Everyone has their personal favorite acoustic songs that they enjoy listening to while taking a break from all the brutality and intensity our metal brains absorb everyday. Acoustic ballads can even inspire us musicians when we are drained of energy from playing all those physically and mentally demanding riffs, solos, SONGS !

So I'm asking you to post your favorite acoustic guitar songs right here without any restrictions as to what genre it falls into, as long as it's ... shit i don't know ... acoustic !

Patterns in the Ivy - Opeth (a good old minor key acoustic song accompanied with a great jazzy piano, doesn't last long but it truly has alot of feeling)

Trains - Porcupine Tree (another great relaxing song to lay back and listen to, beware the banjo in this song motherfuckers)

Ivich - Al Stewart (this one i've known through my dad who listens to this great guitarist quite often, this should send shivers down your spine, quite old material i think, 70's, 80's ?)

Three Hours - Nick Drake (practically a 7 minute long acoustic song, very good, another very talented guitarist)

[Untitled] - Pelican (well to bad this one doesn't have a name but a great one nonetheless, you all know Pelican for their very ambient and refreshing sound, so don't miss this one)

Mine is the Grandeur - Dark Tranquillity (truthfully this is on a nylon string (classical) guitar but i won't restrain myself from putting it here, because it's a great uplifting classical/folk acoustic piece)

Classical Gas - Mason Williams (i would hope that most of you know this one, what an inspirational piece of work it is, i like it better without the symphony)

The Mirror - Spooky Tooth (this is an old one also, that i warm up to on the acoustic guitar quite often)

These are all great songs to me and all of them should be taken into account. So there you have it, this should keep you busy as a listener or even as a guitarist, enjoy !

Throw me back some more acoustics and tell me what you think about these ones as well.

It's difficult to me now but let me think...... i love damnation album and i think closure and windowpane are incredible songs, and also harvest from blackwater park.
green carnation has good acoustic songs too.

I think there is a thread like this already...or am I wrong?

I love acoustic songs, so i don't have a favorite one, i can name some of them:
The whole damnation album but Ending Credits is my favorite
For Absent Friends from Deliverance album
Angels Fall First from Nightwish
Safeguard To Paradise and Feint from Epica
Black from Pearl Jam
Vox Stellarum from Arch Enemy
Are You There? from Anathema

I think my favorite would be Kneel To the Cross By Agalloch.

For me :

Ulver - Naturmystikk
Agalloch - The Wolves of Timberline ( a song from their split with Nest, but all the acoustic songs of Agalloch are awesome! )
Dissection - Crimson Towers
Opeth - Patterns in the Ivy II
Antimatter - A Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist
Finntroll - Svart Djup & Försvinn Du Som Lyser ( from Visor om Slutet )
Nile - Dusk Falls Upon the Temple of the Serpent of the Mount of Sunrise

I love the atmosphere of these songs !

Opeth - Benighted
Anathema - Forgotten Hopes

Hard choice but "Trains" with Porcupine Tree is a good one.

Buckethead - All In The Waiting
From buckethead's acoustic album Electric Tears. This song is the opener, its soothing and enthralling. Easy to get lost in, I always feel relaxed and swept away listening to this song.

Annihilator - Crystal Ann
This track opens for the song Allison Hell, also its the first track off the 1989 thrashtastic album Alice In Hell. Its complicated and technical, and kind of eerie.

In Flames - Acoustic Medley, Timeless, Everdying Outro
Three songs. One off The Jester Race, and the other two off the Subterranean [EP]. There are 3 acoustic guitars in play in the latter two, all harmoniously collaborating to create a deep, dense, melodic masterpiece. I LOVE old In Flames.

Rodrigo y Gabriela (Pretty much any song)
If you don't know them, they are a duo from Mexico that left behind the Mexican Thrash scene to learn more music in Dublin, Ireland. Came back here to release their first album, an acoustic phenomenon. Rodrigo is the solo guitarist, and Gabriela is something entirely special, being the rhythm AND percussionist at once, by using a technique to slap her acoustic body between strumming. Check out their cover of Metallica's Orion or Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven.

Boyd Rice and Fiends - People

I'm not really fond of acoustic versions of songs, because most of the times they lose all the energy that makes them great and so they turn out to be really boring. i guess the only song, or one of the few that i like in it's acoustic verison also is ETOS's The River Flows Frozen. i didn't like it the first time i heard for the reason i just said, but i started to like it as i listened to it more times

How about:

When The Children Cry - White Lion
The Bards Song In The Forest - Blind Guardian
Soldier Of Fortune - Deep Purple
In The Middle Of The Heartbeat - Helloween
Holiday - Scorpions
Diamonds And Rust - Judas Priest

Agalloch - A Desolation Song --> This song is simply awesome!

Written by Diabolos on 28.05.2009 at 23:25

Agalloch - A Desolation Song --> This song is simply awesome!

Most of Agalloch songs are awesome. And many of them fit this thread

Written by Elio on 28.05.2009 at 23:31

Written by Diabolos on 28.05.2009 at 23:25

Agalloch - A Desolation Song --> This song is simply awesome!

Most of Agalloch songs are awesome. And many of them fit this thread

Yeah, but this one is more awesome than ther others

Very good idea.

