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Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell | 
 enlarge | Artist: Meat Loaf
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  112 reviews
Sales Rank: 248936
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.7 x 0.2
UPC: 602517806481
EAN: 0602517806481
ASIN: B001DZDTTU
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) | | • | Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back | | • | Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through | | • | It Just Won't Quit | | • | Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire) | | • | Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are | | • | Wasted Youth | | • | Everything Louder Than Everything Else | | • | Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere) | | • | Back into Hell | | • | Lost Boys and Golden Girls |
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Amazon.com
At a certain point, bad taste and bombast becomes so excessive and so grandiose that they're no longer an easily dismissed irritation but an astonishing monument to the warped imagination. Such a monument is Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, the long-delayed sequel to 1977's Bat Out of Hell. Once again songwriter/producer Jim Steinman has isolated high-school parking-lot aphorisms and inflated them to Wagner-on-Broadway proportions, casting Mr. Loaf as a heavy-metal Ezio Pinza. Typical of the album's strategy is its big hit single, "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)." Steinman piles on the guitars, drums, synthesizers, and choral voices as if he were Phil Spector producing Kiss playing the Who songbook. The rest of the album tackles the themes of teenage lust, frustration, and rock & roll fantasies in similar fashion. It's somehow beside the point to complain about the puerile lyrics, the leaden rhythms, the derivative melodies, the histrionic vocals, or the overblown arrangements. Steinman knows how to push his audience's buttons, and with Meat Loaf's help, he hits those buttons with a sledgehammer. --Geoffrey Himes
Album Description
Special deluxe three disc (two CD + PAL/Region 0 DVD) edition of Meat's 1993 sequel to the original Bat Out Of Hell. Features the digitally remastered album on Disc One, eight live tracks on Disc Two including spirited versions of all seven of the original BOOH tracks plus a bonus DVD that includes three videos plus an interview with Mr. Loaf. Universal. 2006
Album Details
The First "Bat Out of Hell" Album in 1977 was Groundbreaking in the Field of Rock. The Sequel, Arriving after 16 Years' Gestation, was Composed Again by Jim Steinman and was More Than a Match to the Original. This Specially-packaged Edition features the Complete Original Album on Cd1, Live Songs from the First "Bat Out of Hell" on Cd2 and a Dvd (Pal/Region 0) with the Promotional Videos of the Released Singles and Epk Footage, Previously Unavailable Since the Vhs Release.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 107 more reviews...
 If you don't own this, you are WRONG! June 18, 2008
This is one of the best epic rock albums ever... right up next to his other great performances. Amazing music, drive, emotion, and imagery unparalleled by just about any other artist out there. Absolutely amazing!
Side note: Read his epic autobiography too... I'm a sci-fi and fantasy fan, but reading his story was amazing as I had a rough past too. Nice to see someone else overcome the odds in real life! :-)
Great album April 8, 2008
Simply great, if you're a meat loaf fan, this cd is for you, arrived in perfect cnditions
Great purchase February 29, 2008
I have been looking for this item retail, but I could never find it. I purchased it through Amazon, and it was BETTER than going through retail.
Magic in that belfry November 27, 2007
Given that a sequel to the original Bat out of Hell took Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman some 15 years to make, it is amazing just how close to the blueprint part two holds. Not like both parties had not tried and missed before. There was Meat Loaf's BooH follow-up, Dead Ringer, in which our hero had lost his voice and Todd Rundgren's sympathetic production. Then there was what was supposed to be Meat's follow-up until Steinman hijacked it as a solo LP, Bad for Good, where it was made terribly obvious why such a gifted songwriter as Steinman needed the dramatic vocals of Meat.
Very telling is that, 12 years on, Steinman and Meat resurrected 4 of "Bad for Good's" songs for "BooH2." While Meat had some success without Steinman, hearing these re-recorded songs shows just how much they need each other to both achieve optimum performance. That is what they got on "Bat out of Hell II." Meat brings on the drama while Steinman pours on the Broadway. Steinman had already carved out his space as a producer of melodramatic adult contemporary hits (Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, Air Supply, Bonnie Tyler, etc), while Meat was still huge in Europe and fondly remembered stateside for "Bat out of Hell" the first. Given that this was the duo's first collaboration in the CD era, it also meant that they could let there excesses run unchecked. That first hit, "I Would Do Anything For Love" clocked in on the album at twelve minutes, and another hit, "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" hit ten.
They marketed it as an event and succeeded by giving a nostalgic audience exactly what they came for. Loud rock with operatic Springsteen overtones? Check. Huge wall of sound ballads? Check and double check, Hokey teenage melodrama? Mega-check, especially the playlet "Love and Death and an American Guitar" from "Bad For Good" (here as the introduction to "Wasted Youth"). As Meat intoned 15 years before on "You Took The Words Out of My Mouth," the wolf appeared with the red roses, and America offered up a collective throat. The album and the single went to number one (something the original never managed) and it bought Meat Loaf a permanent place on the rock scene.
But does it still hold up? The answer is yes. For all the trickery and bombast, "Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back" still rages hard. "Wasted Youth" can make you pump a fist a time or two, and "I Would Do Anything for Love" stands as one of Steinman's best mini-operas. That is not to say a few checks on the excess would not have been prudent; "Out of The Frying Pan" is filler, and the stagy instrumental "Back Into Hell" is unnecessary. Nevertheless, "Bat Out Of Hell II" is a worthy successor to its namesake, and for memorable than most of Meat's output between these bookends. Get Bats one and two (and skip three), and you've got the essential Meat Loaf.
jaw dropping. October 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album is a masterpiece and one of the most important rock albums ever made along with Bat Our Of Hell 1. This album is the meaning of life. It's all here the bible on audio cd.
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