BUILDING TOWARDS AN EPIC FINALE! First Time Hearing Meatloaf - For Crying Out Loud Reaction! 

Jim Steinman was quoted as saying that this was his favorite song he's ever written. I agree. For Crying out loud is a masterclass, and my favorite Meat Loaf song too!

One of the most underrated tracks in Steinman and Meatloaf’s catalog. My personal favorite. Good choice.

4th best selling album of all time says it all ! Try 'HEAVEN CAN WAIT' next

This is the most epic track on an album full of epic tracks.

We should cry out loud that Meatloaf. Wasn't inducted to the Rock and Roll hall of fame before he died! The Rock and Roll Hall of fame is a sham people need to tell them how off base they are

One of the greatest songs ever written...top 5 ever for me

One of my favorite Meat Loaf songs. Not as fun as the others, but the emotion of the lyrics, the instrumentals, and the delivery is unmatched - not just in the Meat Loaf catalog, but in music overall.

My favorite off this album. An absolute masterpiece.

This is my favourite Meat Loaf song. Jim Steinman called it "my masterpiece". Nice reaction guys.

i think that this is the best song meat loaf has ever recorded. the build up to the end in increible.

The Greatest album of all time. FULL STOP.

Love Meatloaf. R.I.P

The "Bat Out of Hell" album was on the charts foe 82 weeks.

One of the greatest, meatloaf tracks

His going low, "oh but most of all" gets me every time! He usually goes high but it's a perfect time to go low. Really hits.

Meat used to say this is the greatest love song ever written, and anyone who disagreed could fight him on it hahah.

This one is different in a sense because it is the finale of a 7 song 'catalogue' album that broaches all of the emotions and confusion of learning what love is and what he wants with this young lady he's pursuing. From the Dashboard Light until For Crying Out Loud an evolution takes place, and this song is likely somewhere in the future when they started a family and he's reflecting on the chaos of growing up and becoming responsible. The buildup is the triumphant realization of what he has in her.

My favourite track on the album. The more you listen to this the better it gets. Absolutely phenomenal.

The entire album is a masterpiece!!! Was raised on this. And it will never ever leave my playlists!!!

Very few reactions are available for this song, but according to Meat and Jim it is their best song. Meat has said that this is the best love song ever written and he would fight anybody who disagrees. Thank you so much for doing it.

Loved this song so much, as a kid. I’m glad you’re checking it out.

I was lucky enough to see Meat Loaf in Melbourne with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. There were two concerts and they were spliced together and released as an album and a DVD.

The contribution of Jim Steinman is often underrated ..but for me if fate had not bought Meat Loaf to him, this and other masterpieces of songwriting may have gone unnoticed. The 2 together make and have made some of the best songs of all time...and Jims lyrics have so much to do with that

An incredible song…

My favorite Meatloaf song!

My favorite track on the album

My favorite Meatloaf song!!!!!

Since albums aren't created like they use to I feel bad that younger people no longer get the total album experience with certain artists. I'm 62 and I can recall about 10 albums or so that have zero filler and every track becomes your favorite. Bat Out of Hell is one of those albums. Simply not a bad song on it. And the funny part is absolutely none of the labels wanted to record it! Lol

That ending bridge! Only matched by Steve Forbert's bridge in "Search your heart",

Bat out of hell (the album) is 24 hour period in the protagonist life. The first song on the album, BOOH, is about escape. (The phrase, bat out of hell means: with extreme urgency without fear of consequences). In “For Crying Out Loud” (the last song on BOOH) he’s reached his destination (“the chilly California sand”). The journey has beaten him down. He’s humbled. Realizing that the ‘things’ he was searching for were the ‘things’ he left behind.

My favorite of this album!!!!!!!

O man. What a song.

I got this album when I was 12 years. Old; not knowing the huge assembly of talent- because Meatloaf was relatively unknown and just exploded on the scene. With Todd rundgren engineering, it was destined for greatness from the very start.

Produced by the great Todd Rundgren,. Todd also has a great catalog of music you should check out. The next track you should check out from Bat Out Of Hell is "You Took the Words Right Out of my Mouth"

This is his best and if you continue to listen to it I think you will agree eventually.

Yup. Still my favourite on the album. Glad you liked it as well. Good review and reaction.

Jim Steinman was a musical genius!! All of his songs were like epic books or movies...A beginning a middle and ending...And most of them did not have the happy ending...

You labelled it 2 out of 3, but it's 4 crying out loud.

Would love you to hear this again but live with Meatloaf and the Melbourne symphony orchestra. This particular song was rarely sung live and was also towards the end of his career where his health was taking a real toll on his abilities to perform.

There is a theory that "Bad Out of Hell" from 1977 was a bit of a rip off of "Born To Run" from 1975...Roy Bittan played on both albums, and they both have that theatrical "Wall of Sound" thing going....

I love this song. It is different from the other songs being, IMHO, just a simple love song. The entire album is fantastic but one of my favourites off this album is All Revved Up.

