2 out of 3 = :1. I want you. 2. I need you. 3. Aint no way Im ever gonna love you....but 2 out of 3 aint bad! Ultimately its a song about how we settle for people we dont love or dont love us because we want or need them. Powerful song.
I never thought of it in terms of settling, but that's apt. Another nuance of it is by settling, the person you're settling with then falls in love with you and it perpetuates the cycle. Thus him remembering his love saying the same thing to him.
“I'm tired of words and I'm too hoarse to shout but you've been cold to me so long I'm crying icicles instead of tears”… IMO some of the best lyrics of any song I’ve ever listened to!
The writer, Jim Steinman had a gift for writing songs like that, and Meatloaf made them sound fantastic. He's written hits for Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion, Air Supply, probably more!
And almost all of Steinman's other artists hits were first offered to Meat's publishing company and they turned them down. Would of been interesting to hear Meat sing "Turn Around" rather then Tyler, lol.
This song starts off with him telling a girl that he could never love her. Next verse he's talking about the girl he loved in his past & she's the one who told him she could never love him. So basically I think this song is showing how past relationships can affect your future relationships. After he got so hurt in his past he's not able to love again. He put that guard up. That's what I always got from this song.
@@davegrayson8774 It's not the same girl. He says in the song he'll always love the first girl, but she never loved him back. The song is about how emotional damage can be passed along from one person to another. It's just sad, not about him finally 'winning'.
"I can't lie .. I can't tell you that I'm something I'm not .. no matter how I try .. I'll never be able to give you something .. something that I just haven't got" ... absolutely some of the truest and most powerful lyrics ever written.
Marvin Lee Aday (Meat Loaf) was an incredible singer and I think I was a freshman in high school when his first record came out. He had a theatre background in plays and musicals. He was also in the Off-Broadway play and movie of Rocky Horror Picture Show. This is why he is so dramatic in his performances. While doing theatre he met Jim Steinman, and Jim is the person who wrote the lyrics and music for all of the Meat Loaf hits. You had two guys who were both epic talents connect and make brilliant music together. I love watching young people get turned on to great music from back in the day.
I feel as if a part of my youth died with the passing of this wonderful entertainer and genuine human being. Marvin Lee Aday (Michael) AKA Meatloaf your musical performances will live on! Thanks for the decades of memories. Great song selection Brad/Lex.
If I recall, he is singing the song to the same girl throughout. At the beginning of the song, she has returned, expecting to find him still loving her. To the girl's dismay, "they can talk all night, but that ain't getting us nowhere" - she was cold to him for so long that he now cries icicles instead of tears (he doesn't love her anymore). She was the girl that he loved "so many years ago", but she kissed him and walked out of the door saying that she didn't love him. She didn't value the love that she now desires, but is too late.
I didn't think it was the same girl, but your explanation makes a lot of sense. It does explain his tears turning to icicles. That line always hung me up! Thanks!
You need to do “For Crying Out Loud.” That is Meatloaf’s big ballad from the “Bat Out of Hell” album. Of course you really need to do every song off of that album.
They couldn't get anybody to produce Bat Out of Hell. Along came Todd Rundgren and said let's doit. When it came to the title song Steinman was worried what to do for the motorcycle sound.He asked if it could be made with a guitar..Todd said Hold my beer...
Yeah, you nailed it, Lex. He says in the song that there was only one girl that he would ever love, and that was years ago. Those were the things she told him the night she left him. “Want you, need you, don’t love you. Two outta three ain’t bad.” So years later he finds himself in the position of saying the same thing to some poor heartbroken girl. Sad song, but great commentary on the ability and willingness that people have to use someone for as long as it might suit them.
The girl that broke his heart is the same one he is walking out on later in life.( you been cold to me so long) She broke his heart to the point he could never love again. He wasnt good enough when they were young. She wanted more. (gold, oil, rubies, Coupe De Ville). She thought she could do better and when she couldnt, she tried to get him back.
@@tomshumaker7370 that makes sense. It never crossed my mind that it was the same girl but years later. I guess you can say what goes around comes around.
He’s singing to the same woman who broke his heart in the first place. She came back to him, years later, and that point he couldn’t love her back. She crushed him……✌💙
Yeah, I feel they often struggle with the meaning of the songs and I thought if they don't get that one I'm losing faith. The meaning is so clearly stated and obvious.
The sadness of this song is almost overwhelming!! The decisions we make in life are based on the perception of reward vs risk. The singer is this song took the risk of falling in love with someone years ago who hurt him. So now by rejecting love he inflicts pain on not only others but on himself!! It is a shame that the deaths of Meatloaf and Steinmann means we may never hear songs like this again!!!
