“STONEY & MEATLOAF” self titled rock LP on RARE EARTH ’71 original NM SUPERB

$

40

Artist:  STONEY & MEATLOAF

Title:  “Stoney & Meatloaf”

Label:  RARE EARTH.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is red with black text.  Catalog number is R 528L. 

Year:   1971

Condition: 

DISC:  NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A solid “10” out of 10.

JACKET:  Jacket is beautiful NM- with flawless front and back panels.  Seams and spine are excellent.  Corner tips have light rubbing.  An awesome display piece to accompany the superb disc.

Disc is neatly enclosed in scarce original RARE EARTH RECORDS factory inner sleeve, in top condition!

Track Listing: 

Side One:  

• (I’d Love to Be) As Heavy As Jesus
• She Waits By the Window
• It Takes All Kinds of People
• Game of Love
• Kiss Me Again

Side Two:

• What You See is What You Get
• Sunshine (Where’s Heaven)
• Jimmy Bell
• Lady Be Mine
• Jessica White

Review: 

“Jim Steinman once commented that his biggest -- and heaviest -- protégé, Meat Loaf, required larger-than-life material because he couldn't sing down-to-life-sized songs.  This first Loaf album, released to little fanfare in 1971 before the singer and Steinman became a steady coupling, disproves this, somewhat, by offering Meat the surges and releases of a gospel cadence; the opening "(I'd Love to Be) As Heavy as Jesus" had no business skipping the smash hit list in an era of "Oh Happy Day" and "Put Your Hand in the Hand."  Elsewhere, "What You See Is What You Get" foreshadows the Steinman touch of song-weaving from cliché, though its toughness doesn't include Steinman's knack for twisting clichés into Möbius strips.  "Jimmy Bell," a traditional, finds Meat bellowing a mysterious, immediately sinister tale of a preacher with a secret, though that secret lies deep between the lines.  Elsewhere the singer and his partner, Stoney, trade off lines, feed off each other's energy, and generally elevate, with help from the session musicians, some second-tier material in gospel, soul, and psychedelic pop ("She Waits By the Window") veins.”

(courtesy Andrew Hamlin, allmusic.com.)  

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