How did you get to like meat loaf?

Gracie · 28 Oct 2011, 11:50

Just curious I was five years old and my uncle a geordie! got the hits out of hell cd and played it for me I absolutely Loved it.
It was over the top it was something I have never heard before.

We played it as loud as the volume let us and got told off by the neighbours!

I hope this hasn't been asked before never know what to write but I thought I'd give this question a try.

I will always be a fan of him and I like it when he sings a steinman song he's a genius songwriter.

Then Of course I got into the other singers that have been on meat Loaf records or like had Jim write some songs for other acts and I followed both their careers.
Some people have sports teams they follow I guess Meat Loaf is my sports team! If that makes any sense you know what I mean?

It's great fun being a fan of Meat Loaf I Love his stage shows, he has such wonderful stage presence!

The Neverland Express is an awesome band.

Share with us how you got bitten by the bat?
--Grace

xx

wolfy35 · 28 Oct 2011, 12:03

I was given a copy of BOOH LP for my 7th birthday by an uncle who bought me it never having heard it but because he liked the artwork. After a couple of minutes listening I was hooked for life.

That made 1978 a good year for me because apart from that I only got toys, airfix models etc. Sadly the vinyl copy died some time ago.

Sebastian. · 28 Oct 2011, 12:30

Last October my Mum was seriously ill in Hospital. I was browsing the M.E.N listings page to see what was coming on, I saw Meat Load. My Mum had always wanted to see him, she'd even asked for his Music to be played during her operation! So I got the tickets as a present. I was quite excited to see him as I'd just started to get into his Music. Anyway, the night came and we were sitting in the Arena and as soon as the Hot Patootie intro started I was hooked. Best night of my life. Best Concert I've ever seen. So much passion and energy and outstanding vocals.

As soon as I got home I listened to all of HCTB and then bought all him albums. I've been hooked ever since.

I find that there's is always as song for any mood/feeling. He's helped me through a lot.

TheDoode · 28 Oct 2011, 13:12

Anything for Love came out, I was twelve, and I've been hooked ever since.

tess2002 · 28 Oct 2011, 13:16

'77, senior in high school and i remember Paradise. However Two Out Of Three is what I mostly have focused on over the years. In either late '06 or early '07 I check out Meat on YouTube and found the old promo vid for Two Out of Three. My interest pick up at that point and has only grown in intensity every sense.

The man rocks my world. And I'm not ashamed to admit to say that I listen to almost nothing but Meat. CD's in my car, music on my MP3 player.

Gracie · 28 Oct 2011, 13:20

Meat has a great talent as an actor, and, I think it comes across in his Live stage perfomances. I recall watching the Bat 2 picture show and my dad says ''he's an actor isn't he meat loaf?''

''You can tell'' and I was amazed that my mum and dad would watch it. they said' they wanted to know what all my fuss was about'.

Steinman can sure write a good song
Life is a lemon is my favourite Live song. Well having said that Bat out of hell is my ultimate favourite song. Its hard to pick favourite tracks because I like so many songs meat loaf and jim steinman have done.

I do Wish he'd work with Bonnie Tyler her and Loaf on a duet their voices are just for Me perfect.

I am also a big fan of patti she's mega talented and nice with it.
Rock 'n Roll Opera at it's finest meat loaf is!
Thanks Meat!

Ollie241189 · 28 Oct 2011, 13:23

I was 4 year old and my Dad used to rave about the beginning of You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth. You know with the wolf with the red roses bit and then then wall of sound you get when the music starts. And I saw what he meant when he said he got a chill down his spine. I felt it too!!! I've been hooked ever since!!!!

DJLeen · 28 Oct 2011, 13:24

I was 13, it was in 1993, meat hit the charts with ''i'd do anything for love...'' Since then i was hooked for him !!! Do i need to say more...

. what a coinscidence u ask, it's 18 years ago now... Time flies.

