Reviews (page 6 of 15)
Man, the 70s were weird as hell. I'm not averse to grandiose, over-the-top bullshit, at least not all the time. Some of the tracks really rock out and achieve the sort of epic scope that he's clearly going for. Trouble is as soon as the melodramatic caterwauling begins, I immediately get stuck on how dumb and corny it is. And not, for me at least, the fun kind of dumb and corny.
Expected more from such a huge seller. Girls were meh. Nir did not want to listen to it.
Did you know that this album got produced purely to spite Bruce Springsteen? Todd Rundgren is a bitter man.
Some undeniably catchy ballads.
So over the top
i liked the wolf song, funny asf. idk not in the mood overall 2.5.
Always a banger
Малко повече вика, но си му е такъв стилът :D
I always forget how much I love this album!!!
A very powerful album that I enjoy a lot. Standout tracks: Too many to list. Rest in peace, Meat Loaf.
Top 5 albums in rock history
I mean what more can be said, this is the definition of a classic album. Basically every track is a hit, and the album contains most of the biggest hits Meat Loaf ever released. This is really Meat Loaf/Jim Steinman at their absolute best - nothing out of place, in all it's over the top drama and glory. An absolute rock staple, and simply a must listen album. Aside from the title track - my personal favourites are You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth and All Revved Up With No Place To Go.
Great album, love all the songs
Classic rock mwah
I was actually surprised when I played this album. I know Meat Loaf from "I’d Do Anything for Love", but based on the album art, I was expecting some hard rock or heavy metal. But noooo, it was a full theatrical act. The extravagant musicality, the powerful vocals, and the emotional lyrics really stood out. But I will rate it 4 stars, because I want to listen to it again...whenever I'm ready for it.
This is a rollercoaster ride of an album, because it’s exquisitely produced and written and Meat Loaf sings with his heart leaping out of his throat. But it’s a repetitive bit and its earnest approach often dives into silliness instead of truth. Steinman is an incredible songwriter and Meat Loaf is a killer performer. I just wish there was a little bit more meat on the bone.
Fantastic!
A classic
I love some of Steinman's songs, but they're so over the top you only need one at a time. It feels like I'm complaining about being given too much cake, but there's a lot of fresh cream that will go sour if I don't eat it all now, so it's a choice between waste and indigestion. The first slice is the best.
Great album which brings back many happy memories of my first year at university.
I was looking forwards to this. The album was a bit forgettable and tedious. I think it was an album of a time.
Not my genre. It felt like the songs were either power ballad or hyper rock.
I mean, it's legendary and I don't need to hear it again. 🫠
fucking hilarious
at least it doesn't take itself serious fav song: bat out of hell ig
One Great song
Absolutely love this album. Really miss him. He was a great showman.
60
Have you ever thought "that Springsteen guy is pretty good, but he's a bit too lowkey for my tastes"? Well, then have I got an album for you! Steinman's maximalist production isn't too dissimilar from Phil Spector, really. The main difference is Spector is totally serious about his lushly orchestrated silly love songs, while Steinman is fully aware that it's ridiculous to take it *that* seriously. So, he gives us the grandiosity that the sound deserves, which only draws our attention to how ridiculous it is to treat teenage love that way.
Great theatrical rock sound!
Yeah now we are talking. A fantastic rock album.
This is the kind of music my parents were too cool to like and so I absolutely love it for the campy musical theater of it all and annoying my cool kid music snob parents. I've never understood if Meatloaf if supposed to be taken seriously, or it's all a big cheesy joke? I guess I don't care, because, yes. I do want to drive a convertible across the desert signing along to this album at top volume.
Surprised by this album, it is grandiose, theatrical and with so much feeling. Each song is great and loved it all throughout. Very good!
This is #day461 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… I've never heard anything from Meat Loaf besides, of course, "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)," which is a great song, taken, as I learned today, from the second Bat Out of Hell trilogy. I didn't even know there was a trilogy. Should I have? I find his character fun, but I can't say the same about the music. It's very much a product of its time: '70s hard'n'heavy, progressive rock, dad rock, in short. I can see why it's regarded as a classic. Let it be a 3 out of 5. Looking forward to #day462.
Maximum cheese factor…and yet it’s just so much fun to listen to! Everything is turned up to 11 in the best way - will definitely return to this one on a rainy day :)
It's nothing amazing to deserve 5 stars, but it's a really great album, I would get a copy of this on vinyl easily. Very fun listen, I would rate it 5/5 for listening, but overall, gets a 4 just to keep it fair with other albums
So like, does Meat Loaf love his subject of the songs? Or not?
I guess it's impressive that this was a debut album? And I mean, we all love Paradise by the Dashboard Light. The ultimate in cheesy fun. And I always kind of liked Two Out of Three Ain't Bad. But it's just all so over the top. And why are all the songs so long?
all time classic
As a theatre kid, this hits all the right notes, meatloaf is incredible. I can see why some people may not enjoy it, but I absolutely love this album
A Milestone in Rock - very pleasant songs - wow
Fun romp, love the tongue and cheek interpretation of a bruce Springsteen album. Large orchestrated sounds and killer album cover
Love it!
Álbum excepcional! Um rock teatral com belas e fortes canções. Celest Phoenixcall.
I had never listened to this before, just knew the big hits. It was a decent listen.
Much too heavy.
Banger. 4/5
Brilliant. Just f’ing Brilliant
Look, you can work really hard and earn a C+. It’ll be the hardest C+ you ever earned and you can be proud of that. And this album is trying so, so hard.
This is a fantastic album. 4.5
I cannot get into this, just plain boring!
Was expecting something little bit more, still pretty good. 3.4
Incredible album. So theatrical. Very nostalgic and grand. Took the words right out of my mouth one of my favorites of all time.
The world would be a better place if more art could be as unashamedly fun, dramatic and theatrical as this. Faves: Paradise by the Dashboard Light (duh), For Crying Out Loud, You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth
His name was Robert Paulson.
I love this album and I don't care.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Fuck this
Let me sleep on it
Two certified bangers bookending garbage.
