Your opinions on the album Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf?

Me neither. But BOOH? I get all the bombastic, OTT, broadway, juvenile, bad taste, criticisms etc.
All part of the fun. The sax in All Revved Up brings a huge smile to my face every time I hear it. Lovely ballads, tongue-in-cheek humour of many song titles based an well-known expressions, the whole enchilada. And the title track is majestic.
I don't follow all of the "master tapes were lost" things, but if this got a revelatory remix/remaster, I'd be there in a nanosecond. I have the SACD, it's still not there.

On a side note, I've noticed the Covid stuff in this thread regurgitated, as it was banned on the RIP thread. As it should have been. "your-opinions-on-the-album-bat-out-of-hell-by-meat-loaf." = "He was an anti-vaxxer"
Sheesh.

 

I assume if the masters have been lost, it happened after the 1999 Classic Albums doc, as both Todd and Meat (separately) seemed to be working with a full deck, as it were.

I Gotta Full Deck (Lay Your Cards On Me Tonight)

EG.

 

It's a novelty album. Well done, but still a novelty album.

 

I remember growing up hearing this and Dark Side were record breaking sellers. Loved the album cover. Got it. Was kinda like a Broadway play. Totally different from what I thought. Now it’s fine. Time has opened me more. RiP Meat you were great. Rock on.

 

I love the title track, but the rest of the album does nothing for me.

 

Pity; "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" is one of the most perfect songs ever written.

 

Nah, thats ACDC.

 

well, that's a unique way of putting it.

 

I dont think Meatloaf or AC/DC are really rated at all. They have fans but never heard them rated or critically accessed. More ignored by any rating at all. Never hip. Not in that crowd

 

This.

People see records like Bat of of Hell or Back in Black sell umpteen million copies and call them overrated. They are extremely popular records and you could probably argue that both of them succeed handily at what they were intended to do, and were popular. To me, anyway, that all has little if anything to do with how they were or were not "rated".

 

A thread from 2017 that I was able to vote in! Voted! Great album.
There were stars never seen before! Is this a new or old thing?

 

5 stars from me for content. Ground breaking at the time, and still love it today (just an overgrown kid). 2 stars for playback as most posters state. I seriously thought back when that my capacitators had leaked or some similar tragedy had befallen my Ferrograph amp of the time, so had to check with "Live at Leeds" as a benchmark.
No - everything was as it should be.
A real shame, because an audiophile Bat of Hell would have been fab.

 

Been watching vids of Meatloaf lately. I really like his stuff. Jim Steinman had a real way for cool epic songs. Someone posted Original Sin in another thread and I loved it. I think my taste has changed since I first heard Meatloaf. I like it now. Searched bit found no Cd or Lp with Jim Steinman stuff. I’d love a comp with selected songs, Original Sin long version, and Meatloaf, Bonnie Tyler. I’d kill for one. Think it would be a fun listen

 

Not for me-can't identify with the lyrics at all and the bombast and emotion is too overwrought -it is not to my taste

 

I only bought Bat Out of Hell about 6 months ago.
My brother had it on cassette (!) back in the day. Probably still does too.
I like it. I gave it 4 stars. It's definitely over the top and cheesy, but it's still only rock and roll.

 

Old history. I was in Southern California when Bat Out of Hell was first released (Oct, 1977) and for some reason it got very little airplay. Such little airplay that my Swiss cheese emory says there may have even been an article in Rolling Stone about it. I'm not sure what was behind this bias. It continued for a while, even after the album became a hit in other parts of the country. Does anybody else (of a certain age as they say) remember that initial ignoring of the album by the FM stations?

 

Obscure fact: Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad is the red headed love child of Wayne Newton’s Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast.

 

The best of rock and the best of theatre music all in one. Repellent for people who take rock waaaay too seriously. A masterpiece.

 

Shortly after it's release I bought it at a local department store based on the cover and Todd Rundgren as producer. Didn't make it through one complete play and took it back. When asked why I was returning it I just said it sucked. They actually took it back for store credit.

 

1. ★★★★★ and well deserved. : )

 

Life is a lemon and you got your money back.

 

I listened to it, more than once. I couldn't understand what all the hoopla was about. 2 stars. Just doesn't float my boat.

 

If anyone is interested.......................

Poll--The Weakest Link: Meat Loaf BAT OUT OF HELL, Round 1

Join in for daily discussion, and vote down to your (consensus) favorite song.

 

I remember Meat Loaf being big all through the 80s (I was only born in '75) and didn't really like his voice that much, still don't really. These songs still get played a lot on radio. Paradise was on the radio today and I was joining in. Parts of this song rock. Maybe different now but in the late 90s/early 00s I was quite into Karaoke and you could guarantee groups of girls doing this song. And I mean girls, not women who were around in the 70s. Girls born in the 80s, it was still quite a hit with the girlies even then.

I gave it 4 stars. Not really because I think the album itself is great but I always remember liking the artwork (yes its cliche but its still good) but Paradise and Bat out of Hell are great songs and they rock. Not keen on the slower stuff or ballady stuff (2 out of 3 is awful) as Meatloaf has this awful overemphasized vibrato which he then took to the limit with "Anything for love" Aaaargh but in Bat out of Hell and Paradise he sings instead of vibrating. Yes its showbiz, yes its musical broadway/West End. So what. Music is about entertaining and you can't entertain everyone's tastes.

4 stars for 2 great songs? They must be good (IMO.) I'm gonna get the CD out now and test my patience through the vibrating. lol

 

Bombastic, cheesy, over the top, yes yes yes ... but an absolute tour de force for Todd Rundgren and an important entry in the man's catalog. Todd's concept for Bat was to do a Bruce Springsteen pastiche and he completely pulls it off. Goes beyond it, actually, into something singular and unique. For better or worse there's nothing else like Bat Out Of Hell in popular music.

Oh yeah, Todd plays all the guitars on the album too.