Steve6 · 28 Oct 2011, 15:14

Welcome to the Neighbourhood was the very first Meat Loaf album I ever heard, and this was 1995. I can remember it very well watching "The top 30 hits" on RTÉ, (fellow Irish fans like Nikox know what show I'm talking about I hope) and I remember watching the video for "I'd Lie for you (and that's the truth) and I didn't like it that much, because to be honest I was young, and didn't know anything about Meat Loaf until then. Having said that my brother liked Meat Loaf and he turned to my father in the kitchen after watching that video on the "The Top 30 hits" and said he wanted that album for Christmas, so my father who is also a Meat Loaf fan said no problem. So when Santa Claus landed on my rooftop on the Christmas of 1995, he brought my brother the album "Welcome to the Neighbourhood" and left it under the Christmas tree once he got down the chimney. Now I can't remember how it all unfolded, I can vividly recall being a brat always, and always doing the opposite of what I'm told, so I took my brothers tape and went into the sitting room, I remember putting the tape into the player which from memory was a JVC make I can't be sure. I clicked play, and I remember hearing someone saying.."45 seconds of ectasy" in a womans voice, and thinking to myself what the hell is this all about? so I played away with the settings, and I remember I landed on the song "Not a dry eye in the house" and can remember thinking to myself my god this stuff is actually quiet good. Now I was 7 years of age at the time, and the world was still a very new place to me, and I was only slowly getting into music. I will be honest I never became a big fan until 2003 when I was 15, but WTTN and in practicular the song "Not A Dry Eye in the house", was how I got to like Meat Loaf, and is actually my first memory of him. I was too young to remember Bat 2. Even though I can recall my first day in primary school very well in September 1992.

jcmoorehead · 28 Oct 2011, 16:09

Parents raised me listening to the likes of Meat Loaf and Genesis from a very young age so there isn't one defining moment really just I've always had that Meat Loaf presence in my life.

While the other kids were into their pop music with dance routines and all that I was listening to Bat Out Of Hell.

melon · 28 Oct 2011, 16:26

I always liked all the older music etc, but I came across Storytellers with Meat on it on TV one day, mum & I watched it, I loved it, but didn't get fully into Meat until the MSO DVD came out. Now there is NO going back lol, I love his work!

Vickip · 28 Oct 2011, 16:46

I had heard of Meat (and BOOH), but never knew who he was until I found his Storytellers CD on sale at Best Buy. Something just told me to buy it

Then once I saw Meat and Patti singing Paradise on the Storytellers episode on VH1, I was hooked. I still remember yelling at the screen when they broke for commercial

Julie in the rv mirror · 28 Oct 2011, 17:22

Back when I was about 14 or 15 (around 1980), my aunt (who is 87 now) used to like to buy disco records,

and for some reason, she bought BOOH. Not surprisingly, she didn't like it, so she gave it to my older brother. I used to salivate over my brother's record collection, so I was in heaven when he went away to boot camp and I had free reign to grab whatever I wanted.

Having heard Two Out of Three... on the radio, I picked BOOH, and once I heard it, it was all over.

Of course, I had to buy my own copy once my brother came back home...

glamourgirl · 28 Oct 2011, 17:34

I was just a little girl when I saw Meat & Patti performing Anything For Love on some tv show. I had never seen anyone perform with as much passion as they did. I've been a fan ever since.

A Slice Of English · 28 Oct 2011, 17:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheDoode

Anything for Love came out, I was twelve, and I've been hooked ever since.

This.

My mate had Bat 2 and played it over and over again whenever I was over and the album was the musical accompaniment to my teenage years and was just f'n perfect for any given emotion or emotional turmoil I was suffering at the time! Love it.

Edit: Doode, I was twelve when it came out also.

RSG · 28 Oct 2011, 17:45

All Revved Up & Bat Out Of Hell blasting on a loud stereo. It was evening and the sky was dark blue. The year was 1992, I was four.

Wario · 28 Oct 2011, 17:50

In fall of 2001, had to be a few weeks after the September 11th attacks, VH-1 aired a Meat Loaf Marathon. It consisted of his Behind the Music episode, the "To Hell And Back" Biopic, and his Storytellers episode. My late father was watching it and I just decided to watch it with him. Fate reared its head and I heard "You Took the Words Right Out Of My Mouth" play. Fell in love with the music right there and then.

The following day my dad took me to best buy and bought me Bat out of Hell and its sequel. I soon discovered other albums existed as well when I found Blind Before I Stop on a shelf in Huston. We didnt have a computer at the time and we went through catalogs and such trying to find the other studio albums by Meat.

