Not so long ago, I was explaining to a group of quasi-friends why MeatLoaf is awesome, and one girl had the audacity to pipe up that he'd totally ripped off Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road. I allowed myself a couple of seconds to reel with shock, and then launched into a tirade about how I was in the best position to view the matter objectively, having great appreciation for both artists, and that Bruce Springsteen's whole steez is being an all-American blue collar worker with dreams of a better life that never materialise, while MeatLoaf's is to be a badass theatrical rocker - so why on earth would one ever have cause to rip off the other? I also added that Springsteen used his sister's life as the basis for more than one of his songs, and that by his own admission he's "a rich man in a poor man's shirt" - more to make out that I knew my Springsteen than because they had any real relevance to the debate. Anyway so I was shrieking all this at her in my best incredulous shout, allowing her no time to talk because she was talking bullshit, obviously, and eventually I finished my rant and we moved on to other topics.
Today, Thunder Road came on my iPod and I thought to myself something that I have thought a number of times before: "Hmm, this piano riff sounds exactly like the Bat Out of Hell one." Wikipedia confirms Thunder Road to have been released in 1975, and Bat Out of Hell in 1977.
I hate being wrong.
Comparisons, if you must:
Thunder Road
Bat Out of Hell
(Although it should be noted that I still don't take this as absolute proof that Steinman literally lifted it from Bruce.)
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