Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted January 21, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 21, 2022 (edited) I only knew him from Coming to America and his cartoon Life With Louie, but he was still a very popular stand up in America  Edited January 21, 2022 by Hannibal Scorch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 This was brilliant.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 21, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 21, 2022 It was! I loved it at the time and I realised how naturally funny Meat Loaf was. And Leigh Francis was somewhat bearable back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 5 hours ago, jazzygeofferz said: I actually discovered what "that" was this morning as well, as in what he won't do for love. I take it you’ve never heard the song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted January 21, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 21, 2022 I did, but never really paid attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 The last verse is essentially a list of what he won’t do. Since the song came out, some hilarious people have been making the same joke over and over again. I guess I’m just bored of hearing the same joke for years and years and years when the joke doesn’t even work in the first place.  Hopefully now, in honour of him, the joke will get dropped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted January 21, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 21, 2022 I thought Meatloaf was really naff when I was young, but as I got older and more naff I came to enjoy him (and other Jim Steinman nonsense) a lot. Paradise by the Dashboard Light is a hell of a song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Coconut Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 15 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said: Hopefully now, in honour of him, the joke will get dropped. And in honour of you, may it not get hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted January 21, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 21, 2022 18 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said: The last verse is essentially a list of what he won’t do. Since the song came out, some hilarious people have been making the same joke over and over again. I guess I’m just bored of hearing the same joke for years and years and years when the joke doesn’t even work in the first place.  Hopefully now, in honour of him, the joke will get dropped. A lot of people have been making that joke, I saw plenty of comments explaining, and learned it from there I didn't mean my initial comment as facetious, I did actually find out what "that" was, all 9 thats. I'd imagine that joke will either get dropped and broken so it can't be used again, or Paul Ross will be dining out on it in "I love 2022" for years to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Paid Members Thunderplex Posted January 21, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 21, 2022 Had to teach a couple of young’uns about the great man in work today.  First time our media room has been used to anything useful.  Full version of Bat out of Hell converted the little tinkers.  Such a great part of my childhood and all through my life.  Even his poorer stuff was a dramatic classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted January 21, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Keith Houchen said: I guess I’m just bored of hearing the same joke for years and years and years Boy are you on the wrong forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted January 21, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 21, 2022 8 hours ago, bAzTNM#1 said: Jeezo, not Meat Loaf. RIP Big Man. "Bat Out of Hell" will be on rotation tonight. Also has a wrestling connection too, he was playing the drums because his career was down on his luck on one of the 80s WWF "Wrestling Albums". In the music video, he was supposed to run away, when the grapplers chased him, but didn't and wanted a big smash up with the lads. Greg Valentine said that somewhere. Music video was changed. He also had Rick Derringer play guitar on some of his songs, most notably the massively underrated If You Really Want To, who was also responsible for the guitar solo on Real American, There's also a link with Jim Steinman, as he wrote the theme tune to Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling. I started listening to Meat Loaf when I was around 12. My Mum had Hits Out Of Hell in her cassette collection, but I'd never listened to it, probably because of the odd name and weird horse skeleton motorbike thingy on the cover (which I'm surprised didn't get me curious). Then a friend showed me The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and when I got home I went straight to the rack and got the album out. Bat Out Of Hell is such a wonderfully overblown song. It's unnecessarily long, has an unnecessary amount of overdubs, is unnecessarily complicated in its arrangement, has a completely bonkers song structure, and it's all the more brilliant for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted January 22, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 22, 2022 Never thought I'd see this. From the WrestlingClassics.com board, Randy Orton RKO's Meat Loaf... Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted January 22, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 22, 2022 22 hours ago, Keith Houchen said: The last verse is essentially a list of what he won’t do. Since the song came out, some hilarious people have been making the same joke over and over again. I guess I’m just bored of hearing the same joke for years and years and years when the joke doesn’t even work in the first place.  Hopefully now, in honour of him, the joke will get dropped. I remember a painfully awkward Meat Loaf appearance on the Big Breakfast when throughout the show Mark Little would go "You claim you'd do anything for love but you won't do that, but by that did you mean...this?" and they'd cut to a crew member getting in a bath of beans and shit like that. After the first one Meat was pretty clear about what the song meant*, but they just kept repeating the joke over and over again to an increasingly irate guest. *FWIW, while Meat was always pretty adamant that the song was quite unambiguously about cheating, Jim Steinman (who wrote it) was always aware there was room for interpretation/debate (despite the fact he wrote it about cheating). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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