Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
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Track List: Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
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- The Monster Is Loose - Meat Loaf
- Blind As A Bat - Meat Loaf
- It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Meat Loaf
- Bad For Good - Meat Loaf
- Cry Over Me - Meat Loaf
- In The Land Of The Pig, The Butcher Is King - Meat Loaf
- Monstro - Meat Loaf
- Alive - Meat Loaf
- If God Could Talk - Meat Loaf
- If It Ain't Broke Break It - Meat Loaf
- What About Love - Meat Loaf
- Seize The Night - Meat Loaf
- The Future Ain't What It Used To Be - Meat Loaf
- Cry To Heaven - Meat Loaf
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Album Details: Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
- Release Date:
- 10/31/2006
- Label:
- Virgin Records Us
- UPC:
- 094636314723
User Reviews: Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
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3G Loaf
, November 30, 2006Reviewer: no140ph - See all no140ph's reviews -
An Awesome ALLSTAR Finalee
, November 18, 2006Reviewer: hectorpeach - See all hectorpeach's reviewsPros: Great lyrics, new elements, futuristic and exactly the way Bat future should be, Steinman APPROVED!!!
Cons: Radio aren't pushing the singles hard enough!!!
First off, the reason why this album has a bit of a bad rep is cuz people are not quite as smart as they think they are. They we're expecting an album that sounds like Bat 2, with all Steinman compositions but the thing is ... Bat 2 is nothing like Bat 1 so why make 3 sound like 2?? Bat out of Hell III is the Meat Loaf finale, He has taken main collabarators in his career and let them add their touch to Bat. Its more like "Meat Loaf & Friends: Bat Out of Hell III" It's like nothing Meat has ever done and it's amazing. All the songs have that renegade sound, but with a in-the-times style, the albums must change a little to suit there times. Don't forget, this album was personally approved by Steinman himself to be the next Bat III
An overall Great ending to the Bat Trilogy .... RIP ...
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Pro Reviews: Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Truth be told, once Meat Loaf had a blockbuster with Bat Out of Hell in 1977, he never really left the bombastic sound of that Todd Rundgrenproduced, Jim Steinmanwritten classic behind. He went through a long stretch where he didn't have any hits it's popularly known as the '80s but he kept reworking the album, never quite getting it right until he reteamed with Steinman for 1993's Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, which became a surprise international hit, reestablishing Meat Loaf as a major star. After that record, he never went away, continuing to record, tour, and act, but nothing quite matched the success of either Bat Out of Hell, so it made perfect sense for Meat to go back to the Bat well a third time in the mid2000s over 12 years since the second Bat and nearly 30 years on from the first. But there was a hitch in his welllaid plan: Steinman didn't want to participate. This was a problem, because the Bat albums were as much Steinman's as they were Meat Loaf's and this point was never hidden, either, as Steinman's name was prominent on the cover of both Bats. Undaunted, Meat Loaf went ahead with the project, hiring Desmond Child as producer and picking several older Steinman songs to form the heart of Bat Out of Hell III, which now bore the subtitle of The Monster Is Loose. As the album's fall 2006 release date approached, Steinman took Meat Loaf to court over the record after all, not only had he written the Bat Out of Hell albums, but he owned the copyright to the phrase, so Meat needed permission in order to release the record. Permission was eventually granted in an outofcourt settlement, paving the way for the October 2006 release of Bat Out of Hell III, a record that had many Steinman songs but in no way features his involvement in the recording or production of the album. And, boy, is his absence ever felt His presence looms large over the record quite obviously on the songs he wrote, but the very aesthetic of the album is copied wholesale from his blueprints yet it's the ways that Bat III is different, both big and small, that points out who is missing at this party. Bat is quite obviously a patchwork, pieced together from things borrowed and recreated, never quite gelling the way either of the previous Bats did. And if there's one thing that theatrical rock like this needs, it's a narrative throughline or at least a concrete goal. Child and Meat Loaf do have a goal, but it's merely to recreate the glory days; they're not quite so picky on how they get there. So, Child brings in Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx and Marilyn Manson's guitarist John 5 to pen the opening "The Monster Is Loose," and the results are disarming, a grindingly metallic riffrocker that sits very uncomfortably next to Steinman's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," written with Meat in mind (at least according to the singer) but originally recorded by Celine Dion. Such jarring shifts in tone are common throughout The Monster Is Loose, not just as it moves from song to song, but within the tunes themselves, as Child's compositions chase after the grandeur of Steinman's work yet bare all the marks of a professional who is playing a game without bothering to learn the rules. The same is true for the very sound of Bat III. Although original Bat producer Todd Rundgren adds some necessary pomp with his vocal arrangements, the album is at once too heavy and too clinical, lacking the gaudy, gonzo soul that made Bat Out of Hell irresistible camp. It's a brightly lit mess, but there is one redeeming factor here and that's Meat Loaf, who is singing his heart out as he valiantly tries to make this Bat a worthy successor to the originals. That he fails is not the fault of his individual performance; it's the fault of botched execution. Perhaps if he were teamed up with a Steinman who was ready to play, they could have turned Bat Out of Hell III into something special, but going it alone, Meat Loaf was missing a crucial element of what made his Bat albums magic. It's like Harrison Ford shooting a fourth Indiana Jones without Steven Spielberg's direction. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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Pros: Each song gives a different feeling.
Cons: No song is a "single" material (other than Celine's ya know...)
If you had the Bat out of Hell albums before, you must have this to know if Meatloaf is okay or the demons/angels finally took him. Ya need to know.
Though Bat out of Hell past albums were Steinman's songs, most of his songs in this album are not new but previously unreleased. (most, not all, K?)
Desmond Child and Dianne Warren, even Nikki Sixx took over composing the songs in this album.
But the "theme" is the same, and everything is updated to 2006 style.
It features guys like Brian May and Steve Vai.
1 hour and 17 minutes. ...