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Mar 13, 2012Too much of Hell In A Handbasket is just generic songwriter-mill fodder, over-cranked and over-sung.
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Mar 22, 2012If the songs don't quite deliver upon their promise, at least Crook's production and Meat Loaf's performance keep things interesting.
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Mar 21, 2012It's "disappointing" only because it isn't dreadful in funnier, more interesting ways.
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Mar 16, 2012His latest work, Hell in a Handbasket, however, takes the success of Teddy Bear and pushes it a few awful steps backward.
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Feb 24, 2012Unconvincing and overbearing, it's like being ambushed by the cast of a Broadway rock musical.
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Feb 24, 2012Everything's as big, ludicrous and bombastic as ever, but with a vulnerability that is strangely touching.
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Feb 24, 2012Meat Loaf's latest, which covers much the same territory [as The Wall] but without any depth or desire to understand.
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Jun 8, 2012Ultimately scuppered by too many leaden ballads and self-indulgent guest spots, this outing leaves the future looking very unclear once more for Meat Loaf and offers little to those who aren't already die-hard fans.
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UncutMar 12, 2012This painful exercise in manufactured soul-baring Is a genuinely grim proposition. [Apr 2012, p.82]
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Jul 18, 2019this entire album feels like a mistake. I'm sorry but this meat loaf was overcooked and undercooked at the same time.
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Apr 3, 2012