Opinions on The Monster Is Loose a couple of years on...
 

The song, not the album! I know Meat has gone on record that he hates this song and it's rubbish, but I have to disagree. It's one of the better songs on the album and in fact one of the better non-Steinman songs Meat has recorded. Just a good hard rocker from start to finish. :twisted:

terrible live. Great on the album. just not a bat out of hell song.

To be honest it never really did anything for me, from first hearing to now I can take it or leave it and if in control of the music the skip button always comes into play.

great song, a good hard rock song!!

i likes it

(then again l ilke the album alot more now than i did then)

Are you basing that on the 3 Bats Live version, or live in general? I think it could have been better if they weren't playing along to the video and it could therefore be given the 'Meat Loaf live polish' treatment ala Masculine. :twisted:

Pretty good in my opinion. It was quite exciting hearing this live for the first time at RAH I remember with the small string section. An exciting rock song, works well for the opening of the album but when you get to "It's all Coming back" you wonder what the hell is going on story wise and sound wise I guess. Could easily have stood on its own two feet without the Bat franchise involved.

very rare when I agree with you but i do on this occasion!

Just live in general. As for the "live polish" thing, yea would've been great to get like a soft piano part with a slow first verse as an intro and then get into the song (ala all revved up from 1978 to 1993). But comparing this song to masculine isn't fair. Masculine is an american classic and radio staple.

I can now die a happy hermaphrodite.

:twisted: Monster's Loose was a great song then, it's a great song now.
Love it live, love it on the album 8)

I have never heard it on the radio in my life.

But it is an American classic.

How exactly?

Some of Wario's posts obviously belong to the category "wishful thinking".

Im american and its a classic to me

I really do like this song.

:twisted: Pepto bismol, Der Unstillbare Gier is an English classic and radio staple because I like it?


Chris, I think the walls of reality are getting a little thin in places for you :bleh:

:twisted: Sorry, I meant Ipso facto.

I always get those two mixed up.

You can imagine what trouble I have when I have digestive problems :shock:

You ask for a factotum?

I must admit when I first got Bat 3 and played it, I was a bit taken aback when Monster came on and didn't know quite what to make of it. It just did not sound like Meat at all. It did grow on me over time and I came to like it, but it's one of my least favourite of Meat's songs and of that album.

Carole

Me too :) Loved Bat3 start to finish, every song from the first moment I got the album.

Enjoyed every song whoever penned it .. two high points for me are Alive and Blind As A Bat, though I also love It's All Coming Back .. and as I didn't discern a "story" particularly in the album it didn't seem out of place to me or jar in any way at all. Simply a collection of songs I treasure and play start to finish without ever fast forwarding through any of them; each one is great in its own way.

Caryl

I still play it quite alot imo it's a great song and one of the best on the album.

Love the song!!!

This is my favorite part of the song:

I've lived a thousand years in darkness
Banished all alone
Inside my mind with just my madness
Behind these walls of stone

Never heard it live, so I can't comment on that.

Agreed :up:

Agreed :up:

I like the song. Not sure why it was given away as a freebie I thought it would have made a great single... WTFWIK? :shrug:

Think that was an uncool "trying to be cool" campaign to gain promo for the album. I remember one of the record company people saying something stupid like "once the monster is out of the cage you can't put it back in" or along those lines. Seems weird only one song would float around and I'm pretty sure it was the record company themselves who put it out. Having said that (I'm sure I can reveal this now); just before the album was out (and before the radio play in America) a 2 minute version of "Blind as a Bat" was also floating around via some fans too. I remember something similar with Did I say that on the Steinman site. How all this stuff and why all this stuff gets released early I've always found weird. With Bruce Springsteen it has been worse though. Full albums/unreleased tracks have always found their way to fans hands early. Maybe unreliable record company / mixing engineer staff making a buck on the side or just not being careful with the material?? :roll:

Promo material goes out prior to release; I can see that easily ending up being leaked. In the case of Springsteen, I can't imagine that it's staff, given the issues he's had with tapes being stolen/bootlegged in the past. (eg. the two roadies who claimed that Bruce gave them a box of tapes and told them to get rid of them (tapes) :roll:) I would guess security is pretty tight these days. AFAIK, the (more recent) leaks have been finished albums, not outtakes (like old stuff).

I think sometimes stuff (movies also) is leaked early on purpose by the record/ movie company, in order to get a "buzz" on what people are saying.