21 thoughts on “What A Boring Musical World It Will Be Without Meat Loaf

  1. An absolute giant. I loved Bat out of Hell in high school and was transported back by Bat out of Hell II in 1993. Heavy sigh.

    If you’ve never heard his collaboration with Isaac Hayes (as part of South Park), you’ll find a laugh or two in there.

    Ah, Meatloaf. Thanks.Report

  2. Damn…

    This one actually hits. BOOH & BOOH2 both sit on my NAS as MP3s from many years ago (when MP3s were all the rage, before even Napster was a thing). Paradise was a teenage staple for me & my peers, and I remember singing along (badly) to “I Would Do Anything For Love” on cassette while driving my ’82 Chrysler Cordoba down San Diego* highways with the T-Tops out.

    *I was at C-School at Naval Amphibious Base CoronadoReport

  3. Like most kids who came of age musically in the early 1980’s, Meatloaf is an indelible part of my internal soundtrack.

    I guess he’s done doing anything for love.

    RIPReport

  4. I recall watching him appear on the Tom Snyder show, where Tom, obviously unfamiliar with his work, said “We’ll be right back after this commercial break with our guest Meatball!”Report

  5. Phil Rizzuto insisted he never understood why all the plays he narrated for Paradise By The Dashboard Lights were so close. He expressed shock when someone explained it to him.
    Holy Cow!Report

  6. As the years go by, I feel more like my dad must have when I was explaining Lynyrd Skynyrd to him. I thought it was cutting-edge stuff, but he’d grown up on jazz and blues and understood the music better than I did.Report

  7. Well we now know the things he will not do for love are wear a mask and not take an effective, free, and safe vaccine. Also his music is cheeseballs. Good pipes though.Report

      1. Religious zealotry. It’s all the rage among democrats.
        Liberals stand alone, refusing to participate in witchhunts like #MeToo.

        I’m not sure why people are erasing any evidence I’m posting about CDC research indicating that COVID19 is spread through fecal/airborne transmission.Report

  8. I remember an interview with David Fincher for “Fight Club” where he said that he’d always envisioned Meat Loaf playing Bob, just this hilarious crazy fat guy running around punching people, and then when he started making the movie it turned out Meat Loaf had gone on a diet and lost all the weight. (Fincher still cast him, and made him wear a fat suit.)Report

  9. This one hits me hard. My teenage years in the early 80s were filled with Meat Loaf songs. Starting in 8th grade used to sneak out the house with girls across the street to watch the midnight showing of Rocky Horror every Saturday night. In 2011 my husband surprised me with tickets on my birthday to see him. I tell you what he put on a hell of a show for a fat, 65 year old guy.Report

    1. Fond memories of Austin, TX in the mid-1970s: Rocky Horror Picture Show as the midnight double feature at one of the twin cineplexes. When you bought your ticket they asked, “Group participation, or not?” The group participation showing had people in costume, many singing along, and the audience knew every line of dialog. Went to that side once to provide support for my roommate who was up on the stage in drag, and nervous.Report

  10. I was a disc jockey in high school at a local radio station. This was the days of carts; you had to physically change the music or there would be dead air. Sometimes I could play what I wanted. It was always Meat Loaf. Initially because his songs were long and I didn’t have to pay as close attention to changing them, but later because I really loved the songs.Report

  11. Allegedly, Jin Steinman initially wrote Total Eclipse of the Heart for Meat Loaf. I wonder how much more magnificent that song would have been in Meat Loaf’s voice.

    We were cheated!! I want my money backReport

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