But before “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” is achieved, Foley extracts a promise from Meat Loaf that he’s not the love ’em and leave ’em type the surprise third act twist is that Loaf did honor the promise and - cue the take my wife, please jokes - he’s now waiting less than patiently for death to free him from his marital commitment. After kicking off with buoyant teenage lust (“we were barely 17 and we were barely dressed”), New York Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto stops by to provide a not remotely subtle sex-as-sports innuendo about things escalating inside a car parked by the lake at night. This three-part top 40 hit from Bat plays like a campy counterpart to “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” trading in the honest introspection of the Shirelles for a winning theatricality as Meat Loaf and Ellen Foley face off in a hormone-addled battle of the sexes over a rollicking shoo-bop-bop rock odyssey. And while much has (rightly) been made of Steinman’s importance to the Bat formula, you have to bow down to a singer who can sell a lyric like “there ain’t no Coupé de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.” Even so, modest Meat doesn’t exactly make for a lean song – even when he’s holding back his substantial vocal punch, the Loaf’s voice is marinated in regret, sentimental schmaltz and a winking theatricality. 11 on the Hot 100), “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” is comparatively subdued when slotted alongside the rest of the Bat‘s wild excess. The highest charting single from the blockbuster Bat Out of Hell (No. His spotlight performance, “Hot Patootie,” is a throaty slice of good time, inoffensive party rock, harking back to that window in time between rock n’ roll’s sonic boom and its thematic expansion and maturation. As a rock-lovin’, motorcycle-ridin’, teddy bear-hatin’ bad boy who sweeps the girls off their feet and makes the older generation shake their fists, Meat Loaf’s role in the movie musical was in many ways a precursor to the persona he’d inhabit on the career-making Bat Out of Hell album. Meat Loaf first roared onto screens as Eddie in the cult film to end all cult films, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 1 in 1993 to his Rocky Horror vocal spotlight, here are Meat Loaf’s 10 best songs. From classics on Bat that signaled his arrival to his five-week Hot 100 No.
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