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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.

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:

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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Justin Hawkins, Sean McDonnell and a whole load of Our Souls, it's Chat out of Hell! Time to get into the deep Meat Loaf adjactent questions, like:

- How many early 2000s ITV celeb reality shows can you name?

- What did Brian May think of Meat Loaf?

- Honestly, what was that soldier dying on the battlefield actually thinking of?

PLUS we get into it with Rednex's football anthem and all the usual other sundry nonsense.

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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 is Not Real by Meat Loaf from Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010)
Our Love and Our Souls by Meat Loaf from Hell in a Hand Basket (2011)
Our Love and Our Souls by Sean McConnell from the Walk Around EP (2008)
Football is our Religion by Rednex from The Cotton Eye Joe Show (2008)

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Off we go again! Time for us to analyse the saddest Jim Steinman you've ever heard, the fairly saddest Barbra Streisand, and just a regular Meat Loaf. 

And with those three gathered, we can get some answers. Answers to questions like:

- What made the Everly Brothers fall out?

- How many Steinman stage shows featured a motorbike in the big first act closer?

- How many veterans of the UK military credit Jim Steinman with their career success?

PLUS a lot of chat about feelings, a child doing reggae and all the usual sundry nonsense.

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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:

Left in the Dark by Jim Steinman from the album Bad For Good (1981)
Left in the Dark by Barbra Streisand from the album Emotion (1984)
Left in the Dark by Meat Loaf from the album Welcome to the Neighbourhood (1995)
Lämnad i Mörkret by Cecilia Vennersten from the album Cecilia Vennersten (1995)
A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste by Meat Loaf from the album The Very Best of Meat Loaf (1998)
A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste from the Whistle Down the Wind Cast Album (1998)

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Don't tell anyone, but Emma went on holiday and Sam forgot to schedule the publishing date of the episode this week. Bit awks.

BUT not half as awks as what Meat Loaf gets up to this episode! Man of what?

- Why is he like this?

- Why is Jim the way he is?

- Why are Heck's sausages so delicious?

PLUS a pretty flawed way of wedging in Rednex, and some other sundry nonsense.


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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:

My Little Red Book by Pandora's Box from the album Original Sin (1989)
My Little Red Book by Manfred Mann (1965)
My Little Red Book by Love (1966)
Man of Steel by Meat Loaf from the album Couldn't Have Said it Better (2003)

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