Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell 2

Is being over the top a crime?  I mean, turning things up to 11 is pretty much the foundation stone that rock music is built on. 

Meat Loaf was always about being overblown and over the top.  It’s in his DNA.  

This album is the sequel to one of the biggest selling albums of all time.  Like most sequels, it repeats the tricks of the original, but is of lower quality and is really unnecessary.  In its defence, at least it was written by Jim Steinman (who wrote the original), unlike the next sequel (Bat out of Hell 3) which was written by a series of jobbing songwriters and held together by a very loose concept (i.e. to sell as many copies as they could). 

In a sign that no one ever listens to rock lyrics, apparently the question Meat Loaf is asked the most is “what’s that? you won’t do” (from the Song I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t Do That).  it is literally in the lyrics. 

And I would do anything for love,
I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love,
I'll never lie to you and that's a fact

…
And I would do anything for love,
But I won't do that

The song lists a whole bunch of things that he won’t do.  Anyway, the song, much like the album, does what you expect.  It is overblown, over long, and over the top.  But what else were you expecting from Meat Loaf?