 In a 1999 documentary celebrating the original album , Meat Loaf says that Bat Out of Hell polarizes people : some hate it , and some worship it . The bombast did not meet some critics ' approval . As with the first album , Rolling Stone gave the album a mixed review . They call it " harmless , low @-@ octane operatic drivel " with " insufferably long Steinman compositions with equally long names . " Non @-@ specialist publications gave the most negative reviews . The Fort Worth Star @-@ Telegram also referred to the length of the songs , in which Steinman " vomits up 75 minutes of endlessly repeated choruses . " The newspaper branded it " the worst pop album of 1993 . " The Des Moines Register thought that the album was " wallowing in excess so gratuitous as to make Michael Bolton , by comparison , seem a master of understatement ... Mountains of banshee @-@ like wailing guitars ! <unk> drums ! <unk> vocals ! Profoundly stupid lyrics ! <unk> . This isn 't pandering to the lowest common denominator — it 's lowering the lowest common denominator . " 
