how do you feel about acoustic music? the other night, my fake brother was telling me that acoustic music is the worst thing in the whole wide world, and is actually a killer of rock music. i like acoustic music done properly. i mean, elliott smith? uh. some others? his stance was that people like frank black can put an acoustic guitar in a song and make it sound good, but that the whole MTV unplugged phenomenon was the worst thing to happen to music. ever.
but, anyhow, without boring you with random stupid details, during the whole debate, the following song was going through my head and i would have started singing it except that i don't think that fake brother knows this song.
so, here you go:
acoustic guitar - the magnetic fields
this is from disc three of 69 love songs, and though the file name may say something like "how to say goodbye" it's NOT. my computer sometimes is stupid and misreads and misnames files or whatever, so, you know, just know that it is the song i intended for it to be. regardless of name.
and then, tell me how you feel about acoustic music. i'd really like to know.
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I don't quite understand his argument about acoustic music. Unless he thinks that accoustic versions of electric songs tone down the rock and make them elligible for soft rock radio stations. But still, you could also argue that acoustic rock songs reach out to a larger audience, which in turn brings more people into rock-land.
I would also like to add that I am a fan of acoustic rock. Altho I think I must say that I prefer to rock out electric style.
It seems like a very weak argument against acoustic music. Surely, the Magnetic Fields alone disproves it. There are some great acoustic artists. Sufjan Stevens 'Casimir Pulaski Day' has to be one of the best songs ever written in my opinion.
Acoustic music is a thriving genre with many artists emerging all the time. I recently stumbled across an artist called Barnaby Griffin who I quite like althoug his songs can be a bit depressing and aren't very well produced (But that's kind of like the charm of it). His sad songs are on myspace.
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