I'd do anything for POLL (But I won't POLL that) - Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell

"Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back". I've never heard this but Steinman should be shot for the title alone.

Somehow, after not hearing it in years (if not decades), I've managed to hear "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" out in the wild twice in the last week.

Tempted to vote for "Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)" on the strength of the title alone.

After hearing the full 12 minute version, none of the radio edits seem to do that song justice!

Some days it don't come easy
Some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all
And these are the days that never end!

Lemon

'Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through' is just hook after hook.

Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back

IT'S DEFECTIVE

YOU CAN SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!

'Out of the Frying Pan (And Into the Fire)' is so fucking glorious - that intro!

I haven't listened to this in over a decade. here we go

If you want my views of history
Then there's something you should know
The three men I admire most are Curly, Larry, Moe

IIIII REMEMBEEEER EEEEVERYTHIIIINGGGG!

WHAT ABOUT LOVE

KEEP ON BELIEVING!
AND YOU'LL DIS-COV-ER BA-BY!

'Objects in the Rear View Mirror...' has a decent lyric, actually, and it actually deserves to be 10 minutes long.

The fake pizzicato strings etc. on 'Back Into Hell' sound really corny now, but it only makes up a couple of minutes on a stupendously long album - which was only ever released as a single LP on vinyl rather than as a double! I've never heard it on vinyl, but the sound quality must be ghastly.

^^Major Label vinyl at that time was basically manuevers in trolling.

Yeah! I mean, the LP is about 75 minutes long, so easily 35+ minutes per side... I assume the cutting engineer was getting paid well, cuz no way could that have ever turned out well. Not with this music, anyway!

"Life is a Lemon..." is amazing. The album is really frontloaded, though, and should probably just end at "Objects..." - which would still make it 50+ mins!

Oh, the album is definitely frontloaded - it's difficult to disagree with that, but I still prefer this to the first Bat Out of Hell because it's more excessive, more over-the-top and darker, too.

I'll bet Muse have this album in their record collections - the intro to 'Out of the Frying Pan' struck me as being quite Muse-like.

This is the album that I think Noel Gallagher thought he was making with Oasis in 1996/1997 until the coke wore off and he realised he'd made Be Here Now instead. Every song a fucking epic.

Man, 'It Just Won't Quit' is stunning... it starts off quietly enough and then just piles on hook after hook.

A WASTED YOUTH IS BETTER BY FAR
THAN A WISE AND PRODUCTIVE OLD AGE!

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IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WANT MY MONEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY BACK