Yes, most bosses are not that brilliant, are they? A bit more Devilish fun for Friday as Bud arrives. Did I plan for all these devil themed comics for the Halloween week? Hell no.
I’m self-employed and have an idiot for a boss… 🙂
1977 was a great year for music and Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out Of Hell” was one of the truly remarkable albums of the time. Oddly, I never owned the album but remember thinking “frakkin’ cool stuff…” when I heard it. I knew Meat Loaf from “Rocky Horror Picture Show” (which was gaining an audience through Midnight showings in 1977 where people would dress up as characters in the film… never did that, I was too drunk to care…)
I told you 1977 was cool…
Stand by, I’m attending the Dallas Webcomic Expo on November 14th near Dallas, Texas and next week is all about preparing for it and getting stuff out to Subscribers in record fashion. Stay tooned!
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Discussion (27) ¬
Now I bought the album when it came out, hadnt really heard it, just liked the sleeve. I wasnt too unhappy with the results 🙂
I’ve always wanted to go to a showing of RHPS, not to dress up, but to throw spaghetti at the screen. I don’t remember why they do it, but I know they do.
That is quite a problem for the thumb-less. You’re missing a lot of great music from 77 at the other end of the cock-rock spectrum too. It was pretty much the greatest year of punk rock music. The Ramones, The Clash, The Pistols…it was a great year for music all around…and then the 80’s came.
Its odd – I was a biker at that time and disliked punk with a vengeance, I thought it just a mindless cacophony of noise. How wrong I was eh – I rediscovered punk in the 90’s after hearing ‘Anarchy in the UK’ on the radio and thinking ‘gods that wasnt half bad’ – I fairly recently bought Never Mind the Bollocks again. So yes Wit, I agree that there was a lot of other good stuff about (if only I’d given it a chance)
*throws toast at byron*
i hear that there’s at least one theater that allows all the toast/rice/water throwing somewhere in the U.S. still… in my opinion, that’s the ONLY way to see that film. i saw a “production” of it awhile back that didn’t have any of that and it was fun, but it just fell short of the mark.
“paradise by the dashboard light” is still classic imho. great song. didn’t like it the first few times i heard it and then one day i woke up with that damned “let me sleep on it” refrain stuck in my head and the only mental q-tip (err, “bi-cotton rod”) that would scrape that bastard outta my head was listening to it a few times in a row. infectious. 🙂
some of meat loaf’s other film forays outside of the RHPS are pretty effing great. one of my favourites is this really awful b-movie he did (i like b-movies more than a-movies) called “Roadie” that just had me laughing my ass off. some of it is so horrible that you just can’t help but laugh stupidly. seeing it while above the chemist doesn’t hurt either. 🙂 …
he was also great in “Fight Club”, altho i’m sure that no one realized that it was meat loaf …
’77 woz a great year for punk, that’s for damned sure. i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again… Nevermind the Bollocks was one of the greatest records ever made, and i still can’t get enough of that album.
–dee!
*laughs at the thought of a 1977 comic based on the Buzzcocks song “Orgasm Addict”*
I loved Meat Loaf’s appearance as Jack Black’s fundie dad in Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. Supposedly, that performance was modeled after a vicious parody of Meat’s own father – the man who first dubbed Mr. Addy “Meat Loaf” for his husky build. (Dave Grohl’s portrayal of Satan and Ronnie James Dio’s appearance as himself made that film a classic, too!)
I went to a number of RHPS midnight showings (in Berkeley, no less, which is about as crazy as it gets) and don’t recall anyone tossing spaghetti. Even at the halloween showing. Toast, yes. Toilet paper. Condoms. Dancing in the aisles, and actors playing the parts. FWIW, Jasper Fforde’s “The Eyre Affair” has a scene clearly modelled after the RHPS midnight showings – only it’s one of shakespeare’s tragedies. Hilarious if you’ve been to an RHPS midnight showing; funny if not.
Final comment – if you liked Bat Out Of Hell, chase down a copy of Bat Out Of Hell 2. A bit darker, but still good stuff.
I feel sorry for those thumbless creatures!
I love this goat … wait, that sounds incredibly wrong … oh well, to Hell with it 😀
Is that blue office carpet shag?? Where is the rake?
it’s so rough, being a goat.
Ohh noes, Frank the LJ mascot has a sekrit part-time job! 😀
The commenter who recommended Bat II gets my second. And the combination of Steinman and the Loaf was always a winner. Oh, and Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back is possibly my all-time favourite Meat Loaf track…
Hahaha! Better hope he can hit those intercom buttons. 🙂
Some of the Lyrics on “BOOH” are a tad awful, but musically it stands out as one of the great rock collaborations of all time. I’m not sure there’s a clunker on the entire album, which is saying something. The cover art was aces too.
“What’s cover art Dad?”
I’ve never really enjoyed any of the other Meatloaf albums quite so much. BOOH2 was okayish, but didn’t have any track that lodged in Mr Head quite the way “Bat Out of Hell”, “Two Out of Three” or “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” did upon one listen. The last time that happened for me was “Dead Ringer”, which has never made it AFAIK to CD.
As for punk rock, I never really saw the attraction for music played by the barely capable (I usually hate samplin’ rappers’ efforts too for the same reason). I can’t deny the energy of the Pistols doing “Pretty Vacant” on video, but to listen to an album of their stuff was more effort than I could muster. Punk was useful as a transition phenomenon, allowing competent musicians like The Police to come to prominence on the back of a musical movement they really didn’t espouse, but I enjoy very few of the seminal milestone songs from that genre in those days.
The bland pap of 90% of the Synth Pop (punk ethos meets instruments that can play themselves) that came after and dominated the early 80s UK music scene was the sign that one of us had to go, so I did. There were some good acts to be sure: The Eurythmics (mostly), Dire Straits, a resurgent Bowie (didn’t last though), and a few more. The problem was that very few of them were getting airplay, which was going to the likes of Duran Duran, Haircut 100 and a slew of other similar acts.
What a difference on the New York scene at that time. I felt like I had come home when I hit the power switch on the old ghetto blaster.
The conversation makes it sound like the Romans and the Visigoths are installing an air conditioning unit. LOL!
LOVED Bat out of Hell. Still listen to it today, though it can make me a bit melancholy sometimes. Sniff. I remember back when I was… skinny.