Meat Loaf (10,053 views)

[SailorBlue]

Marvin Lee Aday (27 September 1947 - 20 January 2022)
Vocal Range: F2 - E♭6

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{Album Ranges}Stoney and Meatloaf

Stoney and Meatloaf (1971): D3 - C5

Meat Loaf

Bat Out of Hell (1977): B♭2 - F5
Dead Ringer (1981): E♭3 - C♯5
Midnight at the Lost and Found (1983): E3 - G5
Bad Attitude (1984): E♭3 - E♭5
Blind Before I Stop (1986): A2 - G5
Bat Out of Hell 2: Back Into Hell (1993): D3 - A5
Welcome to the Neighbourhood (1995): B2 - D5
Couldn't Have Said it Better (2003): G2 - C5
Bat Out of Hell 3: The Monster is Loose (2006): C3 - G♯5
Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010): A2 - A5
Hell in a Handbasket (2011): G♯2 - C♯5
Braver Than We Are (2016): F2 - B4

Significant High Notes:

E♭6 ("Johnny B. Goode" Live Rockpalast 1978)
C♯6 ("Johnny B. Goode" Live Rockpalast 1978, "River Deep Mountain High" Live Rockpalast 1978)
B5 ("Eddie")
A5 ("California Isn't Big Enough [Hey There Girl]", "Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back")
G♯5 ("Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul", "If it Ain't Broke, Break it", "Masculine" Live Flushing Meadows 1988, "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" Live Raw and Uncooked 1978)
G5 ("Masculine", "Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries" Live Sheffield 1987, "You Never Can Be too Sure About the Girl")
F♯5 ("You Never Can Be too Sure About the Girl")
F5 ("Paradise By the Dashboard Light")
E5 ("California Isn't Big Enough [Hey There Girl]", "Execution Day", "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" Live Letterman 1999, "Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries")
E♭5 ("Don't Leave Your Mark On Me", "Keep Driving")
D5 ("Amnesty is Granted", "For Crying Out Loud", "Modern Girl", "Runnin' For the Red Light (I Gotta Life)", "Wolf at Your Door")
C♯5 ("All Revved Up With No Place to Go", "Bad Attitude", "Blind Before I Stop", "Cheatin' in Your Dreams", "Elvis in Vegas", "I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us", "Left in the Dark", "Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back", "Lost Boys and Golden Girls", "Masculine" Live Victoria 1989, "Nowhere Fast", "Out of the Frying Pan (and Into the Fire)", "Paradise By the Dashboard Light", "Party of One", "Peel Out", "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)")
C5 ("Bat Out of Hell", "Blind as a Bat", "Blue Sky/Mad Mad World/The Good God is a Woman and She Don't Like Ugly", "California Dreamin'", "California Isn't Big Enough [Hey There Girl]", "Do It!", "Everything Under the Sun", "Execution Day", "Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)", "I'd Love to Be (As Heavy as Jesus)", "I'll Kill You if You Don't Come Back", "Johnny B. Goode" Live Rockpalast 1978, "Jumpin' the Gun", "Keep Driving", "Lady Be Mine", "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" Live Letterman 1999, "Like a Rose", "Living on the Outside", "Love is Not Real/Next Time You Stab Me in the Back", "Midnight at the Lost and Found", "Modern Girl", "One More Kiss (Night of the Soft Parade)", "Peace on Earth", "The Promised Land" Live Musicourt 1983, "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through", "Rock 'n' Roll Hero", "Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries", "Runnin' For the Red Light (I Gotta Life)", "Running Away From Me", "She Waits By the Window", "Stone Heart", "Tear Me Down", "Together", "What You See is What You Get", "Who is the Leader of the People?", "Writing on the Wall")
B4 ("40 Days", "Amnesty is Granted", "Bad Attitude", "Bad for Good", "Blind Before I Stop", "California Isn't Big Enough [Hey There Girl]", "Cheatin' in Your Dreams", "Cry Over Me", "Did I Say That?", "Don't You Look at Me Like That", "Everything Louder Than Everything Else", "Fallen Angel", "Getting Away With Murder", "The Giving Tree", "Hammerdown", "Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul", "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)", "I'd Lie For You (and That's the Truth)", "If I Can't Have You", "If it Ain't Broke, Break it", "If it Rains", "If This is the Last Kiss (Let's Make it Last All Night)", "I'll Kill You if You Don't Come Back", "I Love You So I Told You a Lie", "I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us", "In the Land of the Pig, the Butcher is King", "Jimmy Bell", "Jumpin' the Gun", "Kiss Me Again", "Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back", "Live or Die", "Lost Boys and Golden Girls", "Love is Not Real/Next Time You Stab Me in the Back", "Mercury Blues", "More Than You Deserve", "Nowhere Fast", "One More Kiss (Night of the Soft Parade)", "Paradise By the Dashboard Light", "Peace on Earth", "Peel Out", "Piece of the Action", "Priscilla", "Prize Fight Lover", "The Promised Land", "River Deep Mountain High" Live Rockpalast 1978, "Souvenirs", "Standing on the Outside", "Stand in the Storm", "Street Rats", "Surf's Up", "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad", "Wolf at Your Door", "You Never Can Be too Sure About the Girl", "You're Right, I Was Wrong")
B♭4 ("Alive", "All of Me", "Bat Out of Hell", "Blind as a Bat", "Dead Ringer for Love", "Did You Ever Love Somebody", "Don't Leave Your Mark On Me", "Elvis in Vegas", "Everything Under the Sun", "For Crying Out Loud", "The Future Ain't What it Used to Be", "Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul", "It Just Won't Quit", "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", "Kickapoo", "Like a Rose", "Los Angeloser", "Man of Steel", "Midnight at the Lost and Found", "Modern Girl", "More Than You Deserve", "Original Sin", "Party of One", "Read 'Em and Weep", "Rock 'n' Roll Hero", "Runnin' For the Red Light (I Gotta Life)", "Sailor to a Siren", "She Waits By the Window", "Stone Heart", "Sunshine (Where's Heaven?)", "Train of Love", "What About Love")
A4 ("All Revved Up With No Place to Go", "Amnesty is Granted", "Bad for Good", "Blue Sky/Mad Mad World/The Good God is a Woman and She Don't Like Ugly", "Cheatin' in Your Dreams", "Couldn't Have Said it Better", "Did I Say That?", "Don't You Look at Me Like That", "Everything is Permitted", "Everything Louder Than Everything Else", "Execution Day", "Fallen Angel", "Forever Young", "Getting Away With Murder", "The Giving Tree", "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)", "I'd Lie For You (and That's the Truth)", "If I Can't Have You", "If it Rains", "If This is the Last Kiss (Let's Make it Last All Night)", "If You Really Want to", "It Takes All Kinds of People", "Jessica White", "Johnny B. Goode" Live Rockpalast 1978, "Kiss Me Again", "Lady Be Mine", "Love is Not Real/Next Time You Stab Me in the Back", "Love You Out Loud", "Masculine", "Mercury Blues", "Not a Dry Eye in the House", "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are", "One More Kiss (Night of the Soft Parade)", "Out of the Frying Pan (and Into the Fire)", "Piece of the Action", "Priscilla", "Prize Fight Lover", "The Promised Land", "Razor's Edge", "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through", "Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries", "Running Away From Me", "Song of Madness", "Souvenirs", "Special Girl", "Sunshine (Where's Heaven?)", "The Star Spangled Banner" Live 1994 All-Star Baseball Game, "Together", "Where the Rubber Meets the Road", "Who Needs the Young", "Wolf at Your Door", "Writing on the Wall", "You're Right, I Was Wrong", "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)")

