Suggest you do a Daily Mail Halloween special where you get a free CD with the newspaper. Would have worked perfectly this year as Halloween was on a Sunday, Jim songs performed alot on Xfactor the night before... shame.
> I was just thinking about alternative ways to distribute
> albums. This would not be for a major label release like
> "The Final Flight" but it could be for a really cool Jim
> Steinman's Greatest Hits album. Paul McCartney distributed
> one album through a chain of coffee shops. Wendy's
> sometimes gives away a free album with every burger. Steve
> Leber's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shifted three million
> copies of their album that way. The Mail On Sunday would
> be better. At least Prince has released an album with The
> Mail (I think it has a circulation of about four million).
>
>
> It is not practical for them to release a double CD, so
> the CD would have to be maybe twelve tracks.
>
> But what twelve tracks would you choose? For a Jim
> Steinman's Greatest Hits album? I would like a Jim
> Steinman's Greatest Hits album that included all the great
> people he has worked with. Streisand, Dion, Manilow, Take
> That, Loaf, Tyler, Sisters Of Mercy, Lloyd Webber,
> Elliman, Pandora's Box. Although this would mean a limited
> selection of Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler tracks, so it
> wouldn't really be a Jim Steinman's Greatest Hits album if
> it didn't include Two Out Of Three. More of an
> "Introduction To The Musical World Of Jim Steinman".
>
> Of course a limited number of Bat songs might be good
> because the give away album would not be competing with
> any official Bat releases from major labels.
>
> So which twelve tracks would you choose? If you could only
> include three Meat Loaf songs, which three would you pick?
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