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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 09:35
I think it's a concept album, just an awful one. Way to over emote Meatloaf.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 08:50
Whether it is or isn't is no guide as to if it belongs in PA
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 08:47
Don't let your meat loaf.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 08:38

Does an album need a story to be called a concept album? Thought it was enough that the tracks was thematically related.

When it comes to the "Bat Out Of Hell" album, I've only heard a couple of tracks from it, and not the whole thing, so I wouldn't know if it's a concept album or not.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 07:42
Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell is not listed in PA and while I think it deserves a place here much more than many other included albums, that's another subject.

It was written by Jim Steinman following more a Broadway Musical approach rather than a typical Rock album. Its songs are all about stereotype teenage concerns and fantasies, a dark motorcycle crash, wanting sex without going any further, having sex in a car or admitting how turned on the guy is by the girl.

Do you consider it a concept album?
Personally I would not go so far, it does not really tell a story, but it is certainly a thematic album (and a great one by the way IMO!).

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