Muse - Unintended
Ben Folds Five - Brick (piano tabbed for guitar)

It's been a while - Staind
Cold - Crossfade
Julia - Our Lady Peace

those are the ones that come to mind at the moment.

Anything by Johnny Cash
Anything by Tenacious D
Nirvana-Unplugged :thumbsup:

Don't forget "More Than Words" by the inappropriately named Extreme. :)

The Postal Service - Recycled Air. It's original quite electronic but there's an acoustic version that is simply amazing.

Iron and Wine - Such Great Heights. Originally a Postal Service song (or was it Death Cab?) but it's beautiful when played acoustically.

PM me if you want the songs on mp3.

Edit: Also, by Aussie band Sodastream, a song called Welcome Throw. I doubt you'll find it on any P2P network, so PM me and I can send it. There's a bit of cello on it but I bet you could do well on guitar alone. Check out http://www.sodastream.net.au/ and go to the Music section, you can see a few videos and listen to some MP3s from there. I'm not a huge fan of their videos but check out the songs 'Heaven on the Ground', 'Welcome Throw' and 'Varkhala'.

Classical Gas

:D

From the time this thread started to this point, the couple could have married, started a family and split (well, almost), but since I'm just getting here:

"I Want To Be In Love" by Melissa Etheridge would work.
"I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song" or "Time In A Bottle" by Jim Croce are both nice.

Very late, but I think it still is nice to list some good acoustic songs. There are several that I have seen in this thread that I would like to listen too.

Stone Temple Pilots- Plush

Seven Mary Three- Cumbersome (Not necessarily great to play to a girl, but it is a fantastic song)

Most John Mayer works, as does Jack Johnson (I just got Sitting, Waiting, Wishing down). Then there's Barenaked Ladies; a lot of what they do translates well. Try The Flag, Old Apartment, Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono, If I Had $1 000 000, For You or When I Fall. Many of these were originally done with just an acoustic guitar and sound really good, especially if you have the singing voice to back it up (which unfortunately, I don't).

Marilyn Manson - Five To One
or
Marilyn Manson - Working Class Hero

hahaha not quite that much!

thanks for the suggestions though, even though this has just become a collection of good acoustic songs it's great to hear suggestions cause i'm always a sucker for romance songs to play anyways.

Acoustic you say?
I'll state the obvious and reccommend anything by the following artists:

Jack Johnson
Pete Murray
Xavier Rudd
Gary Jules
Donovan Frankenreiter (Doubt you've heard of him, he is a surfer)

This is all I can think of at the moment

i've heard of donavon, i saw him live once and bought his cd. good stuff.

I really love Nick Drake, personally. He's not romantic for the most part (or if at all for that matter) but it's great music. Very emo. I listen to him quite a bit.

here's one that you can have fun with, The Hard Time Killing Floor Blues by Skip James, that one would be totally awesome for putting somebody to sleep, so peaceful...

If you can manage it, try Michael Hedges playing "i carry your heart"

It's an e.e. cummings poem.

Lyrics:

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)


Musically, you can skip the fretless bass part and it's still pretty.

BUT, Michael Hedges is a madman on the guitar, so it may be way too hard to play. Want a teaser? The tuning is BbFCEbFBb

My Suggestions, based upon my personal experience ;)


Radiohead - Creep (four chords, 3 in the same shape)
Pearl Jam - Black
David Gray - Babylon

The first two that come to mind are Queen's "'39" and Pink Flloyd's "Mother"

Eric Clapton - Layla, Change the World
Jack Johnson - Taylor
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter


anything by james taylor ll work if you have his voice aswel...lol

oni messing those r all good choices :thumbsup:

bobillydylan nearly seduced my friend with ramona by bob dylan lol

Eh?? :confused: theres only one true love in my eyes :)

Bob Dylan

The man in me
Boots of spanish leather
I want you
Precious angel
Saving grace
Every grain of sand

these are just a few :)

a bit late to the party, oh well.
Lyle Lovett's If I Had a Boat seems to please people for some reason.
My own favorite (feasibly) acoustic romantic song is Talking Heads' This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) from Speaking in Tongues.