You either like theatre or you don't. Although there's a lot more theatre I would push to before this Peter Pan influenced album, it's got that show tune quality that theatre kids love.
ok
Backflash a rocky horror picture show. Git viel pluspünkt für das zarte stück fleisch. Und au sust ganz spassig gsi. Aber da ich scho ehner vegi bin wirdi uf das Album au wider verzichte. 3 hüehnerschenkel
checked die und ihre sound nöd. vlt wärs besser wenn mir ready für das isch. aber zu ungeuldig zum mich dem voll und ganz hizgeh. Irgend e mix zwüsche köntry, irish pub sound, hard rocky undund und. nei bitte nöd, 2 Feggefüürlis
Need I say more
More people bought this album than voted for Jimmy Carter in the 1976 Presidential Election. 2/5
Many a weekend night at the bar on the dance floor in the late 80s I was jamming out to Paradise with a girl. We would each play the part and scream the lyrics. It’s a fun party song. The problem with much of Meatloafs music is that he took it way too seriously (wish he took COVID as seriously. Too soon?). He made some fun rock music. Made an interesting appearance in a cult movie…..and ended up as the meat for dinner. But he it is not someone I turn to when I’m ready to rock. It’s something discovered while scanning channels or that shows up in my Spotify algorithm…..especially now.
I appreciate the creativity and humor of these (sometimes sappy & overly romantic) songs as well as the bravado with which they are delivered. Clearly gave rise to rocks greatest cheerleader, Jack Black. Fun. A 4.
The almighty random generator is trolling me at this point - this is my November 1st album. It would have been perfect as the Halloween album! Anyway this is corny and dated but awesome and makes me want to get up and ride a motorcycle with a skull on it.
I don't think this is my type of concept album, this feels like a musical that got unfiltered access to illicit drugs 5/10 i can see the appeal its just not for me
OMG, No, No, No! Please, don't do this to me! So far I have been the classroom's most obedient boy, listening to records from this list from the beginning to the end, even if it is the most tedious or awful record I've heard in years. But listening to a whole album of Meatloaf, the man that wrote the two most horrible, pathetic, overrated songs that I've ever heard in my life? Why?? I truly hate "I'll Do Anything For Love" but if there is any song that I hate more than any other song that has ever been written, performed or covered since time began and will always, forever continue to be the one song that can make me run screaming from a wedding, a party at a friend's house or even a fucking funeral, it's the song that can reduce grown men and women to pantomiming actors in a surreal line dance of lust. The song that has been played so many goddamn times that I can't even stand the first chords of it. The song that last forever and comes straight out of hell, yeah, the song "Paradise by the Dashboard Light". I can't stand the theatrics, the bombast, the over the top production, and most of all, I can't stand musicals, I hate them. I truly can't believe that I ever, ever had to endure a whole album of this "artist". I tried, but I didn't make it. Before I would jump from the nearest bridge, I had to put a stop to it. "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad", and indeed, that was the limit. What a pathetic, terrible attempt to create the most overrated album of all times. 1/5
It's good; just played out for me.
Meat definitely had pipes and talent, and his contribution to America the Beautiful is timeles. Pretty impressive to start a career with an album like this, and it definitely has withstood the test of time, just not really my thing, but damn if I didn't find myself pulled in. Gotta grant that much.
Whenever I watch high level sports I like to try to imagine how it would feel to have a body that could do the things an athlete can do. It’s a fun line of thinking, especially when it turns out I basically can’t imagine it at all. I know how to skate, but I really can’t even picture myself being able to hit 40km/h or whatever. I get a sort of similar feeling when I imagine having a body that would enjoy listening to Meatloaf. Musical theatre sensibilities, uncanny but too earnest to come off as funny, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Americana, and also every song is about four and a half minutes too long. It’s like if a future civilization discovered the fragments of rock music and tried to reconstruct it, and did a pretty bad job. Massive waste of a great album title, too.
Pure bombast, seven songs in a row on the theme of Meatloaf being dtf right now
Довольно скучный альбом. Стадионный рок с пианиной. Обложка очень крутая, но она вообще не отражает суть музыки, а музыка совершенно не интересная, по крайней мере мне, банальная донельзя.
I wonder how many metalheads bought this album when it came out based on the album art and were disappointed. Seriously the album art is metal as hell. Definitely does not match the music. Paradise By the Dashboard Lights is a classic, just a fun song. The rest of the album wasn’t bad but I don’t think I’d go back to it.
awesome
Picks up after opener
A high school musical production get way out of hand. 2 stars.
Classic rock opera. (It’s … alright.)
Rock made by a theater kid which is right up my alley. Totally get why he was in Rocky Horror now.
A Tinguely machine! With bells and whistles! And naked dancing ladies! It will never sell! But it did! Marvelously over the top, still enjoyable, but still not exactly what I would put on by free will.
What the fuck. Listened to by people who say "they don't make music like they used to", "this is real music", and who enjoy looking down on your music taste for no good reason.
I don't really like it. The artist has passion and can sing. Not my type of music.
I've been listening to this album my whole life and it never gets old. If you're into rock Ballard's belted out by an obese 300 pound rock star then this is your album. It's over the top, melodic, overproduced and incredible.
Shame it isn't metal but a solid album nonetheless. 4.35
Not sure what I was expecting but this wasn’t it and I didn’t enjoy it.
I actually thought I was going to like some of this but I was wrong. Super cheesy. 1.5
Meat Loaf is clearly one of the most talented musicians of his time. The songs are fun, the album feels cohesive, it's funny, it's powerful.
This listen was a hoot. Meat Loaf has a way of transporting me to a time and a place that I’ve never been before, but somehow feels familiar. His lyricism takes you in a strange journey, but he backs it up with rock instrumentation that’s better than it has any business being.
All of these songs were so fun! it brings the same feelings of listening to Tenacious D. Great musicianship, silly songs, power ballads and rocking riffs
I really enjoyed this album. Was not what I was expecting and I was impressed.
Not a huge fan
The guy was a total idiot but the music is fantastic
I was not expecting to like this so much. A fantastic album, catchy and memorable, theatrical and ridiculous. A lot of fun, and highlights the enormous talent of Meat Loaf.
I get it but couldn't finish this
u're telling me these are all real songs and not part of a musical??
Fun, over the top, theatrical cheese. 3.5/5. Raising to 4.
Love the theatrics of this album but found myself waiting for it to be over towards the end. But giving an extra point because TIL he’s from Dallas
It was fun, but I wouldn’t put it in my regular rotation.
