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Originally Posted by Evil One
That is easily explained. Those songs were new to the audience, not in keeping with Meat's regular style and just not very good. Plus everyone had been on their feet for Bat and fancied a sit down.
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Fair enough but it's just another example of where often later efforts by artists that have been going for a while are just not so good (to the majority of punters at least).
Thus the more they release with dwindling quality, the absolute less desire there is / need for vault material I suspect.
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What I'd like to see personally?
Absolutely; a Blu Ray release of MSO. I have no idea what the source quality is like but I remember the DVD looking quite compressed / blocky at times.
Even if it's no better visually, audio wise it would be a massive upgrade probably.
I remember watching Dire Straits Hammersmith 1982 Alchemy. Incredible sound quality even though the picture quality sucks ass.
Ideally a 4 disc Blu Ray boxset I guess: 1) MSO 2) All the music videos + the 90s live stuff 3) A new documentary. 4) Some of the old documentaries (Bat off the record / In Search of Paradise) or whatever.
Music wise maybe a Bat trilogy boxset release for the first time? Probably a touchy subject for some people.
Could include a disc with B sides and possibly a few vault recordings if available alongside Prize Fight Lover (the original version).
Or go all out and have 10 discs boxset
"Bat Out Of Hell Trilogy: Everything between Heaven and Hell"
1 Bat
2 Bat live + related stuff
3: Bat 2
4: The Bat 2 collectors special disc
5. Bat 3
6. Bat 3 sound board recording from RAH (if available?)
7. Bat 3 sound board recording from RAH (if available?)
8. The best of other Jim & Meat songs (Most of the Dead Ringer songs / Surf's Up / the Jim WTTN songs / Braver / Home By Now / A Kiss etc)
9. The best of other Jim & Meat songs: live.
10. B sides, outtakes combined with some poignant interview snippets and ending with PFL.
But no, it will never happen. If Meat had been with the same record company all his career (under Sony or so) perhaps we would see something.