Meat Loaf - Live With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (2 Disc Set)

While Meat Loaf’s concert performances have always been grand in scale, “Live With the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra” may very well document his most spectacular production to date. Filmed over two nights, 20th and 22nd February 2004, in Melbourne, Australia and captured by award winning director Michael Simon, the show includes everything from dancers to drummers to a choir that, along with the full 60 piece orchestra, complements the legendary performer’s hard-rocking band and underscores Meat Loaf’s unique vocal style. It is this powerful combination of dramatic forces, from symphony to opera to Broadway musical to arena rock, that lends a vibrant new perspective to Meat Loaf’s long list of well-known classic songs, resulting in a highly entertaining live concert experience for the viewer that, in true Meat Loaf fashion, is quite simply second to none. This is the ultimate realization that one imagines when listening to Meat Loaf’s epic songs.

This superb live DVD includes Meat Loaf’s biggest hits ‘Bat Out Of Hell’, ‘Dead Ringer’, ‘You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth’, Paradise By The Dashboard Light’ and ‘I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)’ and many others, all of which are presented in crystal clear Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. The DVD also includes a featurette, interview, photo gallery and track by track commentary by Meat Loaf. Says the singer, “Ever since Bat Out Of Hell was recorded, I always envisioned performing these songs with an orchestra. It may have taken 25 years to finally realize the opportunity but I think it was well worth the wait.”

Tracklist:
Life Is A Lemon / Mercury Blues / Dead Ringer / Testify / All Revved Up With No Place To Go / You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) / I Couldn’t Have Said It Better / Frying Pan / I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) / For Cryin’ Out Loud / Paradise By The Dashboard Light / Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad / Bat Out Of Hell