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BOOTLEG: EXCLUSIVE SICK PUPPIES TRACK, “SO WHAT I LIED (ACOUSTIC)”

In our never-ending quest to give you the best music available, we present the Revolver Bootleg series. Throughout each month, we’ll post cool, new, and often-exclusive tracks right here for you to hear before anyone else.

This installment is a rare acoustic version of “So What I Lied” Australian hard rockers Sick Puppies. The electric version appears on their current album, Tri-Polar (Virgin). Bassist Emma Anzai was kind enough to fill us in on this version below.

REVOLVER What’s this song about? What was the inspiration?
EMMA ANZAI The song is about people conforming to society and society’s so called standards. People seem to get stuck in a mold and can’t seem to get themselves out of it, so basically its a song to relieve that frustration!

Why did you record this acoustic version?
We actually start writing all our songs as acoustic songs first because our motto is, “If they sound good with just the bare bones, then we know they will translate as full electric songs.” “So What I Lied” felt great this way so we made an acoustic version.

Which version do you like better?
Probably the electric version because it best represents what we are as a live band and also because we love the rhythmical aspect of the song in electric form, although we do like the acoustic version, also!

What sort of feedback have you gotten on this song so far?
We’ve had a lot of people come up to us and say its their favorite song because of the way they relate to it; however it seems to mean different things to different people depending on where they’re at in their life.

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Acoustic version sounds amazing.

I'm not sure how to delete the thread. lol.

I'm not sure if that's how they wanted it to sound or if it's an electrical problem when recording.

I'd love to listen to this, but it's super distorted for me. Is anyone else having this problem? Skipping, fuzz, and sounding like they're underwater?

If the small player isn't working, you can try clicking the direct link. Shim kinda sounds like a chipmunk when screaming at the end. That's the only issue I have.

No problem.

I know that Shim is insanely good at acoustic performances, but does it sound like this is just the album version with the electric sound and drums removed? The vocals are perfectly matched with the album version. If it is a separate vocal track, I'm beyond impressed.

Hmm. They did say that they put down acoustic tracks first so maybe they did this track before the album version?

Great to hear the acoustic version of a different song (as much as I love You're Going Down and Riptide acoustic, it's good to hear something else), and an actual studio recording of an acoustic song.

i.love.this.

Just a video I made of the mp3 posted here:


What Up with the first two times he says "short" in th end? sounds like an elf

I love!Love!Love!Love! The acoustic version of this, I really wish I could here all of the songs on this album acoustically. SP just sounds so amazing acoustically.

The video that was posted of this was good. When I tried listening on my computer it sounded all distorted. But I really, really, really love it!:)

I LOVE the song that way!!! OMG is there a way to download it? I want it!!!

^^^ Ditto ! It's my fave song from Tri-Polar and hearing it acoustic .... even more so

Hearing that song acoustic was amazing! I loved it.

wow! thats so much better in acoustic! any chance we can download this?