Bat Out Of Hell

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When Rundgren discovered that the deal with RCA did not actually exist (and on top of this that he had essentially paid for the album himself), he turned to Albert Grossman, who had been Bob Dylan's manager, for help. The track begins with a guitar played to sound like a revving motorcycle, a reference to Todd Rundgren's contribution in the middle of "Bat Out of Hell". That doesn’t mean I don’t like it, anything but, it’s just an aspect such as this that would likely deter modern listeners who have yet to fully grasp the musical impact Meat Loaf had throughout his career. Jim Steinman considers the line "And can't you see my faded Levi's bursting apart" his most daring lyric on the entire album.

Since 1968, [29] Steinman had been working on a magnum opus, which finally opened in 2017 in the form of Bat Out Of Hell: The Musical. Allmusic declares "this is Grand Guignol pop—epic, gothic, operatic, and silly, and it's appealing because of all of this. The section from this episode about the marketing of Bat Out of Hell II, and the filming of this music video, has been reshown as part of BBC Learning Zone's media studies strand. Todd Rundgren acknowledges that Steinman was highly influenced by the "rural urban teenage angst" of Bruce Springsteen. It was released on September 14, 1993, sixteen years after Meat Loaf's first solo album Bat Out of Hell.The cover depicts a motorcycle, ridden by a long-haired male, bursting out of the ground in a graveyard. Out of desperation, another E Street Band member, Steve Van Zandt, and Sonenberg arranged to contact Cleveland International Records, a subsidiary of Epic Records. Meat Loaf and the musicians are credited as co-arrangers, and Bittan and long-term Steinman collaborator Steven Rinkoff are credited as associate producers. Meat Loaf won a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for "I'd Do Anything for Love" [37] and received two Brit Awards nominations (Best International Male and Best Selling Single).

The qualities of teenage rebellion and a girl joining a "tribe" led by a charismatic leader are present in all versions of Steinman's work. Certainly, some songs may appeal more to you than others, I know that is the case for me, but when you combine them in the chosen sequencing, Bat Out Of Hell becomes more than just a collection of songs for it is an album experience first and foremost. Ellen Foley, who appears on "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", first met Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman while they were all working together on the National Lampoon Road Tour, [38] so they had a history of performing over-the-top musical comedy sketches together.From the very first I could see she was less than impressed and by the time we got to Paradise by the dash board lights She had actually left the room .