Best Sellers From The ’90′s: Meatloaf’s “Bat Out Of Hell II”
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell II (MCA, 1993)
From the cast that brought you one of the ’70s biggest selling albums (Best Sellers From the ’70s: Meatloaf’s “Bat out of Hell”, 9/19/11) comes one of the ’90s biggest sellers.
As with their first time “at bat,” Jim Steinman wrote the music, Todd Rundgren did the production and Meatloaf provided the vocal antics for Bat Out of Hell II, the sequel to their huge seller from 1977.
It was a long gestation period for this follow-up to happen, 16 years, in fact, but when the rigors of rock stardom in the 1980s gave way to the cash-in-on-the-classics mentality of the 1990s, Meatloaf finally gave birth to another bat.
Was it as good as the original? By no one’s standards is “Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back” anywhere near the poetry of “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.” But the single, “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” managed to hit #1 in both the US and the UK, driving the album to sell more than 6 milllion copies since its September 1993 release. In short, it is a Best-Seller From the ’90s.
I would do anything for love, I'll never lie to you and that's a fact
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way
And I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, I won't do that
Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
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