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Welcome to the State Of Fantasy Wiki! We are a supernatural themed roleplaying wiki revolving around a town filled with both mortals and supernatural creatures. On this wiki, you can roleplay a mortal, vampire, werewolf, witch, wizard, mermaid, merman, fairy, or shape-shifter. Learn more on creating a character on the getting started guide. This roleplay wiki is set in Carlingford, Ireland. Mortals and supernaturals coexist, with most mortals having no ideas that creatures from their fantasies are living among them. Both types of residents have their own version of history and knowledge of the town's locations. Most mortals are oblivious to the supernatural happenings of Carlingford, as the mortals live on the newer side of town, while the supernaturals live in the older, creepier areas. History
A long time ago, we creatures and supernatural beings had moved to the town of Carlingford. We tend to keep away from mortals, in fear they would discover our secrets. As time went on, they grew suspicious of us as we avoided them. One day, a group of brave mortals went to our side of town, in hopes of discovering what we truly are. We decided to strike at them. They fought back, thinking we went away. Little do they know that we are right under their noses. Creatures
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Here Comes the Moon!Written by: Mara Kinswit There are special names for each and every moon of the year. This year, we're welcoming the Sturgeon moon at exactly 7:16 PM on August 22. By then, the moon with be shining at its brightest for the whole month, when creatures of supernatural powers are the strongest. How are they stronger, you ask? Well, for each creature, it has a different affect, whether they like it or not.
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Welcome to the Neighbourhood is Meat Loaf's seventh studio album, released in 1995 as follow-up to the popular album Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell. It went platinum in the United States and United Kingdom.
The album is thought of as a concept 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 with Patti Russo), "Not a Dry Eye in the House" and "Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)". The first two reached #2 and #7 in the UK charts, while the latter reached #21. In some markets, radio stations were also playing "Amnesty Is Granted", even 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 with Hang Cool Teddy Bear. "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" was recorded as a sound check with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, but only included as a bonus download track.
Of the twelve songs on the album, two are written by Jim Steinman. Both are covers, the "Original Sin" from Pandora's Box's Original Sin album (it was also heard in the movie The Shadow, where it was performed by Taylor Dayne) and "Left in the Dark" first appeared on Steinman's own album Bad for Good. The first two singles are written by Diane Warren, who later also wrote songs for Meat Loaf's albums Couldn't Have Said It Better and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose.
Cover art
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 for Lolita, Stanley Kubrick's film adaption of the controversial same-titled novel by Vladimir 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.
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Track listing
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Collector's edition
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Personnel
- Track numbers indicate that a musician only plays the instrument so noted on that specific track.
Arrangements
- Rory Dodd, Kasim Sulton – background vocal arrangers
Band
- Meat Loaf – lead vocals
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- 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)
Regular Meat Loaf Studio Sidemen
- Tim Pierce – guitars (1-3, 5, 7-10, 12)
- Eddie Martinez – guitars (9)
- Rick Marty – guitars (2, 4, 9, 11)
- 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)
Special Appearances
- Sammy Hagar – additional vocals and guitars (9)
- Steven Van Zandt – guitars (9)
- Susan Wood – female lead vocals (4)
- Elaine Caswell – backing vocals (3, 5)
Band on live tracks
- Pearl Aday – backing vocals
- Mark Alexander – piano, backing vocals
- Jeff Bova – organ
- Steve Buslowe – bass guitar, backing vocals
- Rick Marty – guitar, backing vocals
- John Miceli – drums
- Paul Mirkovich – keyboards
- Patti Russo – female lead vocals, backing vocals
- Kasim Sulton – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
- Pat Thrall – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Susan Wood – backing vocals
Guests on live tracks
- Steve Lukather – guitar
- Jim Steinman – piano
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