Man, this curvy diva did not only brighten up fight club but is also smashing all the singing parts on this lp. I love how they gave every extravagant piece room to breath and included even the out there skit before the second song just cause they felt like it. So many amazing songs on here, what a great voice! I just want to ride this flaming bike and listen to this record.
Defintely a classic! It's so eay to enjoy most of the themes.
10/10
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Possibly best album cover ever. The era of album art has passed. RIP. The album itself is not well represented by it's cover except that it too is over done and dramatic. The EStreet vs Elton vibes are confusing but in a good way. The whole thing is cheesy AF, but also charming. An overall well done and engaging album with a couple of snoozer tracks. 3.5 stars.
Having just seen rocky horror, I have a newfound appreciation for Meat Loaf
It was long ago and it was far away ! Amazing.
Loved it, listened to it 3 times in a row
pretty cool man
I love this album. I think what makes this album so great isn't that it's got a couple of elite hits backed up by some solid or maybe good songs, but rather it's beginning to end just great music. None of the songs really stand out above any of the others, at least dramatically so, which I think you might notice when most of the track list is in my list of favorite songs from the album. This album also really feels like a complete idea. It'd be weird to just listen to 2 or 3 of the songs on their own. Like, just listen to the whole album at that point. Also, oops! "Accidentally" listened to this on repeat. Favorite Song(s): You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth, All Revved Up with No Place to Go, 2 Out of 3 Ain't Bad, Paradise by the Dashboard Light
I love Meat Loaf and I love this album. I have listened through it many times before on LP and CD and doing it again today made me just as happy as before. Truly a great artist singing and an excellent composer in Jim Steinman. I think I might repeat this album a few more times.
Theatrical, pretty fun
This album is perfect. Starting with that frantic piano line in Bat of Hell that sets the stage for an emotionally unavailable man and ending with a tender, but powerful ballad where he finally is able to say those 3 words, it’s quite the journey in between.
To borrow a phrase from a fellow who is also doing this list, this album is cheese of the highest order. Almost every song is about sex and/or BJs, sung in the most bombastic rock opera style possible. It's super overproduced, but also kind of fun? I enjoyed some songs, but it was so much cheese I don't think I'll shit for a week. 3/5
3.5
I had no idea that Bat out of Hell was from a musical, so was expecting something quite different. Good album with good rock opera tracks. Just not to my taste.
musiquinhas enjoadas, 0 emoção e produções nada c nada. 1/5
Think I just missed the boat on this one and it now feels a little bit dated. Some of it I get and think is good, others are a bit too power ballad for me.
Good enough.
The problem with a lot of this music is that by the time I came of age, they were jokes. But this is good! I get that's the point of a book and project like this, but this is much better music than reputation has done for gen-pop.
I mean no offense to Mr Loaf but this is the perfect cross-section of two styles of music I deeply dislike. You’ve got this rock opera sound on tracks that never know how to end, and a rockabilly swing undertone… I understand how people can like this, but boy howdy is it not for me.
Horribly meandering, over-ambitious, terribly mastered, and yet very fun and silly. We used to listen to a MIDI file of the title track "BATOUT.mid" all the time growing up while playing the board game Payday, and for that it brings the score up to a 3
I definitely judged a book by its cover and thought I would hate this but some of it was actually pretty good
Half were good half were bad. I didn’t love some of the lyrics and subject matter but there were a few gems hidden throughout.
How can you not like this album? A classic!
70’s yacht rock
It's boisterous and ridiculous and I can't fault it for being what is on the tin so fully.
You'd really have to be into musicals to appreciate this I feel 3*
His songs are good, there's no doubt about that. But man is it a bit overdone. Do yourself a favor though and find "Professor Meatloaf explains what that is." It's kinda funny Idk. His stuff hasn't aged as well as others of his era. I'm conflicted. I guess I'll just pick a solid right down the middle 3 stars. I think Rock and Roll dreams come true is probably the one to add to the playlist. I may change it later.
Meatloaf is sooo dramatic. His albums are like a soundtrack from a Broadway musical. Very kitchy and almost comedic. It wears thin very quickly. It's like a parody of itself. No thanks.
I had forgotten how much I like this album. But he likes the saga song a little too much.
Perhaps most notably, the album contains music history's best random insertion of a baseball play-by-play announcer, in order to detail Meat's loaf gleefully scampering around the proverbial bases. Meat should have locked Steinman's piano out of the recording studio and told him he only wanted bangers, the result of which would have been one of the greatest rock 'n' roll albums ever. The highs are incredibly high (the rockers, especially every time he starts talking real fast)…The ballads are ballast.
It turns out that 70s rock opera is way more my speed than I even expected.
This is great musical theater. But not actual musical theater.
This album is too much in all the best ways. I was very apprehensive at the length of some of these tracks, worried they'd drag on too long... But there's so much variety and composition and musicianship in every big cheesy over the top moment that I just couldn't get bored. Half the time I got lost in the changes and didn't realise I was still on the same song as a few minutes ago. This is rock and roll done to a spectacular, orchestrated extreme. The kind of music that makes you feel powerful and also deeply embarrassed and cringey; like a gangly nerd LARPing as a dragon-slaying warrior knight.
4 out of 5. This album knows what it is and doesn't hold back on the cheesy epicness. More enjoyable than I thought it'd be.
clearly i have been sleeping meatloaf. this was fun. but also it wanted to drag on at times.
Best ok 3/5
Drama Rock Same feel throughout the album.
"I bet you say that to all the boys." Changed my brain chemistry.
Okay, so I'd heard of Meat Loaf (though not much), and I don't know why, but I was totally under the impression he was this tough guy, and his music was just as rude and heavy. Well, I was honestly surprised to listen to this and realize that Meat Loaf is actually the heterosexual Elton John (just like one of the reviews here mentioned). I had so much fun listening to this!
I almost exclusively listen to musicals (and musical-esque things) in one of two conditions: I am viewing a live theatrical performance, or I am being paid to play the music for a theatrical performance. I honestly don't like musicals outside of that.
Con la tapa no me vi venir un album así. 6/10
Completely overblown and pompous in its style and production, it does very little for me I’m afraid. It gets 2 stars purely for its ambition and effort.
o que a galera usou de droga pra fazer esse álbum eu não tomei de água na vida pqp especialmente por isso, brabo
bom, eh bem besta. lembra um pouco bruce springsteen em alguns momentos (nao de um jeito ruim, por incrível que pareça) e lembra tbm elton john. eh bem all over the place, mas não de um jeito ruim também. eu achei bem bacana, bem guitarrudo. eu até curto rock opera, mas tem que ser divertido de escutar e esse eh!!!
