100 great unaccompanied songs

98. Excuse Me - Peter Gabriel

I don't really understand the premise to this thread

97. Move On Alone - Jethro Tull

^^^^ ban this guy

Can we go straight to:

1. "Jah No Dead"--Burning Spear-Rockers Soundtrack

Okay, 96.

95. "No Fucking" Nomeansno
94. "Forward to Death" Nomeansno

93. Mekons - "The Building"
92. The Ex - "Waroom Niet"
91. Modern Lovers "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste"

97. Move On Alone - Jethro Tull "Sheik of Araby" - Leon Redbone

are there 98 more?

There are more than that if you include folk songs, but let's keep it interesting and not do that

90. Jane, It's a Fine Day
89. Edward Barton, Everyday I Try To Find The Man Who Killed My Brother
88. David Crosby, I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here

Whole lotta Beach Boys stuff to thread

There are more than that if you include folk songs, but let's keep it interesting and not do that

I guess you're right, but I'd like to stick in June Tabor's Version of The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda as 88b

Carry on....

There are more than that if you include folk songs, but let's keep it interesting and not do that

But after 25 years of denial I'm just getting into folk...so...

87. Annie Briggs Young Tambling - nearly 11 minutes of unaccompanied bliss...

not proper folk:

86. She Moves Thru the Fair - Eyeless in Gaza

85. Meredith Monk - Volcano Songs (which is an entire album, but whatever)

84. The Replacements - "Answering Machine" (this is unaccompanied, right? I think so but I've never been 100% sure)
83. Neutral Milk Hotel - "Two-Headed Boy"

a whole truckload of awesome Mountain Goats songs

wait I definitely fucked this up

(I had never heard "Orange Claw Hammer" so I searched for it on iTunes and the version I found was solo guitar and vocals, which confused me greatly)

had never heard "Orange Claw Hammer" so I searched for it on iTunes and the version I found was solo guitar and vocals, which confused me greatly

Yeah, they don't seem to have the original; to clarify; by unaccompanied i mean without any instruments, just voice(s) - no doo wop yet?

solo guitar and vocals with alternative folk musicians oughta be included now. my leon redbone track rocks the house.

but as far as a cappella goes, it doesn't get much better than
82. Beach Boys - Their Hears

oops
82. Beach Boys - Their Hearts Were Full of Spring
81. The Beatles - Because

Because has a harpsichord!

I guess I'll be the first smartass to mention Bjork's Medulla album.

there is a a cappella version of because out there somewhere

80. flying pickets: only you
79: housemartins: caravan of love

Two-Headed Boy is not unaccompanied.

78. Robert Wyatt doing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_Wasn't_Stallin'";>Stalin wasn't Stallin'</a>
77. Will Oldham doing John Denver's 'The Eagle & the Hawk'

76. Throbbing Gristle, Russ

Two-Headed Boy is not unaccompanied.

-- Mr. Goodman, Monday, September 24, 2007 2:55 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

to redeem myself:

84. Ralph Stanley - "O Death"
83. Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo - "Homeless" (since a capella apparently counts as unaccompanied)

75. Outkast - "Nathaniel" (this isn't really that "great", I just wanted to mix it up a little)

74. Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega

73. Me And a Gun - Tori Amos

there is a a cappella version of because out there somewhere

-- CaptainLorax, Sunday, 23 September 2007 19:36 (Yesterday) Link

The "vocal only" version of the Beatles' "Because" is on the Anthology series.

72. Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
71. Bessie Smith - Moan, You Moaners
70. Bobby McFerrin - Thinkin' About Your Body, and about two-dozen others.

69. Jeff Buckley - "You & I" (this just came up on shuffle. has some reverb tricks and barely audible sounds echoing in the distance, but they're all so incidental-sounding that I don't think it really counts as accompaniment.)

there is a a cappella version of because out there somewhere

on one of teh anthology doubles, even.
is a beaut, too.

68. Saint Etienne - Goodnight
(I do hope that my memory serves, that it didn't have some discreet drizzle-phizzle synth veil hovering there somewhere)

67. Son House--John The Revelator

He's got many more, too.

I could fill this thread with Jean Ritchie if I wanted probably

There are more than that if you include folk songs, but let's keep it interesting and not do that

-- Tom D., Sunday, 23 September 2007 12:11 (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

66. elliott smith - i didn't understand

Actually, there are a lot of these, even if you restrict it to one voice. They're not all great though.

Persuasions to thread.

And that one Belmonts album.

Dead Can Dance - "The wind that shakes the barley"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KauKdSqrcc