Significant Low Notes:

E3 ("Amnesty is Granted", "Everything Louder Than Everything Else", "Execution Day", "I'd Lie For You (and That's the Truth)", "If it Rains", "In the Land of the Pig, the Butcher is King", "Jumpin' the Gun" Live Brixton Academy 1985, "Lost Boys and Golden Girls", "Not a Dry Eye in the House", "Nowhere Fast", "The Promised Land", "Surf's Up", "You're Right, I Was Wrong", "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)")
E♭3 ("All of Me", "Did You Ever Love Somebody", "Don't Leave Your Mark On Me", "The Future Ain't What it Used to Be", "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", "Los Angeloser", "Loving You's a Dirty Job (But Somebody's Gotta Do it)", "Man of Steel", "The Monster is Loose", "Nowhere Fast", "Peace on Earth", "Read 'Em and Weep", "Rock 'n' Roll Hero", "Speaking in Tongues", "What About Love", "Who Needs the Young", "Why Isn't That Enough?")
D3 ("Blue Sky/Mad Mad World/The Good God is a Woman and She Don't Like Ugly", "California Isn't Big Enough [Hey There Girl]", "Everything Louder Than Everything Else", "Forever Young", "Heaven Can Wait", "Jessica White", "Let's Be in Love", "Love is Not Real/Next Time You Stab Me in the Back", "One More Kiss (Night of the Soft Parade)", "Prize Fight Lover", "The Star Spangled Banner" Live 1994 All-Star Baseball Game, "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad", "Where Angels Sing")
C♯3 ("40 Days", "Fall From Grace", "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", "Loving You's a Dirty Job (But Somebody's Gotta Do it)", "Our Love and Our Souls")
C3 ("Another Day", "Did You Ever Love Somebody", "Living on the Outside", "Los Angeloser", "The Monster is Loose", "More", "Original Sin", "Running Away From Me", "Skull of Your Country", "Souvenirs", "Who Needs the Young")
B2 ("40 Days", "The Giving Tree", "Going All the Way is Just the Start (a Song in 6 Movements)", "A Man and a Woman", "Not a Dry Eye in the House", "Stand in the Storm")
B♭2 ("Bat Out of Hell", "Did You Ever Love Somebody", "For Crying Out Loud", "Only When I Feel", "Speaking in Tongues")
A2 ("If I Can't Have You", "Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries")
G♯2 ("All of Me", "Live or Die", "Only When I Feel")
G2 ("Testify")
F♯2 ("Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" Live the Donny & Marie Talk Show 1998)
F2 ("Don't", "More")

