Any Requests??
 

Are there any songs by other artists which you would like to hear Meat do a rendition of?

Sitting here watching the box and a Chyrsler advert came on with Celline Dion (I think?) singing I Drove All Night originally by Roy Orbison.

And I thought to myself I bet Meat could belt that out with a lot of emotion.

Right it's 5 past 1 and I'm off to dream up some others (literally!).

Night Night Rich xXx

I think Meat could do a great job of singing Paradise City by Guns and Roses. Maybe even Sweet Child O' Mine

Great Topic :D

I personally think that 'it's all coming back to me' by Celine Dion would be fantastic for Meat.

Can't stand the woman myself, but when i heard her singing this, i thought it would be perfect for Meat.

I agree, Heat. I do like listening to Celine, but 'looking' at her seems 'to spoil' the songs...she has these 'strange' face-expressions, I think.
'It's all coming back to me' by Meat, YES!

I personally would also love to hear Meat sing The Rose by Bette Midler. One of my all time favorites.

xxx

Mariella

Too right - Dixie - Only seen Meat sing this once on the Tribute to Elvis years ago. Masterful performance from Meat - Liked it more than the original :!:

Unforgettable Opera - Roger Daltrey - The lyrics to this are just made for Meat Loaf.

Some songs:
It's all coming back to me - cline dion
Rage - Blues Traveler
With arms width open - creed
Lady in red - chris de burgh

And there are more.... :lol:

I remember that! It was 1987 when it was the 10th anniversary of his death and that was when I first "got into" Meat Loaf. Fantastic performance. I had it videod but my dad went over it with Formula one or something :cry:

ps Elvis's death, that is :lol:

The Show Must Go On - Queen
I Want It All - Queen
Too Old To Rock n Roll, Too Young To Die - Jethro Tull
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
November Rain - Guns n Roses
Midnight Train To Memphis - Kid Rock

Lots of Queen songs .. including
Don't stop me now!
and how about We Are the Champions as an end of show encore?

And also there are many "show" songs from musicals I'd love to hear Meat cover .. in particular I'd adore to have the lyrics for "I know him so well" from Chess modified, and see Meat standing back to back with Patti singing this as a duet, so rather than two women singing it about a man they both know, have the couple singing it about each other. It's imo a simply beautiful and very powerful melody, which needs strong voices ... and I can just hear Meat's and Patti's voices singing it .... if ever Meat does the duets CD he referred to, this one would be top of my wish list :)

Definately, Caryl :D That would be lovely - i can just hear it now...

Iwould love to hear Meat sing

Empty chairs at empty tables...from Les Miserables..
it is such a powerful song so full of emotion whenever i hear it i always think how good it would be to hear Meat sing this

The other one i'd really like to hear him do is
Nights in White Satin.......Moody Blues

This was my all time favourite song until i heard For Crying Out Loud
Ihave been a life-long Moody Blues fan, and would just love to hear Meat sing that song


Bren

id like to hear him do days of our lives by queen.dont really like queen but like this song and would like to hear meat do it.

Freddie's the one person imo who's come close to Meat as a rock performer .. great voice and passion .. real stage presence .. you can hear the words .. so yes, that and any other strong Queen number. But I can really see Meat singing "Don't stop me now!!" :)

Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues (with you on that one, Bren)

And "Overcome"- Live

unchained melody.

:mrgreen: , Guppie....would just love to hear him sing that,

glad you agree
:D


Bren

I would love to
 

I"d love to hear Meat do a song by QUEEN, right now there my 3rd fav band, 2nd, if I hear more songs by them. I would love to hear Meat do, The Show Must Go On. 8) Did you know that Meat, did do a song by queen, well sort of? Brian May, the guitarist of the awesome band queen, well him and Meat did a song together called heroes, yea wanna hear it? gimme a shout, its an awesome song!

Nights In White Satin's original version is by Procol Harum.

I think Lamento Eroico by Rhapsody in English would be good!

God gave rock 'n roll to you-Kiss.

songs to sing
 

well, I LOVED Meat's version of Martha by Tom Waits on WTTN, so I'd LOVE to hear him do; 'take it with me, when I go' or 'picture in a frame' by Tom Waits...I'd also love to hear him do 'famous blue raincoat' or 'so long Marrianne' by Leonard Cohen. The only problem with these choices, is he has a far stronger voice than Cohen or Waits (in terms of quality, range and nuances) so he probably wouldn't find them challenging enough. His ability to emote, and story tell,however, is why I'd like to hear a cover of these.
also,
Just me, or does anybody else want to hear Meat do Total Eclipse of the Heart?

