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Meat Loaf, "Paradise By the Dashboard Light"
Keystone Hulton Archive
Meat Loaf's 1977 track with guest Ellen Foley is the musical equivalent of "Married With Children." For over five minutes (eight, if you listened to the song on Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell), the singer begs for action in an automobile before finally promising to "love her forever" so she'll give in. But pretty soon he's "praying for the end of time/To hurry up and arrive/'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you/I don't think that I can really survive." In other words, this "Paradise" sounds like anything but.
