favorite acoustic guitar song?

[joeinthebox1980]

alright everyone... favorite acoustic guitar song(s)?

i'd have to say, most stuff by Simon & Garfunkel.

blackbird by the beatles

wonderwall by oasis.

[Electric Gypsy]

Acoustic Demo - Jimi Hendrix

Hear My Train A Comin' (Acoustic) - Jimi Hendrix

She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes

You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones

Just to name a few, there are a lot more that I like also.

Peace

[BandGeek86]

my favorite acoustics
What Went Wrong- Blink 182
The Story So Far (acoustic version)- New Found Glory
Letters to God- Boxcar Racer

[johnny]

oh this is a no brainer,

led zeppelin - babe i'm gonna leave you (joan baez cover)

a rockin song yet acoustic driven, great jam

[leeferdude]

Pinball Wizard by the Who and Behind Blue Eyes

[trim]

My thoughts:

- She talks to Angels - Black Crowes
- Pinball Wizard - The Who
- Fooling Yourself (angry young man) - Styx
- Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls
- Patience - GNR

[The User]

I wont mertion songs...just albums.

Nirvana - Unplugged in NY
The Waifs - Up All Night
Ani DiFranco....anything she recorded

[Clayton38]

Alice in Chains - "got me wrong" live
Nirvana - "The man who sold the world" live
Jane's Addiction - "slow divers" live
****o for Pyros - "bali eyes"
Pink Floyd - "Is there anybody out there?"

[Stbok]

Ani DiFranco....anything she recorded

shes amazing

over the hills and far away (well the intro at least) -led zeppelin
talkin **** about a pretty sunset- modest mouse
the weather- built to spill

[Wir-Click-Wir]

Don Mclean - "Vincent"
Pink Floyd - "Is There Anybody Out There?"
Eric Clapton - "Layla (Unplugged)"
Modest Mouse - "Wild Packs Of Family Dogs"
Nirvana - "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" (Leadbelly cover)
The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood" and "Blackbird"

I'll think of more later.

[Lenin]

any of the acoustic belle and sebastian songs
fake plastic trees by radiohead
michelle by the beatles

[kansas_parker]

the state I'm in- belle and sebastian (one of many)
jar of cardinals- Guided by Voices
you're so great- blur (granted, there's an electric lead)
and on and on....

[joeinthebox1980]

Originally posted by Lenin
fake plastic trees by radiohead

yah! that's definitely a good one... one of their best, for sure.

[Sk8Jack12]

greenday - time of your life

[Wayjurn]

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Days of the New's entire debut album
There is a version of Yellow Ledbetter that Pearl Jam played at the Bridge School Benefit show in '96, which just kills me every time I hear it. Mmmmm.
Primus - Over The Falls
Evanescence - October

[skip tracer]

The first one that came to my head:

The acoustic version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the anthology.

[kd8ux]

My favorite acoustic songs:

Black Queen...Stephen Stills
Little Blind Fish...David Crosby(CPR)
Harvest Moon...Neil Young
4+20.....Stephen Stills
Winnie the pooh song...Kenny Loggins
Very partial list....
cao...Phil

[Elnwood]

Blackbird inspired me to learn guitar, and was my first song (it took quite a while to perfect).

Kenny Loggin's House on Pooh Corner is also a favorite. I have to give props to Paul Simon on Anji though.

[joeinthebox1980]

Originally posted by skip tracer
The first one that came to my head:

The acoustic version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the anthology.

that's a GREAT version of the song.

[jonjonbolt80]

hear my train a comin' Hendrix
pride and joy (on mtv unplugged) Stevie Ray
anything by Jim Croche
anything by Bob Dylan

[GrungeGod]

Harvest Moon by Neil Young

[Dusty]

Got to be the 12 string version of Hear My Train A Comin from the Jimi Hendrix Blues album. Unreal how he keeps down rhythm, melody, and works the vocals throughout.

[scottishpunk]

id say my favorite acoustic tracks were

Mexico/Aquaeous Transmission-Incubus
Be Quiet And Drive Acoustic Mix- Deftones
Babe Im Gonna Leave You- Led Zepplin
Never Talking To You Again- Husker Du
Where Did You Sleep Last Night?- Nirvana

my tuppence worth.

[cursivescript]

bright eyes - june on the west coast and most of the stuff he's done
neil young - harvest moon
rolling stones - no expectations

[Crooner]

here comes the sun

it is the rebirth of george harrison, the phoneix from the ashes, a breath of fresh air through the halls of the beatles lennon-mccartney dominated catalogue .

im not saying that the lennon-mccartney songs were growing stagnate but, but this song was the perfect , it truely signafies the evoloution of the forgotton beatle.