I hate musicals but this is good stuff
Patiko. Toks paprastas og rock&roll'as.
It's kinda fun, but mostly kinda cringe. In a sense, that they basically laid out many of the cringiest 1980s rock cliches here, even though this came out in 1977. I guess you can't blame them for being slightly ahead of their time.
It's Meat Loaf, so expect the theatrics. That being said, this is the first time I've listened to an entire Meat Loaf album from start to finish. The lore here is interesting too, as this apparently spawned from a rock musical retelling of Peter Pan called "Neverland". Written by legendary composer Jim Steinman, he essentially developed a few songs from Neverland into "Bat Out of Hell" here (which would become a musical itself in 2017). This is very much Steinman's work, as much as it is Meat Loaf's. Steinman would later go on to produce and have involvement in all sorts of iconic and chart-topping songs (Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" chief among those), as well as some film scores. Oh, and lest I forget that Todd Rundgren produced and had heavy involvement in this album too. This album had large aspirations. I'm sure some people will find this campy and overproduced and it very much is. There's sincerity, with equal parts melodrama, at least that's my interpretation of things here. Most important of all though, it's fun. I mean, tell me that "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" ain't fun!
Думаю доступ до наркотичних засобів був добре налагоджений під час запису цього альбому) Дуже театральний, водночас веселий і не відчувається перевантаженим, хоч є пісні по 8 хвилин
Включив цей альбом і згадав чому мені ніколи не подобався міт лоаф.
oooh
Tedious as fuck
High energy, fun, silly, and bombastic. Just an insanely fun record with it's 50's rock style. However, for me it's not doing much. It's a bit too cheesy. But still a classic that absolutely belongs on this list.
Meat loaf. I would do anything for love but I won't give 5 stars !
An iconic album, and it maintains your interest, like a ride on a speeding motorbike. But, overhyped and overpraised.
Gotta say - really dig this album. Never gave this a listen because it’s Meatloaf… Rock opera? Over-the-top? Satire? All of the above?
Musical. Make the musical!
Overwrought garbage, which I suppose is what people like about it. I don’t think it’s even well put together though.
great
For Crying out Loud is epic, his voice is so nice how else can I describe it.
Jim Steinman, "Meat Loaf", what an album by which to introduce yourself into the rock world, though some of us first caught notice of Meat Loaf in his other career as an actor in "ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW", a couple years earlier. Powerful album, great fun, and still a joy to listen to nearly fifty years later.
I worked in a record shop when this came out and we played it till death. great album.
Es ist so dicht, dass ich es nach drei Liedern immer auch ein wenig satt hatte. Aber jedes einzelne Lied war auch großartig.
boas músicas.
3.5 - Good
This is an interesting one, since I know the hits, but I have never listened to the actual LP from start to finish. First track starts with a cacophony that sounds like a showtune run through a 70s prog and butt rock filter. Imagine Boston pumping up a crowd at a regional circus and you're getting close. When Meat (can I call him Meat?) starts to sing along with the piano it gives off Billy Joel and Springsteen vibes, but not as compelling as either. Lots of shout whispers. Not sold yet. Okay, weird spoken word shit here. Oh, I know this song! Didn't know it was Mr. Loaf. Eh on the performance. Not the worst thing I've ever heard - kind of like Andrew Lloyd Weber produced by Phil Spector. Ballad time. Yawn. This one brings the tempo up a little bit. Hope you like saxophones. I know this song, but the I feel like I've never heard the intros before. Anyway, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad is an objectively bad song. I'll sit through it, but I won't enjoy it. Paradise By The Dashboard Lights rules. It's long as hell though, so rethink it as a karaoke option if you've been drinking heavily and/or have stamina issues. Closing song has closing song vibes. Something about being cold in California. Oh, wait, here comes the bombast. Lots of build ups and cymbal crashes. Well, what's it going to be boy? I said what's it going to be boy, yes or.....?
Bof
This surprised me. Really coherent album and I love that it gets that there is no top to go over. Mark docked for having a couple of tracks that are a tad too Springsteen adjacent for my taste
Rock opera at it's very best. It's a masterpiece at times great voice great arrangement and production. Bat out of hell the song is a full on in your face wake up and enjoy anthem. Two out of three is agood ballad and paradise by dashboard light is a solid duet that you can't help move to. There are some weaker points it is beginning to sound dated and it has some nothing song on there but even for the boom intro. It's worth 4 stars. It's like nothing else
Album was good, couple of big hits. Meatloaf seemed like a down to earth person. From Rocky Horror, Fight Club, The Pick of Destiny, many more, RIP Meatloaf. 3.5
It’s a wildly theatrical album - and I think that’s exactly why it never fully clicked for me. The music and presentation are incredible: Jim Steinman’s “futuristic rock Peter Pan” vision paired with Meat Loaf’s over-the-top, powerhouse delivery. Every track feels like a full-blown production, bursting with drama and emotion. Maybe that’s the thing, it sounds too grand, like it belongs on stage with lights and pyrotechnics rather than just coming through headphones. During the era of glam rock and theatrical excess, I never quite knew how to take it all in. Listening now, though, it’s hard not to appreciate how solid the musicianship and storytelling are. Even if it doesn’t make me a true Meat Loaf convert, I can see why this album is considered a rock opera classic.
Close to 5, but a few songs fall a bit flat for me.
That's some good rock and roll
Long classic metal
Not terrible, but not my style. It's funny I didn't realize Meat Loaf was a major contributor to writing the songs for Rocky Horror Picture Show, and if you listen to Bat Out Of Hell through that lens of musical theater and rock operas, with an emphasis on the over-dramatic and flamboyant, this record makes a lot of sense. It's kinda wild it grew to be as popular as it did. Listening now it feels it should be far more fringe.
Yeah, serve me up some Meat Loaf with a side of ketchup. I liked this more than I thought, it was less butt rock and more theater rock.
