Good Acoustic Albums

[CBT]

As the title says, are there any good acoustic albums like, for instance, John Frusciante's Curtains, which is amazing. thanks

[merman]

I'm a big fan of Turin Brakes, particularly their debut album - THE OPTIMIST LP. You should be able to find that cheap in most major chain stores and online.

[CBT]

I'm a big fan of Turin Brakes, particularly their debut album - THE OPTIMIST LP. You should be able to find that cheap in most major chain stores and online.

is that more emotional rock or cheerful acoustic? i'm really into the emotional stuff, like Jeff Buckley, but acoustic

[Shoes]

Nick Drake's 'Pink Moon' is mostly acoustic. And it's brilliant.

[Spudulis]

Josh Ritter's Hello Starling

[merman]

is that more emotional rock or cheerful acoustic? i'm really into the emotional stuff, like Jeff Buckley, but acoustic

Cheerful acoustic, soaring choirboy vocals - as a Buckley fan you'll love it.

[Melon_Bread]

Anything by Iron and wine.

[CBT]

Anything by Iron and wine.

whats the best album by them? Just checked HMV, and they got plenty

[imp]

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

M.Ward - The Transfiguration of Vincent

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (A bit weird acoustic this one, as is Panda Bear's 'Young Prayer' Which is also well worth checking out)

Beirut - Gulag Orkester (Acoustic with lots of brass!)

Cyan & Benn - Happy Like An Autumn Tree (Kinda acoustic-elctro)

Jim O'Rourke - Eureka

Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle

CocoRosie - La Maison de mon Reve

Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day

and Tape - Rideau (is supposedly very good)

[Rsdio]

Most Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen stuff is acoustic, and all well worth a listen. Bonnie Prince Billy deserves a mention too.

[imp]

whats the best album by them? Just checked HMV, and they got plenty

the calexico collaboration mini album is supposedly very good, but out of the ones i've heard, The Creek Drank The Cradle is my favourite.

[Melon_Bread]

try Our Endless Numbered days, or the Woman King EP.

[Marzipan Travolta]

Bright Eyes. Either the Every Day & Every Night EP or the Wide Awake It's Morning Album.

[acidbearboy]

I only know 'River Man' by Nick Drake, but it's very good and very accoustic. Should fit nicely into your 'emotional' category too.

[Spudulis]

Bright Eyes. Either the Every Day & Every Night EP or the Wide Awake It's Morning Album.

Bright Eyes is a cunt

That is all

[Professor Rob]

Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen

Quiet is the New Loud - Kings of Convenience

[Shoes]

CocoRosie - La Maison de mon Reve

Acoustic?

[thingymajig]

Elliott Smith's eponymous album is worth checking out.

[anewman]

I've been enjoying Stuart A Staples' Leaving Songs quite a lot recently. The cover looks like this:

It's quite acoustic I suppose.

Here's a track for you to try, called Goodbye To Old Friends.

The tracks are pretty much all as acoustic as this, with other instruments coming in (a bit of clean electric guitar, horns and piano occasionally). But they do all have that laid back kind of feel, and they're pretty much all built up around acoustic guitar bits, if that makes sense. Also, he has this great voice, really gravelly and it packs quite an emotional hit. Some of the songs are real standouts (like this one I've posted, and a couple of others), but the whole album is pretty strong.

Actually, thinking about it, it's probably not as acoustic as something like Nick Drake (who I find a bit boring actually), or Bright Eyes (ditto), but it is great.

Yeah, give it a try, guy!

[superpretend]

Elliott Smith's eponymous album is worth checking out.

Seconded. And Either/Or is top notch too.

[Dr Slotter]

What about the MTV Unplugged or AT&T Acoustic series?

If you like Paul Wellar his 'Days of Speed' album is basically his 'Unplugged'.

[Aust]

Our mother the mountain - Townes Van Zandt

..or any other record he made. Amazing stuff.

[unspec]

Not pure acoustic, but lots of simple guitar goodness IMO

Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street

Thomas Dybdahl - That Great October Sound, Stray Dogs, John Wayne EP, One Day You'll Dance For Me New York City

Turin Brakes - The Optimist, Ether Song

Some of my all-time favourite songs in that bunch of albums...

[Marzipan Travolta]

Bright Eyes is a cunt

That is all

God yeah, I can't stand him. I loved it when he got shit-faced on drugs at Glasto last year, laid into how much of a twat John Peel was and mumbled through a shambolic set, occasionally hurling abuse at the crowd.

But A Perfect Sonnet is exactly that.

[Spudulis]

God yeah, I can't stand him. I loved it when he got shit-faced on drugs at Glasto last year, laid into how much of a twat John Peel was and mumbled through a shambolic set, occasionally hurling abuse at the crowd.

This is the main base for my views on him. What a twat

What about the MTV Unplugged or AT&T Acoustic series?

Good point. The Bob Dylan MTV Unplugged album is absolutely amazing. As is, of course, the classic Nirvana one.

[Professor Rob]

As is, of course, the classic Nirvana one.

Seconded. Neil Young's is worth a listen, too.

[Dr Slotter]

The Foo Fighters AT&T one is good. Eric Clapton's Unplugged is pretty good as well.

[Professor Rob]

The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions - Seu Jorge.

Superb acoustic covers of Bowie classics, translated into Portuguese.

Lovely.

[ruby luby]

Kristen Hersh - Hips and Makers

Ben & Jason - Hello, or anything else they've ever done

Gillian Welch - especially Time (the Revelator) ( the guitaring on that album is amaaaazing, btw)

Smog - start with The Doctor Came at Dawn

Palace - My fave is 'arise, therefore' and 'viva last blues' for sheer fragility and beauty. Swoon.

I like that advert on the telly, the one for "Great Acoustic Sounds" or some shit, and it shows clips of all undeniably non-acoustic stuff that someone with an acoustic guitar may have been sitting near whilst it was being recorded, possibly. Brilliant.

[Professor Rob]

Kristen Hersh - Hips and Makers

I remember seeing a clip of her doing 'Pearl' (from Throwing Muses' Red Heaven), with just an acoustic guitar, probably about 15 years ago. Stunning.