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Bat Out of Hell | 
| Artist: Meat Loaf
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $8.49
You Save: $3.49 (29%)
Rating:  102 reviews
Sales Rank: 2108
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 074646217122
UPC: 746462171222
EAN: 0074646217122
ASIN: B000056VJ7
Release Date: January 30, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Bat out of Hell | | • | You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) | | • | Heaven Can Wait | | • | All Revved Up With No Place to Go | | • | Two Out of Three Ain't Bad | | • | Paradise by the Dashboard Light | | • | For Crying out Loud | | • | Great Boleros of Fire | | • | Bat out of Hell |
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Amazon.com
Overwrought and undeniable, Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell remains both one of rock's biggest--and least likely--hit albums. The byproduct of a partnership between beefy singer Marvin Lee "Meat Loaf" Aday and fellow journeyman/National Lampoon Road Show cast member Jim Steinman, Bat out of Hell met 1977's vaunted Year of Punk with a blast of neo-operatic, Wagnerian-scaled bombast (based on Peter Pan, no less) that was as reactionary as anything the spiked set and their supporters could possibly imagine--13 million units worth, and counting. Bat seems to have thrived on the same formula that's made Andrew Lloyd Webber a multimillionaire knight: if you do kitsch, do it big. And what could be more kitschy and emblematic of the '70s than the ubiquitous "classic rock" (an overused adjective that applies all too well here) of "Two out of Three Ain't Bad" or the breathless nookie-quest, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," replete with Phil Rizzuto calling the play-by-play? This digitally remastered edition also includes '78-vintage bonus live cuts of "Bolero" (the live show's equally over-the-top opener) and "Bat out of Hell" that showcase the production's energetic, perfectionist bent. The sonic upgrading here also underscores the oft-overlooked efforts of producer Todd Rundgren. --Jerry McCulley
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| Customer Reviews: Read 97 more reviews...
 If You're a Meatloaf Fan, You'll Love This November 29, 2008
Jane C. Bressler (New York, NY USA)
Great remix of most of Meat Loaf's best songs. Good to prepare for upcoming concert tour.
The Original "High School Musical" August 2, 2008
Michael Neiss (Princeton, NJ United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Bat out of Hell...still love it after all these years! July 23, 2008
K. Walls
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first got hooked on this album when I was barely a teenager and could listen to it over and over. Now 30 yrs later I still occasionally enjoy listening to it. I no longer listen to rock music as I didn't care for the path it took over the years and pretty well only listen to country music now a days but Bat out of Hell has a timeless quality about it that I think I will still enjoy it in another 30 yrs. It is a great album in my opinion.
Awesome April 10, 2008
Jennifer Ritta (Auburn AL)
Love Meatloaf! Especially Bat Out Of Hell. last song is a live version! Must get!
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