I don’t know where to begin with this. Bruce Springsteen mixed with the most wild Elton John, and an album cover fit for Iron Maiden. This immediately gripped me with a 10 minute insane fest title track. I honestly didn’t think the rest Astros up to the first song, but just for the insanity of this power rock opera, and the extremely high bar of “Bat Out Of Hell”, plus the fact that these songs have all been stuck in my head all weekend, it’s gotta be a 5
Excellent
Yeah, this is one of the great rock and roll listening experiences you'll ever have. Both Meatloaf and Jim Steinman were geniuses. Together, they were a completely unstoppable force.
Har både lyst til å like og hate det her. Litt for gøy til å hate og alt for voldsomt til å elske. Til syvende og sist blir det for ekstravagant og vokalen for slitsom.
Man, I love this challenge for moments like this. If I’ve already heard the album I always go in with a rating in mind and I love it when a re-listen here completely changes my opinion. I remember listening to this years back and thinking, “It’s alright classic rock” but on a re-listen I was so wrong. Every single track on this album is near perfect. Such an epic run of tracks. Theatrical and grandiose, and the hooks all hit perfectly! 10/10 Favorite tracks- “Bat Out of Hell” “All Revved Up With No Place To Go” “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”
This album has all the makings of something I would not enjoy. It's bombastic and silly, while also having long songs that are more theatrical than musical. Yet, I have always loved this album. I came to know Meatloaf from "Bat Out of Hell II" and I'll Do Anything for Love, which probably isn't the best introduction if you are looking for 70's rock operatic music featuring members of the E-Street Band. This feels like the E-Street Band, no matter what Jim Steinman says. I didn't even know members of the E-Street Band performed on this album until I had already purchased the album. The songs are long, yet somehow, they never overstay their welcome. You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth is pure Phil Spector, which means it is pure Born to Run. What impresses me the most about this album is just how it was written by grown men and it seems to speak to themes that teens and adolescents can relate to. I think that is what makes the album so fun is there is a certain sense of nostalgia and longing for something better/romantic/fulfilling out of life. Perhaps I read too much into it and no other Meatloaf albums are worth hearing as much as this one is. It's of a place and time yet is also timeless.
Camp in its purest form. I had a great time, and there really isn't anything else like it. Some and concepts haven't aged well, but I still enjoy it for what it is. Favorite Songs: Bat Out of Hell, Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Honestly, it’s a great title track. The rest is fine; better than fine if you like operatic rock ballads (I do not). I still can’t imagine being a teenager in 1977 and seeing or hearing the three layers of crazy juxtaposition: the cover that says “this is metal you fuckers”, the artist name that says “wait what the fuck”, and the music that says “wait what is actually going on here?” It isn’t a bad album, it just isn’t for me. And as someone who is open about how little ballad rock he listens to, I can’t compare this to much. I mean it’s better than 90% of Bon Jovi’s catalogue, but that bar is low. I feel bad giving this a 2, but there are albums I’d rank at 3 that I like so much more. I also will never get beyond Meat Loaf’s appearance in Fight Club. “Bob’s new sweating tits that hang enormous, the way you think of God’s as big.”
STOP RIGHT THERE! If there are two things I've loved my entire life it's: 1. Mountain Dew 2. Rock Opera And I think Meat Loaf would agree with me. While Bat Out Of Hell isn't a rock opera itself, it definitely had that vibe. Paradise By The Dashboard Light has been near and dear to my heart since I was a child listening to my parents sing it to each other. That song is 8.5 minutes of pure joy for me. Meat Loaf has just one of those voices, man. Whether it's a cameo in Pick of Destiny or time warping in Rocky Horror, the man has always been there singing in my ears, and I'm happier for it. This album was both a hoot and also a holler. I had a lot of fun listening to it, and that's all I could ever ask for. Big ups to the dinner table in the sky because every night is Meat Loaf night.
I’ve always heard the big hits from this and thought that they’re basically just songs from a rock opera, so I was not surprised to learn that his discography was adapted into a full-blown musical. I’m tryna go see that
There are some absolute rippers on here (“You Took the Words…” and “All Revved Up…” are classics) and there is some absolute dogshit. I had fun listening to it
3.5 Really surprised this was one of the highest selling albums of all time as the format is not the most accessible. Also looks like they almost didn’t even get to make it in the first place. Lots of large set pieces. Occasional wolf throats? Tracks felt a little disjointed from each other. I was expecting a little more cohesion from a rock opera. Was an enjoyable listen but probably won’t revisit anytime soon
I fucking adore Bat Out of Hell. I wish with all my heart that we could bring back this kind of big dumb loud 70s arena rock music. It’s an artistic achievement in bombast, maximalism, and some third thing to keep the rhythm of this sentence going. Every word Mr. Loaf sings is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD and he makes you feel that. The melodrama here is fantastic. An 8.5 minute epic about marrying someone to get them agree to bang in car? Whatever the fuck is going on at the beginning of You Took the Words Right of My Mouth? Give Jim Steinman a posthumous Pulitzer. This stupid album just puts me in such a good mood. There’s a very real part of me that says to award this album with more stars than there are stars in the universe—and the universe is infinite. But four out of five ain’t bad
This theatre kid made a rock album, and hey, it’s pretty fun. The title track rules, with 9 minutes of “how it feels to ride in a convertible on a hot summer day” After that you get a nice lil love story, but I think the first song is the highest point it reaches.
Very meh
I don't get Meat Loaf, honestly. I suppose it was a moment in time, but the music itself sounds and feels a bit generic, theatrical rock without any of the real grit and vibes that make rock feel good to me. Meat Loaf's voice is... fine? How did he become such a huge superstar, was it just that there was nothing else really like it at the time and he found his niche? This album is "fine" at best, background music.
3.5 Top notch for Rock "Opera" but still. . . Rock Opera Always thought this album was pretentious (nonetheless radio friendly) pop bubblegum; that is fun for a bit, tastes great at first but quickly loses flavor and you spit it out and move on. However I really did find that enjoyed this album FAR more in 2025 than 1977. Some of the lyrics are almost childish, and not in a fun camp Rocky Horror way - which annoyed me then but doesn't now. Jim and Todd Rundgren really set up Poor Fat Marvin (aka "Meatloaf") who's voice is actually far better than I remember it. Another solid 3.5, can't quite bring myself to give it a 4. I really do think this album wouldn't have sold a million though without Rundgren who is FAR under credited for it's success. (And as the story goes neither Jim nor Meatloaf really ever made anything off this album . . . though I image they negotiated better on 2, 3, and 4. . .)