Unrequited love hurts the hardest. We’re still driven to pursue it though, despite knowing that a rejection will break us into pieces. As others have mentioned, another song from the album well worth checking out is “For Crying Out Loud” It’s a truly epic performance and a great piece of song writing by Jim Steinman.
According to Jim Steinman, the writer of this song and the piano player in the background, here's the story of this song. He was with a woman (v2) that left him and had told him that she wanted him and needed him, but didn't love him and that's why she was leaving. They eventually got back together and she now loved him the way he always wanted her to, but his feelings for her had changed. Now, (v1) he's telling her the same thing. I want you and need you, but I don't love you. Now, he's the one leaving her. Crazy, but since hearing his story of the song, I've never listened to it the same way again. Anyway, just throwing that out there.
Hey Lex, I'm with you....my favorite Meat Loaf song! I think he was re-living a situation that he had experienced years ago....he loved her but she didn't feel the same towards him. Now it's the opposite and it rings true. Either staying with the wrong person or hoping for a different outcome. Unrealistic expectations! Great reaction y'all again!
It's very meta and makes you think about the long term consequences of trying to make a relationship work when you know deep down it won't. There's a dark line from an old TV show called Profit - 'If you want to fall in love with someone, open your heart. If you want someone to fall in love with you , close it.'
8 Track, Album, Cassette and CD, had them all of this debut album. Saw him live with ELO at the C.N.E in Toronto 1978. what a night as a 16y/o rocker kid.
Greatest story teller ever lived. I could put this album on and let it play for days. All people no matter where you lived on the planet, language spoken, could listen to his songs and immediately identify with them. I think he spoke for every human alive...
Just some trivia>>> Meatloaf as a kid was outside Parkland Memeorial hospital with his buddy when JFK was wheeled into Emergency room after he was shot. Saw the blood stained limo that always haunted him.
The late Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) had a background in musical theater. That's how he learned how to interpret a song and bring out all of the emotion written into it.
My all time favorite Meat Loaf song.The song is telling the woman that their relationship can go only so far and if she can be happy with that then all is good.He saying he can only love once,and he has already did that,but his lover couldn't love him back and his unhappiness made her leave him.
Meat Loaf sang lead in several Ted Nugent hits - Free For All album. Meat Loaf was in the movie "Leap of Faith". I highly recommend watching it. The song is about commitment issues from a previous relationship. At least he was upfront and honest with her. Lex got it right. Today, many relationships don't work out because one party wants you and needs you, but they don't love you.
Fond memories of this chart-topping song that first introduced me to the legend that is Meatloaf. This album dominated the charts that year and it seemed everyone and their dog had a Bat Out of Hell poster..... right next to their Farrah posters, of course. Still listen to the album till this day.
If you love his balleds Lex... definately check out HEAVEN CAN WAIT. My favorite balled by Meatloaf by far. And its so much harder since he's been gone. Rip to a legend who performed every song with his whole heart and soul ❤️
What a coincidence.. I literally just searched a couple of hours ago to see if there were any new reactions to this. Then I scrolled past this on my homepage, 3 mins after it's posted. 55 views 👀. This is the earliest that I've been to an upload.
The Story that's being told, and the emotion in the lyrics that he's delivering is about as perfect, a break-up song could be. Not every song has to be up-tempo. Understanding the stories and the messages are the most important things.
Man, I'm feeling old! 😉 The Cracker Jack box he's talking about is a brand of Caramel Popcorn that came in a box. Each box held a small toy of some kind. My baby brother lucked out and got a tiny cast iron jeep once! I got whistles, always whistles. 🙄
Per Songfacts Jim Steinman, who was Meat Loaf's songwriter said he wrote a song about the elusive nature of love. The song begins with Meat Loaf getting kicked to the curb by his girl, presumably because he won't tell her he loves her. He makes the case that even though he will never love her, he's good enough, since after all he does want her and need her, and happy endings are only for fairy tales. We then learn that his commitment issues step from a previous relationship - one with the only woman he will ever love. She once left him with the same explanation: I want you, I need you, but I'll never love you.
I don't know what I feel when I look at a person who hears this song for the first time while listening to it myself; It's kind of crazy and emotional..... I'm totally envying her. But I'm also aware of the fact that I've been listening to this song for over 45 years now, on quite a regular base I should add, and I can also envy myself for having had the spirit to buy the album within a week when it came out and falling in love with it and being able to listen to it for that long. Things often have two sides I guess, but thank you for letting me watch you having an experience I had as a boy but wasn't able to film alone in my room that day.....
