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- #1
- Posted: 09/28/2021 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3936): Bat Out Of Hell by Meat Loaf
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Today's album of the day
Bat Out Of Hell by Meat Loaf (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1977.
Country: 
Overall rank: 573
Average rating: 71/100 (from 603 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Bat Out Of Hell
2. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
3. Heaven Can Wait
4. All Revved Up With No Place To Go
5. Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
6. Paradise By The Dashboard Light
7. For Crying Out Loud
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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- #2
- Posted: 09/28/2021 20:36
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An absolute juggernaut of an album in terms of all time sales. I've always found this album to be quite clever lyrically. The best tracks on this album are among my all time favorites.
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Fischman
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- #3
- Posted: 09/29/2021 00:33
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Rampant hormone infused over the top bombast...
... at its finest.
I still love listening to most of it today.
Steinman was the man.
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EyeKanFly
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- Posted: 09/29/2021 01:46
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I've heard this album called a spoof of Springsteen's Born to Run. Born to Run has almost always been in my top 20 all time, as has Bat Out of Hell. It's like everything Bruce does over the top but also with the humor dialed up to 11. And why I think the Springsteen spoof ended up SO successful is that Steinman and Meat Loaf were able to recruit 2 E Street Band members for the album. Plus the rest of the talent is also excellent and is unmatched in any of Steinman or Meat Loaf's later albums: Todd Rundgren, Edgar Winter, Kasim Sulton, John Wilcox, even Ellen Foley.
This album is over the top, overindulgent, overproduced, it does everything to the maximum extent possible. And for many people, that ends up looking like tryhard bullshit. But for me, it hits. The intricate piano hits. The heavy metal guitars hit. The duets hit. The spoken word hits. The BASEBALL SPOKEN WORD hits. All of it just... connects for me. I don't know why other than that I seem to love good production, but this whole album really just lights up my day whenever I listen.
"If I gotta be damned, you know I wanna be damned dancing through the night with you"
"I swore I would love you 'til the end of time... so now I'm praying for the end of time!"
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51 Washington, D.C. albums!
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Romanelli
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- #5
- Posted: 09/29/2021 03:05
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The later CD reissue includes a positively painful to listen to live 11 minute version of the title track. His Loafness loses his voice right before your very ears, and by the end, you can actually hear physical damage being done. One of the most painful audio experiences ever.
As for the album itself...I maintain that "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" is by far the weakest track on this. The other songs are SO MUCH BETTER (not to mean that they are above and beyond brilliant). The baseball metaphor is so unnecessary and sophomoric, and this is the one song here that simply tries too hard. But DIG...Roy Bittan's frenzied piano on the title track is amazing, and Loaf sings the crap out of it. "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth"..."it must have been while you were kissing me". Yeah. "Heaven Can Wait" is the model for the power ballad (along with "Beth" by Kiss, only better). "All Revved Up With No Place To Go" simply burns. "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad" is the ultimate anti-love song:
"I want you / I need you / But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you / Now don't be sad / Cause two out of three ain't bad"
No high school boy ever put it better than that.
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May we all get to heaven
'Fore the devil knows we're dead...
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DommeDamian
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CharlieBarley
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- #7
- Posted: 09/29/2021 18:42
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Love it
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theblueboy
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- #8
- Posted: 09/29/2021 19:45
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I really like all three Bat out of Hell albums. The third one is surprisingly good.
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UofTBlues
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- #9
- Posted: 09/30/2021 17:28
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Huge album when I was in grade 9. I still have my collectors picture vinyl that's never been played.
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