Bat Out Of Hell

I would give this negative stars if I could. One of the worst records ever

I cannot stand this kind of music.

3.45 as a global score? Really??? How many boomers just simply nostalgic for the huge commercial success of this cheesefest, overblown rock-opera in 1977 are using this app? In all seriousness, parts of *Bat Out Of Hell* are still somewhat listenable today, I guess, at least if you can enjoy camp with your tongue firmly planted in your cheek. But the manner in which the "rock" songs in this record--using all the ropes once used by Springsteen and the E-Street band--alternate with full-blown saccharine "ballads" neither rhymes nor reasons. Worse, the whole quickly become unsurprising, boring and mundane. Which takes the cake when you try so hard to be 'over-the-top'. I mean, just listen to "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad" and please prove to me this is not the most formulaic slow-rock cut that has ever been written. I have no beef with the silly lyrics and overall concept for this project, they go with the territory here. But musically speaking, this is just self-indulgent, derivative drivel pandering to the lowest common denominator. Alice Cooper's schlock shock-rock was ten times more interesting. *Destroyer*-era Kiss went to the same sorts of turf (rockers + ballads), yet with a far livelier (and decidedly off-kilter) energy, thanks to Bob Ezrin's spacious production values. The one on *Bat Out Of Hell* feels decidedly paper-thin in comparison, in spite of the piling-up of instruments, arrangements and orchestrations. I can have fun listening to those sorts of extravagant, "bad-taste", hard-rock burritos. But this one here leaves me totally cold. Probably because it is only a Broadway farce parading as "rock", and that as such, it has absolutely nothing essential to offer to the latter genre. One last thing: I always thought hit single "I'd Anything For Love" was part of this record, but it turns out it's part of its sequel, released in the early nineties... So I won't even have *one* truly famous track somehow showing the sort of cultural long-term impact Meat Loaf has had. I give up. As an album artist, the man has absolutely nothing to offer me. And he didn't even write those songs himself anyway... 1/5 for the purposes of this list of "essential" albums. And 6/10 for more general purposes (5+1). Number of albums left to review: 78 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 397 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 230 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 296 (including this one)

Terrible and pathetic.

Complete turd. This is music for people who don’t like music.

Unbearable.

Hur kan en person som slayade så hårt i Rocky horror picture show leverera ett sånt här album??

ska ljuga det var fire. Brast nästan ut i skratt flera gånger (hans sista high note i första låten, andra låtens asmr-från-helvetet-intro och även hela resten av låten KLAPPANDET PÅ SLUTET PAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAG, tredje låten när kören kommer in och bara oooohhhh jag bara neeeeeeeejjjjj och STRÅKET pahaha, saxsolot i låt fyra och när han börjar sjunga ÖVER det åh herre hjärtanes, hur innerliga och DRAMATISKA vissa delar är och hur mycket det bara inte funkar typ slutet på låt sju med BOMBASTIC stråk asså näääääeee💀💀, SJÄTTE LÅTEN HJÄLP HJÄLP HJÄLP när voice overn kommer och är sportkommentator när han ska ha sex och där är STÖN I BAKGRUNDEN jag ville kanske dö. Och mamma vad jag mådde dåligt när kvinnan kom och det blev en duett??? tonartshöjningen efteråt var droppen ta mig härifrån) Aldrig lyssnat på meat loaf förr och ser nu att det var väldigt klokt. Alltså är alltihopa ett epic prank och han ett troll eller är det meningen att det ska vara bra? På ett sätt väckte det ändå känslor - förfäran, illamående och framförallt pinsamhet. Skäms å hans vägnar vad tänkte han. Min broders heartbreak låter så innerligt på ett komiskt sätt. Har han blivit heartbroken av en oompa loompa eller för det är så mega goofy Sämsta låt: all revved up with no place to go varför sjunger han om att ingen vill ligga med honom😭😭😭😭 ”all revved up with no place to go, oh baby I’m a hunter in the dark of forest, I’ve been stalking you and tracking you down” är inte en okej rad😭 aldrig mer meat loaf för min del ska typ faktiskt bli vegetarian efter detta

So much in the con column: rock opera, piano based rock, pompous but slight themes, kitsch without camp, show tunes with 0 sense of fun, slow ass over composed songs that last for ever, nothing musically interesting, it's very long So little in the pro column: impressive vocals, sometimes it fleetingly sounds like some better (if only slightly) 70s band (Bruce, Elton, Queen), the cover would be great for a thrash band, the odd raging sax solo

Heard before Saved 1/7 Top track: Bat Out of Hell

This one isn’t for me - I’m not so much into the rock opera/theatrical rock genre. Tried to like it, but didn’t at all.

I wanted to give credit where it's due even if rock opera is something I passionately don't care about (put nicely) but by the time All Revved Up played... "if I'll never hear a sliding rock'n'roll piano again, it'll be too soon" is what I wrote yesterday. THIS RIGHT HERE WAS WAY TOO SOON! The whole thing? Just awful. My deepest condolences to the people from the Meat Loaf Karaoke place I learned about in the reviews.

Er zijn weinig dingen waarbij mijn nekharen zo overeind gaan staan als bij het aanhoren Meat Loaf. De enige reden dat ik blij ben met dit album is omdat ik nog een hele reeks albums moet inhalen. Scheelt weer luistertijd, want dit album mag van mij direct een vette 1 krijgen. Bleh theatrale irritante musicalstemmetjes. Koen nodig me alsjeblieft niet uit voor je PBTDL feestje :p

Ik toen ik zag dat dit album op het menu stond: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/obituaries/2022/01/21/TELEMMGLPICT000283412535_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqBoAHBNnsOk47ZzuFbgUwCt_dQaCFRv4gzXWA0yvVKWM.jpeg?imwidth=480 Ik toen ik het een cijfer mocht geven: https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1500w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2016_24/1583366/160617-meat_loaf-0359.jpg

More theatrical/musical than rock to me ear, and not really my kind of sound.

awful added to playlist: bat out of hell

Not really my thing, was waiting for it to end

If I ever have to hear this album again it will be too soon. Pomp musical rock drama is awful, pretentious nonsense.

Growing up, seeing the album cover of this made me think I was getting was Black Sabbath was but instead what I got was Jefferson Starship. 🥇Paradise By the Dashboard 🥈 Bat out of Hell 🥉You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth

OMG this is so bad. I hate Meat Loaf so much. If I never hear another ML song ever again it will be too soon. How to I give this (-) points? I assume this is something that you would have to have grown up with to even consider as something worth listening to again. Please 1001 Albums Generator, do not feed me anymore of this trash.

Didn't love it. Was boring and was glad when it ended. No songs really stood out - I already knew bat out of hell, other than that, I can't really remember any of the songs, and I only just finished listening to it. The songs are way too long - album is over an hour and there's only 9 tracks! Might be better live? Might be better as a musical? Not sure! 1*

Not my cup of tea.

This album was incredibly popular when I was a kid. I'm still tired of it. The songs have not aged well. I am rapidly losing interest in listening to these albums. Why is there so much cheesy early rock on this list?

Not for me

Naaah

I am sure this is a classic to some but not for me.

Fad

Just a trashy album. Made for people who think they like rock but actually like the theatre

Nicht anhörbar :-)

Meat Loaf is Hell

could not finish it

No.

Nope, not a fan.

I couldn't even listen to it. I don't like his voice and think the music is tedious and boring. I could see him putting on a good live concert though.

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!