Welcome to the Neighbourhood
Studio album by Meat Loaf
Released	October 30, 1995[1] November 7, 1995 (US)[2]
Recorded	April–August 1995
Genre	Hard rock heavy metal[3]
Length	58:56
Label	Virgin MCA (US)
Producer	Ron Nevison Sammy Hagar Steven Van Zandt Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf chronology
Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993) Welcome to the Neighbourhood (1995) Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003)
Singles from Welcome to the Neighbourhood
"I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" Released: October 3, 1995 "Not a Dry Eye in the House" Released: January 15, 1996 "Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)" Released: April 15, 1996

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Cash Box	(favorable)[5]
NME	4/10[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[7]
Q	[8]

Welcome to the Neighbourhood is the seventhstudio album by American rock singerMeat Loaf, released on October 30, 1995 as the follow-up to his successful comeback albumBat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell. It went platinum in the United States and United Kingdom.

The album is thought of as aconcept album, as all of the songs are ordered in the track listing as to tell a story about a relationship throughout the years. Three singles were released: "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" (a duet withPatti Russo), "Not a Dry Eye in the House" and "Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)". They reached #2, #7 and #21 in the UK charts, with the first two written byDiane Warren, who later also wrote songs for Meat Loaf's albumsCouldn't Have Said It Better andBat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose. In some markets, radio stations also played "Amnesty Is Granted", though it was not released as an official single. Despite the chart success of the album and its singles, only "Amnesty is Granted" has appeared on an official live album,Casa De Carne (Live 2008) as a bonus CD withHang Cool Teddy Bear. "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" was recorded as a sound check with theMelbourne Symphony Orchestra, but only included as a bonus download track.

Of the 12 songs on the album, two are covers of songs fromJim Steinman projects; "Original Sin" first appeared onPandora's Box'sOriginal Sin album (it was also heard in the filmThe Shadow, where it was performed byTaylor Dayne), and "Left in the Dark" first appeared on Steinman's own albumBad for Good. Another cover on the album is "Martha" originally byTom Waits, from his 1973 debut albumClosing Time.

The theme on the cover art and inside booklet is that of detective novels of the 1950s. The booklet, aside from having the lyrics for every song, features a "Detective Novel" per song with modified titles to accommodate the titles of the songs. At least one image, the one associated with "Where Angels Sing" (the final track on the album), is easily recognizable: it is the same image, only with slightly altered colors, as in the movie poster forLolita,Stanley Kubrick's film adaption of the controversialsame-titled novel byVladimir Nabokov; the typeface used to write "Where Angels Sing" is also the same one as in the poster. This style was also used for the three singles released off the album, with the cover art for each of them being its correspondent novel from the booklet.

In 2011, a three disc collector's edition was released. The first disc includes the songs on the original release with four additional tracks.

The second disc was recorded live at theBeacon Theatre on 23 October 1995, except tracks 10 and 11 (recorded in 1989). Track 9 is, by mistake, the studio track.

The third disc is a five track DVD.

• Rory Dodd,Kasim Sulton – background vocal arrangers

• Meat Loaf –lead vocals

• Pat Thrall –guitars (2–5, 7, 8, 10, 12)
• Kasim Sulton –acoustic guitars (8),backing vocals
• Steve Buslowe –bass guitar
• Mark Alexander –piano (2–5, 7–12)
• John Miceli – drums (12)
• Patti Russo – female lead vocals (2, 10)
• Pearl Aday – backing vocals (1, 2, 5)

• Tim Pierce – guitars (1–3, 5, 7–10, 12)
• Eddie Martinez – guitars (9)
• Paul Jacobs – piano (1)
• Jeff Bova –keyboards,Hammond B3 (2, 4),programming (6)
• Kenny Aronoff –drums
• Rory Dodd – backing vocals
• Curtis King – backing vocals (1, 2, 7–10, 12)

• Sammy Hagar –additional vocals and guitars (9)
• Steven Van Zandt – guitars (9)
• Susan Wood – female lead vocals (4)
• Elaine Caswell – backing vocals (3, 5)

• Meat Loaf albums
• 1995 albums
• Albums produced by Steven Van Zandt
• Albums produced by Ron Nevison

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