What I want to know is: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

Early 70’s is nothing like mid 70’s and again late 70’s. Just like every decade

You need to do I couldn't have said it better myself live or do a the tracks from this album

😊❤ Hi Phil and Sam!! I always love your reactions! I have to think that maybe it wasn't as high on other's lists too. I don't remember it getting as much radio air time. But as always for me Meatloaf's vocals do it for me!! 😅 I checked out your Playlist and there is an awesome song you haven't done yet. It's called "You Took The Words Right Outa My Mouth". It's on this album and you go back to the live performance video. I'm only going to give you a tiny hint! In the intro, you might wonder for a minute if you have the right video!! LOL 😂 But the man that you probably won't recognize is none other than the great Jim Steinman himself!! 😮😅 Other than that ... I can't wait to watch you two react to this one!! Luv you guys!! 😊❤❤

The songs from this album sound like nothing else from the 70's because they are literally "showtunes" done in a rock style. Jim Steinman basicalky wrote all these songs with a musical in mind. Most of Bat Out of Hell was written for a musical Jim was working on about Peter Pan. Fun Fact: This is the biggest selling album of all time that was written ENTIRELY (100% of both the music and lyrics credit) by one person.

I think that you're starting to enjoy the experience, but just maybe you should have a few more servings of Meatloaf to be sure .

Won't get a song like that from 'Song Factories ' or A,I and no auto tune!!!

The final song on one of the greatest albums ever recorded

This is my favorite song on the album. That's saying something since the album is freaking awesome.

This has Always been my favorite Meatloaf song of all time. I feel it’s so underrated. Thank you for reacting to this one❤ Heaven Can Wait is also beautiful

I’m so glad to see that this is a fan favorite to many. I always felt like I was alone in loving this track. Thanks all for making me feel better about it !!!

Another great song of This Album that I never hear anybody talk about is Heaven Can Wait

This is the last song on the album. The whole album is about a boy resisting committing to the girl he is with, climaxing in the ending of Paradise by the Dashboard Light. In this song, he is finally ready to fully commit to his love.

This entire album - both sides, start to finish, was incredible. I saw him in concert many years ago, and he left every ounce of himself on that stage. He gave everything - and it was magical. XO ☺

Has always been at the top of my Meatloaf / Jim Steinman list.

It is just amazing. An entire album of nothing but love songs. Covering Love in all of it's shapes, sizes and colors. In my 63 years I've never heard a single person say they didn't like this album. There is something here for everyone, no matter your music preferences.

Your description only talks about Meat Loaf who I loved. But Jim Steinman was the genius who brought this epic to paper and instrument. Lest anybody ever forget that.

Let me first say congrats on being the first reaction channel to react to this song. Ssecondly, thank you, thank you for listening to this master piece of a love song.

I was waitin for that last note.. it literally makes ur goosebumps get goosebumps

Wow! someone finally did a reaction to this song! Best song on the album! I read somewhere that the album had come out for months and the band was touring but the record wasn't selling because the record label wasn't giving them any support. The band performed this song live for the record label executives and they were blown away. The record label finally put financial support behind the album and the rest was history.

This is such a great song. When I heard him sing this live it just blew me away. Not many if any, songs from this album you can’t like. Over 43 million copies worldwide of this album have been sold 😮

One of the greatest masterpieces in music history.

The Bat out of hell Album is the highest selling Album in Australia to this day. Not bad for am Album released in 1977. The population of Australia in 1977 was 14.2 million people. This album to date has sold 1.8 million copies here now at a population level of 26.7 million. It was about the 23rd best selling album in the USA.

One of the greatest vocal performances of all time

Let's not forget & give a shout out to the producer on this song and album , the one and only Todd Rundgren. Jim Steinman & Meatloaf had approached other producers who all passed on doing the album. Jim was even belittled by Clive Davis who asked Jim if he even knew how to write a song. Jim & Meatloaf told Rundgren they had a deal with RCA records. When Rundgren found out the deal with RCA didn't exist , Albert Grossman who was Bob Dylan's manager offered to put it on his Bearsville label but needed more money. Rundgren had essentially paid for the album himself.

You finally got around to one of my favorite songs. The perfect written, and performed love songs of all time.

This song needs a few listens to grasp how absolutely amazing it is. It’s one of the best love songs ever written.

Meanwhile 2 out of 3 is another classic.

Meat Loaf Commented That This Is His Favorite Song of His and That This Song IS The Best Love Song of All Time, Bar None!!!

I clicked the like before the video even started! Thank you Phil and Sam for doing this song. It is probably my favorite song on this incredible album. Another favorite song is “Couldn’t have said it better”.

