10 million can't be wrong.
 

Next wednesday (April 12th) BBC radio 2 launch a new series looking at albums that have sold more than 10 million copies. The opening programme is all about Bat and features interviews with meat and others associated with the album.

It can be listened to online live at Radio 2 website or for one week afterwards.

Boradcast at 10pm (british summer time) on Wednesday 12th April.

Cool, looking forward to that :D :D :D

When will they do Bat 2 and Bat 3? ;-)

Bat III:
Hopefully when it's a cold day in hell

Nice Bat title too...;)

BAT OUT OF HELL III
a cold day in Hell

Thanks Chris. Can't wait to hear it! :D But what about "Bat II"? They should cover that one too since it sold at least 12 million worldwide.

I found the following in the latest Radio Times:

"In a reality TV-loving world, where Big Brother contestants can become lauded for thinking that East Anglia is a mysterious land overseas, it's easy to sneer at anything that attracts the critical approval of the general public. But not everything that's popular has to be awful, as is proved by this opening edition in a new series on albums that have sold over ten million copies around the world. The enormous sales figures of Meat Loaf's 1977 Bat Out Of Hell release may have had a lot to do with the masterful gathering of writer Jim Steinman, producer Todd Rundgren and singer Meat Loaf. But what sold it to the public, as Mr. Loaf points out tonight, was his over-the-top stage-shows, which won audiences over as they watched, wondering if this 320lb behemoth of rock would manage to get through the performance without suffering a stroke. Plus the fact that - it was the campest album ever let out of the crypt."

How in the name of all that is flapping holy, is Bat Out Of Hell CAMP?!?!?!

Over The Top? YES!, Larry Grayson? NO! Unless you count that Dick Emery vocal intro to For Crying Out Loud...

The over/misuse of the word camp REALLY gets my goat.

(In order to clarify my position on this, btw; what annoys me about this is that any emotional experience (particularly the ecstatic) positive or negative, that exists outside of that experienced in mundane/English everyday life must be derided as camp. If you cant understand something, it must be ridiculed at all costs.)

That's a true meaning of camp in the USA, to the point of overuse here as well.

I mean, there are the obvious roots of the word 'camp' in gay subculture, but (if Jim's gay I'll shut my mouth!) it implies that any extremity of emotion can't be felt and it's just aesthetic (in terms of existing purely on the level of appearance , or the aural equivalent!), and I know what I feel when listening to Bat, and I dunno, but it feels genuine enough to me!

thanks, thats really cool

Thanks for that i can't wait!:D

I will listen to it, but unfortunately that trailer makes me wonder if they will miss the point.

Thanks for that, Will be listening to that! :D

From today's Daily Mail Weekend magazine, radio section:

10 Million Can't Be Wrong

"It's good to know that Meat Loaf's out there, somewhere, cooking up a third Bat Out Of Hell album. Bat 1, as fans call it, is one of the top-selling debut albums of all time, but it nearly didn't make it out of the warehouse, let alone Hell. Meat Loaf tells Kate Thornton how a stinging review had curious punters flocking to his live show - and his over-the-top, Gothic folly of an album went on to sell more than 10 million copies."

Nice little plug for "Bat III"! The programme is also listed in the best music picks of the week. :D

Diane

From today's Herald magazine, 7-day radio section:

10 Million Can't Be Wrong

"Kate Thornton explores albums that have each sold in excess of ten million copies worldwide. The 1977 greaser frenzy Bat Out Of Hell by the mighty Meat Loaf, pictured, is top of the bill."

Greaser frenzy ???

Nice pic of (the mighty) Meat though :D

Not long to wait now:D
They have been advertising it a lot on Radio 2 today.
Heather

It's on in a minute!!!! :mrgreen:

Some Bat 3 promo there I see :D

Indeed!
I enjoyed that!
Chloe

thats what we like to hear!!

So, the show´s just over.
Let me tell you (for those who didn´t hear it) what he said about Bat3:
He says, that the Album will have all the colours of feeling Bat 1&2 had but there will be new great things. But he thinks, that´s very difficult to make this "classic moment" happen, but he knows, that once it will happen.
And the time is right for a comeback of rock!
It is very melodramatic.

It will be buyable as a downloadable mp3 album.

R.

Where did this info come from?

I listened to this program. It was very good. I especially enjoyed the brief play of a live version of all revved up. Meat live always sounds better than studio takes. He did say a bit about Bat3, saying how hard it was day to day to be back in the studio. He didn't say anything about mp3 downloads though.

It was a very enjoyable program. He seems to find the whole Bat 1 success a little unbelievable even after all these's years.

It was good, I enjoyed listening to it. I love that live version of All Revved Up, it rocks:D

I can't get it to "listen again" on the website... can anyone else get it?