[clifford]

babe im gonna leave you rocks hard..
i think 'ending credits (for a movie)' is really cool by radiohead
3 libras by apc... roulette by s.o.a.d
i like days of a new, love opeth's acoustic stuff

anything TENACIOUS D.. kyle can PLAY

[BlueOrb]

Black star- Radiohead

[TheWizard]

Led Zepplin - Ramble On

[sonny-boy]

good topic

1. "Talk Tonight" - Oasis

2. "Ten Years Ahead" - The Soundtrack Of Our Lives

3. "Karma Police" - Radiohead

4. "My Sundown" - Jimmy Eat World

5. "Chop Suey" (the intro) - System Of A Down

[TheGrinnan]

1. Nirvana "Unplugged." Too many good tunes to just pick one.
2. Metallica et al covering "Tuesday's Gone" on "Garage, Inc."
3. Guns 'N Roses "Patience." (I actually have an import where the first half of the album they're playing an acoustic concert, the second half is like a jam session after a show during their tour for "Appetite." It's pretty good.)
4. "Weird Al" Yankovic "You Don't Love Me Anymore"--a stylistic parody of "More Than Words," which is a pretty good song in it's own right.
5. Billy Joel "Piano Man." Not a guitar song, but still great nonetheless.

[Tobbermand]

hmmmm.....:

Rolling Stones - Wild Horses(from Stripped)

hell! just about anything from that CD

[Patrick Liddell]

I agree with Clifford - anything by Tenacious D kicks ass. Here are a couple of acoustic faves that fooled me at first:

Street Fighting Man

Jumping Jack Flash

Both are recordings of several acoustic guitars (multiple alternate tunings) with lots of microphone distortion to give the great beefy tone those tunes have.

Also, Dylan's open E and open D tuning stuff is really fun to play (most anything from Blood on the Tracks, for example...)

Some of Springsteen's early stuff is very cool acoustic work, both heavily strummed (Hard to Be a Saint in the City) and fingerpicked (Santa Anna).

Warren Zevon's "Life'll Kill Ya'" stuff

John Hiatt's "Crossing Muddy Waters" stuff

Ryan Adams' "You Will Always Be the Same"

on and on and on and on...

http://www.mrbigstuffband.com

[Handsome Devil]

Oasis- Wonderwall, The Masterplan, Half The World Away
The Beatles - Blackbird
Paul Weller- Wildwood
Ocean Colour Scene- The Day We Caught The Train, Fade Away, Robin Hood
Badly Drawn Boy- Once Around The Block (My all time favourtie), The Shining, many many more...
Bob Dylan- Like A Rolling Stone

[Sagacious Music]

Anything John Mayer...
And everything acoustic that The Beatles played... hehe.

[flipperbaby]

slayer-south of heaven
nirvana-the man who sold the world(unplugged in NY)
alot of the acoustic picking and that stuff that ben harper does

[jakobe_road]

Originally posted by BandGeek86
my favorite acoustics
What Went Wrong- Blink 182
The Story So Far (acoustic version)- New Found Glory
Letters to God- Boxcar Racer

could you be any less talented????

[AndThenTheresMe]

To both the dudes who listed "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"
I have this to say . . .

hell yeah.

The first time i listened to that album straight through, I was left speechless. When Kurt finally stops holding back and screams the last verse, it's just gut-wrenching. One of the most emotive performances ever recorded.

"Fake Plastic Trees" is another fave of mine. I'm auditioning soon to become a licensed busker (one who sits and plays in the London underground stations for money) and that's my audition piece. I hope the audition is not early morning, b/c if so, I won't be in full voice and will be screwed. I used to sing tenor, but my vocal range has lowered a few half steps in the past two years.

[patlang12]

nirvana unplugged

[krw]

del suggs ...wooden boat
del suggs....living deliberately

he lives close to here...if you want to hear a good, down to earth musician...his saltwater folk is hard to beat...
kw

[Jat]

"Pallar Anders Visa" - InFlames
"Destiny" (intro) - Death
"What Went Wrong" - Blink182
"Misquito Song" - QOTSA
"Close Yet Far" - CKY

[teleman]

Originally posted by Patrick Liddell


Some of Springsteen's early stuff is very cool acoustic work, both heavily strummed (Hard to Be a Saint in the City) and fingerpicked (Santa Anna).



Wow! Santa Ana. i thought I was the only one here who knew that one!


I'd like to add his new take on Born In the USA, played with a slide in open D5 tuning. Fantastic stuff. The starkness of it really gets the message across.

