What a hoot! Mika looking her best owl for us! I enjoyed the Goo Goo Dolls song, Michael...and, both versions. Never paid much attention to them, when they were in their heyday. It strikes me as odd that he/they'd name a song so generically...."Acoustic #3"....would seem to dissuade folks from covering it, methinks! I just checked....seems I'm right: Only 4 covers of the song in its 27 years (but, it would seem Master Rzeznik is right also....SOMEBODY covered it!): https://secondhandsongs.com/work/159415/versions
Two acapella groups, including The Stanford Harmonics, and a group called Iron Horse, who recorded (with banjo!) a bluegrass arrangement on a 2009 compilation called "A Boy Named Blue--The Bluegrass Tribute to The Goo Goo Dolls"! That's here: https://youtu.be/wE-wkbecOtI
Plus, there's been one instrumental.
Whew! You got me workin' on a Friday, Michael! What's THAT about?!😂 Enjoy! And, thanks!
This is one of the analysis type articles I waded through. Lots of words there, but applying Occam’s Razor, it all boiled down to, “Yeah, we don’t know either…”
I read as much as I could about the history - there is a lot of blah blah blah for its own sake and to my knowledge the band didn’t offer any explanation of the lyrics, or why the song has that title. I suspect the mastering engineer marked the final mix tape “Acoustic #3”, and the band members had different titles in mind, or maybe as a “fuck it” just left the studio mix title as it was and thought “We’re not really sure what it’s about anyway, so…”. I kind of lean towards the last one, but there are plenty of word counts in various publications of the day that tried to explain it. I’m going with long days in the studio, production meetings, design issues, and finally, exhausted they just said “leave it as it is…” - that outcome would make me laugh, but I don’t know.
What a hoot! Mika looking her best owl for us! I enjoyed the Goo Goo Dolls song, Michael...and, both versions. Never paid much attention to them, when they were in their heyday. It strikes me as odd that he/they'd name a song so generically...."Acoustic #3"....would seem to dissuade folks from covering it, methinks! I just checked....seems I'm right: Only 4 covers of the song in its 27 years (but, it would seem Master Rzeznik is right also....SOMEBODY covered it!): https://secondhandsongs.com/work/159415/versions
Two acapella groups, including The Stanford Harmonics, and a group called Iron Horse, who recorded (with banjo!) a bluegrass arrangement on a 2009 compilation called "A Boy Named Blue--The Bluegrass Tribute to The Goo Goo Dolls"! That's here: https://youtu.be/wE-wkbecOtI
Plus, there's been one instrumental.
Whew! You got me workin' on a Friday, Michael! What's THAT about?!😂 Enjoy! And, thanks!
https://www.songmeaningsandfacts.com/acoustic-3-unveiling-the-melancholy-in-melody/
This is one of the analysis type articles I waded through. Lots of words there, but applying Occam’s Razor, it all boiled down to, “Yeah, we don’t know either…”
I read as much as I could about the history - there is a lot of blah blah blah for its own sake and to my knowledge the band didn’t offer any explanation of the lyrics, or why the song has that title. I suspect the mastering engineer marked the final mix tape “Acoustic #3”, and the band members had different titles in mind, or maybe as a “fuck it” just left the studio mix title as it was and thought “We’re not really sure what it’s about anyway, so…”. I kind of lean towards the last one, but there are plenty of word counts in various publications of the day that tried to explain it. I’m going with long days in the studio, production meetings, design issues, and finally, exhausted they just said “leave it as it is…” - that outcome would make me laugh, but I don’t know.