Team rock rate Meats Albums worst to best
 

Has anyone seen this? http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-09-...-worst-to-best

Do they Hate meat, or just miss the point altogether?

Garbage. Absolute garbage.

This reads more like someone's blog than a music 'article'. 'It's All Coming Back To Me Know', huh? Must've been a bonus track ...

I personally like "Sand in the Storm" myself. What a cracking track!

I find it hard to disagree with some of their rankings, but the attitude and the snarky tone are absolutely unnecessary. I don't understand why reviewers today feel like they have to be above the music they review somehow.

It has ceased to be about reviewing music, sadly, and is all about 'I' -- see also: the next level of the American Dream ('mental real estate').

You're alright, mister.

Can't say how I agree, good lord. Here's' my go:

1: Bat2
2: BTWA
3: Bat
4: CHSIB
5: Dead Ringer
6: Bat3
7: Welcome to the Neighbourhood
8: Bad Attitude
9: Hang Cool
10: Handbasket
11: MATLAF
12: Blind Before I Stop
13: Stoney (barely even heard it!)

How can I take an article seriously from an author named " Sleazegrinder"? I mean that is OK if you are just posting on a message board, but I wouldn't post an article on a site using my message board name. Loaferman61 just doesn't have that gravitas an article should have.

Re: the author's name... a lot of websites are attempting deliberately to cultivate an informal feel, and I think that's owed to the success of sites like Cracked and The Onion's A.V. Club. It's a new trend that will hopefully pass.

Sleazegrinder has been a reviewer in Classic Rock magazine for many a year so I guess his opinion/ view is as valid as the next guy. This months edition did give BTWA a "very good" score but it was, unsurprisingly, rated by someone else.
Classic Rock is always a good read and there is an excellent four page spread on Meat in this copy but, like everywhere else, the readers ( judging by their comments) don't always agree with the"expert" contributors.

Shite.

Once again i can't get past the fact they mis-spell a title that is in the embedded video next to their writing (I'm talking about Sand in the Storm).

And apparently Neighborhood had no hits of note. A UK number 2 (only just beaten by Babylon Zoo who may have won that battle but disappeared so quickly compared to Meat who has continued on for over 2 decades since) with I'd Lie for You, and I seem to remember (but could be wrong) somewhere around number 8 with Not a Dry Eye. I wouldn't say that was "no hits of note" for the mid-90s.

And will it really pass? Everyone thinks if they post a cobbled together, badly informed couple of paragraphs on any website that makes them a reviewer. If it saves someone having to pay an actual reviewer to do it, then i have a bad feeling there is a lot more of drivel reporting to come. :(

Yeah ... Babylon Zoo who were on TV CONSTANTLY thanks to that damn LEVI ADVERT. I'm sure that had nothing to do with sending the song to no.1 though:bleh:

Ah now this is a good game, I can do this:

1: Bat
2: Dead Ringer
3: Bat 2
4: Hang Cool
5: Bat 3
6: WTTN

7: BTWA (here for the moment until I can decide where it fits after a few more listens!)

8: MATLAF
9: Handbasket
10: Bad Attitude
11: CHSIB
12: Blind Before I Stop
13: Stoney (only for lack of listens!)

Right now:


1. Braver Than We Are
2. Hell In a Handbasket
3. Couldn't Have Said It Better
4. Bat Out Of Hell 3
5. Hang Cool Teddy Bear
6. Live with the MSO
7. Welcome To The Neighbourhood

I don't have an interest in Bat 1 or Bat 2 or Dead Ringer or BBIS as recorded on the albums....I would have to rank Meat's live interpretations of the amazing songs from those albums since then...

Get out.


:-P

1: Bat
2: Bat 2
3: BTWA
4: CHSIB
5: WTTN
6 Dead Ringer
7. Bad Attitude
8. Bat 3
9. HCTB
10: HIAH
11: MATLAF
12: Blind Before I Stop
13: Stoney

YOU LEFT OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE SENTENCE :-P

On the recorded versions!!! :twisted:

I love the songs, I love hearing them live. The albums sound old as ~~~~ to me.

:twisted:

1. Bat II
2. Bat
3. Dead Ringer
4. Braver Than We Are
5. Bad Attitude
6. Welcome To The Neighborhood
7. Bat III
8. CHSIB
9. BBIS
10. MATLAF
11. HCTB
12. HIAH

Yeah, it was intentional

:-P

My opinions...10-12 do nothing for me at all, so consider 9 my least favorite of the albums that I actually listen to

1. Bat
2. HCTB
3. Bat II
4. CHSIB
5. HIAH
6. WTTN
7. Bat III
8. Braver
9. Dead Ringer
10. MATLAF
11. BBIS
12. Bad Attitude

1. Bat out of Hell 2
2. Bat out of Hell
3. Braver Than We Are
4. Couldn't Have Said it Better
5. Bat out of Hell 3
6. Dead Ringer
7. Welcome To The Neighbourhood
8. Bad Attitude
9. Blind Before I stop
10. Midnight At The Lost And Found
11. Hell In a Handbasket
12. Hang Cool Teddy Bear

Top songs (not just Meat Loaf but out of absolutely Everything...)
1. Bat out of Hell
2. I'd do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
3. Going All The Way Is Just The Start
4. Paradise By The Dashboard Light
5. For Crying Out Loud
6. More Than You Deserve
7. Thunder Road
8. Born To Run
9. Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
10. Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
etc....

bahahaha

What's very positive to read, on the other hand, is his appreciation for HCTB. Typically, for reviewers of that type, HCTB would rank somewhere on the lower places. But read his review. It's really enthusiastic!