Meat Loaf

Bat Out Of Hell

Avoid at all costs

Review Score:

(2/10)
I will readily admit that I bought a copy of this album back in 1978. I was a freshman in high school and very impressionable. This album was everywhere so, like the rest of the cultural lemmings around me, I bought it, and bought INTO it hook, line, and sinker. Recently, I dug out the old vinyl (12' inch round platter with a small hole in the center) to relive that time and spent every moment of it laughing in disbelief. I was not really expecting to be taken with it all these years later, after all tastes do change, but I was not prepared for just how monumentally horrible it was going to sound some 20+ year down the road. These songs are BAD, and I mean this in the traditional sense of the term as in terrible, wretched, stomach churning. What's even worse is the pompous production which manages to drown out any vague melodic interest that might even be lurking underneath it. But all these factors together do proved a certain level of entertainment. Like that campy horror movie from the 1950's it can, given the right setting, produce howls of laughter brought on by moments of unintended humor.

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