Information AboutBat Out Of Hell |
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| meat loaf albums | |
| jim steinman albums | |
| 1977 albums | |
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''Bat out of Hell'' is the extremely successful second Album of Singer Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), released in 1977 (see 1977 In Music ). The album featured music of a bombastic and Wagnerian style. When Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf starting proposing it to music companies they had a lot of trouble finding someone willing to produce it. But when guitarist Todd Rundgren heard it, he immediately decided he wanted to produce the album. They still needed a label and it took them some more time before they finally settled with Cleveland International Records . The album was not an immediate hit; it was more of a growing one. ''Bat out of Hell'' still sells about 200,000 copies per year and has sold an estimated 34 million copies worldwide, 16 million in the US alone, becoming one of the top five biggest selling albums of all time. It remained 474 weeks in the UK charts, a feat only surpassed by the 477 weeks of Fleetwood Mac 's '' Rumours ''. Steinman is credited with the album cover concept, which was illustrated by '' was modelled on it. In 1993 a sequel called '''' was released, which includes the hit single " I'd Do Anything For Love (but I Won't Do That) ". A second sequel is scheduled for a October 2006 release. TRACK LISTING # "Bat out of Hell" –9:51 # "You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)" –5:04 # "Heaven Can Wait" –4:41 # "All Revved Up with No Place to Go" –4:20 # "Two out of Three Ain't Bad" –5:25 # " Paradise By The Dashboard Light " –8:28
# "For Crying Out Loud" –8:44 ::''(All music, lyrics, and spoken material by Jim Steinman .)'' The album also exists in numerous other formats and rereleases, including a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with three bonus tracks ("Great Boleros of Fire (live intro)", "Bat Out of Hell (live)", and "Dead Ringer For Love") and the ''Hits Out of Hell'' DVD, and a "Bat Out of Hell: Revamped" release featuring the song "Dead Ringer for Love." PERSONNEL
::''Arrangements by Jim Steinman , Todd Rundgren, Ken Ascher, Roy Bittan, Tom Malone.'' |
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