#everything louder than everything else

[weaversweek]

42 "I'd do anything for love (but I won't do that)" - Meat Loaf

Written by Jim Steinman

Part of the UncoolTwo50 project, marking the best singles from 1977-99.

In the beginning, there was the combination of heaven and hell. Jim Steinman's gothic fantasy, brought to something larger than life by Meat Loaf. The album Bat Out of Hell captured forked lightning in a bottle.

Like a pair of starcross'd lovers, Loaf and Steinman went their separate ways. Meat Loaf made the copycat album Dead Ringer, which wasn't as good, and a couple of others were even less good, and he pretty much dropped off the cultural radar in the mid-80s.

Jim Steinman worked with Bonnie Tyler on her most bombastic singles, Air Supply, the Sisters of Mercy, turned down Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many more. By 1989, he'd come up with his masterplan - Pandora's Box, an all-woman hard rock band, who would sing tortured tales of love like "It's all coming back to me now". In spite of huge publicity, Pandora's Box flopped.

The two men reunited, got tinkling the ivories, and rediscovered their love for pop opera. Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell took everything we remembered from the original, and cranked it up to twelve. The title line is reprised from something Steinman wrote for Bonnie Tyler. The motorbike sound is reprised from Meat Loaf's life. The duet at the end is with Lorraine Crosby, one of the lead singers from Pandora's Box. The sense of drama is heightened by the video, where Dana Patrick plays the love interest. It's a full-on mini-movie, where Mr. Loaf comes to accept himself through the power of love, complete with a Falling Chandelier of Doom.

Some people who didn't pay attention to the lyric are confused by what "That" is. Terribly simple: Mr. Loaf explains what he will do, (run right into hell and back, never stop loving you, pray to the deity of sex and drums and rock 'n' roll), and then a counterexample of what he will not (do it better than I do it with you, stop dreamin' of you every night of my life). The chorus refers back to all these counter-examples, as "I won't do that". Honestly, it's just as simple as "Never gonna give you up" (qv).

Originally written as a fifteen-minute epic, shaved down to 12 minutes for the album, the video runs about nine minutes, and the single version is 7-and-a-half. Unless you're listening to Virgin 1215, where they made a ham-fisted three-and-three-quarter minute edit, which completely ruined the point. This song is a luxurious bath, not a quick shower!

Massive and huge and a career peak for both men. For this project, I also considered Meat Loaf's "Modern girl", an under-appreciated classic; "It's all coming back to me now" in versions by both Pandora's Box and Céline Dion; "Holding out for a hero" and "Total eclipse of the heart" from Steinman's work with Bonnie Tyler; and "No matter what" except Meat Loaf's version was only ever a B-side.

[to2llynottoby]

Who am I? Why am I here? Forget the questions, someone get me another beer What's the meaning of life? What's the meaning of it all? You gotta learn to dance before you learn to crawl

Meat Loaf - Everything Louder Than Everything Else

[karleenscreativeworld]

I rarely listen to Everything Louder Than Everything Else without Wasted Youth and now my dad thinks it’s all one song instead of two separate tracks.

[confessionsofanangrymetalhead]

"No, No, No, God's A Lot Taller!": Motorhead Live at Starland Ballroom, March 9th, 2005

I knew it’d take a while for me to get to covering this show; I simply didn’t realize it’d take me more than two years since I wrote about my previous concert experience leading up to this point, which took place just four months prior. But in the case of this particular experience, there are a few moving parts here. I’ll get to that momentarily. But any time from here on in that I write about…

[agirlwiththoughtsandnegativity]

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[sparrowsortadrawzzz]

im so tired guys lol

[mr-rogers-blood-stained-sweater]

Everywhere i go i hear his fucking footsteps, people with this pet are insufferable.

[neotula]

i love character creation!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cosmic-ships]

I'm feeling "off" a lot of not so nice thoughts are running through my head right now and its targeting my paranoia. I don't know how to make it stop. Might be distant for a bit till it passes.

I'm just feeling very distrustful of everyone right now and yeah, just not feel like a person today is all, I guess idk. Very detached and void of empathy. Paranoia made every one my enemy until its passed.

May still be on dash but I won't be interacting with anyone.

Or maybe I'll just fuck off for a bit and talk to my boys. Idk— idk if anything will make this go away/make me feel better.

[starsonmarsy]

bpd sucks

[jays-therapist]

I find it so interesting that you have "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" on your Lance playlist, when I have "Everything Louder Than Everything Else" from the same album on mine!

THAT'S A REALLY GOOD SONG FOR HIM DJJDJD HOW DID I NOT THINK OF THAT

Meat Loaf just has immense Lance Strongbow vibes. Unlike the other songs in that playlist, I added I Would Do Anything For Love less because I thought the lyrics applied to him and more because it encapsulated his presence to me. There’s just something about an eleven-minute rock ballad about love, selflessness, and selfishness that says 💫Lance Strongbow💫. It's a theatre kid song, for sure.

Material Girl is in there for a similar reason. That, and because whenever I listen to it I imagine Lance strutting down the runaway in Ye Olde Chanel. Like I don't care if he never got a season two/three outfit, he's a fashion icon in my heart ♥

[cowsaresushi-coral]

Also, MindHack’s chonky demo is coming out in a week, and I’m very excited for that! Ultrakill I gotta do some things for gamewise, but thinking about maybe refreshing that other brainrot I had a while back.

MORE MINDHACK. MORE BRAINROT. I MISS MY LITTLE SCRUMPLY DOCTOR MAN. I WANNA DO A PRETTY RENDER OF MY INTERP OF HIM AND ALSO WRITE FICS AND ANIMATICS OOGABOOGA.

I’ve also been thinking about Krauser from Resident Evil 4, specifically the remake version. Not because I know anything about RE4. It’s because I follow someone on twitter and now THEY have brainrot and I wake up every morning to my dash filled with the fucking dump truck that is his ass (amongst other things). Cool chr, my interpretation of him is almost definitely incredibly wrong because I know jackshit about him. I will continue to know nothing until maybe some time in the far future. I like his funny little hat and face.

[haverwood]

Motörhead: Everything Louder Than Everyone Else Jeb Brien UK, 1991

[olichat-reads]

i think its wonderful seeing other people love the people you love. seeing them getting the love they deserve.

[thethingything]

so green light is a lot more comfortable when we have migraines and we woke up at around sunset and were still at an 8/10 so we just put the green light on and used a load of lavender and peppermint oil which means everything smells of that now and it's an overall very weird vibe right after waking up

[transwolvie]

hands down funniest part of having my Spotify on shuffle is when Wasted Youth by Meatloaf comes on and I get to experience Meatloaf O'Day yelling "you've got a HELL of a lot to learn about ROCK N ROLLLLLL" hard cutting to like....a goofy ska song