My Brother says
 

My brother said he would like to hear Meat Loaf sing Paranoid By Ozzy Osbourne\Black Sabbath. And complicated by Avril Lavigne, lol, well anyways those are his opinions. I just asked him, so I thought I would share, oh and he says one more, walk this way by aerosmith. he's 12, (4 years younger) and rather strange, if yea ask me

I see no point in Meat doing any cover from a Steinman song he hasn't done yet. I don't think he'd pull of "Carpe Noctem" or "Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young" very well, and there is no point in doing "Confession of a Vampire (The Insatiable Appetite)" for it's mostly Objects. "Total Eclipse", "Making Love" and "All Coming Back" were (huge) hits for Bonnie, Air Supply and Celine -- and I wouldn't care for another version. The only "unreleased" Steinsong I'd like to see him do is "For Sarah". A 'small' song, melodic, yeah, I could propably fall for that :)

As for 'other band's songs', I'd also prefer he'd stay clear from the 'classics'/big hits/famous songs, UNLESS he gives 'em a twist. I've read a lot of suggestions in this thread, and with most of them, I had something like "they can't be serious". A lot of them don't seem to fit either Meat's voice, or I couldn't picture him singing it, based on the lyrics / music. I can't see Meat singing Paradice City. I love the GN'R version -- but the idea of Meat singing it devellops a mental block. It isn't his style. Same goes for Paranoid. November Rain, We Are The Champions, The Show Must Go On -- the originals are perfect, why redo it? I'm sure those versions can't be topped.
That being said, I could see see Meat doing the following two songs:
Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed" -- musicaly and lyrically I think this would suit Meat very well. Co-written by Dick Wagner (execution day, fallen angel)
and Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road" -- they said that "Bat Out Of Hell" was a "Born To Run" wanna-be, well, then I'd like to hear how Meat tackles one of the highlights of that album.

My €0.02

I agree Evil Nickname, I would love to hear Meat sing "Thunder Road" it would just be so interesting. I don't think that Meat could do a better job at the song then The Boss, but that's understandable. Meat would still do a good job at it I'm sure.
Also, I was thinking, and I know this will sound weird but I'd like to hear Meat sing "Origin Of Love" from Hedwig. He could pull it off and it would sound very original.

hmmm
 

I agree with most of what Evil nickname is saying...except the Springstein cover, but that's most likely a personal bias, as I am not fond of his music for the most part. (sorry! to all the Springstein fans :oops: )
Also, many 'big hits' by other artists would seem cheesy as a cover, it gives you that karaoke-bar-cover-band-wedding kinda feel to hear somebody else singing the big rock standards. I guess 'Total Eclipse of the Heart.' should fall under that category as well since it is INHERENTLY Bonnie Tyler at this point. Nonetheless, I've always been curious as to how it would sound with Meat.....ahh well, most is best left imagined.
All in all, very well put 'Evil', if I may call you Evil :lol:

I think Greg's original question was about songs we'd love to hear Meat sing .. not definite plans for recordings :) .. so whether a song has been successfully covered by another artist surely doesn't matter .. it's just our dream of songs we'd love to hear that voice delivering .. and I too would love to hear him sing Total Eclipse.

And of course even if he decided to record such a song .. he'd make it his own version anyway .. so it would still be worthy of inclusion on any album :)

Re: hmmm
 

Sure you may...

CarylB, OK, Greg's question may have been about 'live covers'... but for me, its mostly the same as I said before...
When I go to a Meat show (hopefully again in december or whenever he decides to come back to Holland) I want to hear Meat's own songs... I wasn't really thrilled with the 'Stomp the band'/acoustic cover set on the TVBOML tour in '99. Instead of playing Prince and the Eagles, I would have found it far more interesting to hear his own songs in an unplugged setting.
What would be the point of including recent covers in your setlist when you're an artist of Meat's status?

Evil Nickname wrote:
Probably none .. but this also wasn't what we were talking about .. this was a lighthearted thread about our dreams I thought .. songs we'd love to hear Meat's voice delivering ... doesn't need to make commercial sense .. wasn't about the set list for the tour .. just dreams and fun .. and the point? .. pleasure :)

Am I only the one who can hear Meat singing Faster than the Speed of Night? I think that would be a good one but not Total Eclipse of the Heart.

By the way does anyone know who sings the 'turn arounds' on that?

OK Caryl, I think I get the point now :)

A fantastic singer by the name of Rory Dodd...

Ah, well, there are sooooo many!