Best Meatloaf tune ever. Impossible to listen to without singing it. There is a small prize at the bottom of every "Cracker Jack Box" which is a popcorn candy. A "Coup de Ville" is an expensive Cadillac car.
This really is an amazing song. Brutally honest and raw. And the full circle- him telling the current woman that he doesn’t love her… and going back to the one woman he ever did love telling him the same thing.
I love it when I see you guys get it!! That's why I love this channel. BTW, the irony on this song is that it starts with him leaving a girl and telling her I want you and I need you but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you and it ends with him telling the story of how that happened to him in the past with the only girl he'd ever love.
I always interpreted the song that people are always looking for the perfect soul mate, but in reality, everyone has a flaw somewhere. And even then, that perfect person may have passed you by. So always be greatful for what you have, and never give up.
One thing you will find common in many of the Meatloaf\Steinman songs is angst. Whether it be teen angst, unrequited love angst or some other form of angst. It is almost always there. "Objects in the rearview mirror (May be closer than they appear)" is another great ballad of angst (but not the reason you may think) worth checking out.
I saw the Bat Out Of Hell tour and it was amazing. It was amazing. like an opera. This big overweight guy wants the girl and by the middle of the show you have forgotten his looks and you are just rooting for him to get the girl. He finally gets the girl and then years later feels trapped. It was a whole concept.
The girl that stung his heart so bad and made him cry icicles instead of Tears turned him into the guy who couldn't love any others so I guess that's where the two out of three ain't bad comes from. It seems like it's the age-old story about unrequited love and how it turns you into the same type of person where all you can give to some other person is the same unrequited love that you got.
In a 2003 interview for VH1 Ultimate Albums series, Jim Steinman (1947-2021, RIP) said he was complaining to friend Mimi Kennedy that he couldn’t get a deal. She suggested his songs were too complicated. Just then, Elvis' I Want You, I Need You, I Love You came on the radio & she said, "Why don't you write something simple like that." Steinman went home & “tried so hard” to write a simple song & “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” was the result. He said, “still a twist, but it was my closest to a simple song & one Elvis could have done."
A Meat Loaf power ballad with a little rock for Brad is "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)". It's a long song btw the answer to (But I Won't Do That) is at the end of the song when the female singer puts a few statements out.
In my opinion, there are very few "perfect" albums out there (every single song is golden). Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Eagles Live, Def Leppard's Hysteria, Boston, and Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell fall into this group.
I think this song is about the one great love we all have. That love like no other that always stays in our hearts. Even when we are with someone else, we can want them and need them, but we'll never love them...not like we loved our great love at least.
I believe the woman he's singing to at the beginning IS the woman that left him yrs ago and came back trying to regain what she walked away from ... He says "you've been cold to me so long I'm crying icicles instead of tears" This is his way I won't be hurt again. like at the beginning it is almost like payback or What she did coming back to haunt her. He's repeating her words from yrs ago to her now.
My favorite Meatloaf song- Tables were turned here- he was told the same thing many years ago (prior) by the only girl he ever loved that hurt him..then down the road he has another girl and feels the same towards her that his previous only love felt/said to him-
You're not going to find oil on a city street, a ruby in a pile of rocks, a coup de ville at the bottom of a cracker jack box. Those prizes don't exist. If you're looking for a prize in a relationship, you're never going to get it. It is what it is.
Meat Loaf's daughter Pearl is married to Scott Ian of Anthrax.... she's his "Safe Home". Soooo, maybe react to that song by them. I been places in my head, behind me worse than what's ahead!!!!
This song runs through my head every so often, it's probably His most iconic song, though when my head plays it I usually substitute Diamond Ring for Coupe DeVille, to me it tends to work better.
Brand new sub here…it’s amazing to see people do Meat Loaf..dude had legit opera pipes doing power ballads…I’ll have to go see what Meat songs you’ve done. But if you haven’t you need to do “For Crying out Loud”, “Good Girls go to Heaven”, “For Crying out Loud” and “Lost Boys and Golden Girls”I could literally go on and on with amazing Meat Loaf songs…rad reaction though guys
This song reminds me of my mom. She used to sing it. She has been dead a long time. She had a tragic life and was deeply unhappy. I'm looking forward to seeing her again soon
cool! Meat rocked for sure. and Jim was a MASTERFUL songwriter. this song heavily homaged Elvis' "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" which is also a pretty good song.
