Barry Philips Discos

Published by Barry Philips · March 3 at 1:00 PM · 

THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
22-Meat Loaf-Bat Out of Hell.
1977- It wasn’t released as a single until 1979 when reaching Number 15.The song was re-released in 1993 and peaked at Number 8.
Best Bit-At 6.52.The songs writer Jim Steinman was a big fan of the early 1960’s ‘death discs’ also known as ‘teenage tragedy songs’ such as ‘Leader of the Pack’ by the Shangri-Las (see also best songs 331) and ‘Tell Laura I Love Her’ from Ray Peterson. Steinman wanted to write the ‘most extreme crash song of all time.’
This song along with ‘Heaven Can Wait’ and ‘All Revved Up with No Place To Go’ originally featured in Steinman’s ‘Peter Pan’ inspired 1977 musical ‘Neverland.’ Steinman and Meat Loaf who were touring with the ‘National Lampoon’ show felt they had three exceptional songs and wanted to develop them with potentially four more in to an Album. The Album of course came to fruition and was called ‘Bat Out of Hell,’ to date it has sold in excess of 43 million copies worldwide, in the UK it has spent 522 weeks on the Album chart, the second longest chart run of any studio Album (see also best songs 90.)
The song tells the story of someone who feels his life it going nowhere and only feels alive when riding their motorbike at highly dangerous speeds. He knows the dangers of what he is doing but the thrill is too great. Steinman achieved his ambition of writing the greatest ‘crash song’ when the motorbike and rider are, ‘down in the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun.’
‘Oh baby you’re the only thing in this whole world that’s pure and good and right.’
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