Acoustica [Import]

Acoustica [Import]

Track Listings

1. The Zoo

2. Always Somewhere

3. Life Is Too Short

4. Holiday

5. You And I

6. When Love Kills Love

7. Dust In The Wind

8. Send Me An Angel

9. Under The Same Sun

10. I Wanted To Cry (But The Tears Wouldnt Come)

11. Wind Of Change

12. Love Of My Life

13. Drive

14. Still Loving You

15. Hurricane 2001

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
International pressing of the German metal act's live unplugged album. 15 tracks including, 'The Zoo', 'Always Somewhere', 'Life Is Too Short', 'Holiday', 'You & I', 'When Love Kills Love', 'Dust In The Wind', 'Send Me An Angel', 'Catch Your Train', ' I Want To Cry', 'Wind Of Change', 'Love Of My Life', 'Drive', 'Still Loving You' & 'Hurricane 2001'. The Recording for this album took place in Lisbon, Portugal at the Convento do Beato in February 2001. No domestic release is currently scheduled. 2001 release.

Tracks:

Zoo
Always Somewhere
Life Is Too Short
Holiday
You and I
When Love Kills Love
Dust in the Wind
Send Me an Angel
Catch Your Train
I Wanted to Cry (But the Tears Wouldn't Come)
Wind of Change
Love of My Life
Drive
Still Loving You
Hurricane 2001

Album Details

Live & unplugged. Includes an exclusive Euro bonus track.

Customer Reviews:

Scorpions Acoustica Importica.......2007-05-24

This is a must have album for any Scorpions fan. It includes a couple of their lesser known gems along with some excellent covers! Klaus Meine has never sounded better.

scorpions acoustica my view.......2007-02-13

this cd is of great quality as to be expected by the scorpions. the acoustic versions of their classic songs are all too brilliant.i will say though that i didnt like the versions of always somewhere and still loving you,much preferring the originals.my last word will be to say that the cover songs are of great standard,dust in the wind,especially.just make a point of listening to the version of queens love of my life and the cars drive,how fantastic.....baz

Absolutely Fantastic.......2007-01-18

This album is absolutely fantastic. Choice of songs and the performance - out of this world!

Nobody plays live as well as the Scorpions.......2006-11-07

Scorpions "Acoustica" is a must-have for any true Scorpions fan. But if you're a first-time Scorpions listener, you probably don't want to pick this up as your first Scorpions CD.

The CD is made up of tracks played by the band in a concert in Portugal some time ago and all of the songs are played with accoustic guitars instead of electric. The result is an awesome listening experience as the band does a good job of keeping the crowd energized throughout the entire performance. Some tracks do not come across as effectively as they do in their original recordings, but some come off exceptionally.

The band also does a good job on the some of the covers they perform here such as "Drive" by The Cars and "Dust In The Wind" by Kansas, which, in my opinion, is the best track on this CD.

Pick up this CD if you have additional Scorpions material in your current collection. If you are a first-time listener and are wanting to check out what the Scorpions are all about, you should check out some of their greatest hits compilations first and then come back later to check out this great disc.

Acoustic Scorpions, promising!!!.......2005-11-20

Wow, the Scorpions are here in 2001, and they still know how to make live music. Acoustic this time, which means almost only ballads are played, well it is very good, and all the songs are have nice acoustic sounds. Catch Your Train is very swinging, with the piano, and Holiday has a very specific sound, which is a little swinging as well. There are some new songs too, so if you can, buy it. you won't regret that.
Keep On Rocking!!!

Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin

Average customer rating:

Imaginative re-working of Richard D James
ok, a good attempt but still off
One of my favorite discs lately
For Connoisseurs
Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin

Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin
Alarm Will Sound , and Alan Pierson
Manufacturer: Cantaloupe
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2005-07-12

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Customer Reviews:

Imaginative re-working of Richard D James.......2005-11-26

I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical when I first saw this release by Alarm Will Sound. There have been tons of crossover releases (going both ways) in terms of classical artists remaking popular artists and vice-versa. William Orbit tackled the masters with his Pieces In A Modern Style while the work of Radiohead has been transcribed to both classical and solo piano pieces and The Balanescu Quartet got Possessed by Kraftwerk. It's been going on for decades, with everyone from the New York Philharmonic playing the Bee Gees to Apolyptica doing string quartet versions of Metallica songs.

