Acapella songs

[Ravenbomb]

I'm looking for some acapella songs or acapella versions of songs, anybody know any good ones I should get?

[PLAGIARISM!]

TV on the Radio's cover of 'Mr. Grieves'.

[godthedog]

bjork's 'medulla'.

 

 

 

 

 

ba-dum, CHING.

[King Kamala]

Acapella music is my #1 guilty pleasure. I love Rockapella and shit like that. I occassionally listen to this college radio station show that is three hours of acapella songs. You'd be surprised at what songs get the acapella treatment. I've heard a version of Dexter Freebish's "Leaving Town" a couple times, whose idea was it to do an acapella version of that?

[Ravenbomb]

Mr. Grieves was good.

 

Songs I've gotten so far:

"Llorando" by Rebekah Del Rio

"Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega

"Me and a Gun" by Tori Amos

"War" by Sinead O' Connor

and recently "Mr. Grieves" by TV On the Radio

[C Dubya 04]

http://www.offthebeat.net/

 

This the group from UPenn. They're pretty good.

[Dandy]

Five O'Clock Shadow's cover of "What I Got" from Sublime.

[Edwin MacPhisto]

There's always "For the Longest Time," which sucks ass. I'm getting some serious Andy Bernard vibes from this thread. As a rule I kind of hate a capella, but definitely love the hell out of the TV on the Radio cover, and their almost-as-good "Ambulance."

[Black Lushus]

It's so Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday-Boyz 2 Men

Yesterday-Boyz 2 Men (cover of the Beatles song...Beatles, right?)

If She Only Knew-NSync...that's right goddammit...NSync...

[Your Paragon of Virtue]

Why Can't I fall in Love - Yale Spizzwinks

 

That's the only one off memory that I can think of liking, and the Ivan Neville version (which is not acapella) is way better anyway.

[Ravenbomb]

There's always "For the Longest Time," which sucks ass. I'm getting some serious Andy Bernard vibes from this thread. As a rule I kind of hate a capella, but definitely love the hell out of the TV on the Radio cover, and their almost-as-good "Ambulance."

 

Well, I'm not necessarily looking for that particular kind of acapella, mostly just singing without the instrumental part.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Shai - "If I Ever Fall in Love"

 

A big hit in 1992, but mostly forgotten now, especially compared to the inferior, though still good, Boyz II Men song, "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday."

[Black Lushus]

wow, you're going to give the ace to Shai on that comparison? Interesting....man, I just don't know....

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Bah. That's the only Shai song I can name, and yes, I'll give it props over Boyz II Men's similar a cappella track. That said, yes, I'll take the Boyz any day.

[Ravenbomb]

Yeah, whatever happened to Boyz II Men, anyways? They were good, but just seemed to disappear

[King Kamala]

Last I heard, the deep voiced smooth guy had to quit the band and they're now a trio. This was like three years ago.

[Black Lushus]

if you think about, there really doesn't seem to be too many R&B/Boy Bands going around these days...it's all rap or individual "R&B" pop acts.

[Ravenbomb]

I wasn't that big into B2M when they were actually around, but I kinda miss them now.

[DrVenkman PhD]

There seems to be too much real talk in here for me to suggest the Carmen Sandiego theme song by Rockapella.

[King Kamala]

If we're going to suggest any Rockapella song in here. We're going to have to suggest "Zombie Jamboree", it's the best acapella song I've heard about zombies invading New York City.

 

 

Yes, I can name two Rockapella songs.

[Black Lushus]

hey man, don't sleep on the Carmen San Diego theme.

 

didn't those guys do a commercial too? what was the product?

[Ravenbomb]

Folgier's Coffee.

 

 

 

My god, I can't believe I remember that.

[Black Lushus]

don't worry, remembering they did a commercial is bad enough...

[Matt Young]

I know next to nothing about naming any a capella songs, but I must say that Boyz II Men, at least on Cooleyhighharmony and II were the shit.

 

Oh, and "One Sweet Day" from Mariah Carey's Daydream owned all in 1996.

[Coffin Surfer]

If your into weird stuff:

 

Captain Beefhart has quite a few odd Acapella songs with him seemingly searching for lyrics and trying out rhymes on "Trout Mask Replica."

 

Vocal acrobats: Diamanda Galas, Mike Patton, Phil Minton, and Demetrio Stratos have all released impressive but freakish Avant Garde Acapella records.

[PLAGIARISM!]

Boyz II Men. I have no idea what's 'hip' anymore.

[Ravenbomb]

If your into weird stuff:

 

Captain Beefhart has quite a few odd Acapella songs with him seemingly searching for lyrics and trying out rhymes on "Trout Mask Replica."

 

Vocal acrobats: Diamanda Galas, Mike Patton, Phil Minton, and Demetrio Stratos have all released impressive but freakish Avant Garde Acapella records.

 

 

I've got some Trout Mask Replica, and I've been trying to track down a version of Llorando that Mike Patton did when Peeping Tom were at the Fillmore and got some of his stuff from Adult Themes for Voice.

[Vampiro69]

An acapella group to check out is called The Blanks. This is the same group that appears on Scrubs. They actually aren't that bad.

 

Plus, Rockapella is awesome. Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? Simply classic.

[Guest George's Box]

If your into weird stuff:

 

Captain Beefhart has quite a few odd Acapella songs with him seemingly searching for lyrics and trying out rhymes on "Trout Mask Replica."

"The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back"

 

 

Boyz II Men was an awesome group. They could sing.

[Murmuring Beast]

Oh, come on.

 

Anything by the Beach Boys. 'Our Prayer'; 'Graduation Day'; 'And Your Dreams Come True'. There's a capella versions of every Pet Sounds track available.

 

Too obvious however.