I fell down the Meat Loaf YouTube rabbit hole.
Oh… I remember why. I made a comment to someone (DFR), “as Meat Loaf once famously said, ‘two out of three ain’t bad.'” This lead me to look up the song on YouTube: Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad I can’t hardly listen to this song without a tear or two coming to my eyes. But then again I have way too many ghosts of past relationships rattling around my psychic, soul, or however you want to express it.
More Than I Thought
Which made me wonder if Meat Loaf was still with us. No. He died in 2022 at 74, probably of complications of COVID. To show my ignorance, I always thought of Meat Loaf as a one album wonder, Bat Out of Hell and a one film wonder, Rocky Horror Picture Show. Nothing could be further from the truth. He had a long career, both as a musician and as an actor of both film and theater. He sold millions and millions of albums world wide. His Bat Out of Hell alone sold 43 million, was certified platinum 14x, and spent almost a record of 522 weeks on the charts.
Paradise By The Dashboard Lights
I have listened to this song an unknowable number of times. It was and is a staple of rock radio. However, I have never seen the video of him singing this classic with Ellen Foley, who is from St. Louis. The video is more than a little sexy without being vulgar. The song by itself is just about a perfect encapsulation of the drama that is the relationship between men and women. What is the conventional wisdom? Women give sex to get love, men give love to get sex. As one my siblings commonly says, “true dat!”
The Video
And so it goes.
Greg (and Lisa/Derek) had a private audience with him because Lisa won a pre-show meeting. I have it on video around here somewhere.
WOW!