On Acoustica, Alarm Will Sound obviously tackles the work of Mr. Richard D. James, and even for a big fan like myself (who can often be rather cynical), I have to admit that the young 22-piece group has pulled things off pretty darn well. In terms of arrangements and compositions, the group could have easily chosen another electronic artist that wasn't quite as challenging, but they've adapted thirteen tracks of Aphex Twin on this release and amazingly play them all acoustically (with the only exception being electric bass). The songs themselves are turned into pieces that breath with strings, brass, woodwinds and live percussionists, along with some vocals.

In addition to all of the above instrumentation, the group also raided toy stores and created homemade instruments in order to recreate some of the more unique sounds that Aphex Twin uses in his music. The result is something that is entirely true to the original, played with an almost astounding precision, yet is just human and different enough to sound original. Truth be told, I don't listen to Aphex Twin as much as I used to, but hearing these interpretations of his work made me start fishing out his releases again and hearing them in a slightly different light.

If you need proof that the group didn't stray from difficult pieces, they tackled both "Cock/Ver 10, "Omgyjya Switch 7," and "Mt. Saint Michel" from Drukqs (each have their own insane rhythm section, which the group tackles with 4 percussionists), as well as the hilariously playful "Logon Rock Witch" and the beautiful "4" (which might be one of my favorite Aphex Twin songs ever) from The Richard D. James. On the slower sides of things, the group recreates both "Blue Calx" and "Cliffs" (the title generally given to the track due to the liner notes picture) from Selected Ambient Works Volume 2.

There's a lot of other stuff to digest on the release, but the pedigree of Alarm Will Sound is high (their first release was an acclaimed performance of two Steve Reich pieces) and their reworkings of Aphex Twin will likely appeal to fans of Mr. James himself or classical music fans who are looking for something quite a bit different from the ordinary. The release concludes with two "remixes" of their interpretations, and unfortunately they sound by-the-numbers given the music that came before them (both opting for a fairly straightforward house feel). Even with the somewhat lackluster ending and silly title, Acoustica is still a pretty fun little listen.

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ok, a good attempt but still off.......2005-10-24

Nothing can truly recreate Richard D. James' music except for a computer or a God. It is an adequet emulation of some of his best works but a lot of the tracks are totally unrecognizable, especially blue calx which uses absolutely no reverberence on the percussive layers! If your a die hard Aphex Twin fan or simply like classical music over electronic, I reccomend it; otherwise, don't bother with it.

One of my favorite discs lately.......2005-10-21

I love this cd, and it's definitely worth the more than standard price. Those expecting to hear more stuff like the Philip Glass orchestration of "Icct Hedral" that came out a couple years ago will be pleasantly surprised - this is a much more enthusiastic endeavor. Firstly, there's a much wider range of instruments used, including bassoons, english horns and trumpets in addition to the strings and wide array of percussion. There really needs to be more bassoons in the world in general. Many of the songs chosen are on the more complex side of Aphex Twin's repetoire, and the acoustic versions match every skip and hiccup of the originals. Most of the tracks here are from "Druqks", which was one of my least favorite Aphex releases. (I thought it was a case of Richard James following trends rather than creating them.) However, listening to this let me go back to it and appreciate it from a compositional perspective. The other tracks seem to be split between the Richard D. James album and Selected Ambient Works 2.

This ensemble worked very hard to try to match the sounds used in the original songs, at times using found objects to replace the sounds of heavily-processed drum machines. There are some most beautiful/ingenious examples too: in "Meltphace 6", a blaring piccolo fills the role of what was originally squealing feedback, and in "4", an english horn occasionally tugs the lead line away from the strings.

I only have 1 small complaint: 2 electronic "remix" tracks are included as a bonus, which disrupt the mood presented by the rest of the tracks.

