# Best acoustic versions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354 "2003-07-18T10:32:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/21 "2003-07-20T13:12:28Z")
Moving this to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/22 "2003-07-20T14:24:19Z")
“Start Me Up” by **The Folkmen** is great! ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/23 "2003-07-20T18:14:39Z")
Jane Wiedlin does a great acoustic version of “Our Lips Are Sealed” on her Greatest Hits album. ---
**Author:** ![naomi2003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@naomi2003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naomi2003)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/24 "2003-07-21T09:56:48Z")
oh, prioritypie. very clever. thanks for the help on my hip hop selections. next i think i am going to look for camp fire versions of robbie williams songs - so if you know of any… ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/25 "2003-07-21T16:01:14Z")
I’ve always loved John Hartford’s cover of “Piece of My Heart.” ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/26 "2003-07-21T16:45:10Z")
Robyn Hitchcock does great live acoustic covers of Roxy Music’s “More Than This” and Psychedelic Furs’ “The Ghost in You.” ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/27 "2003-07-26T14:08:55Z")
In the middle of Emmerson Lake & Palmer’s “Welcome back my Friends to theshow that never ends” Is a beautiful solo guitar vesion of “Still…you turn me on” ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/28 "2003-07-26T15:23:27Z")
Another vote for _Layla_. Also, _Landslide_ – Stevie Nicks ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/29 "2003-07-26T18:06:29Z")
Okay, it’s embarassingly middle-of-the-road, but the version of “Ants Marching” on the Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds _Live at Luther College_ album is nothing short of brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/30 "2003-08-04T19:35:02Z")
How about Led Zepplin’s “Goin’ to California” or Jefferson Airplane’s “Embronic Journey” Great 12 string work! ---
**Author:** ![Kalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalt)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/31 "2003-08-04T20:29:18Z")
Every Neil Young song has an acoustic version to it, all of which are amazing. Neil with his acoustic guitar and harmonica is as good as music gets. That being said, there is one acoustic version of “Cortez the Killer” (Oakland, 1999 solo tour) that is above and beyond anything you’ll ever hear. Other Neil Young acoustic highlights: "Down by the River"on the 12-string, “Southern Pacific” on the guitjo, “Slowpoke,” “Thrasher” (from the 1977 Rust Never Sleeps tour), and pretty much everything else Neil has ever done acoustic. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354/32 "2003-08-04T21:54:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\*“Rock and Roll All Night” - KISS Unplugged \*\* I agree. Also “Black Diamond” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-acoustic-versions/189354.md?page=1)