What Are You Listening To?

[Ruby]

Recording History

studio albums - 12
compilation albums - 7
live albums - 5
ep's - 1
singles - 39

Grammy Awards - 1

from my library (cd)



Producers: Todd Rundgren

2nd studio album - #14 US, #9 UK, #1 AUS
Singles - You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth - #39 US, #33 UK, #3 AUS
.............Paradise By The Dashboard Light - #39 US
.............Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad - #11 US, #32 UK, #11 AUS
.............Bat Out Of Hell - #15 UK, #26 AUS

I refuse to corrupt my awesome score with the 2 bonus tracks they gifted me with on this re-release. Dropping those I get 5 of 7 love tracks.
Studio albums don't get much better. This album stayed on the charts for 9 years. Yes some artists have topped that, but it's a pretty amazing
feat. Still sells an estimated 200,000 copies a year. Current total sales stand at around 43 million copies. It is the second best selling album
of all time in Australia where it went to #1. Wiki shows it as the 10th best selling album of all time worldwide. I had forgotten Edgar Winter
plays sax on this album. We also get Todd Rundgrean and Roy Bittan (Springsteen). And of course Ellen Foley's back up role is superb. I remember
picking up an Ellen Foley album after this came out. It was not very good. Jim Steinman was behind this classic album and some resentment was
built up after is was a hit and Mr. Loaf was getting all the credit. Wounds were healed eventually. After many subsequent releases this remains
Meat Loaf's best selling album. Those kind of numbers seldom happen mo
re than once.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Heaven Can Wait
Best Track - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

[video=youtube;k5hWWe-ts2s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hWWe-ts2s[/video]

Track Listing

1. Bat Out of Hell **
audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9hLcRU5wE4
2. You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) *** the best kind of video
video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wO8toxinoc
3. Heaven Can Wait **
audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX-ZnaGLOOQ
4. All Revved Up with No Place to Go ***
audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2FxdcY9dE4
5. Two Out of Three Ain't Bad ***
video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hWWe-ts2s
6. Paradise by the Dashboard Light ***
live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NTDHjVKQyo
7. For Crying Out Loud ***
audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vouvW-ECoYI
8. Great Boleros of Fire
9. Bat Out of Hell

3's - 5
2's - 2
1's - 0

grade - 2.7 of 3.0
allmusic - 4.5 of 5.0

Awesome! ‘Heaven Can Wait’ gets big love from me, followed very closely by ‘You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth’. Brilliant album. Jeepers! Meatloaf looks so young here!