What was the very first song that you heard by Meat Loaf?

Elijah's way · 02 Aug 2016, 00:15

What was the very first song you heard by Meat Loaf? And what song got you hooked?

For me the first song was Took The Words when I was a small child and I absolutely loved it but I never knew who it was.

Many years later I heard Anything For Love for the first time on MTV and that's the song that got me hooked and MTV is the reason I knew who sang it because they had the artist name at the beginning and the end of course.

I found out many years later that he sang Took The Words because the only two albums I had for the longest was BAT 2 and WTTN because nobody would ever buy me his entire collection when I was a kid so I had to wait till I was old enough to work so I could buy it all myself.

Needless to say when I finally got all his albums I was like a kid in a candy store.

GenoJLaw · 02 Aug 2016, 00:42

Well my friend got me into Meat when I was 14/15 when he played me Bat2. So since I heard it in order I'd have to say I'll Do Anything For Love was the first song I herd and Life is a Lemon is my one of my favorite on the Album so I would say that's the one that got me hooked.

melon · 02 Aug 2016, 00:46

Took the words

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Guy · 02 Aug 2016, 00:56

Bad attitude
Hooked on FCOL

jcmoorehead · 02 Aug 2016, 01:19

It would probably have been Anything For Love. I remember the video from when I lived in Turkey and the album would always be on in my dads car and my mam would play it a lot.

Bat Out Of Hell 2 is probably the first album I ever heard fully, it along with We Can't Dance by Genesis and Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds helped form my musical tastes. Very weird in school during the 90s having all these kids listening to whatever pop groups were out and there is me listening to Meat Loaf and Genesis :P

Wario · 02 Aug 2016, 01:53

Took.

never was the same

madagascar · 02 Aug 2016, 02:10

Anything For Love in 1993.

GenoJLaw · 02 Aug 2016, 02:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcmoorehead

Very weird in school during the 90s having all these kids listening to whatever pop groups were out and there is me listening to Meat Loaf :P

Same here. Back in the 90's my main Music taste was Country then I got in to listening to Meat and every kid in school kept trying to tell me what I should be listening too ex: NIN, Green Day, Korn and I'm like no I like my Music to say the least I wasn't to popular in school.

NightAngel · 02 Aug 2016, 03:14

Took The Words when it was first released in Australia. I was 11yo.

proctorloaf · 02 Aug 2016, 03:39

I Would Do Anything For Love (but I won't do that). I was 8 and I'd run home from Church to watch the video as it was the last song on the Twix Chart for weeks and weeks.

AndrewG · 02 Aug 2016, 03:42

It would have been Paradise, either in 1989 or 1990. It had become a hit again in The Netherlands shortly before that and was played a lot at school parties when I was 10/11 at friends' homes with the occasional semi pro DJ. I discovered my dad had the Bat out of Hell record so I got hooked, it was very different even 13 years after release. Paradise sounded like the ultimate song to me, as if 100 popular artists had come together to create a definitive song. I actually did own the Hits out of Hell VHS soon as well with Meat's message in the closing credits saying he'd be back in 1992 with Jim Steinman for Bat out of Hell (part 2). Of course that became 1993 (luckily MTV was huge in absence of the internet). AFL video was watched every day and Bat 2 bought and hardly a day has gone by I don't think of Meat's music. It accelerated my interest in music even more. AFL is probably the only song I learned to play by heart on piano and have never forgotten how to play it after 20 odd years (unlike countless of other songs with which I always need to tinker a bit to remember the chords etc).

Vickip · 02 Aug 2016, 03:51

For me it was Paradise By The Dashboard Light on VH1 Storytellers

When I found the CD at Best Buy, I really didn't know who Meat was. I had heard of him, but never listened to his music before and was just curious

I couldn't stop listening to the CD, and as soon I saw Meat (performing Paradise with Patti), I was hooked on him and him right away.

Storytellers will always be my favorite Meat Loaf concert DVD, and to this day, Paradise is still my favorite Meat Loaf song (even though Giving Tree is a very close second).

CarylB · 02 Aug 2016, 05:19

1978, live on The Old Grey Whistle Test, singing Paradise with Karla .. mesmerising, astounding, hooked me on a journey that has lasted 38 years and counting

BBC switchboard was jammed that night and they took the remarkable step of inviting him back straight away, when he sang Bat.

