The end of series seven is nigh! But not before we dive into the requests bin and find out why Meat Loaf ended up on South Park and where Jim pulled one last great song out for the Bat musical.

PLUS we continue our aimless chat about the 90s, remember the time when we were cool and complain about the pains in our bodies. All in one episode. A real roller coaster. It's good stuff!


Chat out of Hell is a is a review podcast: all music extracts are used for review/illustrative purposes. To hear the songs in full please buy them from your local record shop or streaming platform. Don't do a piracy. Music extracts on this episode:

Tonight is Right For Love by Chef from South Park (actually Isaac Hayes, come on) and Meat Loaf from the album Chef Aid (1998)
What Part of My Body Hurts the Most by Rob Fowler and Sharon Sexton from the Bat out of Hell Musical Original Cast Album (2017)

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Chat out of Hell marches gleefully onward into a pair of quite forgettable mid-era Meat Loaf tracks. We chat Meat Loaf's love of adultery in Love You Out Loud, then take a quick trip into the realm of liner-note short stories in Peace on Earth.

PLUS we pitch a sitcom about C-3P0's son, solve the mystery of David Balamezi's identity and find a country musician who looks like a tech billionaire wearing his dad's suit. It's good stuff!

Chat out of Hell is a is a review podcast: all music extracts are used for review/illustrative purposes. To hear the songs in full please buy them from your local record shop or streaming platform. Don't do a piracy. Music extracts on this episode:

Love You Out Loud by Meat Loaf from the album Couldn't Have Said it Better (2003)
Peace on Earth by Meat Loaf from the album Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010)
Peace on Earth by Rick Brantley from the album Prize Fight Lover, Soul Auctioneer (2008)

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Time to pay tribute to the dear departed Bonnie Tyler with two song produced (but not written) by Jim Steinman and nary a Meat Loaf in sight.

PLUS a bit of chat about why Shireen Davies would sound like a belly dancer, why Bonnie was much better than Meat Loaf and the absolutely nonsense that is Jim Steinman's video for If You Were a Woman. It's good stuff!


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Band of Gold by Bonnie Tyler from the album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire (1986)
Band of Gold by Freda Payne, single (1970)
Band of Gold by Belinda Carlisle from the album Belinda (1986)
If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) by Bonnie Tyler from the album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire (1986)

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Meat Loaf's attitude is up for discussion this episode. Is he a sulky teenager or a mean dad?

PLUS Roger Daltrey pops up, a demand for new ukulele covers of the lesser Meat Loaf back catalogue and a reasonably introspective conversation about fan culture. It's good stuff!

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Bad Attitude by Meat Loaf from the album Bad Attitude (1984)
Blind Before I Stop by Meat Loaf from the album Blind Before I Stop (1986)

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Chat out of Hell dives into the soundtrack of the awful Jim Steinman / MTV Wuthering Heights movie this episode, and surfaces with something wonderful. But also a lot of dismay. The wonderful probably does outstrip the dismay but it is a close run thing. Oh, Jim.

PLUS we finally find a decent link between Meat Loaf and Star Trek, Sam tries to remember how a Bajoran space pope died, and a considered chat about what happens when you're creatively tied forever to someone you resent. It's good stuff!

Chat out of Hell is a is a review podcast: all music extracts are used for review/illustrative purposes. To hear the songs in full please buy them from your local record shop or streaming platform. Don't do a piracy. Music extracts on this episode:

The Future Ain't What it Used to Be by Pandora's Box from the album Original Sin (1989)
The Future Ain't What it Used to Be demo by Patti Russo (2001)
The Future Ain't What it Used to Be by Erika Christensen from the MTV Wuthering Heights sountrack (2003)
The Future Ain't What it Used to Be by Meat Loaf from Bat out of Hell III (2006)
The Future Ain't What it Used to Be by Jennifer Jones, live at the World AIDS Day Concert in Durban (2000)
If it Ain't Broke, Break It by Meat Loaf from the album Bat out of Hell III (2006)

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We're back to discuss more of the works of music's 93rd most fractious duo. We open series seven with a chat about Jim Steinman's solo effort Stark Raving Love and manage not to insult him too hard for once, then it's off to see where Meat Loaf's ended up during the filming of the Razor's Edge video.

PLUS some nonsense about Andy's Records (remember Andy's Records? Cripes), what Jim got up to when Todd Rundgren was away on tour, and why breaking in a new pair of boots simply isn't cool.

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Stark Raving Love by Jim Steinman from the album Bad For Good (1981)
Razor's Edge by Meat Loaf from the album Midnight at the Lost and Found (1983)

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Time for a quick film club before we dive into series seven!

In a break from Film Club tradition we only interrogate one film this episode, to give us time to talk about something good (Emily Bronte's marvellous novel Wuthering Heights) before we crash into having to discuss something awful (Jim Steinman's MTV movie transplating Wuthering Heights to 2003 California).

Oh dear.

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From high-culture to the lowest of the low, it's Chat out of Hell!

As we close out series six with listener requests, Sam pays attention to what Meat Loaf was up to when he sang with Pavarotti for the children of Bosnia, while Emma draws the short straw and has to listen to some sexist crap he did with Jack Black. But we still answer other Meat Loaf-adjacent questions, like:

- What kind of song would convince the Prime Minister of Italy to build a sewer system?

- What did that cheeky scamp Bono get up to when Pavarotti's people told him he couldn't smoke cigarettes around the maestro?

- How exactly are women like roses?

PLUS some good chat about first dances, a brief apology to the people of Ireland for Oliver Cromwell, and Sam's been allowed to send emails again.

We're off for a break now but we'll be back on May 25th with a Film Club all about Jim Steinman's Wuthering Heights. Sorry about that.

Chat out of Hell is a is a review podcast: all music extracts are used for review/illustrative purposes. To hear the songs in full please buy them from your local record shop or streaming platform. Don't do a piracy. Music extracts on this episode:

Torna a Sorrento by Luciano Pavarotti and Meat Loaf from Pavarotti and Friends for the Children of Bosnia (1995)
Like a Rose by Meat Loaf from Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010)
Like a Rose by New Medicine from Breaking the Model (2014)

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