I think that we're looking at this all wrong. For me there is not a bad Meat Loaf Album because on every Album there is a song (at least one) that I have an emotional connection with. That is the amazing thing about Meat's music. He gets into your core and tells you something that you didn't already know, he showed me places within me that I'd never been. When I was 8 BOH2 came out and I was mezmerised. I loved WTTN and the live album that came after, but I was skeptical about new material because I wasn't sure if I could form those emotional connections, but there are so many songs on CHSIB which resonate with me and even BOH3 (which I wish had been done with Steinman) there are brilliant performances 'In the Land of the Pigs' is awesome and is the most over the top Meat track ever. Meat has given me something very special and I hope one day I can thank him properly, as for critism and fans, we should be able to say what we think, Meat does this for us, but the wording should be not, 'that wasn't very good' or 'I loved that', it should be, 'Meat, that altered me becasue...' or 'I didn't feel an emotion connection to this track because...' I think that is critical and constructive.
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