![]() Perhaps bombastic, but damn good.Īnd then the last verse, with its aural echoes of Bat out of Hell Lying out there like a killer in the sun Hey, I know it’s late, we can make it if we runĪnd then Meatloaf comes back in, with the band blasting away. Only right in the middle Meatloaf and the band stops and she sings Oh-oh, come take my hand We’re riding out tonight to case the promised land Oh-oh, Thunder Road Oh, Thunder Road, oh, Thunder Road Lying out there like a killer in the sun Hey, I know it’s late, we can make it if we run Oh-oh, Thunder Road Sit tight, take hold Thunder Road Listening to this really impressive recording snatched from an alternate reality I hadn’t realized it until now but of course Karla is singing on the choruses ![]() The team of him and Steinman deserve the same respect as the other acts mentioned, that is to say the respect afforded artists who are not deducted points based on a weight scale.Īnd with that let’s switch over to the ridiculous lyrics of the song that in an alternate Universe - Universe Theios - Meatloaf is most famous for, a song known as : Thunder Road I suppose I should do the decent thing and pass over that observation now, but I think I have to drop a polite fuck you to the people who find this album so incredibly ridiculous in comparison to the rest of the musical output of the time because oh no, a fat guy did it!īut I did already admit that well things were ridiculous didn’t I? Yes I did, lots of ridiculous stuff of the time, but Meatloaf was not singularly ridiculous. And of course Springsteen had recently come out with Born to Run, as already noted.įrom reading of various sources I am forced to conclude that actually the thing that makes the album, and Meatloaf, and anything he associated with, so ridiculous to most people, was that Meatloaf was very overweight. Alice Cooper was welcoming people to his nightmare, and in a few years after this album Donna Summer would release I Feel Love, another understated masterpiece. This was the part of the 70s where T.Rex was, to use a well-chosen word, rampant. It’s tedious.Īnd one thing I really notice a lot about the claims of ridiculousness is the continual pointing out of operatic bombast, but I would like to point out that while the album was being shopped around to all the record companies that passed on it, this was being put out by a little British band and Led Zeppelin was keeping it real low key with this song. I mean basically if someone tells you they like Bat out of Hell they have to laugh and tell you how absurd it is in the same sentence so you know how cool they are. Now maybe everyone in the world who has ever said Meatloaf and Steinman are ridiculous has come to the conclusion themselves, but I have a cynical view of human creativity and I expect probably just a few people thought and said this was ridiculous independently and the rest just sort of unthinkingly followed. I can’t believe the world took it seriously. I was just chuckling the whole time, and I’m still chuckling. There’s this big, fat, operatic guy doing totally over the top, over-wrought, drawn-out songs. Oddly enough the world took it seriously. I thought it was a parody of Bruce Springsteen. ![]() Todd Rundgren had something to say on the absurdity of the album: But not it seems in the case of Meatloaf. Which I’ve never actually understood - I mean yes it is true that Bat out of Hell (the song) is absurd in the same way that Suck The Blood From My Wound is, but it is sincere, and sincerity beats absurdity to death. One thing you always hear in discussion of these two artists (Meatloaf and Steinman) is how absurd and ridiculous they are. I started listening to Meatloaf, and Jim Steinman, long after they were past their heyday, in the early 2000s, so I am able to examine him from a standpoint that others who experienced him when he was current might not be able to.
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