BA is surely comparable.

If you could somehow magically take the 80's out of Bad Attitude then you'd have a stonking album, instead of a very good one. :shrug:

Well yes, like I said Bad Attitude (the song) and Piece of the Action are really great, especially on the Bad Attitude Live video.

The thing about Meat is that he takes good songs and makes them great in a live performance, but the 80s album recordings just don't really do it for me.

At school back in the late 80s / early 90s everyone knew Bat Out Of Hell, and then Bat 2 when it came out - I only discovered 80s Meat much later, after the event - I guess because the 80s stuff (in my opinion) just isn't as good...

Classic Meat is timeless both in terms of the production and the quality of the song writing - I put Hang Cool at no. 5, but who knows in 5 or 10 years time it may suffer the same fate as BA ? Awesome sounding production for its day but without the strength of song writing to sustain its longevity. Hang Cool may date in the same way that BA has dated ... ?

1. Bat out of Hell
2. Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell
3.Couldn't Have Said It Better
4. Dead Ringer
5 Welcome to the Neighborhood
6. Bad Attitude
7. Bat out of Hell III
8. Hang Cool Teddy Bear
9. Midnight at the Lost and Found
10. Blind Before I Stop
11. Stoney and Meatloaf

1. Bat 1
2. Bat 2
3. Bad Attitude
4. WTTN
5. Bat 3
6. Dead Ringer
7. CHSIB
8. HCTB
9. BBIS
10. MATLAF
11. Stoney & Meat Loaf

1 Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell
2 Bat out of Hell
3 Hang Cool Teddy Bear
4 Welcome to the Neighborhood
5 Bat out of Hell III
6 Couldn't Have Said It Better
7 Dead Ringer
8 Bad Attitude
9 Blind Before I Stop
10 Midnight at the Lost and Found

1. Bat out of Hell
2. Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell
3. Hang Cool Teddy Bear
4. Welcome to the Neighbourhood
5. Dead Ringer
6. Couldn't have said it better
7. Bat out of Hell III: The Monster is loose
8. Blind before I stop
9. Bad Attitude
10. Midnight at the Lost and Found