It wasn't until I got "Live Around the World" that things really got going....

Read my entire story here:
http://warioloaf.webs.com/emailmeaboutme.htm

duke knooby · 28 Oct 2011, 18:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheDoode

Anything for Love came out, I was twelve, and I've been hooked ever since.

that

Gracie · 28 Oct 2011, 18:49

Thanks for all these great replies and Yeah, I Can really remember getting into Meat Loaf's music. In so many years he has come so far. Now my only hope is Meat gets better soon.

I have been a fan for so long now. He's always been in my life which is pretty cool!

Cherry.Loaf · 28 Oct 2011, 19:29

Since the day I was born; my Dad played Bat, Hot summer night and 2/3 a lot and I love those songs and grew up listening to and loving Meat.

JaysScout · 28 Oct 2011, 21:16

March 25, 1978....Saturday Night Live. The musical act comes on and I see this big guy with long hair in a frilly shirt......singing his ass off, and putting everything he had into what he was doing!!! I was hooked. Still am. Always will be.

Elijah's way · 28 Oct 2011, 21:24

I was 8 when Anything For Love came out, I was hooked and that's one reason it's my favorite song.

robgomm · 28 Oct 2011, 22:16

I must have been 13 or 14 at the time, which was around 18-19 years ago, when I first heard Meat. My best friend was a huge fan of his and he had a huge number of his songs on his PC, I used to go round there a lot and he would play some of Meat songs among other things. Although I spent a good few years listening to his music round there, I don't think it was until 3 or 4 years later that I really got hooked, and again that was down to my best mate. He was getting some new CD's of Meats so he gave me his old tapes. The old tapes were Welcome To The Neighbourhood, Rock N Roll Heroes, and Bad Attitude. I listened to them a lot and became hooked. It snowballed from there and I listened to pretty much every album and song Meat ever recorded. I absolutely love it all and i'm not ashamed to admit that compared to all the other music I have in my collection Meat is and always will be No. 1. I must listen to him 95% of the time and everyone else 5%.

lyn · 28 Oct 2011, 23:31

I came to like Meat's music back when Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monsters Loose came out. I listened to it a bit, but at that stage in my life I was really into Bon Jovi. It wasn't until early this year that I was in hospital twice, for seven weeks all up, and that was when I really started to get into Meat BIG time

Bon Jovi got the flick, and Meat was it!

I connected with his music, and seemed to connect in some way to the man himself. Complicated to describe, but in a nut shell that is how.

suzieq · 29 Oct 2011, 01:15

My Meat Loaf roots stem back to when I was 4 years old. At the time, my 11 year old brother and sister brought home the LP BOOH in 1979. Funny story, they actually used to scare the death out of me when they played the beginning spoken part of YTTW. However, I couldn't get enough of "Paradise". I had NO idea what the song was actually about, being that young. HOWEVER, I loved baseball...I thought the song was about baseball THEN. Not sure when it was that I wised up about it. Regardless, I wanted to play it over and over again. It wasn't my album....so I had to sneak it!

Fandom, started and I didn't even know it!

My mom loved Engelbert Humperdinck (and still does), my sister loved Steve Perry, my other sister loved Prince, my brother loved Pat Benetar, and I, MEAT LOAF!!!! My dad was the only sane person in the house! lol.

But, yeah, that's how it began.

28 Oct 2011, 11:50	#1
Gracie Super Loafer Join Date: 07.01.2005 Location: Loafdom! Posts: 224	How did you get to like meat loaf? Just curious I was five years old and my uncle a geordie! got the hits out of hell cd and played it for me I absolutely Loved it. It was over the top it was something I have never heard before. We played it as loud as the volume let us and got told off by the neighbours! I hope this hasn't been asked before never know what to write but I thought I'd give this question a try. I will always be a fan of him and I like it when he sings a steinman song he's a genius songwriter. Then Of course I got into the other singers that have been on meat Loaf records or like had Jim write some songs for other acts and I followed both their careers. Some people have sports teams they follow I guess Meat Loaf is my sports team! If that makes any sense you know what I mean? It's great fun being a fan of Meat Loaf I Love his stage shows, he has such wonderful stage presence! The Neverland Express is an awesome band. Share with us how you got bitten by the bat? --Grace xx