Julie in the rv mirror · 02 Aug 2016, 10:38

I don't really remember the first song, but I think it was Two Out of Three- I'm pretty sure they played it on the radio back in the early 80's. I do know that BOOH was the first album I heard (which got me hooked); my older brother went away to the Air Force, and I had the run of his record collection.

I was mad when he came home and took his records back, and I had to buy my own copy.

(I still have it.)

mtaylor315 · 02 Aug 2016, 11:41

The first time I heard a Meat Loaf song was much later than most of these posts. There was a free CD given away with a British newspaper in 2006. The radio edit of Bat out of Hell was on that CD and I became obsessed. I picked up Bat III a month or two later & used all the money that came my way to pick up every other album I could find (I was 13/14 at the time).

glockenspiel · 02 Aug 2016, 11:53

Not sure, but would have been something from 'Hits Out Of Hell', put on by a friend whilst we played cards ,, would later purchase 'Bat Out Of Hell' on vinyl (in vinyl's 'dying days', long before it's recent revival) - and was wowed by the artwork & full-size photography, before anything else .....

ashkent7 · 02 Aug 2016, 12:59

My dad was always a big Meat fan and although I don't remember it, the first song that I became attached to was Modern Girl...apparently aged 4/5 I used to sit in the car singing "gimme the future" over and over.

I mainly listened because of my dad until Bat2, and I remember him bringing the LP in my room and putting it on - telling me how when he first played it he thought it was running at the wrong speed because of the motorbike guitar intro - and then he proceeded to play the bridge of Lemon, pointing out the shove it up your ass line in particular - which as an 11 year old was right up my street.

So the first ever that I connected with in anyway. The others all just kind of fell in around because I remember random things about a load of albums and songs. Like when Midnight had been transferred from LP to tape for the car and it was just too long for a side of the tape so Fallen Angel ended prematurely. The same thing happened with Blind Before I Stop - A Man and A Woman ended at the line "They meet again in old New York" and I never actually heard the end of that song until about ten years later and I still always expect it to end at that line even now.

And I remember really not understanding much of what was going on in the songs of Bat until I was well in my teens (The last thing I see is my heart still beating, breaking out of my body and flying away like a bat out of hell - the horrific carnage that that describes was lost on me probably longer than what was going on during the play by play of paradise).

BostonAngel · 02 Aug 2016, 15:29

Not sure exactly which song was the first; Bat Out of Hell, Paradise, 2 Out Of 3 or For Cryi ng Out Loud. It was one of those songs from Bat 1 when it first came out in 1977. I fell in love with his music

loaferman61 · 02 Aug 2016, 16:03

I heard the "Bat" album before it broke big in the US. Some friends had gotten a copy on a trip to visit family in the Northeast where "2 Out of 3" was getting some airplay. So I'm pretty sure it was "2 Out of 3' and I was hooked right then and there. I immediately went looking for the 8 track which was scarce around here, but found one and played it to death. I think I still have that old 8 track someplace.

chairboys · 02 Aug 2016, 17:27

First song - Dead Ringer For Love on Tops of the Pops. They seemed to play the slow climber every blooming week.
Hooked forever when Hits out of Hell was released.

Sue K · 02 Aug 2016, 18:31

a bit of Anything when "some guy" was being interviewed on the Howard Stern radio show in 1993... The guy being interviewed caught my attention by mentioning he'd been in a stage production of Hair (my generation ..

... lol ...) ... I found him funny and interesting... a good interview and the clip of the tune I found interesting as well... The guy turned out to be Meat Loaf... and then I saw the video on MTV... and pretty much... hooked for life ...

rockfenris2005 · 02 Aug 2016, 20:42

The first song was "Bat out of Hell" itself. But it was "Anything for love" that really, really grabbed me.

