Meat Loaf - Hang Cool Teddy Bear [Deluxe Edition 2010]
Artist: Meat Loaf
Album: Hang Cool Teddy Bear [Deluxe Edition]
Release Date: 2010
Label: Roadrunner
Type: Explicit Lyrics
Genre: Pop/Rock
AMG Album ID: R 1778751
Review By: Caroline Sullivan
Meat Loaf doesn't want peace on earth, he roars on the first track of this album; he just wants to go home. Go home? In his prime, Meat would have died before being such a party-pooper. But don't despair – he's simply voicing the thoughts of a fictional soldier, whose "story" furnishes the album's theme. Each song presents "a different scenario in his future", which makes a change from the monsters and bats that have inhabited previous records, but the narrative is really incidental to the music. Hang Cool, Teddy Bear is of a piece with the rest of his catalogue: the pounding guitars never slacken, emotions are writ very large and the lyrics rarely lack sly wit ("a bunch of losers I call my friends," he bawls on Los Angeloser). Less happily, the tempo never varies – this album desperately needs a ballad – and 13 unrelenting tracks is a good deal more than enough.
Tracks Title Time
1 Peace On Earth 6:38
2 Living On the Outside 5:03
3 Los Angeloser 4:09
4 If I Can't Have You 5:00
5 Love is Not Real/Next Time You Stab Me In the Back 7:33
6 Like a Rose 3:16
7 Song of Madness 5:30
8 Did You Ever Love Somebody 4:01
9 California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl) 4:43
10 Running Away From Me 3:53
11 Let's Be In Love 5:11
12 If It Rains 3:53
13 Elvis In Vegas 6:00
Bonus CD
14 I Want You So Hard 3:11
15 Break It 4:59
16 Blind As a Bat 6:21
17 Amnesty is Granted 5:13
18 Rock and Roll Dreams 7:35
19 Anything For Love 10:01
20 2 Out of 3 Ain't Bad 6:26
21 Bat Out of Hell 12:51
22 Roadhouse/Why Don't We Do It In the Road 9:31
Enjoy! TechUK