Midnight at the Lost and Found

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Midnight at the Lost and Found

Studio album by Meat Loaf
Released	1983
Recorded	1982-3
Genre	Rock
Length	34:86
Label	Epic Records
Producer(s)	Tom Dowd
Dead Ringer (1981)	Midnight at the Lost and Found (1983)	Hits out of Hell (1984)

Midnight at the Lost and Found is a 1983 album by Meat Loaf.

Following a dispute with his former songwriter Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf was contractually obliged to release a new album. Struggling for time, and with no resolution to his arguments with Steinman seemingly on the horizon (eventually, Steinman would sue Meat Loaf - and Meat would sue Steinman!) he was forced to find songwriters wherever he could.

Steinman gave him "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Making Love (Out of Nothing At All)" for the album, but Meat's record company refused to pay for Steinman and he wrote the songs himself. Steinman's songs were then given to Bonnie Tyler and Air Supply respectively, becoming huge hits.^[1]

Meat Loaf is credited with being involved in the writing of numerous tracks on the album, including the title track. However, as Meat would later admit, he was not much of a songwriter (and he did not like the songs he had written for the album), and the album was regarded by many as being pretty poor. Fans were disappointed to see that the iconic pictures on the covers of Bat out of Hell and Dead Ringer were replaced by a black-and-white photograph of Meat Loaf. (On some later re-releases, a colour image of a screaming Meat Loaf was used as the cover image.)

The album has since passed into reasonable obscurity and is usually only picked up by the more avid Meat Loaf fans. Notwithstanding, the title track still regularly forms part of Meat Loaf concerts, and was one of very few 1980s songs to feature on the 1998 hit album The Very Best of Meat Loaf. This was also the last album that Meat Loaf did with the record label Epic until the 1998 release of The Very Best of Meat Loaf.