You and I seems to be the only ones making the Elvis connection. When back in the day it was sooo obvious. We all "knew" the next line was going to be "I love you" so when Meat sang "but there ain't no way I'm ever going to love you" we got the joke immediately. th-cam.com/video/xePcB1PJ7-o/w-d-xo.html
Such a beautiful song. Meatloaf was an actor to. Listen to I’d Do Anything For Love, But I Want Do That. Love watching you’ll reaction , I’m 69 and grew up with this great music 🎵
I just freaking realized people take this song as a serious sentimental ballad. That's like taking Paradise by the Dashboard Lights as a coming-of-age love song. First time I heard this song was in maybe 91? I was 15 or 16, and I laughed my ass off. I mean, the song slowly builds all melancholic, but he doesn't want to leave... because it's snowing. He tells her she's a cold b--: "you been cold to me so long I'm crying icicles." Then he throws in an "ain't no way" to make sure you're listening and taking note that love ain't happening... And follows it up with two out of three ain't bad! I mean that's like saying, "hey girl, don't cry. You're batting average is nearly twice the best in the league." Like she cares! It's all tongue in cheek humor. He's basically saying "let me sleep on it" as an adult.
2 out of 3 = :1. I want you. 2. I need you. 3. Aint no way Im ever gonna love you....but 2 out of 3 aint bad! Ultimately its a song about how we settle for people we dont love or dont love us because we want or need them. Powerful song.
Exactly!
Final verse reveals that the heartbreak from "many years ago" broke him so bad he can't love anyone else for fear of that heartbreak again
@@airgunningcolorado78 Yes, and the words he's singing are the exact words the one who hurt him said to him.
I never thought of it in terms of settling, but that's apt. Another nuance of it is by settling, the person you're settling with then falls in love with you and it perpetuates the cycle. Thus him remembering his love saying the same thing to him.
It's basically why there are so many Divorces! ...
“I'm tired of words and I'm too hoarse to shout
but you've been cold to me so long I'm crying icicles instead of tears”… IMO some of the best lyrics of any song I’ve ever listened to!
Jim Steinman definitely one of the all time greatest songwriters
You have to go a long way to beat 'There ain't no coupe de ville hiding at the bottom of a crackerjack box'!
As a youngster when this was released--this to me was the most thought-provoking, heart-felt, complex love song ever produced. RIP Meatloaf.
1. I want you 2. I need you 3. I’m never gonna love you - 2 out of 3
Duh!🤣
“But there ain’t no Coupe De Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box”…..
The writer, Jim Steinman had a gift for writing songs like that, and Meatloaf made them sound fantastic. He's written hits for Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion, Air Supply, probably more!
And almost all of Steinman's other artists hits were first offered to Meat's publishing company and they turned them down. Would of been interesting to hear Meat sing "Turn Around" rather then Tyler, lol.
RIP
This song starts off with him telling a girl that he could never love her. Next verse he's talking about the girl he loved in his past & she's the one who told him she could never love him. So basically I think this song is showing how past relationships can affect your future relationships. After he got so hurt in his past he's not able to love again. He put that guard up.
That's what I always got from this song.
The girl in the first verse is the same one that hurt him and now she wants him, but it's too late. He throws her words back in her face and leaves.
Yes, yes, yes! It is amazing how many people don't get what this story is about. Thanks Ms. Stella for being at least one other person who gets it.
@@davegrayson8774 Spot on. It is the same girl.
Exactly right.
@@davegrayson8774 It's not the same girl. He says in the song he'll always love the first girl, but she never loved him back. The song is about how emotional damage can be passed along from one person to another. It's just sad, not about him finally 'winning'.
This has been my favorite Meat Loaf song since I was a young kid.
"I can't lie .. I can't tell you that I'm something I'm not .. no matter how I try .. I'll never be able to give you something .. something that I just haven't got" ... absolutely some of the truest and most powerful lyrics ever written.
Marvin Lee Aday (Meat Loaf) was an incredible singer and I think I was a freshman in high school when his first record came out. He had a theatre background in plays and musicals. He was also in the Off-Broadway play and movie of Rocky Horror Picture Show. This is why he is so dramatic in his performances. While doing theatre he met Jim Steinman, and Jim is the person who wrote the lyrics and music for all of the Meat Loaf hits. You had two guys who were both epic talents connect and make brilliant music together. I love watching young people get turned on to great music from back in the day.
I feel as if a part of my youth died with the passing of this wonderful entertainer and genuine human being. Marvin Lee Aday (Michael) AKA Meatloaf your musical performances will live on! Thanks for the decades of memories. Great song selection Brad/Lex.