This song is amazing. I freaking love Meatloaf ❤️ I had this Lp and the album cover was on the actual disc. I played it constantly driving my parents nuts. They bought it for me so too bad. Peace out guys ✌️ ☮️

"For Crying Out Loud" is a later-in-life love letter to your partner. TL;DR: Old man life lesson musings. When you go back over the lyrics, they unfold as a reminesing over the phases of life as a couple from early commitment doubt, through the difficult years, and landing on the realization that through all of the ups and downs, all of the difficult times when you want to throw in the towel, etc, the best part of life was her (your long-term partner). In Meatloaf's delivery, you also feel the epiphany that real love is not the physical-attraction based feelings of immaturity and Hollywood, but rather real love is rooted in the deeper issues of never waivering commitment to being there for and with each other, no matter what the circumstances. In the lyrics, Steinman gives long lists of reasons to want someone, need someone, etc, all broken down into the phases of life together when these wants/needs/appreciations occur. However, with the crescendo the last "But most of all, for that I love you", the song (singer? guy reminising?) together every item from every list from every phase of life and is telling his partner that he loves her because of all of it. While Steinman wrote and presents this love letter from a male-to-female perspective, it isn't exclusely either a heterosexual or male-to-female love letter. Rather it is about realizing what real love truly is later in life, recognizing it in your long term relationship, and wanting your partner to know how much richer your life is because of EVERYTHING they brought to it. (or it is just a catchy track on the "Bat Out Of Hell" album that fit into the timing on the album's second side. Take your pick on which explanation works for you.) While this song was powerful as a teen when I first bought the album in 1977, it has gained relivence as I became old and irrelevant. I committed the common young guy mistake of basing marriage #1 on the shallowness which attracts youth and it played out predictably. But now in my 26th year of my second marriage, looking back on what we went through together, and realizing that not only did we stay together during the times which no one would blame either of us for leaving, but also that neither of us even so much as considered being anywhere but beside each other makes this song even more powerful.

I can’t believe you’re checking this out! It’s relatively the unknown track from Bat Out of Hell (one of the greatest albums of all time). Thanks and I’m excited to see what you both think. So, Jim Steinman (the songwriter and piano player) released a solo album after this. It was called Bad for Good. It was supposed to be Meat Loaf’s next album but something happened. I always thought it was because Meat Loaf got into an accident and couldn’t do it as a result, so Steinman decided to release it with himself doing the vocals. But it could have been a financial thing or another dispute IDK. Anyway, after you finish checking out every song from Bat Out of Hell, you should listen to the title track Bad for Good (it’s pretty good) but just imagine how great a song it would have been if Meat Loaf did the vocals!! Thanks again for checking this out !!!

My favorite song on the BOOH album. ❤

Not sure if you picked up on this, but of the many things Meatloaf said at the end of the song, amoung them was "For that I want you, For that I need you and for that I love you" so at then end of the album it wasn't 2 out of 3, it was 3 out of 3 and more.

In my mind, this song tells the story of a man who loved a woman but struggled with addiction. They come together, he screws it up, they come together, he screws it up, over and over. Finally he recognizes that she is freedom and the addiction was the master in whose chains he was kneeling. Hence the ending of thanking her over and over for sticking with him until he grew out of it.

You guys should do his last big hit....he did " it's all coming back to me" it's a duet actually

I had that album on 8-track in 1979. It stayed in the player in my car for a solid month, every where I went it was playing.

Hands down Meat Loaf’s best vocal performance and Jim Steinman’s best song and Jim Steinman agrees. BTW great to see one of my favourite reactors doing this underrated brilliant song.

This is one of his deepest and most beautiful songs. Yes it is a goosebump masterpiece.

Heaven can wait is a must

Masterpiece is the word.....incredible

Jim stein was primarily wrote for stage theater

Sam, Phil: As somebody else mentioned... THANK YOU!!! Very few reactors have this song in their list. And even though the lyrics give you a heavy sense of dread or pain, it is (IMO) the best song of the album. Absolute masterpiece!

ya gotta do "you took the words right outta my mouth" one of his best.

Meatloaf is one of my favorites Rocker

This is how you end a rock opera album like Bat out of Hell. Jimmy knew how to put together an album.

I lost my brother 2 years ago. He introduced me to this album in the early 80s. This is too much😢

Awesome song

My favorite song from Meatloaf, soon emotional!

This was me and my lady's song before she passed away. Brings back memories thanx for reacting

Meat's hidden masterpiece. Those drums!!!!!!!!!!

You should not overthink this too much. When I heard this song as a teenager back in the 70s it seeped into my bones and the words and the music let me soar high above every time. This is simply one of the most epic love songs EVER written. Period.

All his songs are like a rock opera.

Heaven Can Wait is one of my favorites from this album.

It's a 3-Act play.. like most of Steinman's music.. just magical

I hope you react to my favorite MeatLoaf song, Heaven Can Wait... So majestic, and simple... just a piano and MeatLoaf... simply beautiful!!!❤❤❤❤

"Oh, I know you belong inside my aching heart, And can't you see my faded Levi's bursting apart." Still one of the most descriptive lyrics of desire ever.

Great voice, he played Eddie in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, because they didn’t think anyone could sing the song (Hot Patootie, Bless My Soul) clearly because of the songs pacing