Happy Anniversary @Roikyou. Congratulations.
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Children of the 1930s apparently sat through such nightmare inducing cartoons when they went to a movie. Flies and spiders are brutal.
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@generic - True story - my mom took me to see Watership Down when I was little. She thought it was a Disney movie. Still recovering.
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I love stuff like that. The cartoons from the 30’s and more so the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s I could watch all day. I guess I’m just a big kid at heart.
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This is a pretty good adaptation of a great book.
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RIP Meatloaf.
Freaking brilliant. I used to drive with the windows down on a nice day, sometimes blasting Meatloaf (among others). Great driving music. All Revved Up and No Place To Go. Hoping to find Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
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I’d do anything for Meatloaf, but I won’t do that.
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Meatloaf was one of those artists that was obligatory to blast loud, no matter your usual listening levels, Meatloaf gets turned up!
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My Meatloaf doses were taken when I was a teenager back in the mid-90s – in the glory days of MTv.
Particularly the one above.
I was cycling through his playlist in YT Music and there are a couple of songs I recognize, but man, those are unusually lengthy songs. No wonder why you labelled this way. 
Amen. 
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That is correct. The cover on his first album contained the instruction to “Play Loud”
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@pennstac, @SenyorC: Even though his music wasn’t metal (edit: per se), his album covers could be none more metal.
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…but it sort of was metal.
He was a proto-Goth before The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Type O Negative, and the all-black-clothing crowd established the kisses-and-vampires theme. He was proto-Hair-Metal before Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Ratt, Poison, Winger, et al. turned Hair Metal into a huge female-focused genre. Also listen to Kiss’s Beth from this era, as only watered down easy listening “non-metal” received meaningful radio play before the mid-to-late 1980s.
His operatic, romantic themes…generated and facilitated…female interest. His hormone driven content should be paired with hormone-driven theatrical, retro, dress-up period movies such as Grease and Animal House.
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You mean movies like Porky’s ?
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Saw him in April 2016 at the Pompano Amphitheater in Fort Lauderdale. Yes it was loud , but so good.
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Bat out of Hell came out in 1977, and the world changed from very mainstream media to cable TV/genre fragmentation/punk rock/underground within a few years. Porky’s (1981) was a bit too late and too coarse – it along with Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) were transition films leading to the Teen Sex Comedy genre. Animal House is also a bit too coarse, but from 1978.
Grease (1978) = classic Hollywood style 1950s dress up with a “typewriter with a broken period” scene, Meatloaf = classic Hollywood romantic horror film dress up with an extended baseball home run metaphor. The classic era still had some allusion and innuendo…lets look at that flock of birds…lets look at that sunrise photo…
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If I am not mistaken, Todd Rundgren has a house in Hawaii mostly due to the return on his investment in the project. 
What it is that Meat Loaf wouldn’t do exactly, explained (I sure got it wrong):
I’ve continued to watch the Boba Fett series, and episode 5, released today was very good. As I have listened to this series, I’ve used different sound. Sometimes I used the TV with soundbar and sub. Other times the old iPad Pro, once using Etymotic ER4XR direct, again using Dragonfly Cobalt and my Grado RS1e, and last week with the iFi xDSD and the HiFiman HE-560. Today I was at my regular setup, with the MacBook Pro 14 feeding the Bifrost 2 and the Lyr 3. I had the HD-6XX plugged in, figuring that their slightly bass-heavy sound would complement the Disney effects. At first I noticed the clamping a bit. I turned up the volume on the Lyr 3 to a loud but comfortable level and settled in.
The next thing I knew I was watching the credits. This is praise for this combo, and yes I obviously have more resolving and higher end choices than that HD-6XX, but it more than did the job, it absolutely disappeared. And that’s all I could ask.
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Another hat tip by the Star Wars group to other science fiction themes, One location looks a lot like Larry Niven’s Ringworld:
Which is in turn derived from some Olaf Stapleton, and is the step before becoming a Dyson Sphere civilization.
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@pennstac - Wonder if General Products could have built any of the Star Wars ships?