If I recall, he is singing the song to the same girl throughout. At the beginning of the song, she has returned, expecting to find him still loving her. To the girl's dismay, "they can talk all night, but that ain't getting us nowhere" - she was cold to him for so long that he now cries icicles instead of tears (he doesn't love her anymore). She was the girl that he loved "so many years ago", but she kissed him and walked out of the door saying that she didn't love him. She didn't value the love that she now desires, but is too late.
I didn't think it was the same girl, but your explanation makes a lot of sense. It does explain his tears turning to icicles. That line always hung me up! Thanks!
Yes. I believe you are correct. Same girl in the beginning and end.
RIP - Meat Loaf...your music can make me stop and listen & enjoy. Rock on Brad & Lex
Meat was an absolute powerhouse, both vocally and physically. He could throw grand pianos and motorbikes around for fun.
I agree with you, Lex. Meatloaf has the perfect voice for this type of song.
You need to do “For Crying Out Loud.” That is Meatloaf’s big ballad from the “Bat Out of Hell” album. Of course you really need to do every song off of that album.
Indeed, the whole album is masterpiece and every song is its own opera.
For crying out loud is arguably the most beautiful song ever written in my opinion
It's the best song on the album. I absolutely love it.
They couldn't get anybody to produce Bat Out of Hell. Along came Todd Rundgren and said let's doit. When it came to the title song Steinman was worried what to do for the motorcycle sound.He asked if it could be made with a guitar..Todd said Hold my beer...
I'm looking for the acapella version...he supposedly sang it an award show.
Terrific voice. Only one Meat Loaf. Godspeed.
Was in high school when this came out, brings back alot of memories for sure, nice job y'all
I was born in 1977 ;-)
Yeah, you nailed it, Lex. He says in the song that there was only one girl that he would ever love, and that was years ago. Those were the things she told him the night she left him. “Want you, need you, don’t love you. Two outta three ain’t bad.”
So years later he finds himself in the position of saying the same thing to some poor heartbroken girl. Sad song, but great commentary on the ability and willingness that people have to use someone for as long as it might suit them.
The girl that broke his heart is the same one he is walking out on later in life.( you been cold to me so long) She broke his heart to the point he could never love again. He wasnt good enough when they were young. She wanted more. (gold, oil, rubies, Coupe De Ville). She thought she could do better and when she couldnt, she tried to get him back.
@@tomshumaker7370 Ahh, of course you’re right. Makes the story even better.
@@tomshumaker7370 AMAZING i've listened to this song a thousand times and never put it together that it was the same girl.
@@tomshumaker7370 that makes sense. It never crossed my mind that it was the same girl but years later. I guess you can say what goes around comes around.
@@tomshumaker7370 WOW. I've been a fan of Meat Loaf for decades and never realized that it was the SAME girl.
It's usually Brad looking at the lyrics and he's analytical but lex is super smart and the funniest of all the peeps with reaction videos
You took the words right out of my mouth...For crying out loud
Yes! For Crying Out Loud was my wedding song…
@@TheFairyintheFishBowl One of the most beautiful/moving songs I've ever heard..my favorite of his
He’s singing to the same woman who broke his heart in the first place. She came back to him, years later, and that point he couldn’t love her back. She crushed him……✌💙
I'm so glad Lexi finally picked up on the meaning by the end. Lol
Yeah, it's not like it's that difficult to understand this song. Like you, I was glad when one of the blank expressions disappeared.
Yeah, I feel they often struggle with the meaning of the songs and I thought if they don't get that one I'm losing faith. The meaning is so clearly stated and obvious.
Thats soul right there! Such an amazing artist and what a voice! The world is a sadder place since we lost him!
The sadness of this song is almost overwhelming!! The decisions we make in life are based on the perception of reward vs risk. The singer is this song took the risk of falling in love with someone years ago who hurt him. So now by rejecting love he inflicts pain on not only others but on himself!! It is a shame that the deaths of Meatloaf and Steinmann means we may never hear songs like this again!!!
Unrequited love hurts the hardest. We’re still driven to pursue it though, despite knowing that a rejection will break us into pieces.
As others have mentioned, another song from the album well worth checking out is “For Crying Out Loud”
It’s a truly epic performance and a great piece of song writing by Jim Steinman.
According to Jim Steinman, the writer of this song and the piano player in the background, here's the story of this song. He was with a woman (v2) that left him and had told him that she wanted him and needed him, but didn't love him and that's why she was leaving. They eventually got back together and she now loved him the way he always wanted her to, but his feelings for her had changed. Now, (v1) he's telling her the same thing. I want you and need you, but I don't love you. Now, he's the one leaving her. Crazy, but since hearing his story of the song, I've never listened to it the same way again. Anyway, just throwing that out there.