28 Oct 2011, 13:16	#5
tess2002 Rookie Join Date: 12.10.2011 Posts: 1	RE: it's been years, but.... '77, senior in high school and i remember Paradise. However Two Out Of Three is what I mostly have focused on over the years. In either late '06 or early '07 I check out Meat on YouTube and found the old promo vid for Two Out of Three. My interest pick up at that point and has only grown in intensity every sense. The man rocks my world. And I'm not ashamed to admit to say that I listen to almost nothing but Meat. CD's in my car, music on my MP3 player.

28 Oct 2011, 12:03	#2
wolfy35 Dangerous on a full moon Join Date: 14.03.2007 Location: Standing on the outside, Looking in on you Posts: 751	I was given a copy of BOOH LP for my 7th birthday by an uncle who bought me it never having heard it but because he liked the artwork. After a couple of minutes listening I was hooked for life. That made 1978 a good year for me because apart from that I only got toys, airfix models etc. Sadly the vinyl copy died some time ago.

28 Oct 2011, 12:30	#3
Sebastian. Biggles Join Date: 15.02.2011 Location: Texas Posts: 2,027	Last October my Mum was seriously ill in Hospital. I was browsing the M.E.N listings page to see what was coming on, I saw Meat Load. My Mum had always wanted to see him, she'd even asked for his Music to be played during her operation! So I got the tickets as a present. I was quite excited to see him as I'd just started to get into his Music. Anyway, the night came and we were sitting in the Arena and as soon as the Hot Patootie intro started I was hooked. Best night of my life. Best Concert I've ever seen. So much passion and energy and outstanding vocals. As soon as I got home I listened to all of HCTB and then bought all him albums. I've been hooked ever since. I find that there's is always as song for any mood/feeling. He's helped me through a lot.

28 Oct 2011, 13:12	#4
TheDoode Guest Join Date: 16.02.2010 Posts: 1,023	Anything for Love came out, I was twelve, and I've been hooked ever since.

28 Oct 2011, 13:20	#6
Gracie Super Loafer Join Date: 07.01.2005 Location: Loafdom! Posts: 224	Meat has a great talent as an actor, and, I think it comes across in his Live stage perfomances. I recall watching the Bat 2 picture show and my dad says ''he's an actor isn't he meat loaf?'' ''You can tell'' and I was amazed that my mum and dad would watch it. they said' they wanted to know what all my fuss was about'. Steinman can sure write a good song Life is a lemon is my favourite Live song. Well having said that Bat out of hell is my ultimate favourite song. Its hard to pick favourite tracks because I like so many songs meat loaf and jim steinman have done. I do Wish he'd work with Bonnie Tyler her and Loaf on a duet their voices are just for Me perfect. I am also a big fan of patti she's mega talented and nice with it. Rock 'n Roll Opera at it's finest meat loaf is! Thanks Meat!

28 Oct 2011, 13:23	#7
Ollie241189 Guest Join Date: 27.10.2011 Posts: 408	I was 4 year old and my Dad used to rave about the beginning of You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth. You know with the wolf with the red roses bit and then then wall of sound you get when the music starts. And I saw what he meant when he said he got a chill down his spine. I felt it too!!! I've been hooked ever since!!!!

28 Oct 2011, 13:24	#8
DJLeen Super Loafer Join Date: 27.04.2011 Location: Vlimmeren , Belgium Posts: 212	I was 13, it was in 1993, meat hit the charts with ''i'd do anything for love...'' Since then i was hooked for him !!! Do i need to say more... . what a coinscidence u ask, it's 18 years ago now... Time flies.