samurai7 · 02 Aug 2016, 20:44

The first tracks I clearly remember hearing were two out of three and I'm gonna love her for both of us. My older sister had bought the hits out of hell record. It wasn't too long after that I would sneak into her room to play it when she was out hehe

rockfenris2005 · 02 Aug 2016, 20:49

There was always something POWERFUL for me whenever I'd find out about... I mean, the process of discovery. At first you just think it's Bat & Bat 2. Then I saw "Hits out of Hell" and couldn't recognize half of these songs. What was "Read 'em and weep"? And where did that come from? Then you come across the cover art for "Dead ringer" and wow. I remember sitting on the floor and listening to that album on headphones. Right as "Welcome" came out, I'd basically figured out what all of the albums were, then I waited eight years for a new one. Hearing CHSIB the opening track for the first time gave me chills. It gives me chills now hearing it because it takes me back to hearing it that first time, because it had been ages for me. "This is the moment we've been waiting for" had some real resonance haha. When I turned eighteen, the restaurant I was eating at JUST SO happened to be playing CHSIB the album, and everyone around me swears they had NOTHING to do with it.

LucyK! · 02 Aug 2016, 20:53

Technically mine was a tiny snippet of For Crying Out Loud, probably around 1990.

I was about 4, I knew how to work our cassette player and my Mum had a home-made cassette that she'd written on in blue marker pen. One side was the soundtrack to Dirty Dancing (which I was trying to play!) and I remember the other side was a long word which I couldn't read yet...I put that side of the cassette in the player and what I now know to be the huge orchestral part of FCOL came blasting out of the speakers....and it terrified me! I think the volume must have been turned up, I jumped out of my skin, turned it off and never played that side of the cassette again.

Then, one day in 1993, this guy came on the TV...!

02 Aug 2016, 00:15	#1
Elijah's way Soul Auctioneer Join Date: 26.06.2005 Location: Muscle Shoals, AL Posts: 1,529	What was the very first song that you heard by Meat Loaf? What was the very first song you heard by Meat Loaf? And what song got you hooked? For me the first song was Took The Words when I was a small child and I absolutely loved it but I never knew who it was. Many years later I heard Anything For Love for the first time on MTV and that's the song that got me hooked and MTV is the reason I knew who sang it because they had the artist name at the beginning and the end of course. I found out many years later that he sang Took The Words because the only two albums I had for the longest was BAT 2 and WTTN because nobody would ever buy me his entire collection when I was a kid so I had to wait till I was old enough to work so I could buy it all myself. Needless to say when I finally got all his albums I was like a kid in a candy store.

02 Aug 2016, 00:42	#2
GenoJLaw Senior Loafer Join Date: 04.05.2014 Location: Buffalo,NY Posts: 147	Well my friend got me into Meat when I was 14/15 when he played me Bat2. So since I heard it in order I'd have to say I'll Do Anything For Love was the first song I herd and Life is a Lemon is my one of my favorite on the Album so I would say that's the one that got me hooked.

02 Aug 2016, 00:46	#3
melon Long Distance Loafer Join Date: 17.07.2007 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 4,586	Took the words Sent from my SM-G925I using Forum Runner

02 Aug 2016, 00:56	#4
Guy Super Loafer Join Date: 14.04.2002 Location: A small village in west sussex Posts: 865	Bad attitude Hooked on FCOL

02 Aug 2016, 01:19	#5
jcmoorehead Super Loafer Join Date: 09.04.2003 Location: Edinburgh, formerly Teesside Posts: 671	It would probably have been Anything For Love. I remember the video from when I lived in Turkey and the album would always be on in my dads car and my mam would play it a lot. Bat Out Of Hell 2 is probably the first album I ever heard fully, it along with We Can't Dance by Genesis and Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds helped form my musical tastes. Very weird in school during the 90s having all these kids listening to whatever pop groups were out and there is me listening to Meat Loaf and Genesis :P

02 Aug 2016, 01:53	#6
Wario Monstro helps me spell things... Join Date: 05.01.2007 Location: Masculine, Pennsylvania Posts: 9,105	Took. never was the same

02 Aug 2016, 02:10	#7
madagascar Super Loafer Join Date: 13.12.2005 Location: Germany Posts: 376	Anything For Love in 1993.

02 Aug 2016, 03:14	#9
NightAngel Loafer Join Date: 13.04.2014 Location: Sydney Posts: 94	Took The Words when it was first released in Australia. I was 11yo.

02 Aug 2016, 03:39	#10
proctorloaf Super Loafer Join Date: 28.02.2010 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 353	I Would Do Anything For Love (but I won't do that). I was 8 and I'd run home from Church to watch the video as it was the last song on the Twix Chart for weeks and weeks.