[sisterray]

REVEREND GARY DAVIS

[rushfan56k]

My favorite songs to play on acoustic are "The Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin and that song by The Doobie Brothers....""Old black water..Keep on rollin' Mississsippi moon wont ya keep on shinin' on me...."

To listen to........It has to be the acoustic version of Plush by Dean and Scott from STP and "Don't let me be lonely tonight" by James Taylor and also The ENTIRE "Sap" album by Alice in Chains. Excellent guitar and vocal work on that one. If you have not heard it....do so.

[cormac]

well ...

generally i love the style of woody guthrie -- it sounds simple but it ain't that simple -- so any woody guthrie song is great to me

neil young tho is prolly my fav acoustic
"needle and the damage done"
"old man"
"i am a child"

and probably all the songs that have been previously mentioned
:)

[DavyBoy721]

Originally posted by johnny
oh this is a no brainer,

led zeppelin - babe i'm gonna leave you (joan baez cover)

a rockin song yet acoustic driven, great jam

oh yeah.....love that one.....kind of tricky for a sec but once you get it it's a breeze....


i also like wonderwall (oasis)
song for george (eric johnoson - wish i could play it)
yesterday (beatles)
times like these (foo fighters)
definitely tears in heaven and lonely stranger off clapton's unplugged
nutshell (alice in chains)
the whole cds of nirvana and aic's unpluggeds
autumn shade II (the vines)
**** her gently (tenacious d);)
road trippin and i could have lied (red hot chili peppers)

...just to name a few

[DavyBoy721]

Originally posted by rushfan56k
It has to be the acoustic version of Plush by Dean and Scott from STP


oh yeah.....stone temple pilots were awesome, i also like creep acoustic and they did a bluesy version of sex-type thing on their unplugged....
i know weiland's in velvet revolver with ikd gnr now but are robert and dean doin anything anymore?

[DavyBoy721]

Originally posted by Sk8Jack12
greenday - time of your life


man i don't know how many people call this song this...... it's called "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"

not to say you didn't know that because you might.......but i just hate ignorant people who think that's what it is.....or another good example..... people thinkin under the bridge is called city of angels or some bull**** like that

[bLuZ_pLaYa]

anything by James Taylor (who i cant believe no one else has said yet)

or anything by John Mayer

[satchaholic]

anyone mention the Goo Goo Dolls??

Acoustic #3
Name
Iris
Slide

Collective Soul - world i know

Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You (i love the acoustic in the background and in the intro)

[deadhead420]

Blister in the Sun- The Violent Femmes
Lake of Fire- Nirvana (Unplugged in NY)
Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
Goodbye, Blue Sky-Pink Floyd
Mother- Pink Floyd

[landers]

Thirteen - Big star
Waltz #2 - Elliot Smith
Classical Gas - Mason Willams
Mandolin Wind - Rod Stewart

And most of the beatles stuff and cat stevens stuff would also be in this catagory for me.

[ClemencyThis!Ry]

"Atlanta" - Stone Temple Pilots - anyone who hasn't heard this track should check it out. It's the closer for No 4 and it's simply incredible. Very nice, beautiful, and great to play

"No Excuses" - Alice in Chains - for some reason whenever i have an acoustic in my hands, at some point or another i have to play this progression, simple, but so good.

"Fearless" - Matthew Good Band - on the album it's played with a clean electric, but acousticly it sounds sounds incredible

[rhcp311]

Flake, Bubble Toes, and Rodeo Clowns by Jack Johnson. Hell, anything by Jack Johnson.

[rhcp311]

I almost forgot, "Never Been to Barcelona" by Vinnie Moore just blows my mind, I can't even being to figure out how to play most of it.

[The Hierophant]

Babe i'm Gonna leave you - led zep
stumbleine - smashing pumpkins
can't think of anything else right now
:(

[tocata]

Kinks: Lola
Pink Floyd: Wish You were Here
Zakk Wylde: the Belssed Hellride
Zakk Wylde: Speedball
Ozzy Osbourne: Dee
Black Sabbath: The last verse of Symptom of the universe
Black Sabbath: Don't start to late
Black Sabbath:Fluff
Black Sabbath:Embryo
Tony Iommi: anything he does with one

[TheBlindsideKid]

U2 - North And South Of The River (omagh tribute live);)

Nickel Creek - Out Of The Woods

Nickel Creek - Seven Wonders

Nickel Creek - This Side

Bob Marley - Redemption Song

Phil Keaggy , pretty much all of his album "Lights Of Madrid"

Dashboard Confessional - This Ruined Puzzle

P.O.D. - Eternal

Blindside - Silence

[zedhead]

The Hitcher - Toshack Highway

Dirt Floor and War Crime Blues LP's - Chris Whitley (Does Dobro count?)