I remember reading that somewhere. The woman in the end is the same one from the beginning. Roles were reversed.
Cool! I never knew that! Thanks.
Do you have a link to that interview? Or something I can put in the search engine? I have tried all day to find that interview and have had no luck
@@allenwhitmer8192 I just found it on YT by typing in Jim Steinman Two outta three ain't bad interview.
@@allenwhitmer8192 No. this was something I saw on MTV or possbly VH-1 back in the mid 80s.
Hey Lex, I'm with you....my favorite Meat Loaf song! I think he was re-living a situation that he had experienced years ago....he loved her but she didn't feel the same towards him. Now it's the opposite and it rings true. Either staying with the wrong person or hoping for a different outcome. Unrealistic expectations! Great reaction y'all again!
Not his experience.. Meat didn't write his own material.
@@randallbundy108 Because if your meatloaf can write, then it has fingers. And if you eat meat fingers, that's weird.
It's very meta and makes you think about the long term consequences of trying to make a relationship work when you know deep down it won't.
There's a dark line from an old TV show called Profit -
'If you want to fall in love with someone, open your heart.
If you want someone to fall in love with you , close it.'
That quote is so true. We want what we can't have, as is human nature.
8 Track, Album, Cassette and CD, had them all of this debut album. Saw him live with ELO at the C.N.E in Toronto 1978. what a night as a 16y/o rocker kid.
Brad & Lex, you'll love his "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth"!! for your 5th of his.
edit - Lex, thanks for explaining it to Brad lol.
I second that request! 👏🏻👏🏻
The album version with the back and forth at the start.
Ooh, this is such a well written song. Definitely my favorite Meat Loaf song.
It was written by the man playing piano I believe his name is Jim Steinman
Ahhhhh Meatloaf! You always know where ya stand!
Greatest story teller ever lived. I could put this album on and let it play for days. All people no matter where you lived on the planet, language spoken, could listen to his songs and immediately identify with them. I think he spoke for every human alive...
There will never be another like him and I am so happy I was around when he made his magic.
Just some trivia>>> Meatloaf as a kid was outside Parkland Memeorial hospital with his buddy when JFK was wheeled into Emergency room after he was shot. Saw the blood stained limo that always haunted him.
The late Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) had a background in musical theater. That's how he learned how to interpret a song and bring out all of the emotion written into it.
opera trained got his chops on Broadway. In concert he plays to the back row. He was an amazing artist not just a singer, but an artist
My all time favorite Meat Loaf song.The song is telling the woman that their relationship can go only so far and if she can be happy with that then all is good.He saying he can only love once,and he has already did that,but his lover couldn't love him back and his unhappiness made her leave him.
Meat Loaf sang lead in several Ted Nugent hits - Free For All album. Meat Loaf was in the movie "Leap of Faith". I highly recommend watching it. The song is about commitment issues from a previous relationship. At least he was upfront and honest with her. Lex got it right. Today, many relationships don't work out because one party wants you and needs you, but they don't love you.
Lyrics by Jim Steinman. If you look all the songs he wrote, you'll see he was the greatest poet of his generation.
Brad likes energetic Meatloaf, and Lex likes ballad Meatloaf.
Is today opposite day? Lol
RIP Meat Loaf! 💔 You were truly one of the best! You made growing up in the 70s and 80s all that much better!
He was such a showmen, so much talent. Glad I got to see him once, great Performer
Fond memories of this chart-topping song that first introduced me to the legend that is Meatloaf. This album dominated the charts that year and it seemed everyone and their dog had a Bat Out of Hell poster..... right next to their Farrah posters, of course. Still listen to the album till this day.
If you love his balleds Lex... definately check out HEAVEN CAN WAIT. My favorite balled by Meatloaf by far. And its so much harder since he's been gone. Rip to a legend who performed every song with his whole heart and soul ❤️
Mine is For Crying Out Loud. No one ever reacts to that.
What a coincidence.. I literally just searched a couple of hours ago to see if there were any new reactions to this.
Then I scrolled past this on my homepage, 3 mins after it's posted. 55 views 👀. This is the earliest that I've been to an upload.
The Story that's being told, and the emotion in the lyrics that he's delivering is about as perfect, a break-up song could be. Not every song has to be up-tempo. Understanding the stories and the messages are the most important things.