02 Aug 2016, 03:42	#11
AndrewG I hope your salmon sucks! Join Date: 18.01.2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 7,077	It would have been Paradise, either in 1989 or 1990. It had become a hit again in The Netherlands shortly before that and was played a lot at school parties when I was 10/11 at friends' homes with the occasional semi pro DJ. I discovered my dad had the Bat out of Hell record so I got hooked, it was very different even 13 years after release. Paradise sounded like the ultimate song to me, as if 100 popular artists had come together to create a definitive song. I actually did own the Hits out of Hell VHS soon as well with Meat's message in the closing credits saying he'd be back in 1992 with Jim Steinman for Bat out of Hell (part 2). Of course that became 1993 (luckily MTV was huge in absence of the internet). AFL video was watched every day and Bat 2 bought and hardly a day has gone by I don't think of Meat's music. It accelerated my interest in music even more. AFL is probably the only song I learned to play by heart on piano and have never forgotten how to play it after 20 odd years (unlike countless of other songs with which I always need to tinker a bit to remember the chords etc).

02 Aug 2016, 03:51	#12
Vickip Mega Loafer Join Date: 07.02.2003 Location: Posts: 8,101	For me it was Paradise By The Dashboard Light on VH1 Storytellers When I found the CD at Best Buy, I really didn't know who Meat was. I had heard of him, but never listened to his music before and was just curious I couldn't stop listening to the CD, and as soon I saw Meat (performing Paradise with Patti), I was hooked on him and him right away. Storytellers will always be my favorite Meat Loaf concert DVD, and to this day, Paradise is still my favorite Meat Loaf song (even though Giving Tree is a very close second).

02 Aug 2016, 05:19	#13
CarylB Mega Loafer Join Date: 16.04.2003 Location: Sheffield UK Posts: 5,910	1978, live on The Old Grey Whistle Test, singing Paradise with Karla .. mesmerising, astounding, hooked me on a journey that has lasted 38 years and counting BBC switchboard was jammed that night and they took the remarkable step of inviting him back straight away, when he sang Bat.

02 Aug 2016, 10:38	#14
Julie in the rv mirror Spirit in the Night Join Date: 23.07.2008 Location: On the edge of town (in the Darkness...) Posts: 1,559	I don't really remember the first song, but I think it was Two Out of Three- I'm pretty sure they played it on the radio back in the early 80's. I do know that BOOH was the first album I heard (which got me hooked); my older brother went away to the Air Force, and I had the run of his record collection. I was mad when he came home and took his records back, and I had to buy my own copy. (I still have it.)

02 Aug 2016, 11:41	#15
mtaylor315 Super Loafer Join Date: 12.02.2010 Location: Dundee, Scotland Posts: 261	The first time I heard a Meat Loaf song was much later than most of these posts. There was a free CD given away with a British newspaper in 2006. The radio edit of Bat out of Hell was on that CD and I became obsessed. I picked up Bat III a month or two later & used all the money that came my way to pick up every other album I could find (I was 13/14 at the time).

02 Aug 2016, 11:53	#16
glockenspiel Senior Loafer Join Date: 28.08.2009 Posts: 171	Not sure, but would have been something from 'Hits Out Of Hell', put on by a friend whilst we played cards ,, would later purchase 'Bat Out Of Hell' on vinyl (in vinyl's 'dying days', long before it's recent revival) - and was wowed by the artwork & full-size photography, before anything else .....

02 Aug 2016, 12:59	#17
ashkent7 Super Loafer Join Date: 02.12.2010 Location: Durham,UK Posts: 338	My dad was always a big Meat fan and although I don't remember it, the first song that I became attached to was Modern Girl...apparently aged 4/5 I used to sit in the car singing "gimme the future" over and over. I mainly listened because of my dad until Bat2, and I remember him bringing the LP in my room and putting it on - telling me how when he first played it he thought it was running at the wrong speed because of the motorbike guitar intro - and then he proceeded to play the bridge of Lemon, pointing out the shove it up your ass line in particular - which as an 11 year old was right up my street. So the first ever that I connected with in anyway. The others all just kind of fell in around because I remember random things about a load of albums and songs. Like when Midnight had been transferred from LP to tape for the car and it was just too long for a side of the tape so Fallen Angel ended prematurely. The same thing happened with Blind Before I Stop - A Man and A Woman ended at the line "They meet again in old New York" and I never actually heard the end of that song until about ten years later and I still always expect it to end at that line even now. And I remember really not understanding much of what was going on in the songs of Bat until I was well in my teens (The last thing I see is my heart still beating, breaking out of my body and flying away like a bat out of hell - the horrific carnage that that describes was lost on me probably longer than what was going on during the play by play of paradise).

