The Cellar - View Single Post - "Bat Out of Hell" was a Springsteen spoof

Undertoad · 03-26-2016, 11:14 AM

I'm listening to Todd Rundgren on the Marc Maron podcast, talk about his production of Meatloaf's "Bat Out of Hell"; and it's the first time I've heard him explain... he produced it as a *spoof* of Bruce Springsteen. A *spoof*. It was not in the formula that Meatloaf would actually be taken seriously, singing these long, overwrought songs.

Mind: ~~blown~~

Holy CRAP if you wanted to spoof "Rosalita" you would absolutely write "Paradise" and then end it tragi/comically.

So Rundgren even got three E-Street Band guys to play on it.

So much suddenly starts to make sense.

03-26-2016, 11:14 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	"Bat Out of Hell" was a Springsteen spoof I'm listening to Todd Rundgren on the Marc Maron podcast, talk about his production of Meatloaf's "Bat Out of Hell"; and it's the first time I've heard him explain... he produced it as a spoof of Bruce Springsteen. A spoof. It was not in the formula that Meatloaf would actually be taken seriously, singing these long, overwrought songs. Mind: ~~blown~~ Holy CRAP if you wanted to spoof "Rosalita" you would absolutely write "Paradise" and then end it tragi/comically. So Rundgren even got three E-Street Band guys to play on it. So much suddenly starts to make sense.