Meat should do an acoustic live album.
 

It would be terrific to hear Meat's vocals over the soft music, performing some of his greatest songs. I'm suprised he hasn't done this yet, and it would take first place in my list of favorite CDs. Nothing could top it. Nothing beats acoustic albums like Nebraska, Tom Joad, etc. Well, those are original albums, but you get the point. :cool: It eliminates so much of the unnecessary music and lets the performer's talent shine through.

I've thought the same thing myself, as I own both Bon Jovi's accoustic/alternative album This Left Feels Right, and Alanis Morrisette's accoustic version of Jagged Little Pill and love them both. It's great to hear the softer versions of thumping good rock songs!

Yep, what a great idea... Please can you do one Meat ????

I´m not such a big fan of acoustic albums, it´s just interesting to listen to them, but it doesnt really...thrill me.

But it surely would be interesting...

I would love to hear an acoustic album with all Meat's great's on, and with his voice is fantastic form this album would be great.....

But lets get Bat III in our collection first.....cannot wait till i have it in mine!

great idea!!!!!!!!!!! Please Meat????????????

ohh yeah an acoustic album...that would be awesome..

Please..

C.

It is a shame that Mtv unplugged is not around as much these days. Meat Loaf could have done one of these I think with his band.

No, they don't really get me all excited and hyped up, either. I think this would remind me too much of Over The Top which was just voice and piano and I found it really bland and boring compared to the thrill and power of the original album versions, not 'over the top' at all!:lol: Although maybe with Meat's vocals it would be a lot better than I'd give the concept credit for, but I fell in love with those songs because they were so over the top, intricate, detailed and loud, I still hear things in them that I've never heard before, and that's part of the thrill of listening to them over and over again. Anyway, that's just MHO!:mrgreen:

I don't know myself. Meat's songs need the grand piano's and the great eletric guitar's, the excellent drum beat's and solo's. This is what make them so good, bombastic masterpieces. :D

I disagree. The vocals can take you through anything. The music in a song only gets about 20% of my attention. The vocals and lyrics get the rest. I'm actually somewhat annoyed by the production on Bat 2. Still a great album, but only at times. It should have been toned down a little, and an acoustic album would do a great job of that, on the ballads if nothing else.

So what about the production of Bat 1, if you take all the great piano's away, the guitars, motorbike riffs, drums etc, you ain't got Bat 1. That's what made it a classic album, it's bombastic production, that is what shifted 15 million copies of Bat 2, the bombastic production. :D

I'd like to hear Bat in the style Meat and Jim peddled it to the record companies in the mid-70s, i.e. just Jim on piano, Meat on vocals with Rory Dodd and Ellen Foley. Stripped down to just bare vocals and piano I'm sure it would sound awesome. If not awesome then it'd still be interesting.

Meat's voice on an entirely acoustic album would be like a bull in a china shop.

His voice lacks the velvet quality heard on Bat out of Hell and his other early stuff - just listen to For Crying out Loud on Live with the MSO. Quiet, small and sincere are not what he should be doing anymore.

Desmond seems to have him doing a lot of shouting and ranting on this new one. Which is good, cause that's what he does well at the moment. And it sounds cool.

Once again, I kindly disagree. Meat did an acoustic version of AFL for a radio station a few years ago, and it was great. His voice is definitely good enough, and the vocal coaching seemed to do some work too. And for god's sakes, he's doing Cry To Heaven and Future on the album. He's capable of a hell of a lot more than shouting. According to some, his voice is the best it's been since Bat 2, and that's live. Have a little faith, lol.

He's capable of alot of things in the studio, he's a great singer. It's when he's on the road and has to preserve his voice that he, as everyone does, has trouble. But meat loaf has consistently had a hell of a lot more trouble than most others. In my opinion, because he has never been coached. Which is just plain silly for a profesional that relies on their voice.

Hopefully the vocal coaching HAS made a huge difference in his ability to consistently reproduce what he is truly capable of in a live setting night after night without losing his chops.

Having addressed all that, I still disagree that an entirely toned down acoustic feel is right for Meat. It's like Annie Lennox, big huge voice that in the studio is just so good, but when she does acoustic stuff live it sounds terrible to me, cause she has to really yell to reach the notes. Like Neil Finn too.

OK, points taken. I think what I really want is them to release the original Bat album with just the vocals and piano (see the Classic Albums DVD for reference). I think that would work and would make a nice item in the 30th anniversary 'package'. After all it's how the album originally sounded - I think it would be great. (Hope you read this and agree, Meat!)

I think an acoustic/stripped down album with be great by Meat. I've always thought he'd work well with Rick Rubin considering what Rubin has done with Johnny Cash.