02 Aug 2016, 15:29	#18
BostonAngel Super Loafer Join Date: 03.02.2009 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 822	Not sure exactly which song was the first; Bat Out of Hell, Paradise, 2 Out Of 3 or For Cryi ng Out Loud. It was one of those songs from Bat 1 when it first came out in 1977. I fell in love with his music

02 Aug 2016, 16:03	#19
loaferman61 Mega Loafer Join Date: 28.03.2003 Location: In the dark Posts: 1,557	I heard the "Bat" album before it broke big in the US. Some friends had gotten a copy on a trip to visit family in the Northeast where "2 Out of 3" was getting some airplay. So I'm pretty sure it was "2 Out of 3' and I was hooked right then and there. I immediately went looking for the 8 track which was scarce around here, but found one and played it to death. I think I still have that old 8 track someplace.

02 Aug 2016, 17:27	#20
chairboys Mega Loafer Join Date: 17.09.2011 Posts: 1,811	First song - Dead Ringer For Love on Tops of the Pops. They seemed to play the slow climber every blooming week. Hooked forever when Hits out of Hell was released.

02 Aug 2016, 18:31	#21
Sue K Mega Loafer Join Date: 20.04.2003 Posts: 13,041	a bit of Anything when "some guy" was being interviewed on the Howard Stern radio show in 1993... The guy being interviewed caught my attention by mentioning he'd been in a stage production of Hair (my generation .. ... lol ...) ... I found him funny and interesting... a good interview and the clip of the tune I found interesting as well... The guy turned out to be Meat Loaf... and then I saw the video on MTV... and pretty much... hooked for life ...

02 Aug 2016, 20:42	#22
rockfenris2005 Mega Loafer Join Date: 16.02.2003 Location: Posts: 2,217	The first song was "Bat out of Hell" itself. But it was "Anything for love" that really, really grabbed me.

02 Aug 2016, 20:44	#23
samurai7 Rock Star Join Date: 09.05.2005 Location: The future... Posts: 2,928	The first tracks I clearly remember hearing were two out of three and I'm gonna love her for both of us. My older sister had bought the hits out of hell record. It wasn't too long after that I would sneak into her room to play it when she was out hehe

02 Aug 2016, 20:49	#24
rockfenris2005 Mega Loafer Join Date: 16.02.2003 Location: Posts: 2,217	There was always something POWERFUL for me whenever I'd find out about... I mean, the process of discovery. At first you just think it's Bat & Bat 2. Then I saw "Hits out of Hell" and couldn't recognize half of these songs. What was "Read 'em and weep"? And where did that come from? Then you come across the cover art for "Dead ringer" and wow. I remember sitting on the floor and listening to that album on headphones. Right as "Welcome" came out, I'd basically figured out what all of the albums were, then I waited eight years for a new one. Hearing CHSIB the opening track for the first time gave me chills. It gives me chills now hearing it because it takes me back to hearing it that first time, because it had been ages for me. "This is the moment we've been waiting for" had some real resonance haha. When I turned eighteen, the restaurant I was eating at JUST SO happened to be playing CHSIB the album, and everyone around me swears they had NOTHING to do with it.

02 Aug 2016, 20:53	#25
LucyK! The Monster Is Luce Join Date: 14.04.2002 Location: Posts: 7,547	Technically mine was a tiny snippet of For Crying Out Loud, probably around 1990. I was about 4, I knew how to work our cassette player and my Mum had a home-made cassette that she'd written on in blue marker pen. One side was the soundtrack to Dirty Dancing (which I was trying to play!) and I remember the other side was a long word which I couldn't read yet...I put that side of the cassette in the player and what I now know to be the huge orchestral part of FCOL came blasting out of the speakers....and it terrified me! I think the volume must have been turned up, I jumped out of my skin, turned it off and never played that side of the cassette again. Then, one day in 1993, this guy came on the TV...!