Midnight at the Lost and Found
May 1983
Meat Loaf
Midnight at the Lost and Found
1.5 out of 5
Ugh. The very idea that I had to listen to this again…sometimes I hate my own OCD.
Nothing has changed since I reviewed it last. So, I will just repost that.
Blech
Proving without a shadow of a doubt that Meat is a vessel and the “meat” comes from Jim Steinman, Loaf put out the contractual obligation record with no contribution from his svengali.
It sort of sucks. I'll sit through it, so you don't have to, but I won't go on. It starts off awful and it's a bumpy ride all the way through.
The title track tries really and it almost makes it. It's stupid and repetitive and doesn't know that it's only a 2 minute song, but it does it's best. So does “Wolf at the Door” but they are sketches at best. There's no Rundgren or Steinman to carry them over the threshold. Even the cover of Chuck Berry's “The Promised Land” falls short of inspiration. And that song is almost impossible to get wrong.
The rest is just an amalgam of bad. And Meat's blubbery visage on the cover doesn't really help matters, y'know?
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