111. All Of Me
 

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All Of Me (6)

So after 30 times of listening Meat's new album I start this thread again. I tell you, I am not a fan of this album as well but I think it's better than HCTB. But... There was 1 song on HCTB what I really loved (Song Of Madness) and for me HIAHB is the only album from 1977 which has no great song. In contrast to HIAHB, Midnight and Blind Before I Stop had good songs (Razor's Edge and Execution Day are 8 for me) but had very bad songs as well. I think HIAHB has no very bad song (some songs shock me but these are not bad) but no good either, so I think this album is average without surprise...

About All Of Me... One of the average song on the album. It's not powerful, it's just going on and on and on. I love the intro of the song (and the outro of the album) but after that I was bored. It's not bad, it's not special. It's a just a song...

My score: 6

My score for the album is 10 !! I find HIAH the best Meat Loaf album ever !!!!

I will refrain from commenting until I've heard the UK release. :twisted:

I disagree. I think that if all you want from Meat Loaf are the bombastic and huge ballads of the past, then that's the place to go and look for them. HIAB is subtle (in comparison). That's probably why I like it so much.

Doode. :cool: (ho, ho, ho)

Assuming this mix of the song is going to be the same on the international release, then it gets a 6 from me. I really like the piano solo at the end AND how it finishes. The last bit of the song is amazing :P But other than that...it's pretty bland. The piano riff is far too similar to the one in What About Love for my liking. If it wasn't sung by Meat Loaf, I would have never given it as many chances as I did. That's probably the only reason it's still on my iPod.

Plus, it's not an album opener. At all. In my ever so humble opinion, this is possibly the weakest start to a Meat Loaf album since Razor's Edge.

Gets a 5 from me as well...nothing too great really, but then the album would get a 5 from me as well.

amazing song. amazing album. epic vocals. Meat's on his game bro.

If you ask me the worst opening song was Peace On Earth. Meat was speaking and not singing. I agree, All Of Me is a mix of What About Love, CHSIB and I'd Lie For You but the song doesn't work. In the middle of the song Meat's vocal is weak. The piano outro is amazing...

Why bother making a thread about individual HIAHB songs if your not that thrilled about it?

Its like going through and dissing everything in detail. Meat's gonna love that. :?

ah well, in the spirit of Christmas, who gives a jolly well ~~~~ ? :P

Because we have done it with all of the Meat songs before...

per and until I hear the live version.

As of now its a 7.5 only because i can relate to it. not single worthy.

I agree. This is Meat singing from his own heart rather than in character; subtle and perfectly put together.

All Of Me is one of the best songs on the album, powerful and a great opener as it sets out Meat's stall, in much the same way as Peace on Earth was a powerful and great opener to HCTB and set the theme of the album right at the start.

I love this song which for me is pure Meat and rate it 10.

Caryl

I don't rate songs by a number, I don't think that just a number can truly convey the amount of thoughts and feelings a song can stir up. I also believe that a person's perspective of a song can vary depending on their mood at the time.

I love the song 'All Of Me'.

This album is about Meat, he’s sharing his frustrations, his insecurities and what better way to set the tone for such an album that with a song that says quite simply ‘this is all of me’. It's a song that asks that you accept someone for who they are, with all their faults and emotions and I think that is a great message in a world where people aren't accepted for who they are.

The songs on Hell in A Handbasket suit his voice the way it is now, reflecting maturity and wisdom. If his vocals aren't what some people would consider perfect then that's their opinion but I think his voice is perfect for telling these stories through song.

Very well said ... I absolutely agree with you.

no because you have done it before!!!!

Exactly !

5 years ago this forum had more active member than now. A few songs had 30-40 different votes. So, I started this thread because I was bored of reading topics like 'Which Meat album is the best?'. And see arguing for example when WarioLoaf say that Masculine was the best and others say that you were mad. This thread is the chance to see usually the Meat fans which albums and songs like the most...

Perhaps there were more people who were prepared to award "marks out of 10" for individual songs? I recall a recent time when you did this exercise and you said the results were flawed because some (me included) gave everything 10 out of 10. There are some songs which resonate less strongly with me at times, but if I love listening to every song on an album why on earth would I rate any of them less than fully meeting my hopes and expectations? (There are only two things I'd ever skip on a Meat album .. and those are the Steinman monologues which have never appealed to me at all.)

Like Jenna, I never rate songs by a number because it can't convey the feelings a song provokes, different songs will resonate more strongly than others depending on one's mood, and to me it smacks of an expert teacher grading papers.

But these are exactly the kind of arguments that asking people to rate songs out of 10 is likely to provoke. You rate what I consider a simply wonderful song 6, and I am likely to think you are mad, or incredibly critical. I don't have any great interest in trying to define what a handful of fans like most in terms of albums or individual songs. What does it mean when all is said and done?

