Air Guitar Podcast & My Top Five Unplugged Songs
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Thank you everyone for making the delightfully silly testosterone mania that was the Air Guitar Top Fives! So for a little bit of contrast and inspired by Earth Hour, this week we’re putting down the electric guitars and going for our Top Five Unplugged Acoustic Songs. So get your thinking caps on! It can be something soothing and relaxing or something you play at a guitar house parties or just any old acoustic song!
Here are My Top Five what are yours….
5. Hotel Yorba, White Stripes
4. Thirteen, Wilco (Big Star)
3. Weezer, No One Else
2. Sunday, Bloc Party
1. Layla, Eric Clapton
Sorry the feed got messed up so I had to repost these.
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I’d go for “The Needle and the damage done” by Neil Young. Yum!
Comment by Gaffo | April 3, 2008 | Edit
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I could dedicate this whole list to Elliott Smith so here it is:
5-Blackbird(Beatles Cover)
4-Dead End Street(Kinks Cover)
3-Thirteen (Big Star Cover)
2-Needle In The Hay
1-Angeles
Now, a significantly less Elliott Smith-based version:
5-Jack The Ripper (Acoustic) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4-Blues Run The Game - Jackson C. Frank
3-Visions Of Johanna - Bob Dylan
2-Naked As We Came- Iron & Wine
1-Woke Up New - The Mountain Goats
Comment by Norman | April 3, 2008 | Edit
My top5 goes all to Django but here are the top 2
1)Minor swing - Django Reinhardt
2)Les yeux noirs - Django Reinhardt
Sun Kil Moon - Pancho Villa
I can send over the file if you don’t have it
1 - The General by Dispatch
2 - Such Great Heights - Iron & Wine
3 - Joyful Girl by Ani DiFranco
4 - Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright
5 - Thin Blue Flame - Josh Ritter
Bri and Freddie at Live Aid - Love of My Life
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Peter Frampton - Bsby I Love Your Way
Ricky Gervais - Free Love Freeway (!)
Bad Company - Feel Like Makin’ Love
Mama, You been on my mind - Jeff Buckley version
Green is the Colour - Pink Floyd
Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri
Which Will - Nick Drake
Life on Mars? - Seu Jorge version
1. Iron and Wine- Such great heights
2. Counting Crows- Anna Begins
3. Mic Christopher- Hey Day
4. Eric Clapton- Old Love
5. The Beatles- Blackbird
1. Misread - Kings of Convenience
2. Needle in the Hay - Elliot Smith
3. Don’t think twice it’s alright - Bob Dylan
4. Hey that’s no way to say goodbye - Leonard Cohen
5. Two headed Boy - Neutral Milk Hotel
5.Jarvis Cocker - Heavy Weather (stripped down with Richard Hawley guesting)
4.Iron & Wine - Sodom, South Georgia
3. Franco Battiato - Ruby Tuesday (cover)
2.Django Reinhardt - Les yeux noirs (totally agree with BC up there, GOLF CLAPS kid!)
The best ever:
1.Lil McClintock - Furniture Man (not only this is a stripped down guitar blues song, its a social commentary, a race record, and one of the greatest tunes EVER written. Its a bit hard to come by, as its “before the blues” was even codified in the states, but I have it of course cause I’m a fanatic audiophile, particular in regards to these types of recordings. They make me weak of knee, and should make you, too.)
Apologies on the tardiness, Tom. Busy week. Here are my personal favourite songs to play on the guitar.
Save Me (Underdog)- Turin Brakes
Talk Tonight- Oasis
Desire- U2
Taylor- Jack Johnson
Original Fire- Chris Cornell