Happy Birthday Meat Loaf!
Some beautiful stories on here, an excellent idea MBrevard!
I am 24 now (today! Happy Birthday to me too!
) and have been a fan of Meat Loaf since I was about 8, when my dad got a tape (Hits Out Of Hell) and played it in the car. Every car journey I went on with him since then I have asked him to play the tape, until it finally wore out. When I was about 13 mum and dad got me a ghetto blaster type thing for my room, and a new copy of that tape - I was so excited, I played the tape all the time!
Also around this time, Bat II was released, and I was absolutely astonished by it. I had never heard such brilliant, emotional, dramatic music before. What with IWDAFL being number one for about 10 weeks or so, I got plenty of chances to hear it, and most of my mates got hooked on it too!
Then, for my 18th birthday, mum and dad got me a proper hifi with a new fangled (ish) 5 cd player: needless to say, I bought 5 Meat Loaf cds
Bat 1
Dead Ringer
Midnight...
Bad Attitude
Bat 2
The hifi played songs from all of them at random, and I was in heaven! Everybody else was in hell, due to the bassy rumble and deafening voices!
My favourite song of Meat's has to be I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us, because I can imagine myself in the role of the singing character, rescuing a girl from some sadistic "boyfriend", and swearing I'll do everything he didn't, and nothing he did (if that makes sense
:) ).
It brings a tear to my eye even now (if I'm not in public that is
).
Thankyou Meat Loaf (and Jim) for bringing such a beautiful piece of music into my life.
No one else comes close.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AND KEEP ON ROCKING!