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| 4.0 excellent | lz41 | June 20th 17 |
If you don't think 'For Crying Out Loud' is one of the greatest love songs ever written you're wrong.
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| 4.0 excellent | ExoskeletalJunction | January 31st 22 |
21st January, 2022: Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (aor, 1977)
I bought this one for the cover. Well, that, and the fact that I opened the record in the store
(circa age 14) and saw that the first song was 9 minutes! Little did I know how much I would enjoy
it.
I can see all the criticism of Loaf and this album and deflect it with a simple retort of “you’re
taking it too seriously”. This album is stupid. That’s the whole point. From the excessive song
structures to the over-detailed piano playing to the excessive melodrama in the stories told, this
is the story of a man writing a magnificent shitpost with full, complete irony, and another man
singing it at the top of his astonishing range with complete unironic conviction. It’s a marriage
that never happened again - all the bands who have tried to do this ever since have entirely
missed the mark on matching sincerity and absurdity. And the music’s still great too. Okay, there
are a few too many ballads, and it does lean a bit hard on the lyrics for entertainment value for
some sections, but it’s got a guitar that sounds like a fuckin motorbike, what else do you need?
RIP Meat, RIP Jim. Long live the Bat.
8.0 (12th listen)
Part of my listening diary from my facebook music blog - www.facebook.com/TheExoskeletalJunction
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| 3.9 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | June 25th 19 |
Beautiful, heavy, and fun. Just a very cool rock'n'roll album to jam to remember yo' papa.
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| 4.5 superb | GoldenGuy444 | March 21st 19 |
Steinman and Mr. Loaf team up for one of the best symphonic rock projects of all time.
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| 2.5 average | KaliMa | May 6th 17 |
Purely dumb fun - how high you want to go with this will depend on how much fun outweighs dumb for you. Still love the title track.
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| 3.0 good | LordHamLeg | January 13th 11 |
It's good, silly, schlocky fun, and in some ways a forerunner of sleaze rock.
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| 3.5 great | Cvrst_Drums | March 1st 09 |
The first half of the album was really great by after "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad", those last couple of songs are not as great. I would say like most "Bat Out Of Hell" is a great song but I like "You Took The Words Right Out Of Mouth" better.
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| 5.0 classic | Slaytan | November 21st 07 |
The perfect blend of hard rock and theater, that's what Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell is. The music on the album is original and innovative, and to say the least, epic. The songs range up to ten minutes and beyond, all while keeping your attention, and never sounding recycled. The music was written by Jim Steinman, and excellent musician in his own right. The vocals are classic. Powerful and emotional; enough to take you to the edges of sadness and aggression all within your own mind. A truly phenomenal listen for any fan of rock, hard rock, or anyone who wants original innovative music.
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| 4.0 excellent | greenmeansgo | September 28th 07 |
Prehaps due to disapointing follow up albums, BOOH seems to be forgotten in rock history. The record, led by massive radio hits Bat out of Hell and Hot Summers Nights (You took the words right out of my mouth) is backed up with some of rocks best power ballads like Heaven can Wait and 2 out of 3 aint bad as well as some good old rock n' roll attitude with powerful instrumentation and vocals which make for a memeorable album that any fan of rock should have at least heard.
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| 5.0 classic | sombertoad | April 22nd 07 |
This album is an instant classic. There is not one song you won't enjoy on it. It has a great balance of rockers and power ballads which Meat Loaf has a strong point in. It's too bad his later stuff couldn't countinue the tradition. A great album for anyone who enjoys rock of any form
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