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My cousin and I are going to do some acoustic sets this spring/summer and we are in process of thinking through set lists etc. While we won't have any problems filling out the lists I thought it might be fun to see what songs y'all might turn up...

Basically it'll be the two of us...Totally acoustic (probably) though we will amplify the acoustics...Instruments will be primarily guitars though we will mix in fiddle, mandolin, banjo, harmonica maybe some pedal steel...

Our influences are diverse sets will include a wide variety of styles...Punk-New Wave, Classic Rock, Good C & W, Delta Blues, Alternative, Reggae, Standards, Traditionals, Gospel...

Song requirements: Melodic, Evocative, Lyrically & Musically Interesting

Angel Son.... Sevendust
Black.... Pearl Jam
Behind Blue Eyes... The Who
Outside... Staind
Fine Again... Seether
Broken...Seether
Yesterday... The Beatles
Bron-y-aur Stomp... Led Zepplin
Crash... Dave Matthews Band
How You Remind Me... Nickleback

Here are a few modern and old songs I think would be fun to play acoustic.

Some heavier songs that sound great unplugged:

Diamonds and Rust - Judas Priest
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Angry Chair - Alice In Chains
Outshined - Soundgarden
The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana

Wave of Mutilation - The Pixies
Driver 8 - R.E.M.

Creep - Radiohead
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Everybody Hurts - REM

Just a current state of the set list...these are the ones we are going to start arranging cussing and discussing...We are still fighting over which Stones song(s) to include atm...

• Verdi Cries - 10,000 Maniacs
  Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
  On The Turning Away
  No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley
  Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
  Creep
  Unravel - Bjork
  A Long December -Counting Crows
  Raining in Baltimore
  I Want Everything -Cracker
  Kerosene Hat
  No One is to Blame - Howard Jones
  I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
  In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
  Pancho and Lefty - Townes Van Zandt
  32-20 Blues - Robert Johnson
  Come On In My Kitchen
  You Ain't Goin' Nowhere -Bob Dylan
  Quinn the Eskimo
  Rocket Man - Elton John
  I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
  Guitar Town - Steve Earle
  Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
  Tennessee Waltz - Redd Stewart
  All Her Favourite Fruit - Camper Van Beethoven
  Axis (Bold as Love) - Jimi Hendrix
  Hey Joe
  Romeo in Black Jeans - Michael Penn
  Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
  Lady Stardust - David Bowie
  The Road to Ensenada - Lyle Lovett
  Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls
  Out of the Picture - Son Volt
  This Time of Year - Better Then Ezra
  Until I Fall Away - Gin Blossoms
  Angel From Montgomery - John Prine
  Spanish Pipedream
  Box of Rain - Grateful Dead
  Morning Song for Sally - Jerry Jeff Walker
  London Homesick Blues - Gary P. Nunn
  Swan Swan H - REM
  Wendell Gee
  Driver 8
  You Are The Everything
  Peace Love and Understanding - Elvis Costello
  Two Angels - Jayhawks
  Selling the Drama - Live
  Passionate Kisses - Lucinda Williams
  Black - Pearl Jam
  Out With You - Pete Droge and the Sinners
  All I Want - Toad the Wet Sprocket
  Blackberry Blossom - Trad. (michelle shocked - arrangement give or take)

So, thats where we stand atm...thanks for the input...

Rocket Man - Elton John

I cry everytime I hear that song...

What a great list.

You may also wish to consider:

Elvis Costello - "Accidents Will Happen" (off of 'Armed Forces')
Chris Isaac - various (His "Speak of the Devil" CD is particularly good, for example)
Dire Straits - "Romeo and Juliet", off of 'Making Movies' (I believe the Indigo Girls covered this one as well)
The Clash - "Train in Vain" (the last, unadvertised, song on 'London Calling'). Annie Lennox does a nice version of this on her 'Medusa' album as well.

And, going out on a limb, if you have never heard of The Low & Sweet Orchestra, you may wish to give their 'Goodbye to All That' album a listen - you may find a track or two on that worth performing.

