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...first “Bat Out of Hell”—released in 1977—featured the international mega-smash-hit “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights,” and has sold 34 million copies worldwide. “Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell”—released in 1993—featured the extremely mysterious/not mysterious at all if you listen closely “I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” which will forever be immortalized...
...years later, what exactly is the motivation for “Bat out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose”? The album was originally scheduled to be released without the aid of long-time Meat Loaf partner and composer, Jim Steinman, who also owns the “Bat Out of Hell” trademark. Steinman’s refusal to sell the trademark led to a battle of words and an eventual lawsuit by Meat Loaf, who accused Steinman of attempting to hold up the release through “blackmail and a hold...
Listen, Meat Loaf: if you’re going to get our hopes up by releasing a sequel to two of the most perfectly awful albums of all time, you better deliver. Otherwise, go back to hell...
...this because she exploits the hell out of the fact that she’s English. In addition to calling out “Go on, I’m English / Try and deport me!” at the end of two verses on “Love Me or Hate Me,” she has an entire song devoted to her foreign-ness, “My England...
...Hell, even Billy Joel got in on the act with his trumped-out prole anthems “Allentown” and “The Downeaster Alexa,” conjuring up infinitely absurd images of Joel working in a steel mill, or relying on “the rod and the reel” to feed his family. Predating the Killers’ similar appropriation by several decades, Joel’s irony may have been unintended, but the best of the genre, and its musical ancestors, relied on a self-conscious tension between catchiness and acerbity...