Gee, they weren't kidding when they said Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell was a great classic album. And likewise, it's little wonder it has sold like hot cakes. Plenty of hit songs on this album - "Bat Out of Hell", "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad", "Paradise By the Dashboard Light", "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)" are all well known, but throw in "All Revved Up With No Place to Go" and "For Crying Out Loud" and you've got a brilliant, sometimes maligned, but nonetheless praiseworthy record whose sales figures are frankly well justified. Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman together made some cracking music, as its 1993 successor Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell will also testify to. I personally prefer the heavy metal-esque/hard rock oompf factor of B.O.O.H. II, but in truth this breakthrough album is no less pleasant on the ears. Nothing to complain about here! A
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