Man, I'm feeling old! 😉 The Cracker Jack box he's talking about is a brand of Caramel Popcorn that came in a box. Each box held a small toy of some kind. My baby brother lucked out and got a tiny cast iron jeep once! I got whistles, always whistles. 🙄
And we thought it was sooo good. Now you compare to some crunch n munch, Cracker Jacks taste like trash! 😝
Heck i can't have either i'm diabetic..😂😂😂😂
@@revwillyg6450 Crunch N Munch>Fiddle Faddle>Cracker Jacks
hey a whistle ain't bad.
The fake tattoo stuff was in all my boxes. The popcorn could be stale half the time too. Loved that shit.
Favorite Meat Loaf song. I love how Lex gets this stuff, lyrically and musically.
he's at his best in It's All Comming Back to Me Now
Per Songfacts Jim Steinman, who was Meat Loaf's songwriter said he wrote a song about the elusive nature of love. The song begins with Meat Loaf getting kicked to the curb by his girl, presumably because he won't tell her he loves her. He makes the case that even though he will never love her, he's good enough, since after all he does want her and need her, and happy endings are only for fairy tales.
We then learn that his commitment issues step from a previous relationship - one with the only woman he will ever love. She once left him with the same explanation: I want you, I need you, but I'll never love you.
I don't know what I feel when I look at a person who hears this song for the first time while listening to it myself; It's kind of crazy and emotional.....
I'm totally envying her. But I'm also aware of the fact that I've been listening to this song for over 45 years now, on quite a regular base I should add, and I can also envy myself for having had the spirit to buy the album within a week when it came out and falling in love with it and being able to listen to it for that long. Things often have two sides I guess, but thank you for letting me watch you having an experience I had as a boy but wasn't able to film alone in my room that day.....
Best Meatloaf tune ever. Impossible to listen to without singing it. There is a small prize at the bottom of every "Cracker Jack Box" which is a popcorn candy. A "Coup de Ville" is an expensive Cadillac car.
You can't go wrong with this album. Throw a dart.
One of the greatest albums ever,fact
Its one of meatloafs classics, love the song.
Saw the meat in 1979 at Nassau coliseum. He was getting oxygen every 15 minutes.
Such an amazing voice , such a tragedy that he no longer is among us ...
This really is an amazing song. Brutally honest and raw. And the full circle- him telling the current woman that he doesn’t love her… and going back to the one woman he ever did love telling him the same thing.
I definitely recommend For Crying Out Loud. It's one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
I think you's are now ready for "for crying out loud" meat Loaf at his majestic best...
"For Crying Out Loud" Lexie! You'll love it!
I love it when I see you guys get it!! That's why I love this channel. BTW, the irony on this song is that it starts with him leaving a girl and telling her I want you and I need you but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you and it ends with him telling the story of how that happened to him in the past with the only girl he'd ever love.
Meatloaf was the King of Rock Opera. Paradise by the Dashboard Light is another great one.
#1 I want you # 2 I need you # 3 but there ain’t know way I’m ever gonna love you, But two out of three ain’t bad🤓
I always interpreted the song that people are always looking for the perfect soul mate, but in reality, everyone has a flaw somewhere. And even then, that perfect person may have passed you by. So always be greatful for what you have, and never give up.
One thing you will find common in many of the Meatloaf\Steinman songs is angst. Whether it be teen angst, unrequited love angst or some other form of angst. It is almost always there. "Objects in the rearview mirror (May be closer than they appear)" is another great ballad of angst (but not the reason you may think) worth checking out.
Love his music, he told stories.
I saw the Bat Out Of Hell tour and it was amazing. It was amazing. like an opera. This big overweight guy wants the girl and by the middle of the show you have forgotten his looks and you are just rooting for him to get the girl. He finally gets the girl and then years later feels trapped. It was a whole concept.
Awesome song happy Saturday to you both 🥰
Hes music of the 70,s is all about heart love lust and loss he the ultimate love ballad he crushes it The ultimate power ballad singer
Only meat could sing this so passionatly i rekon everyone out there has their two out of three story
The girl that stung his heart so bad and made him cry icicles instead of Tears turned him into the guy who couldn't love any others so I guess that's where the two out of three ain't bad comes from. It seems like it's the age-old story about unrequited love and how it turns you into the same type of person where all you can give to some other person is the same unrequited love that you got.
"I like energetic Meatloaf"
Brad's hungry. There's gotta be a chef watching who could whip that up.
Ya can't beat a good old fashioned love
song, and Meatloaf delivers it perfectly.