If you went to the whole Meat fan-base you'd find I think that BOOH, AFL, Paradise, Took the Words, would be the top rated songs (plus Dead Ringer in the UK). These get the loudest roar of approval when Meat performs them, and to the majority of fans are the ones which probably resonate most strongly with them .. but what does that mean or say about Meat's work? Most of them would be likely to say his best album is BOOH, and if asked would say it rated 10 out of 10, because that's the one they know best and have lived with for years, but it says nothing about the quality of his other, or indeed his newest albums. I would find it invidious to even attempt to compare for eg BOOH, CHSIB, HCTB and HIAH. Each is of its time in his musical career. To me none is "better" than the other, each is a milestone on a journey that I continue to love 10 out of 10.

Caryl

How about rating the songs out of 100 or maybe out of 1.:-)

6.5 it is the weakest opener for a Meat album.

The worst opener? If it is then that says something for the others.
Do you think they sat down and said let's write a song that sounds like WAL, CHSIB and ILFY? :lol::lol:
All Of Me is solid. Nothing more, nothing less!!

no Razor's Edge is imho

your right lol

Razor's Edge is not a good opener but a good song. All Of Me is not a good opener and not a good song... imho. ;)

Razor's Edge isn't a good song.

Razor's Edge is a good song

I've just got back from a matinee performance of Cinderella.

Oh no you didn't. :nope:

So after months of first publishing of the album... I don't think All Of Me is a good song. Still 6 from me. ;)

After months of listening to the album I still think this is a brilliant song, as indeed is the album.

Love the new sound, love the theme of the album and the lyrics of all the tracks, and love the production which gives that "live" feel to the sound and does such justice to some terrific vocals from Meat.

Meat's on a new creative high and I love it :D I find no complaint or fault with the album or any track on it. Love them all, love the sum of the parts even more. So this album and every track gets a big 10+ from me.

Caryl

very well said, caryl.
i really love HIAHB, and imo ALL the songs are awesome. i love every single song, i love the message of the album and i love meat's voice. it's definitely one of my favorite albums.

6

8.5, really grown on me this one

It sounds so good! The whole album does. It differs vastly from Hang Cool yet the quality is there. Succeeded in more passionate level whereas Hang Cool was indeed passionate too but it was the experimental sounds and words that made it jump out of the Meat Loaf catalogue!

8
Still the song that made me buy the cd

:-):lol:

I still feel exactly the same way about this song as I did when HIAHB came out "OMG was this song written for me?" Was the feeling I got, still do.

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My second favourite track from the album - very, very close to "Another Day". I love Meat's vocal (perhaps you know that from my other posts; I also love an entire album "Hell In A Handbasket") which is quite powerful and full of oposite emotions.



My score: 10/10 :cool:

7 - the lyrics set the scene for the rest of the album very well.

10


Because this entire album is a rock-solid, enthusiastic 10 for me, it was incredibly hard not to just give every song on it a 10 also. I almost did anyway, and may tomorrow! :) I totally understand Caryl's point of view, and also liked Cathy Boston's idea of giving scores greater than 10, but I'm afraid that would just make the task more complicated for me, and no easier! The only way I could do this was to imagine a huge, vicious, brutally EVIL monster flying down and landing on my CD player and telling me he will crush my CD player in his beak, smash the CD, bite my hand, and even shred the autographed booklet, if I don't rate some songs lower than 10. So, under duress (but with all my fingers), here's my list:

10 All Of Me
10 The Giving Tree
9.5 Live Or Die
10 Blue Sky (1st)
9 Mad Mad World
8 Good God Is a Woman and She Don't Like Ugly
10 California Dreamin'
10 Party Of One
10 Another Day
9.5 40 Days
9.5 Our Love and Our Souls
9 Stand In the Storm
10 Blue Sky (2nd)
9.5 Fall From Grace

[QUOTE=Kathy;570785]10

oooh ... i understand you very well, because it's the same for me ... HIAHB is so great, i do love every song on it :D:D:D

I like you :) Your ratings make far more sense to me than certain others! :P :P

:lawl: Kathy, do you play a lot of video games or like watching old monster movies?

@ Matt, thank you!
@ Sarge, lol, neither but sometimes my goofy side comes out :-)

Is Meat Loaf's vocals weak or is he restraining his voice to show vulnerability? I'd rather someone struggle and strain through something and show off some emotion than to have "the studio" fix all the issues and make them clean. I'd like to know specifically what you consider "weak" about his vocals here?

:twisted: I was going to say that you git :bicker: :lol:

If albums were books this would be the synopsis.

I don't understand how he threw a dagger into his own heart though :?
Perhaps because the negative reaction to his words, in the long run, hurt him more than anyone else?

First time I heard the song I thought the lyric would have been "We all live under the same blue sky" which would have been good.
In fact, I think it would have been good to have the opening song to reference the titles of the album.
I'm not saying wether that work or not, but I think it's an interesting idea, especially on a concept album (and unlike HCTB, I can buy THIS as a concept album).

Still "we all live under the same roof" is good enough :wink:

Very catchy chorus, and I think this will be a good crowd pleaser at live shows.
If RFTRL wasn't already in place as the show opener, this would have been good to kick off with.

8/10

Average: 7.75 (108.5/14)