Bat Out Of Hell III

[jonffm]

Anyone else looking forward with GLEEEEEEE to MeatLoafs new album?


The track listing is....

1. "The Monster Is Loose"
2. "Blind As A Bat"
3. "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" - duet with Marion Raven
4. "Bad For Good" (Steinman) - featuring Brian May
5. "Cry Over Me"
6. "In The Land Of The Pig, The Butcher Is King" featuring Steve Vai
7. "Monstro"
8. "Alive"
9. "If God Could Talk"
10. "If It Ain't Broke, Break It"
11. "What About Love?" - duet with Patti Russo
12. "Seize The Night"
13. "The Future Ain't What It Used To Be" - duet with Jennifer Hudson[9]
14. "Cry To Heaven"
15. "Echo/Heaven Can Wait"


I've heard a few of them, but i've purposly avoided many....I want to hear them all for the first time in order when I get the album, like it's meant to be :)

All Coming Back To Me, the Celine Dion cover, is SUPERB. Meatload really back to his best....the two of them make it their own. I can't even REMEMBER Celines version now. I'm glad that Heaven Can Wait is on there, it's a brilliant song.

I'm not too impressed with the title song though...it's abit over the top for Meat. Whenever I listen to it...I can't help but think the same thing..."Why aren't Linkin Park singing this instead?". Stick to what you're good at Meat.



For anyone interested...it's out on October 23rd :D

[da-geezer]

Celine's version of It's All Coming Back To Me was amazing, but indeed this cover was phenomenal. Wasn't too impressed with the rest of it, but hey it'll be good for the car.

I guess i've only listened to it through once or twice though, and that's when i've been dozing off to sleep... :D

[Aladdin Sane]

I cannot wait to get my hands on this album, I've been looking forward to this for years now. :D

I think I shall also put off listening to any songs until I can hear the album in one go

[jonffm]

Celine's version of It's All Coming Back To Me was amazing, but indeed this cover was phenomenal.

Just as a note...All Coming Back To Me was actually pencilled in to be on Bat 2, but ended up being put back for Bat 3. Celine and...someone else (Forgot who) then used the song, but it's originally Steinman and Meatloafs song...so technically, Celines version was the cover :)

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Got the album earlier today...LOVED IT!

Some of the tracks are abit iffy....such as the title song, which definatly isn't a 'Meatloaf' song...for the reasons I gave earlier.

There are some brilliant tracks though....I would rate them like this...


1. "The Monster Is Loose" 5/10
2. "Blind As A Bat" 10/10 ((Why wasn't THIS the title track?!?))
3. "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" - duet with Marion Raven 11/10 :) ((Probably Meat's rd or 4th best track of all time.))
4. "Bad For Good" (Steinman) - featuring Brian May 10/10 ((Very VERY Old-style Meatloaf :love: ))
5. "Cry Over Me" 7/10 ((Meatloaf trying to be different again, but doing much better this time.))
6. "In The Land Of The Pig, The Butcher Is King" featuring Steve Vai 7/10
7. "Monstro" 6/10 ((VERY Short, but what's there is mood-settingly good))
8. "Alive" 8/10 ((The best 'Car-aoke' track yet. Epic guitar solo.))
9. "If God Could Talk" 8/10
10. "If It Ain't Broke, Break It" 7/10
11. "What About Love?" - duet with Patti Russo 9/10 ((Epic!))
12. "Seize The Night" 9/10 "Nearly 10 minutes of Meaty goodness!))
13. "The Future Ain't What It Used To Be" - duet with Jennifer Hudson 7/10
14. "Cry To Heaven" 7/10 ((Typically Meatloaf Broadway ending :) ))


All in all, the best album i've bought in years. Meatloaf fans will LOVE it, even if they have to skip Meat's ventures into other genres. Desmond Childs tracks are BRILLIANT.

Blind as a Bat, All Coming Back To Me, Bad For Good, What About Love and Seize The Night are all classic Meatloaf tracks. My personal fave right now.....Bad For Good. Absolutly loving it :)

[Dibbie]

I'm happy for you all, I really am but one thing that I don't understand... Why Bat Out of Hell III? Is it simply that he can't think of a better title or is it just that his non-BOOH albums just don't seem to sell/exist?

IS there some theme perhaps that I am missing? Mike Oldfield has several Tubular Bells albums but they are all alond teh same musical vein.

If you can explain I'll be grateful but if not I won't be losing any sleep over it.

[jonffm]

It's meant to be a trilogy of sorts, which is why the selling point "30 years in the making" really is true.

There's no specific reason, I don't think, other than for the theater of it all. It's meant to be a broken story of sorts, in my opinion. It's a little for that, and a dash of the publicity that the BOOH name brings...which is why there was that whole thing with Meat and Steinman over the name.

BOOH has ended now though, as the law suit stops any further material under the BOOH name to be released unless it's Steinman working under it. He has full rights to the name now.