Last week, on his 66th birthday, mr. Loaf started a two-month engagement in Las Vegas. The Guardian wrote about it on their website, and heck, they even mentioned me: To capture the true beauty of the Steinloaf collaboration, you have to visit the corners of the internet where intense musical nerds dwell. And so, their… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Meat Loaf
Seen Live: Meat Loaf’s Farewell Tour
Last night, before starting “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” Meat Loaf said, We’re gonna try to make it sound as much like 1976 as possible, for you people. It ain’t gonna happen … but we’re gonna try. And he was right. It didn’t sound anything like 1976. That’s 37 years ago. That was four… Read more »
First Lines: Endlessly Horny for Wonder and Magic
If your name is Tim Quirk and you wrote an essay called Endlessly Horny for Wonder and Magic: How Bat Out of Hell Perfectly Captured the Pre-Pubescent American Id (and Nearly Ruined Me for Life) about one of my favorite albums (12 copies and counting, eventhough I prefer the sequel), well, you earned yourself 99… Read more »
Review: Hell in a Handbasket
Lets get the actual review out of the way first, before I digress: Meat Loaf’s latest album, Hell in a Handbasket, is a pretty good album, but it’s just not how I like my Meat Loaf. I like it big and pompously over the top and silly jet sincere with loads of piano thunder. Instead,… Read more »
Sharing is Caring
Let’s just say that Meat Loaf’s Paradise by the Dashboard Light is not my favorite song. I usually don’t skip it or change channels if it comes on, but I won’t knowingly put it on. Still, that’s what I did yesterday, so that I could help some people out: Taken from a German Limitierte Auflage… Read more »