Glass Bottom - Idaho

Cabaezon - Red House Painters

Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith

Cherokee Jam - Hendrix

Scatterbrain (acoustic) - Radiohead

Carmine Street Sign/Night After Sidewalk - Kaki King

Indian Summer - Joe Walsh (mostly acoustic)

The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks (mostly acoustic too!)

[jacksonjs30]

where are you going
crash into me
and satillite by DMB

hear my train coming by hendrix

wish you were here- pink floyd

john mayers cover of message in a bottle

shinedowns cover of simple man

ball and chain by social distortion

turn the page by bob seger

wonderwall by oasis

tears in heaven and layla by clapton (unplugged)

drift away by dobie gray

all along the watchtower by well every cover of it

knockin on heavens door - dylan

thats just to name a few

[Welladjusted]

the acoustic version of "hey hey, my my"

[ClaytonM TKW]

Pretty much any song by Elliot Smith is a great acoustic tune. Specifically Angeles and Twilight.
Can't believe no one mentioned Nick Drake, his work on Pink Moon is some of the best folk-pop aroung and hardly anyone knows who he is.

[veyero]

Life by the Drop- SRV

[SOAD]

System of a Down- Roulette
Slipknot- Vermillion Pt. 2
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Oasis- Wonderwall
Guns N' Roses- Patience
Dire Straits- Romeo and Juliet (not sure if it's played on an acoustic as such. Isn't it played on that metal thing? Timpani (sp?) or something?)
Lifehouse- You and Me
Days of the New- Touch Peel and Stand
Lotsa John Butler Trio stuff

[chimp_and_zee]

Frank Zappa - Sofa No. 1

It has to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written

[DavyBoy721]

Originally posted by SOAD
System of a Down- Roulette
Slipknot- Vermillion Pt. 2
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Oasis- Wonderwall
Lotsa John Butler Trio stuff

+1 TO all that

[SOAD]

Few more to add (i just discovered them. :p )

In Flames- Acoustic Medley
In Flames- Pallar Anders Visa (two incredibly cool acoustic songs from a Swedish metal band. Go figure :p )

Pink Floyd- Is there anybody out there?

Radio Head- Street Spirit

[SOAD]

Few more to add (i just discovered them. :p )

In Flames- Acoustic Medley
In Flames- Pallar Anders Visa (two incredibly cool acoustic songs from a Swedish metal band. Go figure :p )

Pink Floyd- Is there anybody out there?

Radio Head- Street Spirit

[tmoney1282]

Anything by Goo Goo Dolls.

[UVBass]

Bron-Yr-Aur-Led Zeppelin

Here Comes the Sun -George Harrison..but I especially like Joe Brown's cover of it in the Geore Harrison tribute concert. (saw it on PBS a while back)

roulette -SOAD

and of course, Stairway To Heaven

[ToodlesTheKitty]

Originally posted by Welladjusted
the acoustic version of "hey hey, my my"

you mean "my my, hey hey" i was gunna say that

Stars n Stripes- The River City Rebels

[bigecclecticcat]

Here are a couple of favorites:

Maria Elena: Ry Cooder (just about anything by Ry when he plays acoustic)
Embryonic Journey: Jorma Kokonen (jef. airplane)
Vaseline Machine gun: Leo Kottke
Richard Thompson: Waltzing's for dreamers

[war_pig]

i always really liked going to california by zep. rain song ain't bad either....

wild horses, gates of eden by dylan, needle and the damage done, village green preservation society by the kinks, and the hills of west virginia by phil ochs.

[pos69sum]

over the hills and far away or going to california

[ORrock]

Anything Justin King, he is a madman at acoustic guitar

Elliott Smith - Angeles
DMB - Sattelite

[definis]

Originally posted by johnny
oh this is a no brainer,

led zeppelin - babe i'm gonna leave you (joan baez cover)

a rockin song yet acoustic driven, great jam

+1 ;)

[definis]

oh yeah, and anything by kaki king.

[definis]

oh yeah, and anything by kaki king.

sigh...i hate work computers.

[evenflow502]

Radiohead- Fake Plastic Trees, most of their other acoustic stuff

Foo Fighters- Times Like These acoustic and Everlong acoustic, and all of Disc 2 of In Your Honor

Pearl Jam- Thin Air, There He Goes, Bee Girl

Robert Johnson- Crossroads

Jack Johnson- Belle or whatever its called

DMB- Christmas Song

Audioslave- Doesn't Remind Me acoustic



sorry, couldn't just pick one :D