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Dead Ringer | 
 enlarge | Artist: Meat Loaf
Label: Sonybmg
Category: Music
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 13407
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099708364526
ASIN: B00000GAYM
Release Date: December 19, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Peel Out | | • | I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us | | • | More Than You Deserve | | • | I'll Kill You If You Don't Come Back | | • | Read 'Em And Weep | | • | Nocturnal Pleasure | | • | Dead Ringer For Love | | • | Everything Is Permitted |
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| Customer Reviews:
 A Masterpiece!!! May 11, 2008
Jake M (England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You really can not claim to own Meatloaf's very best work until you have "Dead Ringer" in your collection.
This CD is a masterpiece in every sense of the word, a perfect hard rock album. My favorite songs on this album are the incrediable "Peel Out", "I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us" and the classic "Read Em And Weep" but there isn't one track on here that I don't like, it's just too sensationial of an album not to like.
"Dead Ringer" is a disc of which you will play again and again so if don't own it then do yourself a favour and order it today, you will be doing yourself one big favour!
 A worthy follow-up? November 8, 2006
lerusty (West Country)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Intended as a worthy follow-up to Bat Out Of Hell, this album eventually appeared in 1981 and was Meat's second album. In the interim between Bat Out Of Hell and Deadringer, Meat had suffered much following the success of his debut. All songs are penned by the legendary Jim Steinman (who at the time was working on his own album 'Bad For Good'; Meat walked away from 'Bad For Good' but has subsequently recorded nearly all of the tracks on it) and would not be until 1993 until we another Meat Loaf album would be written entirely by Steinman. Todd Rundgren was no longer responsible for the production of the album. However, there are some classic tracks. The album rocks in with 'Peel Out' followed by a Meat classic 'I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us' which appears to be a kind invitation by Meat to his best friend to show his woman a good time on his behalf. The song winds up to a crescendo before Meat winds it down and then back up again. It's great stuff. Meat slows the pace a little on 'More Than You Deserve' when his 'good woman' appears to be putting it around a bit with more than one lover at a time. The next two tracks are wonderful:'I'll Kill You If You Don't Come Back' is not one of his most widely-known known but, for me, one of his best. Again, he winds it up before you feel and share with him his anger and hurt with the effective sound of breaking glass (a bottle?) followed by a slow, emotional section before he winds the tempo back up again. 'Read 'Em And Weep' is more well - known and is more of a ballad, but is full of emotion. 'Nocturnal Pleasure' is a monologue and appears to be an attempt to emulate the dialogue at the start of 'You Took The Words---' before the well-known and sucessful title track. 'Everything Is Permitted' works well as a closer.
A worthy follow-up? Yes, just about. Not as good, but enjoyable, nevertheless.
Utterly superb. January 24, 2006
Mr. P. P. Eaton (England)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I don't understand why no-one else had hardly reviewed the absolutely brilliant album, quite possibly one of the best presents ive ever had. The 1st 5 tracks put nearly all other songs in the world to shame. They are powerful, fast, energetic, rock heavy and true gems. Deadringer is the most well known track on the album, but it's not the best, that honour goes to track 1 in my opinion, 'Peel Out'. The guitars sound superb, the drums sounds ace, and Meatloaf even though he sounds like he has a blocked nose, it's the perfect voice. Excluding track 6 which is the prelude to 'Deadringer for love', track 8 is the weakest on the CD. 'Everything is permitted' isn't bad, it just doesn't stand up there in rock quality with the other songs.All in all, if someone says to you they love Meatloaf and you say 'Do you have the Deadringer album?', and then they say 'No, never heard of it' or 'No, its crap' give them a good slap and say its from me.
Absolutely magnificent March 31, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I find that many people underrate this album yet I cannot understand why. This is one of the best rock albums ever and the energy vigour and sheer power of this album is apparent in every song, bar the last one. It is purely terrific and the songs 'Peel Out', 'Dead Ringer' and 'More than you deserve' would put most people in a good mood. As far as I am concerned the song 'I'm gonna love her for both of us' is an absolute masterpiece and probably one of the least recognised of all time. This album follows 'Bat out of Hell', one of the biggest selling albums ever, and this is possibly why many people gloss over it. In terms of the quality of music this matches, if not surpasses it. Any fan of rock music would love this, young or old.
 Good but not his best work October 13, 2001
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This was the second album to be released by Meat Loaf, and although all of his work is above average this has to be one of the poorer instalments from him. If your a fan then it is a must have. But if your just a casual listener or your looking to by one of his albums for the first time then I would recommend Bat Out Of Hell, Bat Out Of Hell 2, or The Very Best Of Meat Loaf rather than this album. The album does contain some nice tracks, with Dead Ringer (the title track) being the most famous and Read 'em and Weep being another gem. However the songs on this album do not gel together well to form a good album as a whole, with good flow. It feels more like a bunch of tracks that have been thrown together. This is not a CD to listen to right the way through from the first to the last song, it is more suited to picking out the tracks you want to listen to and then just listening to those specific tracks. The songs are well written and well performed but I feel that some tracks just aren't suited to being on the same album as each other.
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