acoustic pub music

[luap.h]

The singer of my band and me want to start a little side project of playing acoustic covers in pubs. Trying to get a list of songs together. It's just gonna be guitars and a singer for the moment. Any suggestions are welcome, what kinda stuff do you expect, and what would you like but never happens? We were at the pub tonight and they did an acoustic version of Teardrop by Massive Attack which was pretty obscure

The list so far

free falling - tom petty
world so cold - mudvayne
just boy - biffy
some snow patrol song
wonderwall - oasis
patience - gnr
knockin on heavens door - bob
nothing else matters - metallica
tuesday's gone - lynrd skynrd
fake plastic trees - radiohead
wonderful tonight - eric clapton
nothingman - pearl jam
1979 - smashing pumpkins
hurt - nin
time after time - cyndi lauper

choose something from the Nirvana Unplugged album

[luap.h]

aha! good thinking!

[Theo]

I hope you're getting paid. With that amount of depressing songs, you'll be driving the crowd to compulsive drinking in no time.

Perhaps think of a few different ideas. Songs that you wouldn't expect to be done acoustically for example, or at least some more upbeat tunes that aren't about how awful your life is, etc.

[luap.h]

they're not that depressing, but that's kinda why I'm asking for suggestions! Was thinking maybe a Girls Aloud song or Sugababes would be good If you could list a some more upbeat songs, it would be really helpfull

[schmunk]

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire. That's upbeat (and GRATE!!)

[Knoxville]

Motorhead - Whorehouse blues
Led Zepplin - Rock and Roll (for the love of god don't do stairway )
Tenacious D - Tribute
Neil Young - Rockin in the free world
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

And anything off Paul Gilberts Acoustic Samurai album

[luap.h]

cheers guys, some great suggestions there - keep them coming

dont worry about stairway, I promised myself never to learn it when I started playing guitar. That was 10 years ago, and I still don't know it

[sybrows]

David Bowie the ziggie years tracks go down a treat

[benji_boy]

You know that you have to have some Robbie Williams in that lot even if we all hate him.

Angel or Eternity are a must by rob.
maybe a bit of the spill canvas (its new and a little bit depressing but there are some nice songs that might work in a pub)
Oasis: Songbird
Foo Fighters: Everlong, best of you etc
Beatles: Yesterday (if you want to kill them all) or Balckbird (love that song) and any other beatles
Whiskey in a jar - The older one not the Metallica Cover (if anyone knows the name of this song would like it if you could tell me)
Plain White T's - Hey There Deliliah (dont know the spelling of deliliah)
Brand New - First Day of my life

Dont know if they helped but thats the kind of stuff ive heard.

Benji Boy

[Knoxville]

Whiskey in the Jar has been recorded By alot of people, the version that Metallica covered was by Thin Lizzy though.

[luap.h]

cheers again!

[autopilot]

Drop the Oasis (especially Wonderwall), i'm so sick of band covering this in pubs, as i am sure many other people are. It's become a bit of a Cliché IMO.

Most (pub) cover band always seem to do the same old tired stuff. Try and stand out with something a bit differnet if you can.

Otherwise a good selection, god luck mate

[noah]

Originally Posted by luap.h

they're not that Was thinking maybe a Girls Aloud song or Sugababes would be good

as mad as it sounds i knew a girl that used to do a wicked acoustic version of the sugababes - freak like me, everyone loved it.

agreed with dropping cliches like wonderwall and stairway to heaven.

[ikonia]

knoxville - perfect set list,

just robbed that whole set list for a small thing I'll be playing at.

[Knoxville]

Cheers dude

How'd it go?