Title ideas for Meat's next album.

[TheDoode]

Meat Loaf: Hells Yeah!!1!

To appeal to the 'Interwebs' culture, obviously.

1st single: I'd Download Anything for Free (But I Won't Download That).

[Elijah's way]

Or for the first time a self titled album using his real name Michael Lee Aday

[AndrewG]

Originally Posted by Elijah's way

Or for the first time a self titled album using his real name Michael Lee Aday

Yeah cause that will increase sales dramatically.

[chairboys]

Originally Posted by Elijah's way

Or for the first time a self titled album using his real name Michael Lee Aday

I think you mean MicHELL Lee Aday

[Elijah's way]

Originally Posted by AndrewG

Yeah cause that will increase sales dramatically.

He has said many, many times that he doesn't care about that. And it was just a thought.

[GDW]

Originally Posted by Elijah's way

Or for the first time a self titled album using his real name Michael Lee Aday

Michael Lee Aday Presents His All Time Favourite Christmas Songs (Volume 1)

[Elijah's way]

Meat Loaf Fighting For Our Lives

[AndrewG]

Michael Lee Aday sings the songs of Robert Allen Zimmerman Volume 1.
With guitar solos by Saul Hudson, special female vocal appearance by Gaynor Hopkins and piano performances by Reginald Kenneth Dwight.

[Sarge]

@ Andrew: That is not that unrealistic. Believe it or not, I own a record by a guy named Henry John Deutschendorf. Meat Loaf is lucky that his real name doesn't sound German, LOL.

Great suggestion for an album, by the way - not with regard to the labeling but with regard to the contributions.

[Elijah's way]

Meat Loaf aka Michael Lee Aday

I think if he would have used his real name a lot more people would take him seriously.

[CarylB]

Originally Posted by Elijah's way

Meat Loaf aka Michael Lee Aday

I think if he would have used his real name a lot more people would take him seriously.

Who knows? He might have sold over 40 million records and still be selling out arenas when he was touring in his sixties ...

Caryl

[Elijah's way]

Originally Posted by CarylB

Who knows? He might have sold over 40 million records and still be selling out arenas when he was touring in his sixties ...

Caryl

true

[AndrewG]

Originally Posted by Elijah's way

Meat Loaf aka Michael Lee Aday

I think if he would have used his real name a lot more people would take him seriously.

You really think that?! You really think he would have had the career he had without the "Meat Loaf" brand name. People taking you seriously doesn't sell records in my opinion.

At a time of low sales, dwindling concert audiences I think the LAST thing that should be considered is for Meat to his real name. But yeah, what does it matter, eh? Do it if you really want him to hit rock bottom.

[chairboys]

Originally Posted by Elijah's way

I think if he would have used his real name a lot more people would take him seriously.

yeah, just like Katie Price

[Elijah's way]

Originally Posted by AndrewG

You really think that?! You really think he would have had the career he had without the "Meat Loaf" brand name. People taking you seriously doesn't sell records in my opinion.

At a time of low sales, dwindling concert audiences I think the LAST thing that should be considered is for Meat to his real name. But yeah, what does it matter, eh? Do it if you really want him to hit rock bottom.

Um ok! Yes I really think that. What makes you think that he couldn't do it without the name Meat Loaf? It's just my opinion, well not just mine but everyone that I know that's a music fan seems to think so too. And what I mean by taking him seriously is critics, Awards ceremonies, etc. At this point in his career I don't think he would hit rock bottom if he was to do that. I mean look at Prince, he did it and it didn't hurt his salls, and Puff Daddy did it.

Like I said before, it was just a thought. No harm done. After all it's just my OPINION, and there like assholes everybody has one.

[Elijah's way]

Originally Posted by CarylB

Who knows? He might have sold over 40 million records and still be selling out arenas when he was touring in his sixties ...

Caryl

I thought it was over 100,000,000,00 now?

[Elijah's way]

Anyway back on subject.

