Since
Meat Loaf
's
Bat Out of Hell
album is vastly better than its follow-ups,
Dead Ringer
and
Midnight at the Lost and Found
, the idea of doing a hits compilation culling familiar tracks from the three albums is not really a good one. But the second and third albums did feature U.K. hits, and
Hits
does contain the four key tracks from
Bat
-- the title track,
"Two Out of Three Ain't Bad,"
"You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth,"
"Paradise by the Dashboard Light."
A few tracks from
, notably
"Read 'Em and Weep"
"I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us,"
are in the same spirit, but the songs from
Midnight
are simply inferior. ~ William Ruhlmann