Acoustic vs. Digital

Started by Geometric-sama November 10th, 2003 3:40 PM
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Which type of music do you like better?

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I've been listening to a lot of music lately, and my favourite radio station plays live/acoustic music sometimes. I think the acoustic version of Unwell, by Matchbox 20, is much better than the digital version, but the acoustic The Young and the Hopeless (Good Charlotte) sounds a bit empty. What's your opinion? Do you like the digital or acoustic versions better?


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Well with Acoustic, its like its right there playing in front of you, but I like Digital better, because it sounds more oriented and cleaner.
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For me, it honestly depends on the song. I really don't like the sound of the live version "7 Nation Army" by the White Stripes. I much prefer the CD version. @[email protected] But for some songs like.... ugh.. what's the name? Oh... "Times Like These" by the Foo Fighters. I like that song better acoustic and I don't really like the CD version of it. I really like Coldplay's live versions. I also like "I Hate Everything About You" ~ Three Days Grace in its live version, but I prefer the CD version more.


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I agree, it definitely depends on the song. As I said before, the one that really rocks in acoustic has gotta be "Unwell". When I first heard that song, I loved it, but I went off it a bit. Hearing the acoustic version really got me back into it.


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Benjamin Franklin

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Well, acoustic versions are sometimes a lot better than the original song, but they probably sound wrong to you because I'm sure the acoustic version of Good Charlotte's song doesn't have all the voice alterations the original has. Somebody can sound much better when they have a full band keeping the melody for them and distracting you from their voice.

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Well, acoustic versions are sometimes a lot better than the original song, but they probably sound wrong to you because I'm sure the acoustic version of Good Charlotte's song doesn't have all the voice alterations the original has. Somebody can sound much better when they have a full band keeping the melody for them and distracting you from their voice.

Oh, and the White Stripes are absolutely, positively, no doubt about it the best band to come out in a long time.
I don't think it is so much the voices, as the instruments. It sounds a bit empty without all the electronic instruments XD


"One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts."
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"What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative than mathematics."
Benjamin Franklin

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of paintings or music, yet sublimely pure and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show."
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