Paradise By The Dashboard Light

You are not wrong.

It's an amazing song!

Love it. That whole first Bat Out Of Hell album is pretty awesome.

It still holds up decades later. Amazing songwriting and Meatloaf's performance was spot on.

I was at the Ottawa concert when Meatloaf fell off the stage!

And getting Phil Rizzuto doing play by play was a stroke of genius.

And don't you fuckin' forget it, OP!

Not really .

Sounds like something a straight chick would say when she's trying to be all badass.

The song made me obsessed with Ellen Foley, R7. It was criminal her not being in the video. Carla DeVito was cute..but Ellen would have set the video on fire. Ellen was all over the place back then-her own records, with Loaf and Ian Hunter..even on Blue Oyster Cult's "Mirrors" LP, heating it up with Genya Ravan on a cut or two.

Night Court (sigh..)

Oh well, it was long ago and far away.

I'm listening to it the first time. I'm not in love.

shitty music from a shittard.

This thread sent me down the rabbit hole.

Thanks, OP.

Rock songs with such drastic (and multiple) tonal shifts or movements are not common. The only other successful one that comes to mind is Bohemian Rhapsody. Paradise By the Dashboard Light is a great work of rock art.

Do you think Wings' Band on the Run is successful, 13?

You have to go back to the 70s to find any real examples... fascinating.

Any more contemporary songs that do anything like this? I can't think of any off the top of my head, but that's not saying anything.

Bow down to me, bitches. I started the whole thing

So why did you all hate it when Glee did it for the national championship?

I miss Cory.

Did people R17? My understanding is it is considered one of the better "Glee" performances, I believe it was well received.

Glee's version is rushed. Due to time limitations they chopped the song up, thereby losing its context and slow build. Plus it's a song that's meant to be a story between two people, not an entire fucking chorus of males and females.

That's nice, OP.

Bohemian Rhapsody is so much better.

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Best Meatloaf song

When I hear it played at wedding dances, I always wonder if the bride and groom had ever listed to the words. It does not exactly shout out happily ever married bliss at the end.

[quote]When I hear it played at wedding dances, I always wonder if the bride and groom had ever listed to the words. It does not exactly shout out happily ever married bliss at the end.

LOL!

God, some people pick the stupidest freaking wedding songs, wtf!

The jocks in my dorm used to have parties just about every single night in a player's room next door to my dorm room. They would sing Paradise By the Dashboard Light and Centerfield (by John Fogerty) over and over and over (at the top of their lungs). Strangely I've never gotten sick of either song. And 25 yrs later I still know every single word to Paradise

It was fun to be in college when that album came out

over-cooked rock n rollish broadway show tune

Back in the late 90's, my friend and I had a total dance routine to that song.

Not, like, with kick-ball-changes and jazz hands, but one of us would do the male lines and the other the female [I'm kinda butch, so I was Meatloaf], and we'd point to our hand to indicate the wedding ring, or put our hands in prayer position up beside our faces for "let me sleep on it", etc.

It was a hoot!

I knew Ellen Foley in high school. We went to different all girls Catholic academies in St. Louis. She has had an unusual career. I thought around the time of FATAL ATTRACTION, TOOTSIE, etc., that she might break through in film, but that really hasn't happened. I know she has done Broadway, which I believe suits her best, but again, never a breakthrough role of her own. She is very talented and I wonder why her career didn't take off more. She was in her prime when she recorded this, and it's a shame she is not identified with it more.

Very nice person, btw.

Nice song indeed, but "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" is justifiably Meat Loaf's highlight.

Also like "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad."

R26, I remember reading that the Goo Goo Dolls' 'Iris' was the most popular wedding song of the 00's.

Why don't shit threads like this STAY ignored? This has to be the fourth time.

R36 throws a hammer against R35's big fat head and gives a clumsy hug to R34.

I still remember the first time I heard this song. It was in 1978 or perhaps a year or two earlier. It drew my attention and I laughed out loud. It's a very funny song that captures (possibly imaginary) adolescent life.

Never heard of it.

First time I heard it back in 1982 or so, it was presented as a drag production number by Dana Douglas and her husband at Rene's bar in Tampa. A few years later I would play the male role for another performer in a local pageant. She didn't win, but we toured the local bars with the number for a few months.

R24 wrong. That's 'Life Is A Lemon (And I Want My Money Back)'. That song got my through adolescence alive.