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Dead Ringer
Rock · 1981 · 7 tracks

Dead Ringer

Meat Loaf

A high-octane collision of Broadway theatricality and leather-jacket rock. Steinman's maximalist songwriting meets Meat Loaf's most desperate, sweat-soaked vocals.

1981 · SMAT

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Dead Ringer feels like the second act of a rock opera that refuses to let the curtain fall. It is a record of immense, sweaty physical effort, where every note is sung as if it might be the last. The collaboration between Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf remains the core engine here, providing a sound that is simultaneously archaic and futuristic: 1950s teenage melodrama filtered through 1980s studio excess. It is music for the grandest version of your own life, turning mundane heartbreaks into world-ending catastrophes.

Tracklist · 7 Tracks
01
Peel Out
6:30
02
I’m Gonna Love Her for Both of Us
7:09
03
More Than You Deserve
7:02
04
I’ll Kill You If You Don’t Come Back
6:24
05
Read ’em and Weep
5:25
06
Nocturnal Pleasure
0:38
08
Everything Is Permitted
4:41
Moments Worth Listening For
The frantic, overlapping vocal trade-offs between Meat Loaf and Cher on the title track.
The slow, agonizing piano build-up that explodes into the chorus of Read Em and Weep.
The sheer vocal strain and emotional commitment in the final notes of I am Gonna Love Her for Both of Us.
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Dead Ringer sound next to the rest of Meat Loaf's catalogue?

Road Trip+1.1σ

Road Trip saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

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