Acoustic Cover Songs

[thebob101]

I am getting together with my guitar player to start playing acoustic covers at a couple bars in our area and I wanted to get suggestions about songs to do. They have to be songs people know (this way we could keep our gig) and would sound good acoustic (singer and guitar player). We would like to stay away from recent songs.

Here are the songs we are doing so far:

One- U2
American Girl- Tom Petty
Barely Breathing- Duncan Sheik
Hallelujah- Jeff Buckley
Like a Stone- Audioslave
Rock with You- Michael Jackson
Rain King- Counting Crows
Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
Gin and Juice- Hayseed Dixie (Snoop's song done Bluegrass style)
Something's Always Wrong- Toad the Wet Sprocket
Flake- Jack Johnson
Daniel- Elton John
Black- Pearl Jam
Dancing Days- Led Zeppelin
Sara Smile- Hall & Oates
Fake Plastic Trees- Radiohead
What’s Going On- Marvin Gaye
El Scorcho- Weezer
Say It Ain’t So- Weezer
Good Life- Weezer
Shimmer- Fuel
In Your Eyes- Peter Gabriel
If You Could Only See- Tonic

Any suggestions are appreciated.

[Wombat]

when I was in a Band back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I used to play "Highway to Hell" and "You Shook Me all Night Long" by AC/DC and "Crazy Train" by Ozzy acoustic, it always gets great crowd reaction and I always thought it sounded surprisingly good

[wubb]

I was going to say do a version of Gin and Juice. So nothing for me to add really :lol:

You could do Gettin Jiggy With It, also pretty funny acoustic. But one song like that may be enough really.

[Scorch]

I want to hear your "Hallelujah" cover!

[thebob101]

I want to hear your "Hallelujah" cover!

I love that song!


I was going to say do a version of Gin and Juice. So nothing for me to add really :lol:

You could do Gettin Jiggy With It, also pretty funny acoustic. But one song like that may be enough really.


We only do two verses, after that we lose people.

[Mookyjooky]

Not Jeff Buckley, nor rufus wainwright (or whoever is remixing it these days) wrote Hallelujah - It was Leonard Cohen. (Just in case you might say that on stage)

As an acoustic singer, I find that -

"One Man Guy" - Loudon Wainwright III
"Angel From Montgomery" - John Prine
"Smells like teen spirit" - Nirvana

Are easy to sing along to and people love em'. I dont know how well "I wanna rock with you" is gonna go, but one time I got drunk and played "Girls just wanna have fun" at like 1/3 speed and people thought it was hilarious.

[coltyhuxx]

The only cover we've ever done is always a full on hit. It's little known song by the Kinks called "Animal Farm"... it's got those cool upbeat at first glance sounding lyrics, but very subversive, as most Kinks songs tend to be.

Has great harmonies in it. A huge crescendo at the ending thats done with strings but it's easy to have someone do the "Ba ba ba's" in lieu.

People come up to us and ask us the origins of that song every time we play it. You could probably find it on I-Tunes? I'm not sure which album it's on. I know Kinks fans that don't know about it.

[ajh2298]

Walk on the Ocean- Toad the Wet Sprocket
Crowing- Toad the Wet Sprocket
Windmills- Toad the Wet Sprocket
Sir Duke- Stevie Wonder
Mountains Win Again- Blues Traveler
Good Friday- The Black Crowes

[Brak]

Dynamite Hack's "Boyz N Da Hood" (Easy E cover)

Do somethin' like that.

[Javery]

You aren't a real bar band until you can play Wanted Dead or Alive.

[WeaponX2099]

Postal service- Such great heights
Maybe Ludacris- Southern hospitality
Michael Jackson- Human Nature
America- Horse with no name

[crazytalkx]

Babe I'm gonna leave you-Led Zeppelin, sechsy song

[Mike23]

Home for a rest - Spirit of the West

[Steggy]

to the extreme i rock the mic like a vandal, light up the stage and wax a chump like a candle... u see where im goin with this :) Vanillia ice - ice ice baby

[thebob101]

Need more songs folks.

[Vampire Hunter D]

Steal some of the songs off Alice in Chains MTv's Unplugged. Best unpluggeed perfermence eva imo. Alot better than Nirvanas. I always liked Alice better than Nirvana. Or yeah any of those Unplugged performences would work to steal from i guess.

[ajh2298]

Blue- The Jayhawks or The Thorns
Flood- Jars of Clay

[st0neface]

STP: Creep
Smashing Pumpkins: Adore
Journey: Don't Stop Believing
Lynard Skynard: Simple Man
Goo Goo Dolls: Iris
Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun
David Bowie: Rebel Rebel
Jimi Hendrix: Hey Joe
Black Sabbath: N.I.B.
Willie Dixon: If The Sea Was Whiskey
The Wallflowers: One Headlight

[thebob101]

Deftones did a great version of Simple Man. They also did No Ordinary Love by Sade.

[Mex25]

All Apologies - Nirvana

I love playing this on electric but on acoustic it sounds so much better

[organicow]

My band's been doing "So Far Away" by Dire Straits acoustically lately. We do it in an Iron & Wine-ish style, and it goes over really well acoustic. So does "Pancho & Lefty" by Townes Van Zandt.

[munch]

You aren't a real bar band until you can play Wanted Dead or Alive.

QFT.

[I AM WILLIAM H. MACY]

Do a New Pornographers cover.

I recommend either "July Jones", "The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism", or "Twin Cinema".

[Vampire Hunter D]

Play some Slayer in acoustic.

[nachzeher]

Foo Fighters - Everlong
Incubus - Pardon Me
Goo Goo Dolls - Name
John Lennon - Imagine

[thebob101]

Play some Slayer in acoustic.


Can Slayer be done acoustic or will I die or something.