Theatrical rock at its finest. The long songs are some of the best examples of what you can do with that extended length. The most well known tracks are the big bombastic ones, but the ballads add a good amount of emotion to the album. Meat Loaf’s performance is incredible, delivering everything with great passion and emotion, but even though Meat Loaf is the star, the musicianship from the instrumentalists is amazing. 5/5
Absolut fruktansvärt! ...jag saknar ord Kan vara det sämsta vi har tilldelats
Många ingredienser i den här svulstiga stuvningen. Ta Springsteens Born to run, The Ronettes Be My baby och Phil Spectors hela Wall of sound, ta Slade, Gary Glitter, Rocky horror show och rör om. Då blir det för mycket av allt och det smakar inte så gott tillsammans. Små smakbitar här och var ändå okej, därav en tvåa.
Jag tror faktiskt aldrig lyssnat på Köttlimpan. I would do anything…från början av 90-talet har förstås hörts men bortsett från den visste jag inte vad som väntade mig. Omslaget signalerar nån slags pudelrock. Musiken något annat. Här finns tendenser i flera av låtarna som bådar gott. Det går att spåra soul, Springsteen och Elton. Men sen lyckas man tyvärr även få in en hel del musikal. Bättre än jag förväntat mig, men inte bra nog.
Sentimental smörja och ordbajseri. Musikalrock är inte min grej.
My love of the theatre and rock merged on this classic!!
1/1
A teenage rock opera dream
Well that wasn't as expected at all. Not sure why it was so well sold. Fine but nothing overly special for me.
Jim and The Loaf, what a team. I cant describe this any more eloquently than has already been done. if you don't like it - you have zero taste.
Interessantes Album aber muss laut gehört werden da es mehr Wall of sound ist als gut ausbalanciert (Höhen und Tiefen sind recht nah) Interessante Geschichte wenn man auch bedenkt das es nach Release komplett gehasst wurde von Musik Kritikern Best Song: Bat Out of Hell Rating:3,2
I know Meatloaf is a knob, but this was a great album. The songs are slightly too long at times, especially the intros, but it was a fun bit of power metal
Absolute classic
Classic Meat Loaf
It's dramatic, bold, corny, and glorious in so many ways. The production is fucking mint. The vocals are splendid. Aside from the absurd corniness this made for a wonderful listen. Real great rock opera theater kid shit. Top 4: Bat Out Of Hell, You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth, Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad, and Paradise By The Dashboard Light no bad songs 4.25-4.50/5
Epic. Hokey and somewhat problematic, but damn epic. Danzig could never.
Super cool ballad rock. This album is a lot of fun!
Corny. The songs were too long. They weren’t terrible, but it wasn’t for me.
Great production value but not really my taste
Interesting blend of rock and musical
Slightly surprising but I think a solid 4/high 3. Very musical-esque and some of the bits don't land for me but overall appreciate the theming/song cycle of it all and high energy
quirky, nice quick piano. There's some artistry here but I guess I would only listen to this when with friends. Something Jack Black would sing
I like the first song and zoned out of the rest
Lots of Queen vibes
Goat out of Hell
genuinely surprised by how good it is the title song is a certified banger the calmer songs are really fucking good, i loved this album tbh
Je n'ai jamais été un super fan du concept d'opéra rock. Ce premier album de Meat Loaf ne m'émoustille pas tant que ça mais je dois avouer que j'ai depuis pratiquement sa sortie l'album Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell de 1993 que je trouve très bon.
Vraiment une drôle de gugusse, Grease meets AC/DC. Avec un cover art à la Iron Maiden. Alternance ballade/toune plus hypée. Avec des tounes de 10 minutes. Je trouve l'amalgame plutôt de mauvais goût, même si j'aime bien la voix du chanteur et certains riffs.
Le cover dit heavy metal, la voix dit rock doucereux, le nom de l'artiste donne faim. C'est pas mauvais mais une écoute suffit. Son plus grand succès n'y est même pas en plus.
It was kind of stupid fun-silly and over the top. This isn't great music that I formed an emotional connection with, but I have to admit it was fun. It almost felt like a comedy record. I'm embarrassed (and guilty) at how much it did put a smile on my face.
I wish I was more in the mood to listen to Opera Rock when I got this album but I’m not all the way mad at it. I’d be interested in revisiting this in the future.
The album is over the top bombastic and operatic. I love it. 16 year old me loved Paradise By the Dashboard Light. 56 year old me still does. The album is a lot but it is great fun
So much fun. The title track and paradise by the dashboard light are musical theatre rock epics with so much character. Took the words and two out of three are just fun rock songs. Heaven can wait and for crying out loud are seriously beautiful ballads. I should listen to this at least once a month.
Overall: 9/10 And the award for Most Misleading Album Cover goes to.... This is a crazy album. It's so over the top that its boiling over. Extravagant and wild. I always knew Meat Loaf from movies like Rocky Horror Picture Show and Tenacious D but for some reason never had any interest in listening to his music. I regret that now. So glad to have this in my life now. Fav Song: Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Now this is more my speed!! The grandiose theatrical piano with the addition of rocking guitar supplemented by Meat Loaf’s heavy, sonorous voice is beautiful. I thought meat loaf was a hard rock album but I was so gratefully surprised with this emotional epic that somehow balances the excitement of banging your head to the beat and making your heart heavy. Loved it, wish I had discovered it before but so glad I know of it now.
Very theatrical, reckon would be fun to listen to live - not quite my thing
Good Americana fun!!!
Meatloaf is rock and roll for theatre kids. Not my thing, but I know a lot of theatre kids, and Meatloaf is right in their wheelhouse. I think this first record is always going to be the best, at least as a cohesive album.
Let me get this off my chest; I don’t care for Paradise by the Dashboard Light. I don’t hate it, but it’s like the ultimate boomer bait song. It’s finds its way into almost any social event (party or whatnot) and has the audacity to be over eight minutes for what can be described as “Somebody please take my wife”. The ultimate punchline to any boomer music. I really thought this whole album would fall under this category and expected to hate it. So naturally, I’m little bummed to say that I didn’t. Yea, the albums corny as shit and Meat Loaf is not the most classy of acts, but his ballads are actually pretty good and the dude had some talent. Most of the songs sound like the biggest shit ever, both production wise and vocally. It’s not that bad of an album. I just can go without hearing Paradise really much again. Favorite track: Heaven Can Wait Other hits: Bat Out of Hell, Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad, For Crying Out Loud, You Took the Words Right Out of my Mouth
Hell yeah!! This is one of those rare records where even if you've never heard it before, you somehow find yourself singing along—loudly, wildly, and without shame. The choruses are built to be shouted at full volume, preferably in a car, with the windows down.
