Acoustic versions?

[legitimatic]

Many songs have pure acoustic versions, in this thread, list your favourite acoustic versions of songs....

Mine would be the acoustic versions of Plush and Sour Girl by the STP, Weilands voice is terrific in them.

Apologies if this thread has been done before.

Also, of these acoustic versions, do any of them take precedence for you over the original versions?

 

[LukeHodge15]

Fuel - Daniel

Cant get any better than Acoustic music IMO.

 

[Skeppersap]

Acoustic music is great. Especially acoustic versions of hard rock.

Some I can think of off the top of my head:

The Verve Pipe - Freshmen
Any acoustic version by 7 Mary 3

Will have to look up some more when i get home.

 

[dimmy]

everlong foo fighters

 

[Sherrinator]

'The number of the beast' accosutic cover by Zwan is excellent.

link

 

[Bomber Bears]

There was something accoustic i loved cant for the life of me remember it

 

[ManWithNoName]

The acoustic version of "Yesterday" by The Beatles was brilliant

Oh hang on...

 

[Zep666]

no excuses by alice in chains

 

[materamagic]

no excuses by alice in chains

Their unplugged album was fantastic. The Foo's Everlong is a favourite of mine.

I enjoy hearing electric songs being reinterpreted in an acoustic setting.

Neil Young does slows down the Buffalo Springfield classic "Mr Soul" on his unplugged album to just a haunting harmonica and acoustic guitar, it was the best version yet of the song in my opinion.

 

[johnnyhoward]

There was an acoustic version of "We Used to Be Friends" by the Dandy Warhols which I think they performed on the Panel a few years ago. It was amazing, the song sounded completely different and had a much darker feel - unfortunately being recorded in Australia means it's impossible to track down on the Internet.

"Times Like These" by the Foo Fighters was good, and Bon Jovi's version of "It's My Life" was interesting. But the best acoustic album would be Nirvana on MTV Unplugged - showed there was a whole new dimension to that band.

 

[UpForGrabs]

Neil Young does slows down the Buffalo Springfield classic "Mr Soul" on his unplugged album to just a haunting harmonica and acoustic guitar, it was the best version yet of the song in my opinion.

The version of 'Transformer Man' on that album also kicks ass. Not sure about the pump organ version of 'Like a Hurricane' though.

Neil's done some kick-ass acoustic versions of 'Cortez the Killer' in concert. Just as powerful as the electric versions (an acoustic version can be heard in Almost Famous). Then there's his original acoustic version of 'Powderfinger' which is also great.

Also on the Neil Young track - the live acoustic versions of 'On the Way Home' from 1971 (heard on his last live release) are a revelation. The song is given a whole new level of awesomeness.

 

[ams4crows]

Hands down the best has to be More Than Words -Extreme That is the Best!

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Heart-Alone

 

[strauchy]

pardon me - incubus
the dolphins cry - live
nothing else matters - metallica

 

[Jabso]

Bad Religion's Suffer acoustic version which I found on the internet is great, as is Do What You Want.

 

[monty1104]

Bon Jovi - It's my life.

Such emotion in the version of that song. It could be played at a funeral. Ireckon the emotion is just so outstanding in the acoustic version.

 

[Carlos]

Its not his song, but if you want to hear the definition of beauty, download Dave Matthews doing a cover of The Beatles' "In My Life" solo acoustic. Stunning.

Cornell doing "Like Suicide" is pretty cool too.

And for any KISS fans, i reckon "Coming Home" translated awesomely in their unplugged show.

 

[Heisenberg_]

Look no further then Alice in Chains unplugged album, brilliance

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

One of the best accoustic songs ever, was an accoustic song at it's release.

That's Entertainment by The Jam.

 

[chris86]

Look no further then Alice in Chains unplugged album, brilliance

Agree completely. Love version of Nutshell on it.

 

[sweepi4]

i jus bought punk goes acoustic 2 cd
not much a fan of normal punk music but the acoustic stuff on there is really good
notable mentions to:
apology by alesana
red light pledge by silverstein
who i am hates who ive been by relient k