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{Questionable Notes}D6 ("River Deep Mountain High" Live Rockpalast 1978 [1])
C♯6 ("Paradise By the Dashboard Light" Live Rockpalast 1978 [1])
G5 ("Lawyers, Guns, and Money" Live Letterman 1999 [1], "Tear Me Down" [2])
F♯5 ("Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul" [1])
E♭5 ("Tear Me Down" [1])
D5 ("It Just Won't Quit" [2])
C♯5 ("Who Needs the Young" [1])

B2 ("Let's Be in Love" [1])
B♭2 ("Martha" [1])
A2 ("Amnesty is Granted" [3], "Masculine" [3], "Souvenirs" [5], "Who Needs the Young" [5])
F♯2 ("Elvis in Vegas" [3], "Godz" [1])
E2 ("If I Can't Have You" [3])
E♭2 ("Los Angeloser" [3], "More" [5])
C2 ("More" [5])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.

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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.

[IhateMana]

surely a bold on the Life Is a Lemon C#5

[Deleted]

Hey, isn't he the guy from that one episode of Monk?

[SailorBlue]

Jan 13, 2022 1:25:16 GMT @ianvector said:

Hey, isn't he the guy from that one episode of Monk?

God, that's a throwback... Haven't seen that show in years, I remember it being really good tho.

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Jan 13, 2022 1:31:22 GMT SailorBlue said:

Jan 13, 2022 1:25:16 GMT @ianvector said:

Hey, isn't he the guy from that one episode of Monk?

God, that's a throwback... Haven't seen that show in years, I remember it being really good tho.

It's really good. Possibly my favourite show of all time. I'd recommend watching it if you haven't already.

[blazejecar2]

r.i.p. :/
www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/21/meat-loaf-bat-out-of-hell-singer-dead-at-74

[SailorBlue]

tfw you have a dream about meat loaf dying, only to wake up to find that it actually happened :cry:

[Breakfast in D-sharp]

Meat and Marie look like they're having a lot of fun here, and his low bit at the end might be worth checking:

[goblonaut]

If it ain't broke, break it - is that clip legitly Meat Loaf? The vocal is really background and I'm having hard time picturing Meat Loaf doing it since it's suistaned, vibratoish and power metallish. His other screams seem really different, but on the other hand who else could have sung it.

[SailorBlue]

Feb 15, 2022 12:00:58 GMT goblonaut said:

If it ain't broke, break it - is that clip legitly Meat Loaf? The vocal is really background and I'm having hard time picturing Meat Loaf doing it since it's suistaned, vibratoish and power metallish. His other screams seem really different, but on the other hand who else could have sung it.

Yep, it's him.

[Deleted]

Here's a rare German B-Side to "Los Angeloser". Maybe there are some notes worth mentioning here.

[Deleted]

There is apparently a G♯1 in More. I think it should at least be mentioned in the spoiler.

Also, here is an A6, though I'm not sure if it's an overtone or not. There's also an arguably melodic E♭6 in that one live performance of "Johnny B. Goode".

I think it might be appropriate to colour everything above B5 blue as well. (I couldn't find the B5, but here is the C♯6 from "River Deep, Mountain High" for reference)

[rootyrootz]

Dec 20, 2022 22:40:15 GMT @ianvector said:

There is apparently a G♯1 in More. I think it should at least be mentioned in the spoiler.

Also, here is an A6, though I'm not sure if it's an overtone or not. There's also an arguably melodic E♭6 in that one live performance of "Johnny B. Goode".

I think it might be appropriate to colour everything above B5 blue as well. (I couldn't find the B5, but here is the C♯6 from "River Deep, Mountain High" for reference)

Tbh the note from "More" sounds like a G2, I think it just sounds very low for him