Hidden Treasures - Cool Acoustica

[Scott]

Time for a cool change. Hey! Thats a cool song too, but not for this weeks playlist. Were doing something we havent done in quite awhile, acoustic tunes! When done right they can be magical. And I've got 4 of them that fit that definition perfectly. 

And were staying away from the 80's!  So I thought we'd pull another old trick out of the hidden treasures hat and that we've not done in some time.. Were going with the format of 2 old and 2 new tunes.

Think you got 2 old and 2 new acoustic songs that are better than these?

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	Bad Company Desolation Angels 1979 1 - Crazy Circles It is considered the last strong album by Bad Company, mostly because it contains their last major hit, "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy," written by Paul Rodgers which its inspiration came from a guitar synthesizer riff that Rodgers came up with. "Gone, Gone, Gone", written by bassist Boz Burrell, also received substantial airplay on rock stations. It was the first of only three songs he ever wrote for the band, but is widely revered as one of the band's finest compositions. The album reached #3 on the Billboard album charts in 1979 and went Platinum in 1979 and Double Platinum subsequently.
	Supertramp Crisis? What Crisis? 1975 2 - Sister Moonshine Having achieved commercial success with Crime of the Century, the pressure was on for Supertramp to deliver a followup, and the record company pushed them to begin work as soon as the touring for "Crime" was finished. While touring the west coast of North America, Supertramp unintentionally gained extra time: Hodgson injured his hand, forcing the band to cancel the rest of the tour and leaving them with nothing better to do than work on the album. Despite this, the band still didn't have time to rehearse for the album, and much like Indelibly Stamped, songwriters Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson had no vision for a completed album worked out. Furthermore, the band's busy touring schedule had left no time for writing songs, and so they entered A&M's Los Angeles recording studios with only leftover songs from Crime of the Century (or even earlier) for material. Due to shortage of material, production had to be halted at one point so that Davies and Hodgson could write two new songs, one of which was "Ain't Nobody But Me".
	Porcupine Tree Signify 1996 3 - Waiting Phase One Signify was the first Porcupine Tree album recorded as a full band unit, rather than primarily by frontman Steven Wilson with occasional assistance from other musicians, primarily the ones who would become full-time band members as of this album; Richard Barbieri, Colin Edwin, and Chris Maitland. In 1995, the band would alternate between touring in support of their last release, The Sky Moves Sideways, and writing and recording the album, with Wilson describing it as "The album was recorded in quite a piecemeal way with tracks written and recorded in batches of 2 or 3, followed by gaps of up to 3 months." As such, a number of the songs, albeit in early forms, were debuted live before the album's release.
	Anathema Weather Systems 2012 4 - Untouchable, Part 1 Weather Systems is the ninth album by the British rock band Anathema. It was released on 16 April 2012 in Europe via Kscope and 24 April 2012 in the US via The End Records. The band describes the album as "not background music for parties. The music is written to deeply move the listener". The album was recorded in Liverpool, North Wales and Oslo, each place significant to Anathema's past, present and future. The record was produced by band members Vincent Cavanagh and Daniel Cavanagh, as well as Christer-André Cederberg.

[Jon]

The first three songs were all aces in my book. Nice acoustication throughout, nice vocals, nice everything.

As for Anathema? Weak singer, but the acoustical geetaring was quite nice. They are a bit to angsty for my taste, oh we broke up because I had to let you go. Cry me a river, dammit! Oh, and it doesn't move me in the slightest, but it does make nice background music. Not what they expected, bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[RJhog (Admin)]

The first one that comes to mind for me is from 1993, so old I guess.  Who's The One by Winger.

[Niels (Mod)]

I can think of a couple of good old acoustic tunes:

Boogie With Stu - Led Zep

Master Of War - Bob Dylan ( the MASTER of acoustic)

 

[RJhog (Admin)]

Bad Co - Really cool tune.  I've heard it, but I didn't really remember it by name until you played it here.  It's definitely fully acoustic, which is totally cool.  Why would Niels not like this song?  

Tramp - This one's pretty good in spots.  I love the wocka wocka guitar.  That's not really the acoustic part.  I'm still on the fence with this band.  I have several albums but I'm finding it somewhat difficult to get past the hits.  I know that's hard for some of you big fans to swallow.

Porky - This is a very nice, laid back track, with a lot of electric guitar.  Very nice electric guitar I might add.  Yep, this song is sweet.

Anathema - There's some nice acoustic guitar.  Right out front.  I've heard of this band but really know nothing of them. I like this song.  I love the way it builds and builds, getting stronger and stronger.  Then it quietly fades away.  I'm interested in hearing more from this band, I think Sandra would like this as well.

So my ranking would be:

1. Porky

2. Anathema

3. Bad Co.

4. Tramp

But the first 3 are very close together.

Now, for a sidebar...

• Are there any rules to what constitutes an "acoustic" song?  
• Does it have to have zero electric guitar in it?  
• Can it have some electric guitar with a majority of acoustic?  
• Would and acoustic intro followed by a take over by an electric guitar qualify?  
• And does it have to originally be written that way?  As opposed to an originally electric song being rearranged as an acoustic track.  

[Scott]

No hard rules.... But the song should have an obvious acoustic presence.

[Jon]

Here comes Freebird and Stairway To Heaven.........

[RJhog (Admin)]

Cool.  So Long Time by Boston would fit.  Right?

[Scott]

If you think so... We can discuss. For me Peace Of Mind works better

[RJhog (Admin)]

I'm thinking along the lines of the incredible acoustic riff right before the first chorus.  Maybe the second chorus too, I don't think it changes to electric until the third.

[Niels (Mod)]

First: I'll admit, that I haven't heard the Bad company-somg (yet?), but I don't really care for the BC-stuff I've heard so far. I don't really like Rodgers, I don't know why, obviously he's a good singer, but it must have got something to do with the fact, that I was sooooo dissapionted back in '85, when I got the debut Firm-album, and it was nothing but boring trash. And I don't blame Jimmy Page, one of my all time heroes.

Second: Check one of my NMC's from 2012. I'm sure, you've heard Anathema before, and as far as I remember, you didn't really like it then?!

Third: For me, an acoustic track is pure acoustic, no electric guitars.

[Niels (Mod)]

http://classic-rock-bottom.ning.com/forum/topics/nmc-74-it-bites-an...

[RJhog (Admin)]

Yes, I remember now.  It sucks.  Just kiddin'.  But I see that this song, which I like, was the same song I liked back then...that's what I call consistent.