28 Oct 2011, 15:14	#9
Steve6 Batman Join Date: 28.11.2005 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,690	Welcome to the Neighbourhood was the very first Meat Loaf album I ever heard, and this was 1995. I can remember it very well watching "The top 30 hits" on RTÉ, (fellow Irish fans like Nikox know what show I'm talking about I hope) and I remember watching the video for "I'd Lie for you (and that's the truth) and I didn't like it that much, because to be honest I was young, and didn't know anything about Meat Loaf until then. Having said that my brother liked Meat Loaf and he turned to my father in the kitchen after watching that video on the "The Top 30 hits" and said he wanted that album for Christmas, so my father who is also a Meat Loaf fan said no problem. So when Santa Claus landed on my rooftop on the Christmas of 1995, he brought my brother the album "Welcome to the Neighbourhood" and left it under the Christmas tree once he got down the chimney. Now I can't remember how it all unfolded, I can vividly recall being a brat always, and always doing the opposite of what I'm told, so I took my brothers tape and went into the sitting room, I remember putting the tape into the player which from memory was a JVC make I can't be sure. I clicked play, and I remember hearing someone saying.."45 seconds of ectasy" in a womans voice, and thinking to myself what the hell is this all about? so I played away with the settings, and I remember I landed on the song "Not a dry eye in the house" and can remember thinking to myself my god this stuff is actually quiet good. Now I was 7 years of age at the time, and the world was still a very new place to me, and I was only slowly getting into music. I will be honest I never became a big fan until 2003 when I was 15, but WTTN and in practicular the song "Not A Dry Eye in the house", was how I got to like Meat Loaf, and is actually my first memory of him. I was too young to remember Bat 2. Even though I can recall my first day in primary school very well in September 1992.

28 Oct 2011, 16:09	#10
jcmoorehead Super Loafer Join Date: 09.04.2003 Location: Edinburgh, formerly Teesside Posts: 672	Parents raised me listening to the likes of Meat Loaf and Genesis from a very young age so there isn't one defining moment really just I've always had that Meat Loaf presence in my life. While the other kids were into their pop music with dance routines and all that I was listening to Bat Out Of Hell.

28 Oct 2011, 16:26	#11
melon Long Distance Loafer Join Date: 17.07.2007 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 4,586	I always liked all the older music etc, but I came across Storytellers with Meat on it on TV one day, mum & I watched it, I loved it, but didn't get fully into Meat until the MSO DVD came out. Now there is NO going back lol, I love his work!

28 Oct 2011, 16:46	#12
Vickip Mega Loafer Join Date: 07.02.2003 Location: Posts: 8,101	I had heard of Meat (and BOOH), but never knew who he was until I found his Storytellers CD on sale at Best Buy. Something just told me to buy it Then once I saw Meat and Patti singing Paradise on the Storytellers episode on VH1, I was hooked. I still remember yelling at the screen when they broke for commercial

28 Oct 2011, 17:22	#13
Julie in the rv mirror Spirit in the Night Join Date: 23.07.2008 Location: On the edge of town (in the Darkness...) Posts: 1,559	Back when I was about 14 or 15 (around 1980), my aunt (who is 87 now) used to like to buy disco records, and for some reason, she bought BOOH. Not surprisingly, she didn't like it, so she gave it to my older brother. I used to salivate over my brother's record collection, so I was in heaven when he went away to boot camp and I had free reign to grab whatever I wanted. Having heard Two Out of Three... on the radio, I picked BOOH, and once I heard it, it was all over. Of course, I had to buy my own copy once my brother came back home...

28 Oct 2011, 17:34	#14
glamourgirl Super Loafer Join Date: 15.09.2009 Posts: 642	I was just a little girl when I saw Meat & Patti performing Anything For Love on some tv show. I had never seen anyone perform with as much passion as they did. I've been a fan ever since.

28 Oct 2011, 17:45	#16
RSG Mega Loafer Join Date: 27.07.2003 Location: Canada Posts: 3,296	All Revved Up & Bat Out Of Hell blasting on a loud stereo. It was evening and the sky was dark blue. The year was 1992, I was four.

