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Mr. Happy · 16 Jul 2015, 07:35

What I want to see from any future Meat shows:

+ The only songs that need to be played at every concert are Bat, Paradise and Anything For Love, and they don't need to be stretched out to 15+ minutes each. Restrict all three of those to ten minutes max and there's an extra 15 minutes you can play another 2-3 songs. Considering the price of tickets, 13 or less songs a show is ridiculous.

+ Rotate the other warhorses (Lemon for Frying Pan, Dead Ringer for All Revved Up, etc) so the set isn't identical each and every night and leaves room for stuff that hasn't been played in a while. Obviously they don't all have to be rotated, but there needs to be room for stuff other than the same ten songs that have made up the body of the set for the last ten years.

+ Fill the rest of the set with an even mix of new songs and back catalogue.

+ Back catalogue is not just warhorses from the past like Love Her For Both Of Us. Back catalogue is Good Girls Go to Heaven, Seize the Night, Kill You if You Don't Come Back, MTYD, IJWQ, Man of Steel, Cheating in Your Dreams, If This is the Last Kiss, whatever. Things the fans want to hear that they haven't heard before.

+ Either a) lower the key, b) use a backing track (Blind as a Bat chorus, CHSIB / Testify on MSO style) or c) rearrange the songs to give the higher parts to the BVs. There is no reason Meat should be raping his voice to hit the high Cs in Bat, the "nothing to do and less to lose" in the Frying Pan prechorus, whatever, at almost age 70. There's a reason he ends up in hospital with bleeding vocal chords and it's because he doesn't take care of his voice. His music isn't built for a 70 year old voice, you can't just pretend everything is fine.

That's a show I'd love to see as a hardcore Meat Loaf fan that I feel makes the most of what he has to offer as an artist. What I actually expect to happen:

1. More
2. Break It
3. Bat Out of Hell
4. You've Got to Love Me With the Sun In Your Eyes (/ new ballad we don't know of?)
5. Who Needs the Young?
6. Prize Fight Lover
7. Paradise By the Dashboard Light
8. Dead Ringer
9. Took the Words
10. Braver Than We Are
11. Out of the Frying Pan

12. Speaking in Tongues
13. I'd Do Anything for Love
14. Rock and Roll Dreams

More would make a badass opener, imo.

16 Jul 2015, 07:35	#7
Mr. Happy Guest Join Date: 13.02.2010 Location: Posts: 736	What I want to see from any future Meat shows: + The only songs that need to be played at every concert are Bat, Paradise and Anything For Love, and they don't need to be stretched out to 15+ minutes each. Restrict all three of those to ten minutes max and there's an extra 15 minutes you can play another 2-3 songs. Considering the price of tickets, 13 or less songs a show is ridiculous. + Rotate the other warhorses (Lemon for Frying Pan, Dead Ringer for All Revved Up, etc) so the set isn't identical each and every night and leaves room for stuff that hasn't been played in a while. Obviously they don't all have to be rotated, but there needs to be room for stuff other than the same ten songs that have made up the body of the set for the last ten years. + Fill the rest of the set with an even mix of new songs and back catalogue. + Back catalogue is not just warhorses from the past like Love Her For Both Of Us. Back catalogue is Good Girls Go to Heaven, Seize the Night, Kill You if You Don't Come Back, MTYD, IJWQ, Man of Steel, Cheating in Your Dreams, If This is the Last Kiss, whatever. Things the fans want to hear that they haven't heard before. + Either a) lower the key, b) use a backing track (Blind as a Bat chorus, CHSIB / Testify on MSO style) or c) rearrange the songs to give the higher parts to the BVs. There is no reason Meat should be raping his voice to hit the high Cs in Bat, the "nothing to do and less to lose" in the Frying Pan prechorus, whatever, at almost age 70. There's a reason he ends up in hospital with bleeding vocal chords and it's because he doesn't take care of his voice. His music isn't built for a 70 year old voice, you can't just pretend everything is fine. That's a show I'd love to see as a hardcore Meat Loaf fan that I feel makes the most of what he has to offer as an artist. What I actually expect to happen: 1. More 2. Break It 3. Bat Out of Hell 4. You've Got to Love Me With the Sun In Your Eyes (/ new ballad we don't know of?) 5. Who Needs the Young? 6. Prize Fight Lover 7. Paradise By the Dashboard Light 8. Dead Ringer 9. Took the Words 10. Braver Than We Are 11. Out of the Frying Pan 12. Speaking in Tongues 13. I'd Do Anything for Love 14. Rock and Roll Dreams More would make a badass opener, imo.