Bat Out Of Hell

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The cover depicts a motorcycle, ridden by a long-haired male, bursting out of the ground in a graveyard. It Just Won't Quit", Steinman explains, "is about the fact that there are some things you never shake off. Meat Loaf 'Live' at The El Mocambo was immediately pressed to disc and distributed to stations throughout North America.

million albums in Australia, where it is the country's highest-selling album as of 2016, being certified 25× platinum. After a series of financial and legal disputes during the 1980s, Steinman and Meat Loaf met at the singer's house in Connecticut at Christmas in either 1989 [3] or 1990, [12] and sang Bat Out of Hell on piano. It's a shame, however, that the sonic quality has never really lived up to the hype, but more on that later.In the background, a large bat perches atop a mausoleum that towers above the rest of the tombstones. Comparing the album to Steinman's late-1960s musical The Dream Engine, Classic Rock magazine says that Steinman's imagery is "revved up and testosterone-fueled. The singer was being managed by Walter Winneck and George Gilbert, who Meat Loaf credits as being "honest guys" but, under Steinman's influence, thinks would be "incapable of dealing with the record companies" on Bat II. As some other reviewers have pointed out the title track and For Cryin' Out Loud sound great, but so do the majority of the other songs.

The phrase that inspired the song's title, "bat out of hell," can be traced back to the Greek playwright Aristophanes' 414 BC work entitled The Birds. The BBC television program The Old Grey Whistle Test aired a clip of the live band performing the nine-minute title track. The album was ranked number 343 on Rolling Stone 's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, [9] [54] but was removed from the 2020 revision. Meat Loaf remained the last artist to have two top-ten UK singles at the same time until the Manic Street Preachers in 2001. Even the gong sibilance can now be heard, whereas it used to be something that looked like a gong (it really raised doubt) or maybe was an imitation of one by mouth.Not being able to "bear for people not to hear those songs," Steinman recorded the album, retitled Bad for Good, as a solo project, although Rory Dodd contributed lead vocals on some songs. By year's end, the album had sold a respectable 140,000 copies by Popovich's account, but the promotion people at Epic were still unmoved. Out of desperation, another E Street Band member, Steve Van Zandt, and Sonenberg arranged to contact Cleveland International Records, a subsidiary of Epic Records.

As of June 2019, it has spent 522 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, the second longest chart run by a studio album.Steinman had offended them a few years earlier by auditioning with a song named " Who Needs the Young? In the various promotional music videos for the songs on the album Bat Out of Hell Karla DeVito's lips are synced to Ellen Foley's album vocals. There is a suggestion to "support Tibet House, an organization dedicated to the unique culture of the Tibetan people which has the potential to make a valuable contribution to the world at large".