Anyone else surprised that meatloaf's bat out of hell

2 out of three ain’t bad.

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Anyone else surprised that meatloaf's bat out of hell

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Yes. I've always been amazed how something so wretched could be so popular. There's not a single thing he's ever done that I can stand.

Yes. It has always amazed me. I never knew anyone who owned it, but it was always on the album charts.

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Dude can sing. And the album is art. Going from one song to the next was what an artist did back then. And it was meant to listen to as a whole.

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Few under the age of 45 maybe even 50 today understand the concept of a Album as one body of work to taken in its entirety.

As a kid, that album cover scared the crap out of me.

No...I was in HS when it came out......everybody played and owned it

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Is one of the top album sales of all time?

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It was released at the peak of the album era, was operatic as all get out, extremely well done, musically - it was like what Elton John or Billy Joel was doing at the time, but with a singer who was a cross between Elvis Presley and an offensive lineman plus a shot of adrenaline, mainly thanks to Liv Tyler's stepdad - so wrap your mind around all of that. (ETA: Now that I think about it, more in line with an "American" take on what Queen was doing at the time. Not exactly, of course, but parallel lines to that sort of thing.)

It was the absolute right place, right time, with the right product. And, upon hindsight, that album is exceptional and worthy of the critical praise and ranking on sales charts it has garnered.

I was in high school ten years after it came out and people were still playing the shite out of it

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everybody played and owned it

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I don't think I know anyone who owned it

whenever we would take trips as a family, my dad would always pop this cassette in and listen to the full length of it.

on long enough trips (like colorado), we hear it multiple times