Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

So they may stay together for all kinds of reasons, not always such good ones.

All right, now, who was it who sang the song Two Out of Three Ain't Bad? Is that Meat Loaf? Who was it? It was meatloaf.

All right, if Professor Bloom says it was meatloaf, it was meatloaf.

You're all saying there was a singer called Meatloaf? Meatloaf sang the song Two Out of Three Ain't Bad.

Let's see if Two Out of Three Ain't Bad.

What if you have, Intimacy, we share secrets.

The person who every time they sees you, hates you, says they hate you, and accompanies it with an obscene gesture,

after a while this person can't hurt

There

should be a song called Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

because...

What's the one about I'm just a bill on Capitol Hill? What's that about? That's

All right, coming in at number six on our countdown of the top 10 late bloomers of 1978 is the theatrical treasure that became a major hit because it name-checked a beach that also had the same name as a New York DJ who was so excited by that reference, he played it night and day, and it became a smash from there.

It's Two Out of Three Ain't Bad by Meat Loaf.

Two out of three ain't bad.

Musical extraordinaire Jim Steinman actually meant Two Out of Three Ain't Bad to be more straightforward, less of his usual sprawling multi-part rock epics that, that he became known for.

He actually said the main hook came to him after he heard an oldies station playing an Elvis track.

It was his number one hit I Want You, I Need You, I Love You, and he remembered it like this.

So he added a dramatic twist to it so that it wasn't a straight-ahead love song, but more about a complicated one-sided romance.

"I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you.

Well, mine is a song written by the great Jim Steinman and sung by Meat Loaf.

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad.

Because there's, I think f- for people out there, for young people, there's a lyric which I think everyone can take a little bit from.

It goes, "There ain't no coup de vie hiding at the bottom of a Crackerjack box." So what it means, people-

She kept on telling me She kept on telling me She kept on telling me I want you I need you But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you Now don't be sad leave you but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you now don't be sad don't be sad cause two out of three ain't fair now don't be sad cause two but that ain't getting us nowhere

meatloaf two out of three ain't bad the good the bad the ugly for our topic this afternoon that one suggested by listener number eight uh the beatles are on the way i can't remember who suggested this actually we've got so much going on here this afternoon i've completely lost the plot Anyway, we have some updates to our scores.

So Rick in Toronto has the artist.

Howard has the artist.