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90
It may be easy to dismiss this as ridiculous, but there's real style and craft here and its kitsch is intentional. It may elevate adolescent passion to operatic dimensions, and that's certainly silly, but it's hard not to marvel at the skill behind this grandly silly, irresistible album.
80
As a whole, Bat Out of Hell is a very consistent, very fun album. At seven songs, it delivers everything that you could ask for from a rock album in 1977.
I'm just gonna say it; I don't care for Meat Loaf. Not in the slightest. I know, I listen to more classic rock than I probably should, and this album being one of the best-selling of all time, I really should like this. But I don't. This is what I imagine people who don't like Queen hear when they listen to A Night At The Opera. Just over-the-top, cheesy, operatic rock, with a singer who undeniably has all the talent but is honestly incredibly grating, and instrumentals that leave absolutely no ... read more
R.I.P Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman, the latter passed away last April but unfortunately his passing was seldom talked about. This is the first record I ever bought and is still one of my favorite albums of all time, and I will be writing an actual reflection on this soon. I'm writing this blurb while this album is still getting some attention to just get this out there- don't listen to this album with headphones. I also don't like people who tell me how I should consume my music, but I am ... read more
An extremely personally important album to me that despite my bias in favor of it, I think still stands the test of time
Nostalgia is one of the most powerful forces out there, and has always been something that I’ve strived to try and recapture in my daily life. Some say it’s a sense of familiarity, or of trying to escape to “simpler times”, but a part of me has always had a different attraction to the past that at times it’s been hard to describe. Perhaps its ... read more
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Track List
- Bat Out of Hell
- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth
- Heaven Can Wait
- All Revved Up With No Place to Go
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- Paradise By the Dashboard Light
- For Crying Out Loud
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Added on: September 3, 2014