Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell (Vinyl LP)There is no other album like Bat Out of Hell, unless you want to count the sequel. This is Grand Guignol pop epic, gothic, operatic, and silly, and its appealing because of all of this. Jim Steinman was a composer without peer, simply because nobody else wanted to make mini epics like this. And there never could have been a singer more suited for his compositions than Meat Loaf, a singer partial to bombast, albeit shaded bombast. The compositions are