1569

[Thinks waaay back…]
I suppose I thought so too, back in the day. After all, I have the original vinyl plus the original CD release. Along with the sequel album. But I haven’t been tempted to play it in decades now. Does it still hold up?

1570

Bat Out of Hell is the #2 all-time best selling album in Australia. Maybe Cleve is listening to it right now?

1571

They’ve made it to the surface of Australia, but not to the bottom of the mineshaft where Cleve is holed up.

1572

Let me sleep on it.

1573

/thread

1574

For me, yeah, though really it’s all about two songs, the title cut and Paradise. I use the latter in class sometimes, particularly a concert video of the song that really shows Meat Loaf at his anti-rock-star best. The record is pure seventies power rock stripped of any Zeppelin-esque mysticism or any of the other additives that frequently colored music of that era (and I love Zep, btw). It’s almost a primitive form of rock, with faint undertones of punk.

1575

Grimoire patch? Maybe I’ll peek back in but I kinda doubt it.

1576

Cleve continues to be a total d-bag. He saw his one chance to belittle someone after this mess was released, and instead shows he’s just a tiny brained lizard. Kinda funny with all his white superiority, smarter than everyone crap he spews.

1577

Haha. Nice. :)

I really don’t want to further derail the thread, so I’ll just say I’m glad you qualified that with an “almost”. Those compositions were anything but primitive. Fairly complex for rock, I thought…at the time.
…
You know what? I’m gonna need to give this record another spin before I continue digging this hole.

1578

Bat Out of Hell is indeed a seminal rock album. I believe it’s up there with Bohemian Rhapsody in the album A Night at the Opera as a touchstone of operatic rock.

1579

There ya go. It was operatic. We didn’t have much operatic rock back then. Now hell, we got operatic metal all over the place!

In any case, thanks to that album, I can recognize a Jim Steinman song from a miles away. And I think most everyone else can too.

1580

Yeah, “primitive” isn’t exactly the right word. More like, well, yeah it’s operatic in one sense but still devoid of excess, baggage. Dunno what the right words are but I like it :).

1581

are you:

a) down at the bottom of a pit
b) under the blazing sun
c) both

1582

Are you writing Meat Loaf-themed IF?

1583

Would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

1584

Better?

Are you:

  • Down at the bottom of a pit
  • In the blazing sun
  • Both
  • Sh17 b0n3z

0 voters

1585

The results of that poll are pretty definitive.

1586

Missing an “r” though.

1587

PC version. :)

1588