Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell III
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Artist: Meat LoafEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-10-31
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- The Monster Is Loose
- Blind As a Bat
- It's All Coming Back To Me Now
- Bad For Good
- Cry Over Me
- In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King
- Monstro
- Alive
- If God Could Talk
- If It Ain't Broke Break It
- What About Love
- Seize the Night
- The Future Ain't What It Used To Be
- Cry To Heaven
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Free Music Review: From Stoney to Bat 3
Hit: 5 Stars
I have every record ever released by Meat, including the original with Stoney. Some albums are world class, some are average and a couple are consigned very quickly to the back of the drawer.
Bat 1 is out on its own. I prefer "Dead Ringer" to Bat 2. I definitely prefer Bat 3 to Bat 2.
Why. I think the songs are more varied and less designed for the mass market. I am a huge fan of Steinman, but like most songwriters they dry up eventually. To me the best songs on the album are not all Steinman's. In fact the worst song to these ears is "If it aint broke".
Child has captured the essence of Steinman production and added more variety in tone. I think the use of the musicians is also some of the best Meat has managed. The drumming is more intricate and off-beat than any since "I'm going to love her for both of us" and the guitars wrestle beautifully.
The opening track (Monster) is probably Meat's hardest rock track since a couple of outings on Ted Nugents 1976 "Free for all". In fact this whole album is "angry" or at least "reflective".
Yes a number of track are new versions of pre-recorded songs. But so what. Meat is not the first person to re-record old songs, but he appears to be the first to take such flack over it. I don't particularly like "It's all coming back to me" but that is because it not one of the more powerful songs on the album not because it has been released before.
The songs all hold well together. And they seem to be about how life has not been as rosy as one might have imagined as a teenager 30 years ago. They look at the dark side. I love the fact that in a couple of songs there are specific references to the "dreams" of the past. For those of us who have been through 30 years with Meat we can relate to how dreams come but sometimes get shattered.
The key for me is that in this album more than anything since Bat 2 Meat believes what he is singing. You can hear every fibre of who he is in every song - and that to me is the key to any great album. Whether it is Prince, Springsteen, Elvis or even Pink. Do they believe and does it come through. And in this album it comes through loud (very loud) and clear.
If you are a genuine Meat fan then buy the album. If you hate Meat then don't bother. If you like some of his stuff or are new to this - then give it a go - I suspect you will be delighted.
Pay for the neighbours to go out for the evening, turn down the lights, close all the doors and windows, get out your air guitar, air drums and air microphone, turn the volume to max and for an hour and a quarter imagine it is you at the Garden.
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Bat Out of Hell III is Meat Loaf?s long-awaited 3rd installment of the most successful rock music series of all time, with the two previous albums selling a total of 45 million copies around the world. Bat Out of Hell, released in 1977 and produced by Todd Rundgren, is the third best-selling album of all time, with 30 million copies sold worldwide, featuring such Meat Loaf/Jim Steinman standards as "Two Out of Three Ain?t Bad," "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" and the show-stopping "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights."The Steinman-produced Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, which came out in 1993, has sold more than 15 million, with the classic "I?d Do Anything for Love (But I Won?t Do That)," earning Meat Loaf a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance.
Bat Out of Hell III continues the epic story in grand fashion, with contributions once again from Steinman and Rundgren, and produced by hitmaker Desmond Child. Bat Out of Hell III marks the triumphant return of the Bat Out of Hell saga, completing this remarkable trilogy!
The long-awaited third record in the Bat Out of Hell trilogy, The Monster Is Loose, wears bombast, pretension, and pyrotechnics proudly on its album sleeve and across the bulging disc's 14 tracks. More a pop orchestral mishmash than a well-defined rock opus, Bat III is dark, seemingly hopeless at times, and über dramatic. Oddly enough, that's also its saving grace. Meat Loaf and company create a great escape into the realm of grand theatricality, with a bunch of radio-friendly rock tunes that sound 20 years old, and several lyrically memorable AOR ballads to sustain it all the way to Broadway. With collaborator (and occasional defendant in Meat Loaf lawsuits) Jim Steinman, producers Desmond Child and Todd Rundgren, the Meat man consistently has the big sound booming and his despair and his rage on to the point that listeners may feel his pain a little too often. Bat III ain't for sissies. Balanced by the powerful female voices of Marion Raven, Patti Russo, and Jennifer Hudson; along with guest musicians and songwriting help from Steve Vai, Marilyn Manson's John 5, Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, Queen's Brian May, and others; Meat Loaf's Monster has roared the unlikely rock star back to life like a bat out of Baghdad. --Martin Keller
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