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    03/26/2002

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    All Music Guide Review

    V2 Records' impressive roster helps to fill out this two-disc set of mellow songs from Radiohead, Dido, Badly Drawn Boy, and Coldplay, as well as some well-known acoustic performances from Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, John Martyn, and Simon & Garfunkel. Unlike some sort of massive "Unplugged" session, the compilation acts more like an introduction to acoustic music at the turn of the 21st century, with a handful of classic low-key favorites thrown in here and there. Almost all of the tracks have appeared as album tracks, B-sides, soundtrack selections, on-air performances, or live cuts somewhere else, but that doesn't change the sheer enjoyment of hearing alternate versions of songs that may be all-too familiar in their electric versions. As Radiohead drifts further and further out into electronic experimentation, their stripped-down "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (originally released on The Bends) is all the more intriguing, and Stereophonics' live roll through the Rod Stewart classic "Handbags and Gladrags" is as charmingly boozy and gruff as any of the Faces early recordings. The exceptional Elbow are equally moving in an acoustic setting, as are the songs from Wheat, Doves, I Am Kloot, and relative newcomer Tom McRae. Sticklers out there may object that Mercury Rev's fully orchestrated "The Dark Is Rising" and Beth Orton's electronic blip-filled "Central Reservation" are hardly textbook examples of the word "acoustic," but their lush sounds provide good contrast to the warm and intimate selections surrounding them. In a market that is glutted with electronic "Chillout" records, it is warmly refreshing to hear some authentically chilled-out performances whose intimate looseness is far more at ease than any downbeat compilation in recent memory. ~ Zac Johnson, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • Artist
  • time
  • 1
  • Once Around the Block
  • Badly Drawn Boy
  • 3:45
  • 2
  • Handbags and Gladrags
  • 4:43
  • 3
  • Don't Panic
  • Coldplay
  • 2:16
  • 4
  • Underdog (Save Me)
  • Turin Brakes
  • 3:31
  • 5
  • Part of the Process
  • Morcheeba
  • 4:24
  • 6
  • Street Spirit (Fade Out)
  • Radiohead
  • 4:12
  • 7
  • Hunter
  • Dido
  • 3:56
  • 8
  • Babylon
  • Gray, David [1]
  • 4:24
  • 9
  • Drawn Down the Stars
  • McRae, Tom
  • 2:11
  • 10
  • Central Reservation (The Then Again Version)
  • Orton, Beth
  • 3:56
  • 11
  • Asleep in the Back
  • Elbow
  • 3:43
  • 12
  • Solid Air
  • Martyn, John
  • 5:41
  • 13
  • I Don't Want to Know
  • Muki
  • 4:00
  • 14
  • No Fear of Falling
  • I Am Kloot
  • 2:10
  • 15
  • The Time Is Now
  • Moloko
  • 4:29
  • 16
  • Riverman
  • Drake, Nick
  • 4:17
  • 17
  • Toxic Girl
  • Kings of Convenience
  • 3:07
  • 18
  • Thirteen
  • Big Star
  • 2:37
  • 19 (2)
  • The Dark Is Rising
  • Mercury Rev
  • 4:49
  • 20 (2)
  • Hallelujah
  • Buckley, Jeff
  • 6:52
  • 21 (2)
  • Kathy's Song
  • Cassidy, Eva
  • 2:44
  • 22 (2)
  • Night and Day
  • Everything But the Girl
  • 2:51
  • 23 (2)
  • The Boxer
  • Simon & Garfunkel
  • 5:08
  • 24 (2)
  • Hey Joni
  • Spek
  • 3:51
  • 25 (2)
  • Save Me
  • Mann, Aimee
  • 4:33
  • 26 (2)
  • The Man Who Told Everything
  • Doves [1]
  • 5:47
  • 27 (2)
  • Nobody's Song in Particular
  • Grand Drive
  • 6:25
  • 28 (2)
  • Don't I Hold You
  • Wheat
  • 3:46
  • 29 (2)
  • Dry
  • Feeder
  • 3:46
  • 30 (2)
  • Autumn
  • Quinn [1]
  • 4:42
  • 31 (2)
  • My Idea of Fun
  • Doolittle
  • 3:25
  • 32 (2)
  • Something in My Eye
  • Harcourt, Ed
  • 3:38
  • 33 (2)
  • You Should Know
  • Daniels, Julie
  • 3:08
  • 34 (2)
  • Leaving My Sorrow Behind
  • Christophers, Ben
  • 3:06
  • 35 (2)
  • So You'll Aim Towards the Sky
  • Grandaddy
  • 4:40
  • 36 (2)
  • Wild Wood (Live)
  • Weller, Paul [1]
  • 4:05

  • Credits

    • Badly Drawn Boy
    • Guitar (Acoustic), Vibraphone, Guitar, Guitar (Bass), Producer, Guitar (Electric), Vocals
    • Lestyn
    • Programming, Engineer
    • Mundo
    • Producer, Remixing


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