Not bad ! Beautiful arrangements !

Well, this album IS one of the top 10 highest selling albums of all-time. That counts for something!

If people actually liked albums because they're different, Thriller would not be the highest selling album ever, trust me.

It's different in the sense that it's not a normal album. It was hated by Epic Records, but their subsidiary Cleveland unleashed the power of Hell anyway. People like this album because it's different. It doesn't fit in any regular genre other than Bat Out of Hell style.

Some may find it cheesy, but like it anyway. I find it brilliant.

Personally I like this album, how is this that much different then plenty of 70's album? Perhaps a bit more cheesy, but some of the greatest albums and bands are cheesy (beatles come to mind, but I don't like the beatles). This album has such a great sound and sums up everything about 70's rock.

cheese

This is probably my favorite album. Whenever I listen to it, I try to think of what it's based on, an off-Broadway futuristic Peter Pan play that never got produced, and the very thought that the script sucked so hard (I've read it on Steinman's website) that the music in this album may never have been heard. Thank you Epic Records! I still can't believe I know people who just don't like Meat Loaf.

Bat Out of Hell 5/5
You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth 5/5
Heaven Can Wait 4/5
All Revved Up 4/5
Two Out of Three 4.5/5
Paradise By the Dashboard Light...It has to be 6/5
For Crying Out Loud 4/5

I give this album a 10/10. Maybe it's not the greatest album ever, but it's one of the best I've heard. An album that has motorcycle guitar, saxaphone by Edgar Winter, and a story about how paradise can turn into a prayer for the end of time. Yup, a diamond-certified album that glows like the metal on the edge of the knife.

By the way, watch the Classic Albums episode for this album. I learned some pretty cool stuff about Meat Loaf and his group. It has interviews with Meat, Steinman, Foley, Bittan, I think Sulton, and Rundgren.

Sound wise it's a great album. Lyrics are standard for the time period.

This may be too bold a statement... but this is much heavier version of Springsteen's Born to Run.

Fantastic album is worth the listen a few times :)