I agree fully.
The vocals on Hang Cool were stellar. Unfortunately the songs are completely and utterly forgettable in the Meat Loaf world.
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> > I don't think Meat is still able to sing Jim's songs... at
> > least not as Jim would want, and I hope not to hear new
> > stein-songs sung by him.
> > Meat WAS my favourite singer until TMIL (say what you want
> > but I find it a good album), now I just can't hear him
> > sing, expecially live (his "Anything for love" out of tune
> > is awful), anyway I would pay to see him live just
> > because... He's Meat Loaf(!), but no more money for his
> > new albums (sorry).
> > He complains because Steinman wanted so many vocal takes
> > into his songs, but maybe he forgot who's the man who
> > create the creature...
> > I respect him, I don't listen to him no more.
> I still think Meat could get a strong enough vocal in
> studio based off his HCTB vocals. Live is hit and miss,
> usually way more miss than hit. He was pretty good during
> the US and UK legs of the Hang Cool tour. Then his vocal
> chords messed up badly in Australia which became an
> unfortunate debacle. A DVD was recorded in Sydney and
> hopefully he at least managed to get in a decent
> performance. It seems his timing in recording DVD's is
> cursed. The bootlegs of the Hang Cool shows were way
> better than the 3 Bats DVD is a good example. Meat has
> asthma and tends to get sick somewhat easily and over-tax
> his vocal chords. I still say he could get it done in
> studio with Rob Cavalllo recoding the vocal.
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