Dance In My Pants (Pleeeeeeeease!) - With Bonnie Tyler? :D
Let Me Entertain You - So much better than RW.
The Rose - Great idea there!
Glory Days - By The Boss.
Any new song that Jim writes for Bat 3! :twisted:
All Coming Back would be great too (NOT with Celine!).
Crawling From The Wreckage - Dave Edmunds?
When Tomorrow Comes - Eurythmics...

That's enough for now :lol: ... What do you think?

Angels Of Darkness by Rhapsody?
I know it's a 19 minutes long but why not? And it'd heavier than Meat's music but why not? And it's symphonic metal but why not?

And another: When The Smoke Is Going Down by Scorpions!!!

Pseronally id lke to hear his spin on gilbert and sulivan - modern major general

That's really interesting Shadows .. I've often thought how suited Meat would be for G&S .. his diction is so good. Remember him saying that Richard O'B had said to him "Don't worry about trying to get all the words in Hot Patootie .. it's impossible" .. and Meat made every one count?

Modern Major General would be excellent .. and the LH Executioner's song from the Mikado? .. I can just hear him singing about his little list, particularly the final breakneck chorus!!

Re: I would love to
 

Yes I knew that, it was for an International Special Olympics or something like that. I have it on a cheap rock compilation cd I found.

Speaking of Queen, when Meat was a guest host on VH1 radio (or something like that), he played "We Will Rock You" as an example of songs he liked.

If you go to General Messages - A song for Meat Loaf Unforgettable Opera, you can read the lyrics for yourself and make your own choice.
I think its around the 16th April that I originally posted it.

My choice would be Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. It would be very interesting, thought I don't think it could beat Jeff Buckley's version. That was just an orgasm in sound, his voice was so beautiful.

I have the same feeling, but then with Rufus Wainwright's version (from the Shrek soundtrack).
Goosebumps all over the place...

If I could hear Meat sing something previously done bya nother artist I would like to hear him sing "Crying in the chapel" I think he could do it justice with the right emotion.

Eyeore-You've got me thinking Cohen again, I think I may have suggested this elsewhere in the thread, but a version of "So long Marianne" would be lovely....Yes?

How about the Queen version? Lyrically and musically better.

theres a Queen Version really?? :? 8O :?

No, there's not a Queen version -- Queen has a song that's called "Let Me Entertain You". Totally different from the Robbie Williams' song. It's on one of their CD's from before "Night at the Opera" if that helps...

Meat Loaf doing Steinman's Dance In My Pants, with Pearl. That would be the greatest

(I will be now using that search, more so than ever, its really helpful.)

Hmmmmm . . . for me, just about anything Bob Seger did. I think we talked a bit about it on the ROL list because I had heard "Come to Papa" on the local classic rock station (I hadn't heard it in years) and I thought it would be so cool to hear Meat do it. I'd love to hear him do "Beautiful Loser". Right off the top of my head that's all I could think of at the moment.

Lady B ~ Long live Bob Seger and homegrown Meeeeechigan Rock & Roll!!!

What about 'We've Got Tonight' by Bob Segar and many others??

At the end of the day he is the main man for ballads!!

Gerry, think it's about time for me to go find that Silver Bullet Live album and listen again. There's nothing like Bob. Like Meat, he puts his signature on a song and makes it uniquely his own.

Lady B

Lady B, u sure a a lady with class.
Big Bobs the man, a piece of class who doesn't get reconigsed in the UK as much as he deserves.

Think I'll go for a stroll down Mainstreat :D

I LOVE Don't stop Me Now!!!!!!!! :D That's my fave queen song at the moment!!!!!! D/led it just the other day!!! :D

That's funny 'cause I've been thinking about that these days... actually, since AndyK posted in another thread that he witnessed 'a long time ago' a soundcheck in which Meat and the band were playing Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love!!!!!!!!! 8O

I wish I could hear Meat performing:

- I'm Calling You - Bagdad Café Soundtrack
- Who Wants To Live Forever - Highlander Soundtrack by Queen
- The Show Must Go On - Queen
- Paradise City - Guns 'n' Roses
- Welcome To The Jungle - Guns 'n' Roses
and
- Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer

It's funny, most of us would like to see Meat singing Queen and Guns 'n' Roses Songs...


Patricia
... dream on! 8)

two songs from the early seventies :D back street luv by curved air :D and a song by family called burlesque :D all with meats special slant on them plus extra twiddly bits added to them :wink: :wink: i am really showing my age :roll:

Georgy said: "all with meats special slant on them plus extra twiddly bits added to them "

LOL :lol: :lol:

Just had another thought though - Love Changes Everything would make a good Meaty cover I reckon.

But I really want him to do a duet with Bonnie Tyler!