Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell (w/ guest Steve Fiorillo)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian are joined by podcaster Steve Fiorillo (inthemixpod.libsyn.com) to talk about Meat Loaf's legendary album Bat Out of Hell - Songs by Jim Steinman (1977, Cleveland International/Epic). Steve talks about inheriting his love of Mr. Loaf from his mother and how "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" is one of his earliest memories of music. We get into comparing and contrasting Springsteen with Meat Loaf and the timelessness of the albums production. Then Bill, Brian, and Steve chat about how this whole album is about sex, Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg (temporarily) defecting from the E Street Band, Todd Rundgren being coerced into some of the best guitar playing of his career, more about how this album is pretty much just about getting laid, Edgar Winter's sick sax solo, Phil Rizzuto's naivete, that the album is seriously all about Steinman's intercourse related dark humor, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.6	97's Bout Out of Hell by Meatloaf.
0:09.3	Stop right there. I've got to know right now. Before we go any further, do you love me?
0:18.5	Will you love me forever? Do you need me? Will you never leave me? Will you make me so happy for the rest of my life? Will you take me away? Will you make me away?
0:28.6	Do you love me? Will you love me forever? Do you need me? Will you never leave me? Will you make me so happy for the rest of my life?
0:36.6	Will you take me away? Will you make me a happy For the rest of my life Will you take me away
0:38.4	Will you make me a wife
0:39.8	I got a move right now
0:41.5	Before we go any further
0:44.1	Do you love me?
0:45.7	Will you love me forever?
0:49.9	What we do every week on the podcast
0:51.8	Is take an album of music
0:53.0	And talk about what makes it great.
0:55.1	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do,
0:58.5	and then we round it all out with a track-by-track review in which we talk about the things we like about the songs
1:04.0	and the things we think about while listening to them.
1:06.3	And just kind of imagine me and Brian as just a couple of buds hanging out, listening to music,
1:11.9	and we invite some other buds to sometimes hang out with us. Yeah. And just really kind of get
1:16.6	into it the way that music nerds do. And we invited one of those buds onto the show with us today.
1:23.0	Yeah, who was joining us today, Brian? We were joined or we will be joined by Steve Fiorillo of the In the Mix podcast, kind of like a talk show
1:32.1	that basically introduces their audience to members of the local music and arts scene
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