Meatloaf's Birthday

Subject: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: The Shambles
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 08:27 PM

Meatloaf aka Marvin Lee Aday, was born on this day in 1947 in Dallas.

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: GUEST,IBO
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 01:38 PM

WILL HIS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION BE DRAGGED OUT AS LONG AS HIS BORING SONGS

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 07:47 PM

Thank you, IBO.

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: Vixen
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:37 AM

Actually, I thought Meatloaf's songs (I admit to having purchased two of his albums) were creative and interesting, both lyrically and musically. Yes his songs are long, and not my style for singing or playing, but I've found them worthy of my repeated attention. I've gotten some interesting strategies for dealing with scansion and rhythm from his work that I've tried to use in my own songwriting. It's very difficult for me to picture him as 59, however--he's sort of frozen in my mind as the character he played in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Is he still writing/performing?

V

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 10:20 AM

I thought Jim Steinman wrote all Meatloaf's songs.

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: Les from Hull
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 11:05 AM

Mr and Mrs Loaf must be very proud of their son.

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: Vixen
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 12:18 PM

fted is right...What follows is a cut'n'paste from answers.com:


There is no other album like Bat out of Hell, unless you want to count the sequel. This is Grand Guignol pop -- epic, gothic, operatic, and silly, and it's appealing because of all of this. Jim Steinman was a composer without peer, simply because nobody else wanted to make mini-epics like this. And there never could have been a singer more suited for his compositions than Meat Loaf, a singer partial to bombast, albeit shaded bombast. The compositions are staggeringly ridiculous, yet Meat Loaf finds the emotional core in each song, bringing true heartbreak to "Two out of Three Ain't Bad" and sly humor to "Paradise by the Dashboard Light." There's no discounting the production of Todd Rundgren, either, who gives Steinman's self-styled grandiosity a production that's staggeringly big but never overwhelming and always alluring. While the sentiments are deliberately adolescent and filled with jokes and exaggerated clichés, there's real (albeit silly) wit behind these compositions, not just in the lyrics but in the music, which is a savvy blend of oldies pastiche, show tunes, prog rock, Springsteen-esque narratives, and blistering hard rock (thereby sounding a bit like an extension of Rocky Horror Picture Show, which brought Meat Loaf to the national stage). It may be easy to dismiss this as ridiculous, but there's real style and craft here and its kitsch is intentional. It may elevate adolescent passion to operatic dimensions, and that's certainly silly, but it's hard not to marvel at the skill behind this grandly silly, irresistible album. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 06:01 PM

mrs Loaf is very proud of her son.he is his mothers pride,geddit.......................

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 06:13 PM

Shambles what are you trying to prove with this specious crap? We all know you can be annoying, and you revel in causing discord on this site.
Please can this and all other Birthday threads be posted in BS?
Thank you.

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: The Shambles
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 06:53 PM

The explanation - should anyone really need one - can be seen in the following thread Deleted posts & closed threads

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 07:05 PM

giok could you please wear a bell so we can hear you creep up on shambles.

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 11:30 PM

Despite the annoyance factor, Giok, Meatloaf does belong above the line, he is noted almost solely for his music. (I did like him as an actor in Rocky Horror Picture Show, though).

SRS

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 12:28 AM

Oh no, not Meatloaf's birthday again! (*BG*)

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 03:22 AM

Yup, and you'll be telling next that 'Bat Outta Hell' was voted best Folk and Blues album of whatever year it was issued ☺
G ☻

Subject: RE: Meatloaf's Birthday
From: JJ
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 08:17 AM

Please recall that Mr. Loaf appeared on Broadway in the immortal 1976 flop ROCKABYE HAMLET.