it was just to drive me crazy, wasn't it?

[seperis]

...how is it no one told me Meatloaf released a new album? Did no one understand the first tape--yes, tape, that plastic thing with brown stuff inside that could double as a garrote on a bad date?--the first tape I ever stole from anyone was Bat Out of Hell II?

Song of Madness (youtube link) from Hang Cool Teddy Bear--seriously!--I have no idea if I like this album. There's just something about massive balladic melodrama that does it for me. Meatloaf kind of transcends like/hate/wtf for me. When you find yourself sincerely singing the ten fucking minute version of Objects in the Rearview Mirror (youtube link), you kind of lose the ability to judge like, anything.

Also, Hugh Laurie--yes, Hugh Laurie--plays on the album or something?

...you have heard his cover of Celine Dion's It's All Coming Back to Me Now, right? I swear it's the sequel to I Will Do Anything for Love. I think that's the same castle!

I feel so conflicted. I went to get more Augustana and I ended up--here. With Meatloaf. This is so very confusing. I mean, can Augustana compete with like, a full symphony orchestra accompaniment to psuedo-Dracula!Beast watching his BelleMina-esque obsession in a hand mirror engage in somewhat lesbian antics in an oversized bed after what appears to be a really really enjoyable bath?

Did anyone else come out of watching that feeling like classic fairy tales knocked up classic literature and the offspring was raised by Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights before it grew up to be that video?

Right. Me either. Nor am I watching it right now.

ETA: raina linked to the history of It's All Coming Back to Me Now.

...I have no idea what to do with that.

Comments

[seekingeden]

I agree with this entire entry so much. I mean, I still have the Bat out of Hell tape in a drawer - although no possibility to actually play it *lol*

Re: It's All Coming Back to Me Now

[raine]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_Coming_Back_to_Me_Now
Fascinating piece of song history, isn't it?

[dragojustine]

> Meatloaf kind of transcends like/hate/wtf for me.

Yes, this. Sometimes your buttons just get pushed so hard that "is this good?" or "do I like this?" are completely irrelevant questions.

[pensnest]

Massive balladic melodrama ftw. I just spent ten very happy minutes watching that video of Object in the Rearview Mirror, which is a song I've loved since I first heard it. Fabulous stuff.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

I adore Meatloaf (saw him in concert in the UK way back when) and I used to play Steinman's Pandora's Box album REALLY LOUD when I was a teenager and emo.

God, the voices those women had!

[deadlychameleon.livejournal.com]

I'll have you know I paid good money for Bat Out of Hell II!

When I was 12 years old, mind you.

[boggit.livejournal.com]

I did not know that song could get more over-the-top. I am delighted (I think) to be shown the light.

Did anyone else come out of watching that feeling like classic fairy tales knocked up classic literature and the offspring was raised by Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights before it grew up to be that video?

Yes. But that only scratches the surface! Said offspring apparently also had a fling with the special effects from Supernatural. And reminded me of Howard's End at inopportune moments.

Bat Out of Hell II was the first tape I ever listened to so much it did that weird stretchy warp thing where the sound got all distorted. It added a certain something. I just went and looked up the album to remind myself of some of the song titles (Objects in the Rear View Mirror! May Appear! Closer! Than They Are!), and damn, that cover is totally bitchin'.

[ziarenete13x.livejournal.com]

Mein gott! Meatloaf played lullabies for me. The intro alone to Bat Out of Hell is among my top five instrumental pieces, if only for dint of familiarity. I can sing many of the songs from memory!

I need this new thing like burning!

[dawnmyst.livejournal.com]

OMG I FEEL SO OLD !!! MY MOTHER USED TO PUT ME TO BED WHEN I WAS A BABY AND PUT THE BAT OUT OF HELL CASSETTE ON FOR ME ... YEAH NOT BAT OUT OF HELL 2 ... THE FIRST ONE ! WHEN I WAS A BABY LOL .... OMG I JUST LOOKED, IT CAME OUT IN 1977, I HOWEVER CAME OUT IN 1976 LOL :D

I ALSO WENT TO SEE THEM AT THE MOLSON AMPITHEATER IN TORONTO IN 1996, NEXT TO GIVING BIRTH 9 MTHS PRIOR IT WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE ...


omg now i have to go find my dvds with all their songs and upload to the pc ... omg i hate/love you :D

[naughtyoldlady.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha, I think I am older than all of you...our local movie theater used to screen Meatloaf videos from Bat Out of Hell (the first one!) before showing Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight. I bought that album on VINYL. ;-)

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

NEW ALBUM???!?!?!?!!*(R*(#}
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[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

NEW ALBUM???!?!?!?!!*(R*(#}
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with hugh laurie!???!$RH04whqtu4qy4fi0[fc

*aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa* MUST HAVE!

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

*listening to new song*

Hmnmm. Not sure yet.

I saw him first on Midnight SPecial in 1974.....and when I helped form a student literary journal group on campus (I was the advisor), I suggested THe Rearview Mirror society as the name which confused everybody except Meatloaf fansQ!