'Bat Out of Hell'

Listening to Bat Out of Hell, it brings it far more questions than answers. 

 

Who is Meat Loaf? Why is he called Meat Loaf? Why does he look and sound the way he does? Why does he simultaneously annoy and please people? Does anyone realize he’s being a smartass? Why is he an actor? Why doesn’t he sing more? What would you call his music?

Truth is, Meat Loaf has sold a bunch of records without being altogether famous in two different decades, 15 years apart and somehow turned himself into someone immediately recognized due to a baked beef dish.

Meanwhile, he takes relatively small roles in movies without becoming an actor. Sorta how George described Kramer on Seinfeld: “His whole life is a fantasy camp. People should plunk down $2,000 to live like him for a week. Do nothing, fall ass-backwards into money, mooch food off your neighbors, and have sex without dating. That's a fantasy camp.”

Interestingly, Meat Loaf has cheated death on a number of occasions, flipping his car, having an airplane make an emergency landing, falling off a stage and breaking both legs, fainting on stage, getting hit on the head by a shot put and suffering from Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, which I won’t even try to explain.