Team rock rate Meats Albums worst to best

ajf33 · 13 Sep 2016, 20:19

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

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

anotherday · 13 Sep 2016, 20:30

Garbage. Absolute garbage.

ThatWriterGuy · 13 Sep 2016, 20:33

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 ...

anotherday · 13 Sep 2016, 20:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThatWriterGuy

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!

letsgotoofar · 13 Sep 2016, 20:43

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.

ThatWriterGuy · 13 Sep 2016, 20:46

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').

letsgotoofar · 13 Sep 2016, 20:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThatWriterGuy

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.

Danny L · 13 Sep 2016, 20:48

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!)

loaferman61 · 13 Sep 2016, 21:32

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.

letsgotoofar · 13 Sep 2016, 21:51

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.

chairboys · 13 Sep 2016, 21:57

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.

AndrewG · 13 Sep 2016, 21:58

Shite.

ashkent7 · 13 Sep 2016, 22:06

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.

ThatWriterGuy · 13 Sep 2016, 22:12

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

PanicLord · 13 Sep 2016, 22:22

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!)

stretch37 · 13 Sep 2016, 22:25

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...

ThatWriterGuy · 13 Sep 2016, 22:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by stretch37

I don't have an interest in Bat 1 or Bat 2 or Dead Ringer or BBIS

Get out.

loaferman61 · 13 Sep 2016, 22:36

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

stretch37 · 13 Sep 2016, 22:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThatWriterGuy

Get out.

YOU LEFT OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE SENTENCE

On the recorded versions!!!

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

ThatWriterGuy · 13 Sep 2016, 22:41

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

ThatWriterGuy · 13 Sep 2016, 22:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by stretch37

YOU LEFT OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE SENT --

Yeah, it was intentional

MarkS · 13 Sep 2016, 22:49

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

AndrewG · 13 Sep 2016, 22:50

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....

stretch37 · 13 Sep 2016, 22:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThatWriterGuy

Yeah, it was intentional

bahahaha

2jaxx · 13 Sep 2016, 22:55

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!

13 Sep 2016, 20:19	#1
ajf33 Senior Loafer Join Date: 17.07.2010 Location: Harlow Posts: 157	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?

13 Sep 2016, 20:30	#2
anotherday Super Loafer Join Date: 12.10.2012 Posts: 801	Garbage. Absolute garbage.

13 Sep 2016, 20:33	#3
ThatWriterGuy Super Loafer Join Date: 19.10.2015 Location: UK Posts: 669	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 ...

13 Sep 2016, 20:43	#5
letsgotoofar Super Loafer Join Date: 12.09.2016 Location: In front of a computer, duh. Posts: 422	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.

13 Sep 2016, 20:46	#6
ThatWriterGuy Super Loafer Join Date: 19.10.2015 Location: UK Posts: 669	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').

13 Sep 2016, 20:48	#8
Danny L Super Loafer Join Date: 06.02.2003 Location: Rutland, England Posts: 453	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!)

13 Sep 2016, 21:32	#9
loaferman61 Mega Loafer Join Date: 28.03.2003 Location: In the dark Posts: 1,557	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.

13 Sep 2016, 21:51	#10
letsgotoofar Super Loafer Join Date: 12.09.2016 Location: In front of a computer, duh. Posts: 422	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.

13 Sep 2016, 21:57	#11
chairboys Mega Loafer Join Date: 17.09.2011 Posts: 1,811	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.

13 Sep 2016, 21:58	#12
AndrewG I hope your salmon sucks! Join Date: 18.01.2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 7,077	Shite.

13 Sep 2016, 22:06	#13
ashkent7 Super Loafer Join Date: 02.12.2010 Location: Durham,UK Posts: 338	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.

13 Sep 2016, 22:12	#14
ThatWriterGuy Super Loafer Join Date: 19.10.2015 Location: UK Posts: 669	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

13 Sep 2016, 22:22	#15
PanicLord Mega Loafer Join Date: 18.06.2003 Location: At The End Of The Line Posts: 2,651	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!)

13 Sep 2016, 22:25	#16
stretch37 Mega Loafer Join Date: 28.06.2008 Location: Posts: 2,119	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...

13 Sep 2016, 22:36	#18
loaferman61 Mega Loafer Join Date: 28.03.2003 Location: In the dark Posts: 1,557	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

13 Sep 2016, 22:41	#20
ThatWriterGuy Super Loafer Join Date: 19.10.2015 Location: UK Posts: 669	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

13 Sep 2016, 22:49	#22
MarkS Super Loafer Join Date: 20.03.2012 Posts: 312	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

13 Sep 2016, 22:50	#23
AndrewG I hope your salmon sucks! Join Date: 18.01.2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 7,077	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....

13 Sep 2016, 22:55	#25
2jaxx Senior Loafer Join Date: 19.07.2006 Location: Posts: 131	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!