Bonnie Tyler & Meat Loaf - Heaven & Hell on CD

Description

Ostensibly, you wouldn't imagine South Wales' croaky-voiced crooner and a voluminous Texan called Meat would have much reason to share an album. Common to both of them though, is the songwriting genius of Jim Steinman--a man whose aptitude for hysterically overwrought melodrama knows no parallel this side of Andrew Lloyd-Webber. Bonnie's "Holding Out For A Hero" is about as close as we get here to the kind of pop song that might go unnoticed in a crowd. The same, of course, can't be said for "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" which manages to make feeling a bit horny sound as gigantically ominous as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Perhaps inevitably, it's Meat who steals the show: "Bat Out Of Hell and "I'll Do Anything For Love" are tattooed on the folk psyche. It is, however, a delight to be reacquainted with "Dead Ringer For Love"--the scintillating mini-opera which, lest we forget, introduced Cher to a whole new generation of salivating adolescents. 

Track List:

Bat Out of Hell 4.55
Faster Than the Speed of Night 4.42
You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth 5.05
Have You Ever Seen the Rain? 4.08
Read 'Em & Weep 3.48
Total Eclipse of the Heart 4.31
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad 4.50
Holding Out for a Hero 4.25
Dead Ringer for Love 4.23
If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) 4.02
If You Really Want To 3.39
Straight from the Heart 3.43
Loving You's A Dirty Job But Somebody's Gotta Do It 5.50
Heaven Can Wait 4.41