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The album’s creators, composer Jim Steinman and actor Meat Loaf, came up with the fundamental ingredients for this album while touring with the National Lampoon show. Three of the songs that ...
- ‘You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)’
- ‘Heaven Can Wait’
- ‘All Revved Up with No Place to Go’
- ‘Two Out of Three Ain’T Bad’
- ‘For Crying Out Loud’
- ‘Bat Out of Hell’
- ‘Paradise by The Dashboard Light’
A Big Bad Wolf-inspired spoken-word opening leads into a hand-clapping homage to Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound.” Meat Loaf, who died in January at age 74, passionately takes on the role of a young man “just about to say I love you” who’s overcome by the object of his affections.
The touching, angelic piano-and-string ballad finds Meat Loaf at his most genteel, reflecting on a relationship that gave him a “taste of paradise” and stating he’d rather skip the hereafter and stick around on Earth with his true love:"If the Lord should come for me before I wake / I wouldn't want to go / If I can't see your face."
The hormones are at full blast in this saxophone-powered stomper about a lonely all-American dude out on Saturday night looking for lovein primal fashion and finding his “dream come true” on the main drag. And the lyrics "I was a varsity tackle and a hell of a block / When I played the guitar I made the canyons rock" are a fun combo of Meat Loaf's ...
Name-checking a Coupe de Ville and Cracker Jack, the biggest “Bat” single was this soft-rock hit that dials down the over-the-top melodrama that fills most of the album – though the singer is “crying icicles instead of tears.” He's looking back on the girl who got away, even though their love was a one-way street.
Of all the dynamic tracks, this song truly runs the gamut, from a yearning, sweeping hymn of devotion ("Oh, give me just another moment / To see the light of the day") to a loud and boisterous orchestral declaration of endearmentthat brings the monumental album to a thoughtful conclusion.
The glorious opening title trackkicks off with a scorching instrumental overture followed by a driving rocker where Meat Loaf hits the road on his silver Black Phantom motorbike and proclaims to his lady, “You know I want to be damned / Dancing through the night with you.” There’s a resigned understanding that this love might be doomed but, darn it...
The magnificent duet between Meat Loaf and backup singer Ellen Foley has become a staple at karaoke bars and wedding receptions but, like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” it’s also a pop anthem that works on an ingenious level. A love-song symphony in three movements, “Paradise” tells the tale of a teen boy and girl who meet by the lakeside and engage in a sex...
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Bat Out of Hell is the 1977 debut studio album by American rock singer Meat Loaf and composer Jim Steinman. The album was developed from a musical, Neverland, a futuristic rock version of Peter Pan, which Steinman wrote for a workshop in 1974. It was recorded during 1975–1976 at various studios, including Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New ...
Jan 21, 2022 · “Bat Out of Hell” opens one of the top 10 best-selling albums of all time of the same name. Originally written as the ultimate “motorcycle crash song".
The video script, such as it was, called for singer Elaine Caswell to be sexually aroused by a large python and writhing on a bed that lit up in time with the music, while surrounded by a group of bemused, semi-naked dancers on a day-trip for their regular gig in Cats.
The Bat Out Of Hell album was released on October 21, 1977 and contained two other tracks from Neverland as well: "Heaven Can Wait" and "All Revved Up with No Place to Go." Steinman trademarked the name "Bat Out Of Hell" in 1995, and in 2006, Meat Loaf sued him when Steinman wouldn't let him use the title "Bat Out Of Hell III" for an album.
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Aug 2, 2022 · Three of the songs in Neverland – Bat Out Of Hell, Heaven Can Wait, and Formation of the Pack (All Revved Up With No Place To Go) – were exceptional, the pair felt, and Steinman began to develop them as part of a seven-song set they wanted to record as an album.