28 Oct 2011, 17:50	#17
Wario Monstro helps me spell things... Join Date: 05.01.2007 Location: Masculine, Pennsylvania Posts: 9,105	In fall of 2001, had to be a few weeks after the September 11th attacks, VH-1 aired a Meat Loaf Marathon. It consisted of his Behind the Music episode, the "To Hell And Back" Biopic, and his Storytellers episode. My late father was watching it and I just decided to watch it with him. Fate reared its head and I heard "You Took the Words Right Out Of My Mouth" play. Fell in love with the music right there and then. The following day my dad took me to best buy and bought me Bat out of Hell and its sequel. I soon discovered other albums existed as well when I found Blind Before I Stop on a shelf in Huston. We didnt have a computer at the time and we went through catalogs and such trying to find the other studio albums by Meat. It wasn't until I got "Live Around the World" that things really got going.... Read my entire story here: http://warioloaf.webs.com/emailmeaboutme.htm

28 Oct 2011, 18:49	#19
Gracie Super Loafer Join Date: 07.01.2005 Location: Loafdom! Posts: 224	Thanks for all these great replies and Yeah, I Can really remember getting into Meat Loaf's music. In so many years he has come so far. Now my only hope is Meat gets better soon. I have been a fan for so long now. He's always been in my life which is pretty cool!

28 Oct 2011, 19:29	#20
Cherry.Loaf Los Angeloser Join Date: 02.04.2010 Location: Bristol Posts: 1,072	Since the day I was born; my Dad played Bat, Hot summer night and 2/3 a lot and I love those songs and grew up listening to and loving Meat.

28 Oct 2011, 21:16	#21
JaysScout Senior Loafer Join Date: 03.09.2010 Location: Concord, NC Posts: 157	March 25, 1978....Saturday Night Live. The musical act comes on and I see this big guy with long hair in a frilly shirt......singing his ass off, and putting everything he had into what he was doing!!! I was hooked. Still am. Always will be.

28 Oct 2011, 21:24	#22
Elijah's way Soul Auctioneer Join Date: 26.06.2005 Location: Muscle Shoals, AL Posts: 1,529	I was 8 when Anything For Love came out, I was hooked and that's one reason it's my favorite song.

28 Oct 2011, 22:16	#23
robgomm Mega Loafer Join Date: 22.10.2006 Location: Hemel Hempstead, UK Posts: 1,671	I must have been 13 or 14 at the time, which was around 18-19 years ago, when I first heard Meat. My best friend was a huge fan of his and he had a huge number of his songs on his PC, I used to go round there a lot and he would play some of Meat songs among other things. Although I spent a good few years listening to his music round there, I don't think it was until 3 or 4 years later that I really got hooked, and again that was down to my best mate. He was getting some new CD's of Meats so he gave me his old tapes. The old tapes were Welcome To The Neighbourhood, Rock N Roll Heroes, and Bad Attitude. I listened to them a lot and became hooked. It snowballed from there and I listened to pretty much every album and song Meat ever recorded. I absolutely love it all and i'm not ashamed to admit that compared to all the other music I have in my collection Meat is and always will be No. 1. I must listen to him 95% of the time and everyone else 5%.

28 Oct 2011, 23:31	#24
lyn Super Loafer Join Date: 22.09.2011 Location: Guyra, NSW, Australia Posts: 283	I came to like Meat's music back when Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monsters Loose came out. I listened to it a bit, but at that stage in my life I was really into Bon Jovi. It wasn't until early this year that I was in hospital twice, for seven weeks all up, and that was when I really started to get into Meat BIG time Bon Jovi got the flick, and Meat was it! I connected with his music, and seemed to connect in some way to the man himself. Complicated to describe, but in a nut shell that is how.

29 Oct 2011, 01:15	#25
suzieq Mega Loafer Join Date: 26.10.2008 Location: West Palm Beach, Florida Posts: 2,319	My Meat Loaf roots stem back to when I was 4 years old. At the time, my 11 year old brother and sister brought home the LP BOOH in 1979. Funny story, they actually used to scare the death out of me when they played the beginning spoken part of YTTW. However, I couldn't get enough of "Paradise". I had NO idea what the song was actually about, being that young. HOWEVER, I loved baseball...I thought the song was about baseball THEN. Not sure when it was that I wised up about it. Regardless, I wanted to play it over and over again. It wasn't my album....so I had to sneak it! Fandom, started and I didn't even know it! My mom loved Engelbert Humperdinck (and still does), my sister loved Steve Perry, my other sister loved Prince, my brother loved Pat Benetar, and I, MEAT LOAF!!!! My dad was the only sane person in the house! lol. But, yeah, that's how it began.