Anything by Oasis on What's The Story (Morning Glory)

Dylan - Desolation Row

"Wild World" and "Sad Lisa" - Cat Stevens
"Push" - Matchbox 20
"Try To Get Some Sleep" - K's Choice worked up a great acoustic version
"What Makes You Happy" - Liz Phair...not entirely acoustic, but it could be...and good, at that :cool:

Great song Rainy, especially the version on 12 string! :thumbsup:

Good choice. :thumbsup: The tuning's a bit odd (at least, from the tab I've seen), but it certainly does sound nice even though it's such a sad song.

Another sad one I really like to play is Clapton's 'Tears in Heaven' (It's the first real song I ever learned how to play all the way through)

Lots of good choices here. Mayer is an excellent choice, although some of his stuff is a bit difficult and 'thin,' in my opinion.

Jack Johnson is a good one too, but 'Taylor?' Isn't that about a young hooker? I've read the lyrics and ran the song through my head a couple of times and I believe he's talking about Taylor being a hooker. I mention this only because I don't think it'd be wise to sing songs about call girls to your girlfriend. :)

There's been a few mentions of The Beatles... I really like 'Julia' and 'Dear Prudence'

guthmund - Taylor is about a young hooker, but it's a nice song if you don't listen to the lyrics too closely (and you really have to in order to catch the meaning).


Back to more suggestions, if you like Jack Johnson and Donovan Frankenreiter than G Love and Special Sauce might be your style to. They're more Philadelphia blues, but they have a good sound and a lot of their songs are good acoustic. They do Rodeo Clowns, but also worth checking out are Gimme Some Lovin and possibly Baby's Got Sauce, although I haven't tabbed that one and I don't know how well it translates.

try James Blunt - beautiful

girls like it (or so I hear, Im tone deaf myself)

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One of my favorites is the Indigo Girls' acoustic version of "Romeo and Juliet"...great lyrics and fun to play.

Oh, no doubt. I especially like the riff he beats out at both the beginning and end of the song. I just thought it was funny that a song about a hooker and a degenerate john was suggested to a guy asking songs to play for his girlfriend.

I forgot to mention, Joe Satriani. I can't play a whole lot of his stuff, but I like to pull things from his songs from time to time to warm up and such... The lead in "Always with me, always with you" is probably my favorite.

I'm not sure if anyone else heard/seen it but I didn't mind Marty Casey's (Rockstar INXS) version of The Killers - Mr Brightside

O and Foo Fighters - Everlong ROCKS :)

The Grateful Dead have an album called Reckoning that I've heard a lot of acoustic artists cover. The album was designed as a showcase ofr acoustic Dead songs, and they are all easy to sing and play.

Men: If you ever want a girl, write a song. Make it pretty, which doesn't necissarily mean romantic or complicated. Just something nice.

If you have something that you have written, play it for her and wait for her to ask what it is, then tell her it's just something you wrote.

Honestly, I've fallen for a hundred musicians this way.

(Or four, but shh! It works.)

Some great songs...one of my favorites that was not named, and possibly my favorite of all, is faithful man by ryan long....gotta download it

wow, i havent posted here in a while, but glad i found this. someone said elliott smith, give "Angeles" a try

Good pick man! :thumbsup:

Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine (Forgot who does it originally but it's a great song)
John Lennon - Love
Joseph Arthur - In The Sun

I alos recommend you check out Ray Lamontagne. Got into him recently. He's really really good.

Recommended songs = Shelter, Trouble, All The Wild Horses, Jolene, etc. The whole album is good really.

Asta!!

Oh and ANYTHING by Iron & Wine. Check them out. Just really really awesome. Sam Beam is a genius.

Jezebel, Dead Mans Will to start with.

Asta!!

coming from a girls viewpoint, i say iron and wine's version of 'such great heights'.


it's been played for me before, and i absolutely swooned.
heck, just listening to the song makes me swoon period. its simple, lovely and has fantastic lyrics.