Meat Loaf We The People

[Elijah's way]

Digging up an old thread here lol

Meat Loaf
We Were Soldiers

sounds like a good title

[stretch37]

this isn't a title...more of an album idea :P Something that sends out positive vibes, is fun to listen to, and has Meat's excellent vocals would be so cool. I also hope that Paul convinces Meat to experiment with *some* effects. That is to say...Play around with them, use them for emphasis to greater emphasize his amazing voice, and make the songs more fun and modern.

[The Flying Mouse]

Originally Posted by Elijah's way

Meat Loaf
We Were Soldiers

sounds like a good title

Isn't that a Mel Gibson film?
I can't see an album called We Were Soldiers working in any logical way unless you have a bunch of songs about the military, and I don't think Meat is right for that.
Patrick may have been a soldier, but only the first song of the album had any reference (well, not even that, takes place during) military action.

I think Help For Heroes or The Military Wives might have something to work with there (songs like In The Army Now by Status Quo and He Ain't Heavy by THe Hollies) but I can't see a title like that working for a rock album.

Originally Posted by stretch37

this isn't a title...more of an album idea :P Something that sends out positive vibes, is fun to listen to, and has Meat's excellent vocals would be so cool.

Sounds like a rock version of The Beach Boys
There were a few songs over the last two albums to make up an album like that.
Some kick ass tunes and bouncy beats.

[Elijah's way]

Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse

Isn't that a Mel Gibson film?
I can't see an album called We Were Soldiers working in any logical way unless you have a bunch of songs about the military, and I don't think Meat is right for that.
Patrick may have been a soldier, but only the first song of the album had any reference (well, not even that, takes place during) military action.

I think Help For Heroes or The Military Wives might have something to work with there (songs like In The Army Now by Status Quo and He Ain't Heavy by THe Hollies) but I can't see a title like that working for a rock album.



Sounds like a rock version of The Beach Boys
There were a few songs over the last two albums to make up an album like that.
Some kick ass tunes and bouncy beats.

Yeah I think it is but I just like the title and it would fit the theme he's been going with. IMO

Meat Loaf Prize Fight Lover with the first single and video Prize Fight Lover

[Sarge]

Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse

Isn't that a Mel Gibson film?

Exactly.

Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse

[...] I don't think Meat is right for that. [...]

I agree. Meat Loaf dealing with "political" issues on his albums doesn't appear very credible to me, sorry. His current live shows feature nothing I'd even remotely associate with any issues related to soldiers. Maybe Elijah's way had some kind of military comedy in mind.

[Cherry.Loaf]

Hell on Earth? Meat Loaf: Descent to the Underworld?

[CarylB]

Meat's commentary on what he sees in the world in HIAH is entirely credible to me, but then I see him as an intelligent and thoughtful man, and the lyrics of so many of the songs resonate strongly with me, and with what I too see in the world.

But getting back to album titles; HCTB had at its core a central story of a soldier lying on a battlefield, and Meat chose a title he thought would be completely different and stop people in their tracks. HIAH has at its core Meat's concerns about what he sees around him, and the title reflects that. We don't know what the next album will be about .. neither its lyrics, nor any underlying theme, and that's more likely imo to prompt the title.

Soldiers of Fortune might have been an interesting title a good many years ago, depending on the songs But I don't think there's anything particularly military about either HCTB or HIAH. The first may have started with POE on a battlefield, but the album was about a young soldier imagining what his life might have been back home; the second has no relevance to soldiers or the military, so I really don't see any theme developing that would tie the two together with a next album.

Caryl

[The Flying Mouse]

Originally Posted by CarylB

Soldiers of Fortune might have been an interesting title a good many years ago, depending on the songs

Soldiers Of Fortune is the title that sprung to mind when I read We Were Soldiers.
Soldiers Of Fortune seems to have a lot more scope. A soldier of fortune, a gun for hire, a drifter, an outlaw, it could go in far more directions than saying we were soldiers which is a title that IMHO seems to impose a very narrow margin for going "off topic".