Bat Out Of Hell IV: Escape From Hell!

• See the album cover here FIRST!
• See the track listing here FIRST!
• Hear MP3 samples here FIRST!

April 19, 2010
WHOO-HOO!

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Few rock and rollers can transcend generations, avoid falling into the "pop music" trap, and combine classic rock and roll with rock opera and powerhouse lyrics quite like Meat Loaf. Since the historic release of Bat Out of Hell in 1977, Meat Loaf has shown little sign of letting up. Although the breaks in between releases are often painfully long, each new album is always exciting and original, without departing from Meat Loaf's style and appeal.

There are scores of Meat Loaf fan sites out there, so one wonders why I would bother with another one. The answer, of course, is just because I can. Always wanted to. So here it is. I'm trying to achieve a number of goals here:

• Images of all the albums (admittedly, you can find these pretty much everywhere)
• Lyrics to all the songs (there never seems to be one Meat Loaf site with all of them)
• MIDI files of all the songs (if you have MIDI of his songs, please email me!)
• MP3 samples of the songs (relax, no pirating; fair use in play here. I want to eventually get brief snippets of the songs, in low-quality format, for reference only--sort of like the brief pieces you hear on music-for-sale Web sites)
• Trivia about Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman (there's plenty of it out there; just want to group it all in one place)
• Anything else that strikes me as interesting

Hopefully, visitors will get something out of this, too.
 

Contact me if you have anything to add, suggestions, ideas, comments, etc. My email-linked name appears at the bottom of every page.

However, if you plan to email me to tell me how Meat Loaf sucks and is too fat, and his music is cheesy and old-styled, and how Type O Negative and Korn are REAL musicians, and how you could write and sing and play better than Meat Loaf... save your fingers from all that typing. I don't care. This is for Meat Loaf FANS, and we aren't going to be converted because of a few nasty emails. And, chances are, if you have the mentality to consider writing an email like that, you're probably young enough to have been in diapers AFTER Bat Out of Hell was first released... in which case we REALLY don't care about your 90's view on music.

So if you're a Meat Loaf fan and there's something you'd like to see on this site, let me know about it and I'll see what I can do. I'd also appreciate any contributions you may have, be it pictures or artwork, MIDIs or sound clips, personal stories regarding Meat, or whatever (but please email me BEFORE you send stuff). Hell, if you have Meat Loaf memorabilia you want to get rid of, don't let me stop you from dropping it in the mail! :-)
 

In Blender Magazine's May 2004 issue, in an article titled "Run For Your Life! It's The 40 Worst Songs Ever!" Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" is on the list.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but this mindless team of "writers" have interesting reasons behind the criticism of most of their songs (but hey, this is a magazine that proudly features Courtney Love on the cover, so we don't expect too much). Sure, the writers are possessed of prepubescent ideals, but I couldn't help but email the editor on this one. Read that email here.