Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
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Bat Out of Hell
Artist : Meat Loaf
List Price : $11.98 USD
Your Price : $7.97 USD
ProductGroup: Music
Release Date : 2001-01-30
Studio : Sony
Label : Sony
Avg. Customer Rating :  (102 reviews)
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Customer Reviews for Bat Out Of Hell
If You're a Meatloaf Fan, You'll Love This
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Great remix of most of Meat Loaf's best songs. Good to prepare for upcoming concert tour.
Customer Reviews for Bat Out Of Hell Cd
The Real "High School Musical"
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If all this record had going for it was the viscous cheesiness of Jim Steinman's lyrics, Phil Rizzuto's play-by-play fellatrix or the groin-bruising operetics of Mr. Loaf, Bat Out Of Hell would still qualify as an honorable mention in any discussion of late `70s arena-rock machismo. Fortunately, it is BOOH's musical undercard that continues to make it much more than a time period oddity. Supporting this teenage passion play is the production and guitar genius of Todd Rundgren abetted by two of rock's finest ensembles - Rundgren's own musical alter-ego, Utopia (Kasim Sultan, Roger Powell) and a lend-lease from the E-Street Band in the persons of Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan.
Rundgren retains his laurels as the era's most prolific front-man and technical Svengali. Right in the middle of a production run that included Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, XTC, Badfinger and Grand Funk, Rundgren drove the sonics of his all-star line-up through a heavy metal atom smasher that all but renders the sticky-fingered story-line hopelessly dazed, utterly confused and completely beside the point. Bat Out Of Hell is Wagnerian overkill designed for the one speaker technics of a 1972 Plymouth Duster - overwhelming, overwrought, overweight and over-the-top with every ear drum shattered and woofer blown.
Meat's opus-dopus remains joyously catatonic in it's blissed-out ignorance and is easily the smartest, dumb recording ever made. Five stars for this essential classic.
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