Bat Out of Hell

i was only in grade school when i went to the mall with my dad and he passed by a music store.  He said he finally found the album he has been looking for: Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell. when we went in the music store i was surprised to see a picture which to me looked too satanic.  i thought that it was some sort of a heavy rock album that could destroy my belief towards God but i just didn't say a word to my dad because i noticed that he really wanted it so bad.  besides i thought of a meal instead of a song when i read the name of the artist.

when we got home my dad immediately popped the cd into the stereo and there i heard something that i thought to be an explosion when the first track played.

i listened to it closely and i was amused by the musical arrangement and i thought like "oh! this is music!" then i was conscious about the lyrics since i was bothered by the album layout.  so i read the lyrics of the songs and i just fell in love with the lyrics... they killed me. i waited for the track "Heaven Can Wait" since that is my dad's favorite.

i realized that not all rock songs are satanic as what our school often said.  "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" blew me away and thought more and more about the lovers' conversation in the beginning of the song. i realized that rockstars are way too romantic compared to boybands. after that i became more lenient on rock songs and i eventually liked the songs of Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20, Limp Bizkit, and Blink 182 and eventually forgot about Meat Loaf.  when i moved to high school i became too involved in music and i came to the point of forming a band of my own. My girl friends and i first planned to write our own songs but we became too busy to write so we decided to just do covers.  i watched a movie wherein Marvin Lee Aday (Meat Loaf Aday) played as a villain.  i did not recognize him until my father told me so.  i was surprised to see a man who was quite  old and chubby for a rockstar.  but anyway i was delighted to see how my rock icon looks like.

then that was the time that i thought of doing a cover for Meat Loaf.  i listened to the cd over and over just to learn the drums but it just so happened that we were a bunch of amateurs so we ended up playing easier songs such as songs by Liveon Release, Letters to Cleo, and Blink 182.

 i was not disappointed though. i just accepted the fact that it is not really our talent to play music.  it was just our hobby, which brought our group even closer.  i just like the thought that Meat Loaf's songs are great masterpieces that cannot be copied so easily by others.  for me Meat Loaf is an icon.