Incubus - Anna Molly acoustic on iTunes

An acoustic version of Anna Molly is available on iTunes. I'd say that even without listening to the song that it's not one of those tracks that necessarily needs an acoustic translation, though that's not to say it won't be a successful one, of course. There have been times before where it doesn't seem possible to make a worthy acoustic song and they've done it, like with A Certain Shade of Green and Pardon Me. The main issue is that the guitar not only needs to retain it's original music but has to compensate for the other instruments that will be absent, taking control of the rhythm as well as the lead. With something like Pardon Me it was very drum and bass heavy, and the guitar really wasn't doing anything at all during the verses other than adding ambience. Mike managed to transform the song into something that didn't need the bass at all during the verse, and that was an excellent effort. With Anna Molly, while the bass isn't doing something that carries the whole song it's doing something on it's own that compliments the guitar rather than follow it. Mike hasn't done anything particularly different with the acoustic version so it feels like it's missing a lot rather than being able to stand up on it's own. That'd be ok if it were already a song that was slow and laid back, but the album version is an energetic, paced song and so I don't really feel the acoustic song is anything special. Brandon does fine, but he doesn't really do anything to pull it out of it's mediocrity. All in all an ok track.