Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell - Crap/Not Crap

[Idaho]

I'll bet the poll breaks down into Springsteen fans and non Springsteen fans...

I believe the split is those with the ability to embrace life's joys and mysteries and sour-faced gits who who's taste is constructed with a continual glance over their shoulder

 

[skunkboy69]

Please bear in mind it's now 30 years old, it was groundbreaking for its time.

True.How many albums are talked about 30 years on.Not very many.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Metal Oaf

 

[The Groke]

True.How many albums are talked about 30 years on.Not very many.

Loads.

 

[danny la rouge]

I believe the split is those with the ability to embrace life's joys and mysteries and sour-faced gits who who's taste is constructed with a continual glance over their shoulder

Oh, please! I'm far from "hip"; I just like what I like, and it happens not to include Meatloaf or Springsteen. Which happens to coincide with What Is Right And Proper!

 

[butchersapron]

I'll bet the poll breaks down into Springsteen fans and non Springsteen fans...

You dirty bastard.

 

[butchersapron]

Please bear in mind it's now 30 years old, it was groundbreaking for its time.

It wasn't. Overblown pop-opera stuff was utterly standard.

 

[felixthecat]

Its ace - particularly for singing along to very loudly whilst driving .

 

[danny la rouge]

True.How many albums are talked about 30 years on.Not very many.

Saturday Night Fever,
Abba: Arrival,
Venus and Mars,
The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid,
Supertramp - Breakfast in America,
Journey - Frontiers.

 

[danny la rouge]

You dirty bastard.

 

[butchersapron]

Saturday Night Fever,
Abba: Arrival,
Venus and Mars,
The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid,
Supertramp - Breakfast in America,
Journey - Frontiers.

Sneaky

 

[danny la rouge]

I had a close escape of sharing a flat with that record collection!

They offender was a sweet guy, and is still a dear friend, but sadly he has never had any taste. Unfortunately he is a musician. Luckily he's a drummer...

 

[butchersapron]

Saturday Night Fever is an absolute stone cold no irony classic though.

 

[moomoo]

Its ace - particularly for singing along to very loudly whilst driving .

Quite.

 

[pogofish]

Please bear in mind it's now 30 years old, it was groundbreaking for its time.

I couldn't stand it at the time & have not warmed to it in the slightest since.

Poseur-"rock" writ large.

 

[danny la rouge]

Saturday Night Fever is an absolute stone cold no irony classic though.

You know, I'm prepared to give that one the benefit of the doubt. I haven't heard it for years, but just the other day heard A Fifth Of Beethoven, and decided it was actually quite cool. Although I have to say a hint of post modern irony came into that analysis.

Disco is one of the things I will admit I was wrong about as a youth.

 

[butchersapron]

I couldn't stand it at the time & have not warmed to it in the slightest since.

Poseur-"rock" writ large.

It wasn't though. Any pose was deliberately undermined. It was anti-poseur rock.

 

[Strumpet]

I just voted Not Crap

Ditto

Not crap
As I've said before about a bajillion times, I got this when I was 12, and totally fell in love with it. Corniest thing alive, but just brilliant. It gets an outing every Peelfest, with me and another drunken bum belting out the parts to Paradise

 

[Chairman Meow]

Not crap. I haven't listened to it in over twenty years though. But I do love Paradise by the dashboard light.

 

[Annierak]

My first relationship put 'Two out of three ain't bad' on a tape for me lol. Talk about message in the music

 

[Idaho]

Saturday Night Fever,
Supertramp - Breakfast in America,

I'll stand by both of those.

 

[Pieface]

Is the whole album that one song? That one song is ace

 

[Chairman Meow]

My first relationship put 'Two out of three ain't bad' on a tape for me lol. Talk about message in the music

You just reminded me - the same thing happened to me!

I should have dumped him there and then. Sadly he did fall for me, and I stayed with the sorry bastard for three long years.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'll stand by both of those.

You do that. In that corner, if you will ->

 

[sojourner]

Is the whole album that one song? That one song is ace

 

[Annierak]

You just reminded me - the same thing happened to me!

I should have dumped him there and then. Sadly he did fall for me, and I stayed with the sorry bastard for three long years.

Well i did wonder at the time but i was kinda seeing someone else at the same time so no worries lmao

 

[Green K]

Indifferent........no option for that tho.

 

[brianx]

I used to work with a woman that I really fancied and she told me that before she went for a night out she'd play one of the first two Madness albums to get her in the mood, well I was in love. I went round to her house before a date lucky pants and everything and she put Bat Out of Hell on. I went off her. Superficial moi?

 

[rekil]

Saturday Night Fever is an absolute stone cold no irony classic though.

Is the start of Girlfriend In A Coma a rip off of Jive Talkin? I like to think so.

 

[danny la rouge]

Now I need to hear Jive Talkin again.

Ooh, you people!