POLL: Fan Favorites - Acoustic songs
Added 2024-02-21 20:09:56 +0000 UTCHi y'all,
We've completed our first round of submissions/voting on Discord, and we now have 19 finalists for our Patreon round of voting.
Pick up to 6 of your preferred songs!
**Note a mistake that I now can't change...the Jazz Sabbath song is Iron Man***
Here's a playlist of all these options: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO0n3LrUjxKqahIFfYMZeZoZvj_VQIfHH&si=FQqWp_VJnrAGD8cp
This poll will go through Sunday the 25th. Happy voting!
Comments
Nice that Yamandu and Jan Lundgren made the list. They're gonna need more love here. Give them a listen.
Marcos de Brum Lopes
2024-02-25 11:19:50 +0000 UTCIt's 'The Witchwood' by Cousins and Wakeman.
Guitar Channel
2024-02-23 16:51:12 +0000 UTCWhy don’t I see Strawbs on the list?
Pam Norris
2024-02-23 12:44:46 +0000 UTCIn hindsight I should have picked something from Ian Anderson's reworking of Tull Classics from Jethro Tull: The String Quartets . Great arrangements
Alex Libia
2024-02-23 06:53:40 +0000 UTCI know you like Floor Jansen. She appears in this version of Valley of the Queens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbebO5BZi-I It will send shivers up your spine!
Edward Malthouse
2024-02-23 00:59:39 +0000 UTCWell, we could nitpick about what's acoustic versus electro-acoustic. Early Pentangle and Dando Shaft are fully acoustic with upright basses. If a guitarist or bassist uses a condenser pick-up, that doesn't make the instrument electric, imo, anymore than a singer using a microphone. Folk rock is typically driven by acoustic instruments and vocals; thus, all the bands I mentioned meet the 'acoustic' standard. Moreover, they are far more important historically than most of groups on the above list, some of which are merely novelties (e.g. Jazz Sabbath).
Guitar Channel
2024-02-22 16:44:57 +0000 UTCSadly I think this genre is too much of a step away from the core content of the channel to gain much interest. Pentangle I regard as folk-jazz and the others you mention are not fully acoustic anyway (electric bass a certainty). Some more recent folk was submitted, such as The Unthanks, the Transatlantic Sessions and my own pick of Garcia and Grisman but none of them got through to this stage. You will also see how poorly the tracks you mentioned are doing.
Lashers
2024-02-22 16:13:27 +0000 UTCPerhaps we could have ’compare and contrast’ sessions with Jacques Loussier, Jazz Sabbath, The Crimson Jazz Quartet (led by Ian Wallace), The Nice and anyone else that has not yet crossed my path… It’s a playful exploration to re-imagine music from one genre in another’s time and space.
George Davis-Stewart
2024-02-22 14:21:30 +0000 UTCIt’s true, Ray, and I did sign in for a week or ten days before feeling that it was too much of a maze. I’d want to chip in too often for the hours available in my day. Perhaps I was approaching from the wrong direction or mindset… Thanks for inviting me in.
George Davis-Stewart
2024-02-22 14:13:51 +0000 UTCYou could be a Discord type yet. It's a real great community.
Ray Sincere
2024-02-22 14:08:47 +0000 UTCI submitted Rain Song then remembered the Bad Plus, i suggested someone submit comfortably numb or another tune, but no one did.
Tom
2024-02-22 13:28:17 +0000 UTCLove the Ayreon song: killer vocals!!
Jan Heerschop
2024-02-22 10:37:19 +0000 UTCI’m so happy to see Sufjan Stevens on this list! I’ve been a fan for 20 years and I love his music so much.
Eric Warner
2024-02-22 05:25:54 +0000 UTCFor acoustic, folk rock is somewhat underrepresented here. Pentangle, Fairport, Dando Shaft, Mellow Candle, are just a few bands that come to mind. (At least we have Strawbs and Joni Mitchell.)
Guitar Channel
2024-02-22 02:45:24 +0000 UTCAnd Wondrous Stories isn't acoustic, so...
Tom (the soggy one)
2024-02-22 01:23:04 +0000 UTCIf I were a Discord type then I might have proposed John Fahey or Larry Coryell or Tony Geballe or The League Of Crafty Guitarists, or just plain old Loudon Wainwright III. Still, some of these work for me, so my choices are made. Thanks, folks - and Doug!
George Davis-Stewart
2024-02-22 00:22:00 +0000 UTCThe best jazz version of a Sabbath tune is the Iron Man by The Bad Plus. Worth a listen.
Gary Thobaben
2024-02-22 00:18:52 +0000 UTCI said, in my write-up, how hard it was to write about it. Because I had to stay engaged with this sad, sad story.
Ray Sincere
2024-02-22 00:18:31 +0000 UTCMadrigal is okay, but IMHO Wonderous Stories is a much better song. Madrigal suffers from the Tormato syndrome, it's got good ideas but they are underdeveloped.
Tamás Polyák
2024-02-21 22:45:39 +0000 UTCThat Sufjan tune is soul crushing. That whole record is incredible.
Gary Thobaben
2024-02-21 21:53:01 +0000 UTCJust to re-iterate the comment in the intro, the Jazz Sabbath track is a version of the Black Sabbath track Iron Man (done in a trad jazz style)
Chris Gadsby
2024-02-21 21:45:14 +0000 UTC
