Meat Loaf collects a couple of Jim Steinman songs and he, Paul Jacobs, and Mack work at recreating the Todd Rundgren production sound for an album of high-voltage rock....
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Over the years, we've become so enamored of classic Meat Loaf bombast such as "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)" and "Paradise By The Dashboard...
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Meat Loaf collects a couple of Steinman songs, and he, Paul Jacobs, and Mack work at recreating the Rundgren production sound for an album of high-voltage rock. ~ William...
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The only thing worse than cold, soggy Meat Loaf without a side of Steinman is warmed-up, leftover Meat Loaf. Here, he's reunited with Steinman, who has come to think of...
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While the spectacle of the Loaf filling five-gallon buckets with his sweat might be visually entertaining to the sort of folks who enjoy the Coney Island freak show, there...
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For the second time in history, Meat Loaf is a commercial disappointment with a follow-up to Bat Out Of Hell, but you knew better than to expect good music by now, didn't...
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Deliberately theatrical, over the top and overblown, Meatloaf's unapologetically '70s-sounding arena rock is exactly the type of music rock critics love to loathe. But what...
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Unlike previous collections Epic has assembled, the double-disc The Very Best of Meat Loaf draws not only from his recordings for the label, but it also licenses his '90s...
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Since Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell album is vastly better than its follow-ups, Dead Ringer and Midnight at the Lost and Found, the idea of doing a hits compilation culling...
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My favorite Bruce Springsteen album has always been Bat Out Of Hell. "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad" and "Heaven Can Wait" are the ballads Born To Run never...
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There is no other album like Bat Out of Hell, unless you want to count the sequel. This is Grand Guignol pop -- epic, gothic, operatic, and silly, and it's appealing because...
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Like any edition of Universal's Deluxe Edition series, Meat Loaf's 1993 comeback album Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell is lavishly, lovingly packaged -- a fold-out...
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The eight years since Meat Loaf's last studio album didn't include any editions of his Bat Out of Hell series, but with a live album and a VH1 Storytellers appearance that...
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The 2004 release Bat Out of Hell: Live With the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is pretty much what the title claims it is -- a live version of Meat Loaf's classic album,...
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There is no other album like Bat out of Hell, unless you want to count the sequel. This is Grand Guignol pop -- epic, gothic, operatic, and silly, and it's appealing because...
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