Such a fun album
Meat Loaf is objectively a good song writer. Some of these songs don't need to be 8+ minutes long, but I think he has definitely crafted his place into music history. This was a really easy listen.
Sempre pensato che Meat Loaf facesse metal ignorante, mi ha sorpreso in positivo. Promosso
Caroline exposed herself as a mad Meatloaf fan - worth it just for that. Classic rock - overblown but enjoyable
Hated it then, hate it now.
loved it since kindergarten - still do !
This shit sucks
Pretty good
another debut album after the last one i listened to, this one by meat loaf. this album is quite a doozy, the same kind of energetic theatrical pop music that the likes of elton john and queen. i feel like meat loaf has been parodied and joked when it comes to how dramatic he can be with his music, and while a lot of those jabs are kinda right, i think it really drags us away from the fact that he IS a talented singer and songwriter. the music is consistently good, you don't really see too many albums especially today where every track has a consistent sound and it doesn't get old throughout the runtime.
It was never going to be GOOD...but I did at least hope for it to be more fun. Title track aside, it seems like glam rock by numbers to me.
Against all my better judgement about how this album seems to me, I really fucking like it. I find something incredibly endearing about the overblown romantic declarations in the title track. Also paradise by the dashboard light slaps, containing both an earworm of a chorus and the stupidest fucking bridge I’ve ever heard in a song. Love it.
Ridiculous, preposterous, brilliant - just enjoy it!
"Theatre Nerds Are Horny, Too: The Album." I had a soft spot for this album when I was a teenager, but that seems to have lessened as I've gotten older. The instrumentation on this album is terrific, the dynamics and song structure are on-point. But there's a schlocky desperation that permeates every note, and that is just too much to make this one I'll return to. 6/10
Ah, so that's where Jack Black gets it. 3/5
I mean, this is Meatloaf, what did I expect it to sound like? It’s the same piano-driven rock song after song. He’s talented, but this isn’t my jam. The fact that every song has to be funny gets old.
This is obviously not one of the 1001 Best Albums. But I'm giving it a 2 based on my love for it when I was a dumb kid in the 70s.
I already had this album and listen to it often. Excellent start to finish with some of his best hits.
It’s like the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Out of the Blue, and the Declaration of Independence, and Susan's speech to Ricky Bobby all wrapped into one mad explosion of musical excess. I laughed. I cried. I recognized the absurdity and I didn't care. I DIDN'T CARE. I luxuriated in the audacity. And, when it ended, so tenderly, I - with a renewed faith in humanity's capacity for genuine self-expression in the face of artifice and pretension, greed and cynicism - I steeled myself for re-entry into the 21st century.
Over-the-top and theatric.
Someone else described meat loaf as heterosexual elton john, and that completely blew my mind. Meat loaf is sappy af, not what I expected.
It has an artificial feel to it.
I came into this album with absolutely no expectations, other than the fact that the album art looks cheesy as hell. Kinda cool in the edgy kind of way, but cheesy nonetheless. In the end, I found an album I didn't think I could relate to so personally, while also being so damn over the top about everything. This is the epitome of dad rock, but at the same time, it's so unabashedly itself, a rock opera that feels so whimsical you practically get sucked right into it. The only part that realistically took me out of the whole experience was the intro of "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth", which while it sets the tone of how intimate the song can be, drags on for a bit too long, taking up like a fifth of the run time. Out of any album I've rated so far, this is the album that's most likely to go down in my rating scale. It's not at all flawless, you need to be in the right headspace to listen to it, and songs may go on for too long sometimes, but passion practically oozes through this project you can't help but appreciate it.
When I saw this, I actually said ‘ooof’. I’ve never been into theatrical rock stuff, and this is no exception. The album imagery is cool and seems like something I’d be into based on appearances and the fact that I listen to a lot of metal, but alas. Right off the bat, the title track starts off with some crazy piano pounding bullshit and I knew I was in trouble. Then the vocals kick in and I officially tap out. I somehow made it 3 minutes but it felt like an eternity. ‘Ooof’ indeed.
A couple of good ones, notably the extended version of Bat Out Of Hell, but otherwise this was pretty forgettable.
Exactly what I thought a Meatloaf album was.
This is more than an album it's an experience! This album was one of my mom's favorites growing up so it is near and dear to me. Its so perfect in so many ways, the piano, the guitar, the lyrics and the vocals (shoutout to the females on this record, they are the unsung heros!). Its completely over the top, in a way that is borderline campy making it so much more believable. The lyrics are sung with such passion you miss how ridiculous they are (two out of three ain't bad). I mean how many of us have danced to Paradise by the Dashboard Light at a wedding and forgotten how ironic and ridiculous that is! Everything is dramatic, everything is rock, everything makes you buy in, dance around and sing at the top of your lungs.
Nothing sounds quite like Meat Loaf. Dramatic and passionate but with just enough quirky humor to make you go .. wut? Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth, All Revved Up, Two Out of Three, and Paradise by the Dashboard are all great songs. Phenomenal song writing with great energy. Bat Out of Hell and Crying Out Loud are not my favorites but they work well as an intro song and a finale song even if they are kind of long and not as good as the others. They work in the context of the album. Heaven Can Wait is a skip for me. But other than that, it's pretty much a masterpiece of rock n roll.
Bat is an all time classic album for me. It gave me some cool core memories from the days of driving around in my old school Toyota Prius with the tape deck chugging out the perfection of You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad, and Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
This album is perfection.
Had always heard of Meatloaf - did not realize this is his origin. Wow, is this very much of it's time. Considering it is a bat out of Hell, I thought it would be more intense/metal - instead the sax and vocals feel like a cheesy 80's sitcom or musical (which tracks, given the info in the wiki link). Def not my jam - not into over the top, over-dramatic rock operas! Will never ever listen to this again!
When you want Rock Opera done right, Jim Steinman was the go to guy. Bonkers, over the top nonsense and gloriously addictive. I don’t remember when I first heard this, but I’ve listened to it enough times to know every word. It’s a great album. Mars, but Steinman could write great albums and at this point Meatloaf could still perform them. That Old Grey Whistle Test performance of Paradise is enough for me.
