Ok back when I delivered pizzas I used to crank this song out of my 1976 CJ5. Like fishing in a pond, sometimes you caught a few prizes, sometimes you had to throw away a few minnows..

But this song still stands as an absolute powerhouse. I remember hitting 3rd gear and when that 304 started to sing with the tape playing I sang right along with it...

Many great songs, I especially like to watch the big guy perform moving all that meat around, theatrics at its best.

Huge Meatloaf fan. Bat Out Of Hell is one of my favorite albums (and one of the best selling of all time...#5 I believe). Wore out the album and a couple of cassettes before buying the CD.

The man doesn't get near enough credit. Incredible voice and lyrics that actually mean something. Unlike the crap that comes out today.

Let's not forget Jim Steinman, who wrote all those great songs, plus other great ones like, Total Eclipse of The Heart for Bonnie Tyler. For me, the classic is Paradise by The Dashboard Light. What red-blooded American male can't identify with that one ?

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
The man doesn't get near enough credit. Incredible voice and lyrics that actually mean something. Unlike the crap that comes out today.

I agree. He gave himself a juvenile name, and it killed his career. Had he used his real name, or a more professional band name, he would have got a LOT more attention and credit. Clearly a very talented guy, with a dumb as hell name.

I grew up with Meatloaf and have to admit the man can sing... but I only have one question:

What the hell is the song about... after watching the video the best I can come up with is he won't join in a three way with two woman one of which he loves....

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
What the hell is the song about... after watching the video the best I can come up with is he won't join in a three way with two woman one of which he loves....

I always figured something along the lines of...

I saw him in a little nightclub in Hickory NC back in about 1990 or so, just when he was beginning his comeback. I stood about 25 feet from the stage and watched this fat guy with hair down to his butt absolutely put everything he had into the show. One of the best shows I ever saw, if not THE best.

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Originally posted by Todd Huffman:
I saw him in a little nightclub in Hickory NC back in about 1990 or so, just when he was beginning his comeback. I stood about 25 feet from the stage and watched this fat guy with hair down to his butt absolutely put everything he had into the show. One of the best shows I ever saw, if not THE best.

A friend of mine was on tour with him many years ago and said the thing that amazed her the most is that he would put 200% into every show to the point he would need oxygen afterward and he never got caught up in the backstage shenanigans

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
I grew up with Meatloaf and have to admit the man can sing... but I only have one question:

What the hell is the song about... after watching the video the best I can come up with is he won't join in a three way with two woman one of which he loves....

First, it would have been a four way *two hotties + his true love + him.....this may have been before viagra and a guy has to know his limitations.

The video was portraying what the big popular thing at the time; Beauty and the Beast tv series. Song is that he would do anything for love, including not cheat on her.....which she doesn't believe. I wonder why?

I guess I'm in the minority because I simply don't get Meatloaf. To me, he sounds like over-indulgent, operatic, Springsteen-like, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. I listened to Bat Out of Hell, or at least tried to listen to it, back in the late 70s and even now on youtube and it just doesn't make sense to me.

I recognize the talent and work he puts into it, but for me, it don't mean thing if it ain't got that swing.

oddball, I am the opposite. I didn't really care for Springsteen's music while I did enjoy Meatloaf. I guess I am a midwest guy and while I didn't really care for Springsteen, I did love Bob Seger (another blue collar type musician). I will say I have seen both Springsteen and Meatloaf in concert and both shows were fantastic. Both of them and their bands gave it their best and played their hearts out. I will say a certain type of girl/young lady was a Springsteen fan while another type of girl/young lady was a Meatloaf fan..........I had MUCH more fun after the Meatloaf concert.

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Thing is I never liked Springsteen either. Now Bob Seger is another story, I think he was really good at the midwest, blue-collar rock thing.

In the late 70s, I was discovering punk; bands like The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Rockpile, etc. By then, Meatloaf became the anti-thesis of what I was listening to. Even though in later years I eventually gravatated back to "classic rock" stuff later on, I never gained an appreciation of Meatloaf.

My wife detests anything written by Jim Steinman. So, I wouldn't get very far it I tried.

I was an 18 year old private in the Army, overseas in W. Germany, and my buddy and I missed the last bus back to Illesheim from Bad Windsheim. It was winter, and we were broke, so a cab back to base was out of the question. All of a sudden this CJ-5 Jeep pulls up, and this chubby guy yells out at us "hey, you guys are from the 1st of the 6th, right? Need a ride back?"

He had some music on that I'd never heard before, and upon inquiring found out that it was a guy named Meatloaf. Never heard of him before that day, but I became a fan. No idea if there's some hidden positive karma feeling (based on not freezing my nethers off walking back home) or what, but I like his music.