For Connoisseurs.......2005-10-04

Connoisseurs of Aphex Twin or of avant-garde music will enjoy this. It would provide the perfect soundtrack to a Richard D. James movie, and it might run like this: Richard, the main character, receives a package delivered by a strange postman, very tall, smoking a pipe. He opens the package and sees a note which reads: I Want Your Soul I Will Eat your Soul Come to Daddy! Hugz 'n Kisses xxxoxooxox He kind of freaks out, as a bunch of motorized teddy bears jump out of the package and start jumping around wrecking the place and then settling into a weird dance. He opens the doors and shoos them out. He follows them and they lead him on a weird trek through London during a foggy afternoon. The bears lead him through the city, to a terraced garden. The bears then run off too fast for him to follow, and leave him in this garden. He has a weird meditation type experience, then decides to take a nice long walk home to clear his head. He goes through the city, seeing favorite stores, passing a dock, eventually arriving in his home town, his street, and finally his house. A fresh horror beholds him when he discovers that he left his front door unlocked, and the door ajar! He slowly enters the house, expecting the weirdest and worst, and gets it! The house has become totally rearranged, everything moved around, and some things broken from the earlier frollick with the teddy bears. He goes into his bedroom full of a nameless wonder and dread, and sees lots of heart-shaped helium balloons with "WE LOVE U" written on them. He just stands in the doorway going nuts, too confused to even react. He decides to go back into the living room, and as he hsteps in, he notices all his friends sitting around. THey laugh and say Surprise! and remind him not to leave his door unlocked. They help him straighten up the place, then make a few more jokes about him needing to remember to lock the door, then leave. Then, a wild thunderstorm comes up, and he rides it out, just glad to have his house back to normal. He goes outside, thinking the storm has abated, only to behold a fresh terror in the form of a hailstorm! Wild hail rains down with intense lightning. Then he notices that the hail looks a lot like those balloons..... And those "friends" of his did look rather teddy-bear-shaped. Spurred by a fresh freak-out, he races back through the city, this time at three in the morning instead of three in the afternoon. He races past the dock, past the shops, and finally ends up in the garden again. He has another meditation. We do not see what he sees, but he suddenly runs from the garden, on a crazy route through the town. He finally arrives back at home, but fortunately this time he locked the door, and he goes in, safe and sound. He notices his calendar says APril 14th, and he feels happy. He then enjoys having his house and his life back to normal.....or so he believes. Then the credits roll with the remixes. Yes, a very interesting album indeed.

Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin.......2005-09-26

I don't listen to alot of classical,,,,,,but this is one of my favorite cds,,,,,,,,,,and I have most of Richard d. James' CDs

Average customer rating:

A rare chance to see the Scorpions play in Portugal!
Broken Jewel Cases = Scratched Discs Upon Arrival
Honor a quién Honor merece.
A dissapointment
My review of Scorpions' Acoustica

Acoustica
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ASIN: B000093NLH
Release Date: 2003-04-14

Tracks:

Zoo
Always Somewhere
Life Is Too Short
Holiday
You & I
When Love Kills Love
Dust In The Wind
Send Me An Angel
Catch Your Train
I Wanted To Cry (But The Tears Wouldn't Come)
Wind Of Change
Love Of My Life
Drive
Still Loving You
Hurricane 2001
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Is There Anybody There (Acoustic Live) (Audio)
Rhythm Of Love (Acoustic Live) (Audio)

Album Description

Lower price! Asian exclusive release couples the 2001 live album with a bonus AVCD featuring one video - Scorpions Acoustica Special on Buntengkadi Program by Manoch Puttan featuring The Making Of Acoustica (commentary partly in Thai language), Exclusive Interview (in English), 4 Performance Footage including 'When Love Kills', 'Holiday', 'Drive' & 'Send Me An Angel' and the Audio (acoustic live version), 'Tease Me, Please Me', 'Is There Anybody There' & 'Rhythm Of Love'. Slipcase. Warner. 2001.

Album Details

Asian Limited Edition Version featuring a Bonus CD with Live Footage, Interviews, and Three Additional Live Audio Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

A rare chance to see the Scorpions play in Portugal!.......2005-10-21

This album and video package was a pleasant surprise! The Scorpions are one the best Rock bands to ever play and record music. If you have been lucky enough to have seen them perform in a "live" setting then you are very fortunate! Here, the Scorpions render an amazing performance, while showing off a different acoustical variation of many of their very best songs. The performances are amazing, as is the sound quality. I feel that this is one of the best recordings of a musical performance ever made. Today, the Scorpions are still performing on a much more limited basis. The band members are indeed getting "up there" in years, and this is evident on the video of the "Acoustica" performances. But these guys are living legends, who always perform at a very high calibur. If you really like or love the Scorpions, then you will certainly enjoy this album. I say "Buy It!!!".

Broken Jewel Cases = Scratched Discs Upon Arrival.......2005-09-07

I have yet to get to listen to the disc because 2 attempted shipments have arrived with factory sealed broken jewel cases, which upon opening, reveal that the discs are already scratched. I am awaiting the 2nd replacement attempt by Amazon and it has been an antagonizingly long wait. I have always enjoyed utilizing Amazon but through this ordeal have come to learn that humanless customer service can be quite frightening.

