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The song begins by describing a skinny girl: "Now I had a girl so doggone thin, No meat, no bones, she was just all skin." It then moves on to a heavier girl: "You find some girls who are big and fat, Some fellows don't like to see them like that, But I like to see 'em big and tall, The bigger they come, the harder they fall."
A more complete version of the show, featuring all 14 complete songs performed, was released on the live album, MTV Unplugged in New York, in November 1994, which opened at number one on the Billboard 200. A DVD of the unedited performance was released in 2007, which also featured footage of the Kirkwood brothers rehearsing "Plateau" with ...
[5] [105] Meat Loaf attempted legal action "to prove that he had some level of dominion of the song", and was furious for many years afterwards when Steinman won the case. [27] The song was recorded as a duet by Meat Loaf and Marion Raven for the 2006 album Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, produced by Desmond Child.
"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" is a song written by Jim Steinman. It was released in 1977 on the album Bat Out of Hell, with vocals by American musicians Meat Loaf and Ellen Foley. An uncommonly long song for a single, it has become a staple of classic rock radio [3] [4] and has been described as the "greatest rock duet". [5]
[22] The Fort Worth Star-Telegram also referred to the length of the songs on the album, in which Steinman "vomits up 75 minutes of endlessly repeated choruses." [23] The New Statesman's Kate Mossman labels Steinman's lyrics "unwieldy". [24] Meat Loaf performed the song on the April 14, 1994, edition of the BBC television show Top of the Pops. [25]
As a result of its success, "Bat Out of Hell" was reissued in the UK, this time reaching the top ten (which it did not achieve on its first release in 1979), meaning Meat Loaf achieved the rare feat of having two singles in the UK top ten at the same time. Meat Loaf won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo for the song. [24]
"Meat City" is a song written by John Lennon, released as the 12th and final track on his 1973 album Mind Games. [2] The song is also the B-side of the single of the same name , and is included on the 2010 album, Gimme Some Truth .
According to the band, the song was created "to make a hard topic easy to digest and fun to listen to." Two main sources of inspiration were named for the song: one was a vegan friend of Jānis who wore a shirt that said "Instead of meat, I eat pussy", and the other was a contestant on a Latvian TV cooking show who convinced him to change Jānis' views on the environment, and at the end ...