The only fan-dubbed "red album" I know is the best of the Beatles 62-66.
That's the stupidest moniker for Bat out of Hell I've ever heard.
> ok, so i'm pointlessly wandering around Wikipedia world
> and decide to check out the Bat Out Of Hell article. as
> Mr. Ake has mentioned salt-pinching comes hand-in-hand
> with this website, but i came upon a couple of interesting
> notes:
>
> 1st: the origins of the phrase "bat out of Hell"
>
> "The phrase "Bat out of Hell" did not originate with the
> album or song; it can be traced back to the Greek
> playwright Aristophanes' 414 BC work entitled The Birds.
> [1] In it is what is believed to be the first reference to
> a bat out of Hell:
>
> “ Near by the land of the Sciapodes there is a marsh, from
> the borders whereof the unwashed Socrates evokes the souls
> of men. Pisander came one day to see his soul, which he
> had left there when still alive. He offered a little
> victim, a camel, slit his throat and, following the
> example of Odysseus, stepped one pace backwards. Then that
> bat of a Chaerephon came up from hell to drink the camel's
> blood. ”"
>
> 2nd: this little nugget:
>
> "Fans have begun to name it "The Red Album"."
>
> really? i've never heard it called that. anyone here refer
> to it as such?
>
>
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