Honor a quién Honor merece........2004-09-29

Sin duda alguna estamos hablando de uno de los grupos de rock que ya pasó a la historia por su música, y en este disco es la conjunción perfecta de vocales, cuerdas y percuciones, es un disco perfecto, lo recomiendo ampliamente, de los discos más finos que puedas tener en tu colección. Con todo respeto a la gente que no le da 5 estrellas es por que tiene problemas serios con su apreciación musical, la elaboración de todos los temas es para disfrutar, tiene tres covers el disco " love of my life" de Queen (fantastico), "Drive" de The Cars (extraordinario), pero el tema que no existe palabra para elogiarlo es " Dust in the Wind " Simplemente The Best. NO lo dudes si eres amante de la buena música y SI no tienes este disco en tu colección en pocas palabras " NADA VALES"

A dissapointment.......2003-12-28

Unlike other acoustic albums by great bands that enhance their reputations, Acoustica does nothing of the sort. With the exceptions of songs like "Always Somewhere" and "Rhythm of Love" the album leaves the listener wondering when good songs will begin.

My review of Scorpions' Acoustica.......2003-09-05

Scorps were awesome as usual, but the backing female vocalists and the other musicians were totally unecessary. Klaus' voice is amazing and in no way needs any backing. A few songs were quite good ("Drive"- the Cars cover, "Dust in the Wind"- Kansas cover--would've been much better w/o backing musicians). "Rock You Like A Hurricane" should not be done acoustically- ever. This is not for the faint of heart!

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Kaz Nouvellehamburg
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Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

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The Best album
Breathtaking live performance!!!
Well worth paying the price for an import
"the Best"

Acoustica
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Release Date: 2002-08-29

Tracks:

Zoo
Always Somewhere
Life Is Too Short
Holiday
You and I
When Love Kills Love
Dust in the Wind
Send Me an Angel
Catch Your Train
I Wanted to Cry (But the Tears Wouldn't Come)
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Hurricane 2001

Album Description

International pressing of the German metal act's live unplugged album. 15 tracks including, 'The Zoo', 'Always Somewhere', 'Life Is Too Short', 'Holiday', 'You & I', 'When Love Kills Love', 'Dust In The Wind', 'Send Me An Angel', 'Catch Your Train', ' I Want To Cry', 'Wind Of Change', 'Love Of My Life', 'Drive', 'Still Loving You' & 'Hurricane 2001'. The Recording for this album took place in Lisbon, Portugal at the Convento do Beato in February 2001. No domestic release is currently scheduled. 2001 release.

Album Details

Fantastic New Collection, featuring Acoustic Versions of 15 Classic Scorpions Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

The Best album.......2003-07-25

I have to be honest, but I just heard the Acoustica the platinum edition and the DVD. I haven't really bought this but I heard EVERY single song on acoustica so I would know how the songs are. They left out a new song called Back to You that is ONLY on the DVD. So I know what the songs sound like, and I think it's the best performance and sound ever!! Buy it, if you like more soft rock music!!

Breathtaking live performance!!!.......2003-01-12

Know what? This simply shows how the legendary band still can rock hard. Even though they are at their late 40s and 50s they can still create the unique Scorpions amazing moments, also this shows that the Scorpions love to play live. Their live recordings are almost as great as their studio recordings.... the changed version of Holiday is as amazing as the original one... and the Queen's Love Of My Life has never sounded better. Klaus Meine's vocal is the key part in this acoustic album.

Well worth paying the price for an import.......2002-07-11

Call this the Scorpions version of an MTV Unplugged album. You CANT go wrong with this one. Meine's vocals really stand out. Versions of several well-known numbers here are just great. The arrangement of "rock you like a hurricane" is interesting. The cover of Queen's "love of my life" is good, and this is coming from a die-hard Queen fan. It makes you wish Freddie was still here to have done this himself. Also covered is Kansas' "dust in the wind" - and likewise, having seen Kansas live, I can say this version does justice to it, I prefer this up-tempo one. Aside from some hits, the lesser known (to most americans) songs here are executed nicely. This CD scores as many points as their orchestral rock album "moment of glory". Buy it.

"the Best".......2002-02-03

This "album" with the others they have are "great". The voice of "Klaus" is so... Clear with such a "vibrant" sound. They, are the "Best" Band out there! Keep-up the good work guys!!

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To Hell and Stuck
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Surfacing
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