Ogbar wrote:What a great list.

You may also wish to consider:

Elvis Costello - "Accidents Will Happen" (off of 'Armed Forces')
Chris Isaac - various (His "Speak of the Devil" CD is particularly good, for example)
Dire Straits - "Romeo and Juliet", off of 'Making Movies' (I believe the Indigo Girls covered this one as well)
The Clash - "Train in Vain" (the last, unadvertised, song on 'London Calling'). Annie Lennox does a nice version of this on her 'Medusa' album as well.

And, going out on a limb, if you have never heard of The Low & Sweet Orchestra, you may wish to give their 'Goodbye to All That' album a listen - you may find a track or two on that worth performing.

Thanks man.....

I do love "accidents will happen"...prolly if we add another EC song I'd fight for "new lace sleeves"...

Chris Isaak...like him a lot...hrrm will think about him a bit...have to change the voicings some...

The Clash - yeah we are the same age after all......I was thinking about Capitol Radio One actually or Rudy Can't Fail...

Romeo and Juliet...yerp I do that solo a bunch...

I'm also thinking

Closing Time by semisonic very poppy but I really like the song
Life on a Chain by pete yorn

Will check out the Low and Sweet Orchestra...thanks...

James Taylor's
Line 'Em Up (from Hourglass)
Secret O' Life (from JT)

Tom Waits'
A sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun (from Blue Valentine)
Big in Japan or
Chocolate Jesus (both from Mule Variations)

Randy Newman's
Marie (from Good Old Boys)
Short People (from Little Criminals)

ummmm....

Harry Connick Jr.'s Whisper Your Name (from She)
Jeff Buckley's Grace or Love, you should've come over (both from Grace)


So many good songs, argh!

Simon & Garfunkle..Guinevere

The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana (cover)
Lake of Fire - Nirvana (cover)

I was infamous for doing a few acoustic Ween songs while habitating in the Dorm.

Always fun...personally I think you got a great list there.

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird (i've always wanted to hear it on an acoustic)
Neil Young: The Needle and the Damage Done
Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia/Scarlet Begonias
Spirit: Nothin' to Hide
Sublime: Wrong Way

Closing with Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing is always fun.

Dueling Banjos

(you got a purdy mouth, boy)

Dueling Banjos

played on accordions!

Sueven wrote:Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird (i've always wanted to hear it on an acoustic)

God I scowled at people that request that song when we used to play.



I don't care where you are performing. If you are/were in a band, at any given show. There is some drunk in the back that ALWAYS screams "PLAY SOME SKYNYRD MAN!" in a true redneck fashion.

And I really don't like skynyrd either.

Pahreyia wrote:Closing with Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing is always fun.

wont sound good acoustic, but funny i'm listening to it right now. pretty amazing solos.

here is another great one that is awesome accoustic. if your name is Jesus Christ Stevie Ray Vaughn, "Pride and Joy"

he did a version of it on MTV unplugged in like 1990. He did the first half of the show, then Joe Satriani did the second half. pretty good show for MTV

Truant wrote:

Sueven wrote:Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird (i've always wanted to hear it on an acoustic)

God I scowled at people that request that song when we used to play.



I don't care where you are performing. If you are/were in a band, at any given show. There is some drunk in the back that ALWAYS screams "PLAY SOME SKYNYRD MAN!" in a true redneck fashion.

And I really don't like skynyrd either.

So true...I have a theory its just one guy that really gets around...

nah plenty of us southerners do it

if i'm drunk enough i might just yell it and i hate skynard.

voro's gonna bring the guitar and play Freebird in Atlanta come may, just wait and see...

play freebird!

Sueven wrote:play freebird!

Don't be that guy!

Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:voro's gonna bring the guitar and play Freebird in Atlanta come may, just wait and see...

I sense an ATL jam session??????

A fine list.

Only additional suggestion I can think of at the moment is maybe some Talking Heads. Psycho Killer, Heaven, This Must be the Place (a lot of other potential ones too).