Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell: C/D?

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I 've barely stopped playing it since I picked it up a couple days ago.

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

It will grow weary in a few weeks and you will never listen to it again. but till then it RAWKS.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

When I finally heard it for the first time, I dubbed it "Springsteen on Broadway" -- and it, like Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Born to Run," beats the hell out of the 'real' thing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i recently played it again after years of not doing so, and i still think it's pretty great. same goes for part 2... oh, jim steinman, i LOVE you! *wink*

― cecilia, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic! Meat Loaf is a God among mere mortals.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Meatloaf is a fallen God, he made Deadringer after all is said and done. A Fallen Sweaty Smelling God.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

but a God nonetheless

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

But a god I don't want in the same room as me, he'd eat all the luncheon meat.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

he's a vegetarian!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I can rememebr the first time I heard Meatloaf. I was at the counter at the bowling alley renting my bowling shoes. I immediately got the LP and then saw him on his first major tour at the Palladium in NYC.

― Chainring, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic. 2 out of 3 ain't bad is scary it's so good. Andrew WK should cover this whole album.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

he's a vegetarian!

That's ironic, cuz he has the word "meat" in his name.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was growing up, I always thought "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" had a HAPPY ending! I mean, the music sounds so upbeat, and I thought the "end my time with you" was some sort of 'we'll be together for all eternity' thing.

But then...I looked closely at the lyrics one day, and figured out that the whole thing is the guy is sick of the girl and wants to end his time with her! It blew my mind. Well, okay, not really.

But anyway, "Bat Out of Hell" the song truly rocks.

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

"Springsteen on Broadway" is an apt enough description. I've never owned this LP though! I did see Mr. Loaf a couple times in a store or something back in CT. I remember once he was wearing sweat pants and a leather jacket and his hair looked stringy.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:49 (twenty-three years ago)

What always amazed me about the album was just how many Todd Rundgrens there were on it. A million guitars, a million tiny Todd voices, truly a particularly irritating masterwork. My wife loves it a lot more than I do after all this time - every woman I've ever known has a soft spot for it -, but I bought it the very day it came out and freaked. I agree with Mr Noodles, I myself am sorta off of it, but I'd never begrudge its genius.

― matt riedl (veal), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember when I got this for my 11th birthday. I was so disappointed! I wanted rock n' roll, not this broadway musical crap. Cover: classic. Music: complete dud.

― James Annett, Wednesday, 30 October 2002 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

he's a vegetarian!

its luncheon meat, so what.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 02:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, the cover art could be misleading that way.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 04:06 (twenty-three years ago)

VH1 Classic just showed the "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" video. Mock me if you will, but I think Meat Loaf was a very sexy guy back in the '70s.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 06:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I wasn't making a joke, he really is a vegetarian.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 08:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Dud.

I used to work in a pub that had "Bat out of hell" on the jukebox and I had to listen to it about six times EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY. And it made me want to kill him.
However, I thought the performance they showed on that Old Grey Whistle Test anniversary thingy a while back was very funny.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

PBTDL - classic-o !
i know 2 people who can sing it all the way thru,
do all the voices. *god* it's good.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 30 October 2002 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Him being a vegitarean is besides the point, hed eat all the crackers then, an no civilized person eats Spam by the hand do they?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I concede.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

what i want to know is if it is really cold and lonely in the deep dark night, how the fuck could he see paradise by the dashboard light? Did she have a torch up her cunt or what?

― Queen G of the morning after, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a dashboard light.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

but see for it to have been cold and lonely, it would have had to be him on his own, unless it's a meatloaf sized metaphor for our existence wherin we are touched briefly by the presence of women with torch dildos and dashboard lights on their nipples.

― Queen G of the morning after, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I only like the "if I gonna be damned, then i wanna be damned" bit. the rest is rubbish, pseudo-springsteen.

and springsteen's much better.

i love bruce.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

No, the point is that Meat Loaf and Steinman do Springsteen BETTER because it's flashy show biz and not all this huffy meaningfulness BS.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

no, the line is "cold and lonely in the deep dark night", i.e. everywhere around the parked car except for inside it.
I think we need a TS : Springsteen vs Meatloaf thread.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

No, ned:

bruce is great, meat loaf is a pisher.

that's hardly the point, but it is true.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

Hrmm...I wonder if the first two posts of this thread will be my fate. Right now, I love this album. Redonkulously over the top.

― john. a resident of chicago., Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:56 (thirteen years ago)

five years pass...

imagine paying money to see this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMmbJzgaroA

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 21 May 2017 05:51 (eight years ago)

You're probably better off with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--w_UMJYgMQ

― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Sunday, 21 May 2017 13:08 (eight years ago)

the "let me sleep on it" segment has always been one of the most excruciating passages in rock history

― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 21 May 2017 13:33 (eight years ago)

otm. I like the album but that fucking segment makes the song feel 20 minutes long and sucks

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 21 May 2017 13:34 (eight years ago)

Bat out of Hell was a formative album for me but I basically always skip "Paradise" entirely

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:27 (eight years ago)

It will grow weary in a few weeks and you will never listen to it again. but till then it RAWKS.

This turned out to be a largely accurate prediction.

― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:31 (eight years ago)

three years pass...

According to Meat Loaf's autobiography, Davis commented that "actors don't make records" and challenged Steinman's writing abilities and knowledge of rock music:

Do you know how to write a song? Do you know anything about writing? If you're going to write for records, it goes like this: A, B, C, B, C, C. I don't know what you're doing. You're doing A, D, F, G, B, D, C. You don't know how to write a song.... Have you ever listened to pop music? Have you ever heard any rock-and-roll music.... You should go downstairs when you leave here...and buy some rock-and-roll records.[18]

Meat Loaf asserts "Jim, at the time, knew every record ever made. [He] is a walking rock encyclopedia." Although Steinman laughed off the insults, the singer screamed "Fuck you, Clive!" from the street up to his building.[19]

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 July 2020 14:35 (five years ago)

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