In a 2003 interview for VH1 Ultimate Albums series, Jim Steinman (1947-2021, RIP) said he was complaining to friend Mimi Kennedy that he couldn’t get a deal. She suggested his songs were too complicated. Just then, Elvis' I Want You, I Need You, I Love You came on the radio & she said, "Why don't you write something simple like that." Steinman went home & “tried so hard” to write a simple song & “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” was the result. He said, “still a twist, but it was my closest to a simple song & one Elvis could have done."
A Meat Loaf power ballad with a little rock for Brad is "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)". It's a long song btw the answer to (But I Won't Do That) is at the end of the song when the female singer puts a few statements out.
Now you hit the JACKPOT! So many hits.... "For Crying Out Loud" should be your next if you want to hear him shine!
In my opinion, there are very few "perfect" albums out there (every single song is golden). Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Eagles Live, Def Leppard's Hysteria, Boston, and Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell fall into this group.
agree 100%
Elvis Presley's Sun Sessions
Nazareth Hair of the Dog
I think this song is about the one great love we all have. That love like no other that always stays in our hearts. Even when we are with someone else, we can want them and need them, but we'll never love them...not like we loved our great love at least.
such an amazing gift and talent RIP. I love you two reactions at the end, damn girl you are spot on as usual
"Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" is a power ballad performed by the American musician Meat Loaf. It is a track off his 1977 album Bat Out of Hell
I miss Meat. He was one of the best EVER.
I believe the woman he's singing to at the beginning IS the woman that left him yrs ago and came back trying to regain what she walked away from ... He says "you've been cold to me so long I'm crying icicles instead of tears" This is his way I won't be hurt again. like at the beginning it is almost like payback or What she did coming back to haunt her. He's repeating her words from yrs ago to her now.
Much respect to Lex for understanding the greatness of Meat!
My favorite Meatloaf song- Tables were turned here- he was told the same thing many years ago (prior) by the only girl he ever loved that hurt him..then down the road he has another girl and feels the same towards her that his previous only love felt/said to him-
You're not going to find oil on a city street, a ruby in a pile of rocks, a coup de ville at the bottom of a cracker jack box. Those prizes don't exist. If you're looking for a prize in a relationship, you're never going to get it. It is what it is.
YES!!!! So glad you did this one.
Meat Loaf's daughter Pearl is married to Scott Ian of Anthrax.... she's his "Safe Home". Soooo, maybe react to that song by them. I been places in my head, behind me worse than what's ahead!!!!
My favorite Meat Loaf songs he ever recorded!
This song runs through my head every so often, it's probably His most iconic song, though when my head plays it I usually substitute Diamond Ring for Coupe DeVille, to me it tends to work better.
For crying out loud is my favorite song on the album
Brand new sub here…it’s amazing to see people do Meat Loaf..dude had legit opera pipes doing power ballads…I’ll have to go see what Meat songs you’ve done. But if you haven’t you need to do “For Crying out Loud”, “Good Girls go to Heaven”, “For Crying out Loud” and “Lost Boys and Golden Girls”I could literally go on and on with amazing Meat Loaf songs…rad reaction though guys
This song reminds me of my mom. She used to sing it. She has been dead a long time. She had a tragic life and was deeply unhappy. I'm looking forward to seeing her again soon
cool! Meat rocked for sure. and Jim was a MASTERFUL songwriter. this song heavily homaged Elvis' "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" which is also a pretty good song.
You and I seems to be the only ones making the Elvis connection. When back in the day it was sooo obvious. We all "knew" the next line was going to be "I love you" so when Meat sang "but there ain't no way I'm ever going to love you" we got the joke immediately.
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Such a beautiful song. Meatloaf was an actor to. Listen to I’d Do Anything For Love, But I Want Do That. Love watching you’ll reaction , I’m 69 and grew up with this great music 🎵
It's funny starting at 4:54 watching Mr. Loaf trying to get a hair out of his mouth while singing. 😆
I just freaking realized people take this song as a serious sentimental ballad. That's like taking Paradise by the Dashboard Lights as a coming-of-age love song.
First time I heard this song was in maybe 91? I was 15 or 16, and I laughed my ass off. I mean, the song slowly builds all melancholic, but he doesn't want to leave... because it's snowing. He tells her she's a cold b--: "you been cold to me so long I'm crying icicles." Then he throws in an "ain't no way" to make sure you're listening and taking note that love ain't happening... And follows it up with two out of three ain't bad! I mean that's like saying, "hey girl, don't cry. You're batting average is nearly twice the best in the league." Like she cares! It's all tongue in cheek humor. He's basically saying "let me sleep on it" as an adult.