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Various Artists - Release Date: October 18, 2005
- Type: Collection (various artists), Live
- Genre: Rock
Review
The ninth volume of Bay Area Hot AC outlet Alice 97.3's This Is Alice Music series features 14 more Alice artists getting their acoustic on for a good cause. (The disc promotes breast cancer awareness.) Rob Thomas' "Lonely No More" is better when it loses the mechanized sheen of its studio version, but no arrangement, acoustic or otherwise, can save Lenny Kravitz's tepid "Lady." There are also sufficiently organic, if somewhat motionless contributions from Switchfoot ("Meant to Live"), Maroon 5 ("She Will Be Loved"), and Howie Day ("Collide"). In the plus column Gavin DeGraw channels Rufus Wainwright for a solo piano version of "Chariot," and the mannered, very English delivery of Keane's Tom Chaplin separates "Somewhere Only We Know" from dull post-grunge balladeers Finger Eleven. Best might be Avril Lavigne's "Happy Ending." She stole the show on Alice @ 97.3: This Is Alice Music, Vol. 7 with a fluttery "Complicated." On volume nine's "Happy Ending," she still isn't the strongest vocalist in the world. But when Lavigne is separated from studio machinery, her brash defensiveness is more convincing, closer to the bruised emotions she always sings about in her songs. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Lonely No More [Acoustic] | Rob Thomas | Rob Thomas | (4:05) |
| Right to Be Wrong [Acoustic] | Betty Wright, Joss Stone | Joss Stone | (5:10) |
| She Will Be Loved [Alice Lounge][Version] | Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden, Ryan Dusick, James Valentine | Maroon 5 | (4:43) |
| My Happy Ending [Acoustic Version] | Butch Walker, Avril Lavigne | Avril Lavigne | (3:57) |
| Collide [Acoustic] | Howie Day | Howie Day | (4:28) |
| Lady [Alice Lounge][Version] | Lenny Kravitz | Lenny Kravitz | (3:40) |
| Meant to Live [Alice Lounge][Version] | Switchfoot | (3:17) | |
| 24 [Alice Lounge][Version] | Jem | (4:02) | |
| One Thing [Acoustic] | Finger Eleven | (3:51) | |
| Chariot [Alice Lounge][Version] | Gavin DeGraw | Gavin DeGraw | (4:50) |
| Somewhere Only We Know [Acoustic] | Keane | (3:48) | |
| Angel [Alice Lounge][Version] | Sarah McLachlan | Sarah McLachlan | (5:13) |
| A Lifetime [Acoustic] | Better Than Ezra | (3:36) | |
| 1985 [Acoustic] | Bowling for Soup | (3:11) |
