In honor of the Meet Meat Loaf Contest on BlogCritics, this week's blogscan went looking for blogs that offer "Meat Loaf again!" We're not talking about the meat-and-meal comestible, that 50s forerunner of Hamburger Helper, but the rock musician who played Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
At BitsBlog, Eric Florack weighed in a few weeks ago in a blog-debate about Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell album being over-rated. (We saw some of that debate in the essays Michele Catalano cross-posted to BlogCritics). Florack had more reason than some to like BOOH, even though he
...tired of playing "Paradise" every time I played a wedding... I was playing it on the order of 100 times a year for a few years. It may have been just a seven minute record to you, but to me it was a coffee break...
Australian blog Chase me ladies's Harry Hutton (whose blog tagline is an intriguing "URGENT! Please send 300 kilos of white mice. No time to explain.") wrote an open letter to Meat Loaf in which he seems to be pleading with the musician to clarify his willingness to "do anything for love" when he won't do "that." Just to the right of this request is the link to Hutton's post "Non-Kinky Sex Is a Waste of Time." Sounds like Hutton will even do that. Another Australian, Mellipop finds it hard to tell a joke whose punchline is Meat Loaf. (Her aside about Michael Jackson is also a hoot.)
Last year, Knight of the Mind predicted the George W. Bush victory based on a comparison of Meat Loaf vs. Coldplay. Parachutes by Coldplay was the Kerry-analogue, "really smooth and [with] a very proficient feel to it... The album sounded good for one listen. The second time through the diskette it sounded formulaic and boring." In comparison, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell was seen as the "jarring" and "chaotic" equivalent to Bush, "inelegant, but so true to life."
...it became apparent that for all the vocal malapropisms and musical clunkers being hit, these guys were giving it all to put a great album together. There was something of savage beauty in the struggle. Meatloaf was giving every ounce of effort he had in his body to that album and with Meatloaf, that's a very sizeable contribution.
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Article comments
1 - Victor Plenty
Again I'm an exception to a rule, neither hating nor loving Mr. Loaf.
However, I certainly love seeing the wickedly funny Rats, Bats & Vats among your links for this story.
2 - FreeWillGeek
Meat Loaf's vocals on the album are nothing short of extraordinary. He was never quite the same after that one, vocally, but Steinman is one great writer.
3 - Joyce Ann Hogue
I enjoy meat loaf's music. But I make the best meatloaf in the world!