415 of 1001 Albums: Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell

Meat Loaf was sort of a mixed bag at first when beginning the album. As the album goes the songs get better. The album feels more like it's letting itself become a rock opera instead of trying to go for what was in for the late 70's. There was a lot of struggle to get this album to go though, but a few decades later it seems like it was worth the work as people are still very familiar wit the tunes.

History: Love it or hate this album has went on to be one of the best selling albums of all time, and appeared on Rolling Stones' Greatest Albums of all time list. It also features legendary musicians like Todd Rundgren and  on the guitar and Max Weinberg from Bruce Springstreen's E Street Band. For a guy just working on his second album he had a lot backing it plus a lot of people who people who believed in what it had to offer to keep shopping it around to record companies.Thought the album now still sells very well it didn't start to be popular. Critically the album was received with mixed reviews and didn't really make too many waves on the charts upon it's release.