Who would you most like to hear "unplugged"?

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I don't mean in the MTV "It's OK, we're only using samples of ACOUSTIC guitars" either, I mean, like, totally!

― dave q, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MBV. I don't mean this question in a sneering "See if they still work as songs!" way, I'm just genuinely curious as to what they would come up with if limited to 'unplugged' things. A game, if you will, like that 'Adventures with Groovebox' thing.

Also, I'm thinking more of people who use alot of studio recording time, as opposed to somebody like Sun Ra who did equally extreme all-electric and all-acoustic things but usually in real time.

― dave q, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oddly enough, I think they *did* do an unplugged show back in 1990 or something...

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Merzbow.

I think the newly-prog (in a good way) Boredoms would be really fun acoustic-style. Would it turn into some kind of bizarre acid-folk strummy thing, or would it just demonstrate that Eye needs no electricity to make a terrific racket?

I can imagine "You Are Invited" becoming the big sensitive hit a la "All Apologies" off of Dismemberment Plan--Unplugged.

― adam, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

An unplugged Merzbow show would have to take place in a basement bathroom with rusty pipes... as it's the only way he'd be able to challenge his electric output.

Fuck digital and analog feedback. Hydraulic feedback all the way. Turn that rusty faucet on, and watch an entire building structure scream and resonate.

― Brian MacDonald, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mogwai.

― JM, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pullman i mean uuuh how about fennesz? hes got some great guitar work, and hearing it stripped down w/o the computer might prove to be real cool.

― Brock, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boards of Canada with a plastic gazoo, a mandolin and a broken vibraphone.

― Simon, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Nightblooms, who I miss terribly.

Failing that, Sightings.

― Douglas, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know it's not the 'fuck them over' kind of answer you wanted, but just to take the opposite approach, I think bad singers sound way better 'unplugged' and without effects and instrumentation. I'm thinking of Alex Chilton, and ... other guys like him.

― maryann, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kraftwerk.

― james, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would LOVE to hear a gospel choir tackle 'Radioactivity', with maybe a piano accomp. It would be beautiful!

― dave q, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

AQUA!!!

― , Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― bob snoom, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kraftwerk would be great. More hip hop would be nice too. Like Biggie woulda been sweet.

― bnw, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

D-Plan.

― Alacrán, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jeff mills

― bob snoom, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MASONNA. SOme of his output contains briefs cuts from things that sound "unplugged" - lone screams, drum & metal banging, moans & sinister breathing... It sounds so fan-fackin'-tastic it gives me the fackin' 'orn.

― Kodanshi, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mogwai could do unplugged so easy. Cf. CODY.

I'd like to hear Sleater-Kinney and see what Corin's voice could do if it weren't competing with Carrie's guitar.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Glenn Branca, or maybe Caspar Brotzmann.

― Mickey Black Eyes, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― Michael Taylor, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jean Michel Jarre. candles and the comb & paper (probably)

― bounder, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mogwai would be great i'm sure.

did anyone get the tour single? i did, and it's lovely.

― wilde, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DJ Shadow!

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Milli Vanilli!

― Lord Custos, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i've been going through classical arrangements of Kraftwek in my head. 'Autobahn' retains flute and guitar, gainst bass clarinet, piano and strings. oh, and a string quarted 'europe endless'.

― matthew james, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

didn't the Balenescu Quartet do something like that?

― gareth, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think any of the great krautrock bands would've been great to hear unplugged. I also vote for Stereolab or any of the new Japanese bands paying homage to the old krautrock (Boredoms, Rovo, OOIOO, etc.).

― dleone, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Green Velvet and Dwight Yoakam duets!

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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