Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

I have really been hesitating to add this record to the line up, but it has to be done. This is one of my all-time guilty pleasures. This is one of those records that I played so much I wore it out. This is Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell.

Marvin Lee Aday never revealed how he got the name Meat Loaf, but we know this was the moniker he used from his earliest days as an actor in Hair and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In 1977 Meat Loaf teamed up with classically trained pianist and songwriter Jim Steinman to produce the masterpiece that is Bat out of Hell. The record spawned three Top 40 singles, "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," and "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth," on its way to becoming one of the best-selling albums of the 70's. BOH has sold over 40 million copies and is also one of only two albums that has never exited the Top 200 in the UK charts.

In case you have not seen the Meat Loaf "Behind the Music" on VH1, what ensued was years of litigation and ultimately a bankrupt Meat Loaf. But not to worry, Meat Loaf has nine lives. In 1990 he got back together with Steinman and released Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, which sold over 15 million copies.