Bat Out Of Hell

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ARIA Top 100 Albums for 1993". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved February 21, 2021. Hotten, Jon (January 21, 1989). "Meat Loaf 'Bat Out of Hell' ". Kerrang!. Vol.222. London, UK: Spotlight Publications Ltd. Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music Week. January 11, 1992. p.21. ISSN 0265-1548– via World Radio History.

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The album continues to sell about 200,000 copies per year and has sold an estimated 34-40 million copies worldwide, [60] [61] including 14 million in the United States [62] and over 1.7 million albums in Australia, where it is the country's highest-selling album as of 2016, being certified 25× platinum. [63] [64] The album has stayed on the UK Albums Chart for 522 weeks, [65] making it the UK's fourth longest charting studio album behind Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon and Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. [66] In 2022, Bat Out of Hell was named as the biggest-selling debut album in UK chart history. [67] Bat out of Hell has always been recognised as a brilliant album but an absolute DOG sound quality wise mostly down to Todd Rundgrens production and an attempt by him to create a 'wall of sound' great for effect but has squashed out a lot of the mid range. Numerous remastering efforts have never really improved on that. That is until now. In House / Store / Home". Billboard. Vol.91, no.46. November 17, 1979. p.63. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved December 22, 2021– via Google Books. ARIA Top 100 Albums for 2007". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved February 21, 2021.a b c d e f Jim Steinman (1999). Classic Albums: Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (DVD). Image Entertainment.

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For example, citing the narrative of "Paradise", Rundgren jokes that he can't imagine Steinman being at a lakeside with the most beautiful girl in school, but he can imagine Steinman "imagining" it. [28] Cover [ edit ] The Historian (April 4, 2009), Jim Steinman talks about 'Two Out of Three...' , archived from the original on November 15, 2021 , retrieved April 7, 2018 ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2022 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved May 16, 2022. Butler, Susan (June 5, 2006). "Meat Loaf Sues Over 'Bat Out Of Hell' ". Billboard. Archived from the original on April 26, 2008 . Retrieved September 25, 2006.For Crying Out Loud" was originally written for the 1975 New York Shakespeare Festival musical Kid Champion, and a recording by an unknown artist is in the New York Public Library archives. [41] Jim Steinman considers the line "And can't you see my faded Levi's bursting apart" his most daring lyric on the entire album. [42] Bat Out of Hell was released by Cleveland International Records in October 1977. However, at Cleveland International Records' parent label, Epic Records, almost everyone hated it. [26] Steve Popovich, the head of Cleveland International Records, was relentless in his efforts to get Epic and all of CBS Records and radio on board. In 1993, Steinman reflected that the album was "timeless in that it didn't fit into any trend. It's never been a part of what's going on. You could release that record at any time and it would be out of place." [47] Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (February 7, 2006). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 0-7893-1371-5.

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Ellen Foley, who appears on "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", first met Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman while they were all working together on the National Lampoon Road Tour, [38] so they had a history of performing over-the-top musical comedy sketches together. [39] The baseball commentary make-out section performed by New York Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto was written with the announcer in mind, using phrases he would actually say during commentary. [40] Das Album "Bat Out of Hell" ist zweifellos ein Meisterwerk der Musikgeschichte. Die unvergleichliche und opulente Musik von Jim Steinman in Kombination mit dem kraftvollen Gesang von Meat Loaf machen dieses Album zu einem wahren Juwel. Es ist schwer, die Faszination und Energie, die von den Songs ausgeht, in Worte zu fassen.Top Selling Albums of 1978 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved January 25, 2022. A Meat Loaf musical might actually end up on Broadway". New York Post. November 8, 2017 . Retrieved April 8, 2018. Pearlman, Jeff (August 29, 2007). "Phil and Meat Loaf will always have "Paradise" ". ESPN . Retrieved August 28, 2009. RIAA Database, Bat Out of Hell". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved February 11, 2011. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4thed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.

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Scapolo, Dean (2007). The Complete New Zealand Music Charts 1966–2006. Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-877443-00-8. Murray, Jeremy A.; Nadeau, Kathleen, eds. (2016). Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania (E-book). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio. p.41. ISBN 978-1-4408-3990-0. Neverland". jimsteinman.com. Archived from the original on August 15, 2007 . Retrieved August 22, 2007. Steinman had wanted equal billing with Meat Loaf on the album's title; he wanted it to be called "Jim Steinman presents..." or "Jim and Meat", or vice versa. For marketing reasons, the record company wished to make 'Meat Loaf' the recognizable name. As a compromise, the words "Songs by Jim Steinman" appear relatively prominently on the cover. The singer believes that this was probably the beginning of their "ambivalent relationship". [44] Dec 2022 Album Accreds" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved January 25, 2023.Austriancharts.at – Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 1, 2022. a b "500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012 . Retrieved September 9, 2019. When staged in 1977, the cast of Neverland included Ellen Foley as Wendy [35] – who performs the lead female vocal on " Paradise by the Dashboard Light" on the album. The music for Neverland was performed by Orchestra Luna, and one of their members at the time was Karla DeVito. Foley was not available when it came time to go on tour for the album, so Karla DeVito took her place. In the various promotional music videos for the songs on the album Bat Out of Hell Karla DeVito's lips are synced to Ellen Foley's album vocals. ARIA Top 100 Albums for 1991". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved February 21, 2021.