What are some good acoustic songs..

queen love of my life

Poets Of The Fall - Late Goodbye

(Used throughout the whole Max Payne 2 game)

Swing Life Away by Rise Against

I recently saw this at a show and it was very good. Download the acutstic version and listen. Its quite good.

I dont listen to much acoustic music or anything that would sound good in acoustic so I'm not going to be much help but the only one that comes to mind that I have recently listened to is Serenity by Godsmack.

Most anything of Hayden's first album, Bad As They Seem

Just about anything by Bruce Cockburn

The entire unplugged Alice in Chains CD...........

Used to do these in my old band
Four Walls of Raiford - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
You're Crazy - GnR
Going To California - Led Zep
Hey Hey What Can I Do - Led Zep
Gallows Pole - Led Zep
Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers
She talk to angels - Black Crowes
Long Haired Country Boy - Charlie Daniels
Straight to Hell - Drivin n Cryin

Couple I used to do in my old band as full acoustics sometimes that went over well
Kiss - Cold Gin or Rock n Roll All nite
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Honeysuckle Blue - Drivin n Cryin (Goes over well here since I live on the Chattahoochee River)

You can try "Redemption Song" from Bob Marley. Or you can try pretty much any Dick Dale. He's surf rock, but he uses little to no distortion, plus his songs are pretty difficult to play (IMHO).

Stained- Outside
Incubus- Pardon Me

both are very goud acoustic songs

the whole Nirvana Unplugged
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Blackbird - Crosby Stil & Nash
The whole David Gilmour Unplugged
Led zeppelin - Babe Im gonna leave you

the beatles rule. lets hear from some other beatles fans. stand up for the fab four.

When I used to play acoustic shows of mainly covers, some that I played and had a good response to were:

Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome
Tool - Sober
Nickelback - Leader of Men
Good Charlotte - Seasons (I hate Good Charlotte, but the song works well)
Live - Turn My Head
Toadies - Possum Kingdom
Lionel Richie - Hello (People LOVED it)
Martina McBride - Valentine (only because I can sing it. If you can't, don't play it. It's a very "chick" sounding song, but the comedic value of a 300 pound man singing like Martina McBride gets the crowd all fired up)
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
Staind - Outside
Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
Alice in Chains - Got Me Wrong
Richie Valens - La Bamba (just make up words, people love this shit)
Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman
Full Devil Jacket - Where Did You Go?
James Taylor - You Can Close Your Eyes
Flaw - Only The Strong
Beatles - Let It Be
Ben Folds Five - Air (it's fun to try to make a piano song work on a guitar... it worked with Martina McBride's Valentine so I tried it with this... worked alright, though few people knew the song)
Better Than Ezra - At the Stars
Bone Thugs N Harmony - Tha Crossroads (This isn't for everyone. I started it as a joke, but everyone actually loved it. I usually had people come up and sing/rap it with me and they always had a great time)
Cat Stevens - Wild World
Chevelle - The Red
Chris Cornell - Sunshower
Collective Soul - December
Cracker - Low
Extreme - More Than Words
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Fefe Dobson - Bye Bye Boyfriend (with the words changed to be singing to a girlfriend instead)
Flaw - My Letter
Fuel - Shimmer
Fuel - Sunburn
Garth Brooks - The Thunder Rolls
Goo Goo Dolls - Slide
Green Day - Time of Your Life
GWAR - Dirty, Filthy (this is the essence of comedy... I loved it, though no one got it at all...)
Hall & Oates - Sara Smile (it's insane how many girls LOVE this song)
Hoobastank - Running Away
Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage
Kenny Wayne Shepard - Blue On Black
Memento - Beginnings (in my opinion, one of the best songs ever written)
Nixons - Sister
Pearl Jam - Better Man (I could never play it correctly while singing it, so I half-assed it. Oh well, people sing along)
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
Phish - Farmhouse
Red Hot Chili Peppers - I Could Have Lied
Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Friends
Rodney Crowell - I Wish It Would Rain (a fantastic song, albeit a country tune)
Silverchair - Tomorrow
Silverchair - Shade (always got a huge response for this one)
Staind - Epiphany
The Flys - Got You Where I Want You
Third Eye Blind - How's It Gonna Be
Tonic - If You Could Only See
Verve Pipe - The Freshman

There were others, but after a once-over of the songs I have on my laptop, these are the ones I used to play. Some went over better than others, but I didn't put any on this list that didn't work at all. I'm interested in hearing how well your shows go. I used to have a great time and made a decent amount of money, but my first love is playing bass and I got back into a band and by the time I got back into playing acoustic shows by myself, I was playing all my own stuff. You can hear some of it from time to time on my MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/JacobH

Good luck.

Kimberly austin - Porno for Pyros

that justin timberlake /pharell song thing

first off kudos on the Spill Canvas song... if you like that maybe try and early Dashboard Confessional song... or some Bright Eyes... although Bright Eyes can be an acquired taste... and also one of my all time favorite songs to cover was "Hey Jealousy" by the Gin Blossoms... classic 90s song.

Eric Clapton----Tears in Heaven

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Originally posted by DistraughtsSon

When I used to play acoustic shows of mainly covers, some that I played and had a good response to were:
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WOW, that would be an awesome playlist. A lot of those are songs I listen to a lot.

journeyman by iron maiden

Three of my favorite accoustic songs, if you can play them...

Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce
Dust in the Wind by Kansas
Leader of the Band by Dan Fogelberg

I'm not that old, I just appreciate good music