is somewhere around 25.

Of course, all this means more money for the record companies (and I'm assuming Meat too). There are other tactics used for other albums. Sometimes, record companies will put out the same album with a slightly different cover (like for Michael Jackson's Invincible or No Doubt's Rock Steady), or they'll re-release it again a few weeks (or years later), like they did for Westlife (a boy group) and include some bonus tracks to increase the motivation to purchase.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't think there's anything wrong with this. Record companies and their artists have to make a living just as we do.

[Shane]

Is it true that for the UK 2002 re-release of BOOH, that Dead Ringer was on it also? I have the Australasian version purchased in New Zealand, that has the seven original tracks, Bolero and Bat Out Of Hell (live), but no Dead Ringer.