>43 million albums sold
>zero cultural relevance

I find his music kinda cheesy and broadway-ish
not bad, just not my thing

>>127246692 (OP)
>43 million albums sold
more like 27m (43m is Dark Side of the Moon)

>>127246692 (OP)
It's the Avatar of albums

I say 2 out of 3 ain’t bad any chance I get.

>>127246748
and 'do u want fries with that'

>>127246696
>>127246692 (OP)
Yeah, the Rock ballads are just boring and cringe. You'd think it's some metal by the name and art, then it's some fatass eunuch singer.

A great, great record. A Rocky Horror sendup of Born to Run.

>>127246692 (OP)
Meatloaf wasn't the first, but it helped rock as a legitimate artform for theater fags and musicals. You hear that everywhere now. So it's relevant in its own way. You just have to be into that.

Imagine business this expecting some bad ass hard rock album based on the cover and then it turns out to be some mid showtunes

Wait until you hear about this drivel

>>127246692 (OP)
I like the title track a lot. But yeah I think over time people just lost interest in these 10 minute Broadway numbers.

Most important thing this album did was inspire the Protomen Act 2

>>127246692 (OP)
>cultural relevance
define your terms or you're just wasting our time

For me, it’s Bat Out Of Hell II: Back To Hell

>>127246692 (OP)
what's the "cultural relevance" of Led Zeppelin IV, or a Drake or Tool or Chet Atkins album?

>tfw the only culturally relevant thing he did was playing a fatso with big manboobs in that Gen X movie
Why was he so pathetic as a celebrity?

I love the first song, but the rest of the album doesn't really compare

>tfw all revved up with no place to go

>>127246692 (OP)
Good album but it's not even in the top 3 for Jim Steinman records.

>>127249116
THIS. it mogs the original hard.

>>127249119
>Led Zeppelin IV

You’re claiming stairway to heaven lacks cultural relevance…

You sure you wanna’ do this

>>127246692 (OP)
Oh, but your shitty landfill indie has relevance? lol

>>127251689
Strawman: DESTROYED

Holy shit, there’s even a third part

>>127252129
It's a zombie bat Steinman wasn't involved in it at all really. it was a bunch of his old songs and they brought Todd Rundgren in for like 3 days just to get his name on the project its a total cash grab.

>>127246692 (OP)
He was good. The music world needed him.

>>127251450
thats the thing.
for example, Killer Queen is a song with cultural relevance and one of Queen's big hits but no one is out here saying that Sheer Heart Attack is their favorite album of all time, most people cant really name more than 1 song from that album either.

>>127248871
don't fucking diss Jean Michel Jarre, the entire continent of Europe will kill you

>>127252959
Brighton Rock
Stone Cold Crazy

>>127246692 (OP)
he inspired a metal opera enthusiast who larps as him, only in a much better way

>>127246692 (OP)
I still don't know a single person who owns this or listens to this jack black sr fuck

>>127252129
It's bad. Desmond Child has always been a terrible songwriter and Steinman's material sounded worse than the original versions Steinman produced for Pandora's Box, his vampire musical and his solo album.
Braver Than We Are is a much better follow up to Bat Out of Hell 2.

Batman The Musical would have made him relevant

>>127246692 (OP)
my dad loves this record, it's quite popular here in england
fun to listen to when driving