Bat Out Of Hell

Oh lawdy I am with Clive Davis who said that Steinman didn't know how to write rock music, this is more like the most ridiculous musical ever made - which is how it started. He could craft an ear-worm, but surely the only missing thing from this absurdly OTT outing is the Liza Minelli version of this album. Should add that all the singles - title track and 2 out of 3 - were inescapable on the wonderful Radio 1 of the early eighties.

Sorry. I know I should appreciate this but I can’t!!

Honestly, I hated this album.

If the options were to five up music forever or listen to this album once per week, I would take a bath with a toaster.

I’ve never really listen to Meat Loaf. I can think of 1 song I know by them. I’m surprised I actually made it through this album. I did skip ahead on a couple songs. If I had to pick a favorite, it would be Heaven Can Wait and For Crying Out Loud. Obviously for people who like this genre, it was probably a great album. It just wasn’t the album for me.

Mega corny. Very theatrical and drug-out hard rock. Almost feels like a musical at times. Hard to get through.

One man's trash is another man's trash.

Well, I did laugh a lot. Honestly even if this had been good, I would have a hard time forgiving Meatloaf for being responsible for my being subjected to 1,000 renditions of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" when I was younger and hung out in karaoke bars a lot. There's really nothing gay kids love more than an endless ballad about the bleakest heterosexual relationship imaginable. Actually now that I've paid attention to a Meatloaf album for the first time ever, it occurs to me that all of his songs seem to be endless ballads about extremely bleak heterosexual relationships. Couldn't be me.

No.

Not for me, bat out of hell is okay but the rest it’s long and drawn out.

Dreading this. Why does Bat out of Hell end with the refrain from the Lion Sleeps Tonight? Heaven Can Wait steals from Thunder Road. I don't even really care that much for Springsteen. Yes it's like listening to a musical. I like a good musical but I have to be in the mood. Stuff like this while I'm watching Little Shop of Horrors= fine. I don't understand why people would listen to this when they want to listen to actual proper music. Maybe they don't and that's the point. Look I can see how people could get carried away with this and it's definitely a mood, but I just found it really tiresome long before it ended. More tiresome than the late period U2 album I got yesterday, so... Last track called For Crying Out Loud, and it's nearly 9 minutes of liquid shite, so that's at least appropriate. Was going to get a two before that.

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Not my thing

horrible couldnt finish

This album starts well enougth with Bat out of Hell a catchy rock opera type thang. I start to challenge my thinking, maybe I've been too harsh. After the 56th minute of the same song I started to lose the will to live, distracting myself by pouring a kettle of boiling water over my feet . Relived the second song starts, however the relief is short as you are then tortured with what can only be described as a form of audio waterboarding. There is nothing about this album that is good or enjoyable. Who is more to blame Jim or Meat what a pair of w****s

blegh! meatloaf schmeatloaf ⭐

What are we doing here?

I was not into the vibe of this record at all. Pretty sure I won't ever listen to this record front-to-back again. There were a lot of talented musicians and composers working on this music but it didn't do much for me. As an 'imitation' it was impressive - I’m hearing SO MANY influences - It’s like Grease/Rocky Horror/Jesus Christ Superstar, but with Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street band, Queen, Boston, 1970s Elton John (the one true Elton obvs) and Bob Seger as the backing band, Alice Cooper is the producer.

This was the rock that Fez from that 70s show listened to with his foster parents when Eric, Donna, Kelso, Jackie, and Hyde weren’t around.

inescuchable

Good lord this felt like an eternity. I’m stuck at someone’s theater performance and waiting for the curtain-fall to free me.

Was enjoying the novelty factor in the beginning but then Elton Osbourne began to overstay his welcome and the song lengths started to become a crude slap to the face.

Не понравилось

I really don't know why this got popular.

Eeeeehhhh

I am not listening to this too hungover

My first album from the list. Bombastic, silly, pretentious. Not worth a repeat listen.

Bailed after the intro to the title track. Terrible.

1.5

Eurk. De un, il s'agit de la pochette la plus trompeuse de l'histoire des pochettes. Je m'attendais à du métal Britannique à la Judas Priest. Ça doit être l'album le plus retourné de l'histoire chez les disquaires pour fausse représentation. De deux, je déteste les comédies musicales. La pièce Paradise by the Dashboard est un vrai calvaire. Les seules choses que je peux reconnaître, c'est qu'il a une bonne voix, que c'est bien produit, que ça doit sûrement plaire à des gens, mais ce n'est définitivement pas pour moi. Est-ce qu'il a sa place sur cette liste? Oui parce que j'ai souvent vu cette pochette, mais Bat Out Of Hell II aurait été suffisant.

No sir, I don't like it.

meh, this album didn't do anything for me

Atrocious. Bloated. Overblown. Overproduced. Overplayed. Pompous. If I could do zero stars I would do zero stars.

Too loud

As a kid, great album. Decades later, it sounds like the worst rock opera ever. Terrible lyrics. How did Paradise by the Dashboard Lights become such a massive hit? Didn't add.

At least I laughed a little. I don't think there will ever be a reason or urge to play Meatloaf ever again...might never eat it again also. Kept thinking if Fight Club...Bob.

Cringe

I just didn't really vibe with it.

No se si es por el taladreo de mi padre cuando era pequeño, pero movida hell, diablitos, fueguitos, motoretas y tias vestidas de poli en tetas no es mi movida. Dicho esto, me ha medio molado Paradise by the dashboard porque mete bastantes cambios locos dentro de la canción. Pues yo que se pastel de carne... Bobby out

Typical American pop/rock, musics over produced and I just can't stand his voice!

A load of old bollocks.

Nooit begrepen waarom dit nou zo 'goed' zou moeten zijn.

Too much heavy

Eh. Intro song good but otherwise not for me.

Sorry, I hate this kind of bombastic, theatrical rock'n'roll. It's literally one of the most boring forms of music for me.

Too proggy, did not vibe

N

Meh, so dated!

hmmmm this is pretty good

Meh

xcasdv

Hell yeah! Motivation!