Send "MEAT LOAF " Ringtones to your Cell 
| Guardian |
 The singer the New York Times calls Mr Loaf has released eight studio albums, not counting this one, which will surprise those who thought there had been only two - Bat Out of Hell I and II. So completely has the Bat series dominated the big man's career, it's hard to name anything else he has done - a cameo as a bus driver in the Spice Girls film comes to mind - but those other six albums (including the most recent, Couldn't Have Said it Better in 2002, and Welcome to the Neighbourhood in 1995) are stubbornly unmemorable. It's not the fault of the albums themselves, but of the looming Bat shadow, which effectively cancels out everything else....full text |
| Sputnikmusic.com |
| Put simply this is the greatest album i've heard in a while, In my eyes its not as good as Bat Out Of Hell 1 because that's an all time classic, but its left Bat 2 somewhat 40 thousand miles behind. It's darker than both albums and just reaches out and grabs you by the balls from the 1st note....full text |
| StylusMagazine |
| Meat Loaf is the logical end-point of rock. Sure Never Mind the Bollocks, Marquee Moon, and Low came out in ’77 but good as each of them are, they pushed the whole idea sideways: it was Bat Out of Hell that inflated, expanded, and pushed rock ‘n’ roll to the limit. When it all comes together as it did in ’77 and on ’93’s masterful sequel, the whole edifice of late twentieth century popular music comes crumbling down. The words camp and cheesy get bandied about because the lies that keep mortals tied down are severed; it’s the realization that for all the counter-cultural pretensions, a rock song is only a skip away from a show tune....full text |
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