MEAT LOAF — Bat Out Of Hell (review)

MEAT LOAF — Bat Out Of Hell album cover Album · 1977 · Non-Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Warthur
Yes, it's one of the silliest and cheesist rock albums ever, but Bat Out of Hell is too fun to turn down. Endlessly enjoyable to sing along to (particularly when drunk), the album is also a bit more diverse than it's sometimes given credit for - there's a wonderful dirty glam rock stomp to All Revved Up With No Place To Go, for instance. Paradise By the Dashboard Light might be the goofiest multi-part rock suite ever recorded in the 1970s, but there's something archetypal about it which can't make me hate it, and the same's true of You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth and the title track.

In fact, there's pretty much no duds on here, provided you're happy with an album which takes all the trappings of pompous, self-important rock opera and produces something which is impossible to take seriously with it. Whenever I play it I feel like a teenager again, and that's got to be worth something. I'll leave you with one thought: Jack Black as Meat Loaf in a biopic about the making of Bat Out of Hell. Wouldn't that just be the perfect casting?
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Vim Fuego wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Love the movie suggestion. Love some of these songs too, which also remind me of being a teenager, although it was already a good few years old by then.

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