Contender for greatest rock album.
Good at times and at times just too theatrical for me.
Rock has it should be. Bat Out of Hell, classic. Overall, a good album.
I enjoy that the album art for Bat Out of Hell looks like the album sounds. Unnecessarily huge, theatrical, explosive, way over produced, awesomeness. May a giant bat on a steeple watch over you as you launch your motorcycle out of the grave.
Never listened to before other than hearing to hits on the radio. Was expecting to like more than I actually did.
Not really to my taste. Rock opera at it's best.
Don't know, couldn't listen to it to the very end. Just not my cup of tea, it seems. Feels like I've listed to it so many times that it just feels bland. Perhaps, there's some historical context I'm missing.
The title track is enormous fun, an unbelievably over the top 9 minute epic with motorbike guitars and more cheese than Cathedral City, but it works, extremely well. Paradise By The Dashboard light is similar, OTT fun. The rest is very meh, schmaltzy ballads which bring the rest of the album down.
It’s cheesy but fun
This is the epitome of a rock opera. The songs are theatrical without being forced, and long without overstaying their welcome. Great stuff. Best Track: For Crying Out Loud
No my cup of tea. Not sure if meatloaf is parody or earnest and that's not great.
Ostigt och kul
Ostigt men mättande
Riktigt härlig musik! Tuff men sa samtidigt ganska lugn, gillar combon.
yay, musical theatre adjacent 4/5
Listens: 2 Standout Tracks: Paradise By The Dashboard Light Teenage Angst? One-Night Stands? Being horny? All in the form of a cinematic rock opera? This feels like one of those "it's so bad it's good" kind of situations. It's not amazingly bad, but like, who was the target audience for this when it came out? This album spent NINE years "in the charts" apparently. The album cover is excellent. Also, and totally unrelated, I can't wait to read the reviews for Fight Club references.
Felt like a musical and like if David Bowie had a child with Freddie Mercury and put out a musical about Ozzy Osbourne.
This man was part of the reason I wanted so badly to learn guitar lessons in school because I thought I maybe one day too could make a sick ass album. He's genuinely impressive and inventive with music and his ability to just keep going until literally the end was also impressive.
it takes one hell of an artist to make a 10 minute long banger that doesn't get bogged down or lost on the way. also hot summer night is one of the songs ever. good shit mr. loaf
There are some albums out there that are so iconic that they define an artist’s entire career—Bat Out of Hell is perhaps the pinnacle of that rule. This is an album that KNOWS it’s a silly romp (Meat Loaf being a member of National Lampoon tipped me off immediately), and delivers an absolutely fun and thrilling romp. The title track kicks the door into a theatrical journey, with the crowning jewel of Paradise by the Dashboard Light delivering us the most high-stakes petting the world has ever seen. The perfect album to drive to, and one of the funniest rock albums to ever exist.
You know Meatloaf. Operatic hard rock, with blues influences. Like Springsteen/Elton John meets glam rock. Some gospel/choir in there too. It's less hard rock overall than Meatloaf is stereotyped as. Really sounds like Springsteen with a whammy bar in places. Even some funky bit in Paradise By The Dashboard Light Each track is a mini album in it's own right, which makes it hard to love any of them.. Great Boleros of Fire is a nice instrumental interlude. Overall it feels a bit too manufactured, not much authenticity. But it's clear showmanship and basically set the standard for a genre so it deserves respect for that. Best track - All Revved Up, Paradise 3 stars
The highs are high, the lows much less so
There was a time when I would have said this album is OTT cheesy theatrical nonsense and rubbish. All true except the rubbish part.
Probably closer to 4.5, but not quite a 5.
Don’t judge an album by its cover. Not much to say except I enjoyed it. The intro to track two really creeped me out when I was by myself though.
Wasn’t the worst but I didn’t love it. For Crying Out Loud was probably the best out of the whole album, and the album wasn’t awful but again just felt a little weird listening to it
Garage band?? Idk man this seems like custom mode in guitar hero after doing some type of illegal stimulant.
This album was meh. I felt like I was listening to a musical all the way through, which I’m not sure a band named Meatloaf intended to happen
Felt like i was back in 7th period advanced drama class. I do not wish to go back to that.
Sounds kinda like Elton John. 🤷♀️ Power Ballads aren’t really for me.
No thanks. Cheesy and overproduced. The charm is lost on me. Musical theater melodies, which I don’t hate, but everything else just misses. Is it a satire? I can’t tell. Everything is so campy, and I can’t tell if it’s supposed to be intentionally sarcastic. So theatrical and melodramatic, with textures as thick as cold oatmeal. The tracks drag on and overstay—the longer it went on the more I hated it. For 70s rock, it feels very shallow. 2.5-3/10 Could have done without the ASMR intro too.
I feel like this is a perfect addition to this list. Not because it's really a "great" album, but because it truly fits the idea of something you need to listen to at least once in your life. It's theatrical, it's whimsical, it's dumb, it's absurd, it's fun. At no point is it boring. That's probably what you should expect from an artist named Meatloaf, especially considering this started as a musical/play concept on Peter Pan. I think over-the-top is an apt descriptor, for better or for worse. Everything about it is in that mould. Just starting with the title and artwork, you'd think this was something hard and heavy (as I did for a long time before hearing any of it). It'd be like, I don't know, calling a movie "There Will Be Blood" and creating a imposing poster with gothic font for it, when the movie is just 3 hours of people disagreeing about land (I kid, I kid. Well, sort of). I feel like that setup matches the tone perfectly for what they were trying to accomplish, though. And the presentation of the music and vocals is complete theater. Kind of like getting the porn parody of a medieval epic instead of the real thing. That said, it's not all fun and games. The style and performative nature makes it a bit polarizing, I'm sure. Opera and theater aren't for everyone (including me, even with the rock context). Also, the novelty would almost certainly wear off quickly with any attempt at a re-listen. Even so, that first listen is quite the experience. Regardless of whether you like it, it's not something you'll quickly forget. On my part, I can't say I loved it. But I can say that I couldn't avert my ears from the experience. It was an interesting ride, and gets credit for its gusto and being mostly enjoyable. I didn't think it was all that "good" as a whole, though. Overall: 2.8/5
Great album