Acoustic Archives

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Acoustic Archives | type = studio | artist = Tourniquet | cover = Tqt acoustic archives.jpg | alt = | released = Late 1998 | recorded = October 10 – November 4, 1998 | venue = | studio = Bill's Place in North Hollywood, California | genre = | length = 46:22 | label = Independent | producer = Bill Metoyer<br>Tourniquet | prev_title = Crawl to China | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm | next_year = 2000 }} {{Music ratings | noprose = yes | rev1 = ''HM Magazine'' | rev1Score = (highly favorable)<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.hmmagazine.com/issue76/76Albums.htm |last=Olson |first=Chad |date=March–April 1999 |title=Indie Album Reviews: TOURNIQUET |journal=HM Magazine |issue=76 |accessdate=2007-04-24 |issn=1066-6923 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010714054509/http://www.hmmagazine.com/issue76/76Albums.htm |archivedate=July 14, 2001 }}</ref> | rev2 = ''Cross Rhythms'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|10|10}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Long|first=Andy|title=Tourniquet - Acoustic Archives|journal=Cross Rhythms|date=1 April 1999|issue=50|url=http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Tourniquet/Acoustic_Archives/13503/|accessdate=7 May 2012}}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Phantom Tollbooth'' | rev3Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Spencer|first=Josh|title=Acoustic Archives|url=http://www.tollbooth.org/review99/tourniquet.html|publisher=The Phantom Tollbooth|accessdate=7 May 2012|date=1999}}</ref> }} '''''Acoustic Archives''''' is an acoustic compilation album by the American Christian metal band Tourniquet. It was released in 1998. Nearly all the songs are from previous releases and performed acoustically, with the exception of the new song "Trivializing the Momentous, Complicating the Obvious".

==Track listing== {{Track listing | extra_column = Original release (year) | title1 = Viento Borrascoso (Devastating Wind) | extra1 = ''Psycho Surgery'' (1991) | length1 = 2:50 | title2 = Vanishing Lessons | extra2 = ''Vanishing Lessons'' (1994) | length2 = 5:19 | title3 = Claustrospelunker | extra3 = ''Crawl to China'' (1997) | length3 = 4:04 | title4 = Bearing Gruesome Cargo | extra4 = ''Vanishing Lessons'' (1994) | length4 = 4:54 | title5 = Phantom Limb | extra5 = ''Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance'' (1992) | length5 = 5:59 | title6 = Bats | extra6 = ''Crawl to China'' (1997) | length6 = 3:23 | title7 = Heads I Win, Tails You Lose | extra7 = ''Carry the Wounded'' (1995) | length7 = 4:12 | title8 = Twilight | extra8 = ''Vanishing Lessons'' (1994) | length8 = 4:01 | title9 = If Pigs Could Fly | extra9 = ''Crawl to China'' (1997) | length9 = 5:01 | title10 = Trivializing the Momentous, Complicating the Obvious{{Ref label|hitp|a|a}} | extra10 = – | length10 = 6:35 | total_length = 46:22 }} :{{note label|hp|a|a}} appears on ''The Epic Tracks'' (2019)

==Personnel== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} '''Tourniquet''' *Ted Kirkpatrick – drums, percussion *Luke Easter – vocals *Aaron Guerra – guitar, vocals *Vince Dennis – bass guitar, vocals

{{col-2}} '''Additional personnel''' *Produced by Bill Metoyer and Tourniquet *Mastered by Eddy Schreyer at Oasis Mastering in Studio City, California *Guitar setup and intonation by Eric Chaz *Original watercolor cover painting by Alison Schroeer {{col-end}}

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==External links== *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070519182208/http://www.tourniquet.net/discography/index.php?id=9 Acoustic Archives at Tourniquet.net]}}

Category:Tourniquet (band) albums Category:1998 albums