When they were auditioning songs for HCTB and accepting submissions in the industry, I remember being told they were looking for simple, three-to-four-chord blues that wasn't taxing on the voice. That's... obviously not what they ended up with. But once I heard it, especially after the events in Newcastle at the end of the "Three Bats" tour, I thought it was a step in the right direction.
If Meat had one more album, I'd like to hear him do that, stuff in the vein of "For What It's Worth." Music from his youth, music that inspired him, very stripped down like Rick Rubin's work with Johnny Cash. Nothing but Meat, a single instrument (be it piano or guitar), and a microphone. Four takes of each song, cut together the best vocal, no filters, no major adjustments, no over-production and scads of background vocals (I wouldn't even wanna hear another voice on the album, ever) and orchestrations, just "Meat Loaf unplugged."
|