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steven_stuart 01:31 am UTC 04/03/13 |
| In reply to: | re: Bat 4?????????? - Conas 01:30 pm UTC 04/02/13 |
| > I still listen to Bat 3 every so often. Songs like 'Blind > as a Bat' and 'Alive' are great songs. I thought his > version of Pigs was excellent also. I am amazed that half of the fourteen songs were written by Jim. Of the three you mention, only Pigs was written by Jim. I know Jim hates the album but I hope he at least earned some nice royalty checks out of it. From Wikipedia: The album debuted at #8 on the Billboard 200 and sold about 81,000 copies in its opening week, his best since Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell.However, it slipped to #60 after three weeks. The album also reached #3 in the UK charts, but quickly fell off. Some reviews lamented Steinman's absence. According to Allmusic, "this Bat is quite obviously a patchwork, pieced together from things borrowed and recreated, never quite gelling the way either of the previous Bats did." They criticized "The Monster Is Loose" as a "disarming, a grindingly metallic riff-rocker that sits very uncomfortably next to Steinman's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", and Child as "a professional who is playing a game without bothering to learn the rules." On the other hand, the review commended Meat Loaf's voice: he sings "his heart out as he valiantly tries to make this Bat a worthy successor to the originals." | |
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