Track Listing

1. Peel Out
2. I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us
3. More Than You Deserve
4. I'll Kill You If You Don't Come Back
5. Read 'Em And Weep
6. Nocturnal Pleasure
7. Dead Ringer For Love
8. Everything Is Permitted

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6330 in Music
• Released on: 2005-12-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

CD Description
When Meat Loaf burst on the rock scene in 1978 with BAT OUTOF HELL, he seemed rather sui generis. Few bands of the erahad let theatrics seep into their music as thoroughly as Meat Loaf did (though credit also goes to chief songwriter JimSteinman and producer Todd Rundgren), and the singer hit commercial paydirt with BAT's mixture of theatricality, rock, and ballads. But the multi-platinum success of his debut putan incredible strain on Meat Loaf to produce a worthy follow-up, as he and Steinman battled over what direction the sophomore effort should take, resulting in numerous release postponements. Three long years later, DEAD RINGER finally emerged in 1981. Though it had a few strikes against it--Rundgren was no longer aboard, and the emergence of punk/new wave had taken the public's love for bombastic rock down a few notches--DEAD RINGER contains more than a few gems. Keepers include a fun duet with Cher, "Dead Ringer for Love", as well as "Peel Out" and "I'll Kill You if You Don't Come Back".

Customer Reviews

Utterly superb.
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.

A Masterpiece!!!
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!

Good but not his best work
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.