Recommended Listening
With its over-the-top lyrics and atomic jukebox sound, Bat Out of Hell seems to be without precedent. Not so. If you want to get an idea of where Bat began, check out these albums.

Listen To Clips!		Various Artists West Side Story (CBS, 1957) This Broadway hit was as rock 'n' roll as they come. The story of young love flourishing in the midst of a gang war was told in a wildly romanticized musical language (just check out "Somewhere") but was never treated in a condescending fashion.
Listen To Clips!		Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Born To Run (Columbia, 1975) Springsteen’s breakthrough album is a defining moment for himself and rock ‘n’ roll, a heart-stopping combination of back alley poetry and Hemingway-esque heaviness. It too, aspired toward a gargantuan sound a la Phil Spector.
Listen To Clips!		Queen A Night At The Opera (Elektra, 1975) Freddie Mercury’s notion of “opera” was closer to Gilbert & Sullivan than Jim Steinman’s beloved Wagner. But if you had a band that could rock hard enough, none of that really mattered.
Listen To Clips!		Various Artists The Rock Horror Picture Show (Ode/A&M, 1975) What once was a smart-ass satire of ‘50s B-movies has, with time, turned into an affectionate love letter to both ‘50s rock ‘n’ roll and the innocent depravity of the glam-tastic ‘70s.
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