Some songs from my "Rock/Metal/Accustic" playlist:

Pink Floyd - Mother - The Wall
Uriah Heep - The Wizard - Demons And Wizards
Opeth - Benighted - Still Life
Anathema - Childhood Dream - A Natural Disaster
Anathema - Everwake - Resonance
Anathema - J'fait Une Promesse - Resonance
Anathema - Far Away [Acoustic] - Resonance
Draconian - Akherousia - Where Lovers Mourn
Arch Enemy - Marching On A Dead End Road - Anthems Of Rebellion
Evergrey - Madness Caught Another Victim (Live & Acoustic) - The Inner Circle
Evergrey - Im Sorry (Live & Acoustic) - The Inner Circle
Evergrey - Recreation Day (Live & Acoustic) - The Inner Circle
Kíla - The Hour Before Dawn - Luna Park
Peccatum - [Untitled 1] - Amor Fati
Moonspell - Chorai Lusitânia! (Epilogus/Incantatum Maresia) - Under Satanæ

For me:

... And the Great Cold Death of the Earth by Agalloch
From Mars by Gojira
One by Apocalyptica (if you can count it, idk)
Feathers Fell by Dissection
Ferrer Aeternum by Ensiferum (they have a lot of good songs like this, but this one is definitely my favorite, because of the transition into the
next song)
The A Tout Le Monde by Megadeth acoustic part is great
Vermillion by Slipknot

Blind Guardian - The Bard Songs (In the Forest) -----> always make me sing it......!!!!!

Blind Guardian - The Past And Future Secret -----> enter the epic story

Opeth - Dirge For November - Intro and Outro ------> I know the middle part of this song is heavy, but in Intro and Outro, AMAZING......!!!!!!!!!

Rhapsody (Of Fire) - Wings of Destiny -----> make me proud of my beloved country

Dream Theater - Hollow Years -----> cool.....:thumbup:

and I think is still many

Antimatter-Epitaph
Sting-Shape of my Heart
Rodrigo y Gabriela are good
Green Carnation-Alone
Porcupine tree-Trains and Lazarus
Goo Goo Dolls-Iris
Jack Johnson-Taylor
Dredg-Sang Real (Acoustic version)
Logan-Somewhere (acoustic)
Tribuzy-The Means (Bonus Track)
Sevendust-Angel's Son
and of course some newton faulkner

I like
the exact colour by pure reason revolution
glow by blackfield
if i could by jack johnson
a natural disaster by anathema
and many more i don't remember right now

Banana pancakes
windowpane

My Favorite Acoustic Guitar Songs is a lot but here is my Top 5:

Metallica - 1991 - Metallica - 08. Nothing Else Matters
Opeth - 2003 - Damnation - 01. Windowpane
Green Carnation - 2006 - The Acoustic Verses - 04. Alone
Pink Floyd - 1970 - Atom Heart Mother - 02. If
David Gilmour - 2006 - On An Island - 08. Smile

Kyuss - Space Cadet

It's so chill and slowly progresses.... it really relaxes me and I like the build up it provides to Demon Cleaner

Savatage has some great stuff but I can't remember any song titles.

Also, Lazarus by Porcupine Tree, but mostly because of the vocals and piano

Epode - Akercocke
Ring of Gold - Bathory
Fluff - Black Sabbath
Mine is the Grandeur - Dark Tranquillity
Fethers Fell - Dissection
More than Words - Extreme (guilty pleasure!)
Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac
Rain Song, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, That's The Way, Battle of Evermore - Led Zeppelin
Sarcophagai - The Mars Volta
Harvest, Damnation (album), Patterns in the Ivy - Opeth
Road Trippin' - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Turn of the Century - Yes

Are these so-called semi-acoustic songs out of the question? If not, I know two wonderful semi-acoustic compilation albums: Hindsight by Anathema and Sleepy Buildings by the Gathering. Sleepy Buildings is also a live album.

Metallica - Nothig Else Matters
Metallica - Mama Said
W.A.S.P - Mephisto Waltz
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World
Scorpions - Holiday
Opeth - In My Time Of Need
Deep Purple - Soldier Of Fortune
Night Wish - Angels Fall First

Written by Graveheart on 29.05.2009 at 11:32

Are these so-called semi-acoustic songs out of the question? If not, I know two wonderful semi-acoustic compilation albums: Hindsight by Anathema and Sleepy Buildings by the Gathering. Sleepy Buildings is also a live album.

Sleepy Buildings is awesome!

Escape of the dove - The fall of every season
Death whispered a lullaby - Opeth
Sentimental - Porcupine Tree
Dead Man Walking - Mary Carpenter
Drifting - Andy McKee
The Dreaming Tree - Dave Matthews Band
2000 and gone - Anathema
Legions - Antimatter
What's left for me - Days of the new
Leaving Eden - Antimatter

Some of the best songs by the best romanian rock band(song titles are translated in english):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adRO9ouMolc&feature=related - in the shadow of the USSR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEfALS57Py4&feature=related - flute seed(or something like that)


Tatiana Stepa - Trees Without a Forest, this is a folk song and it's great though a bit too sad but INCREDIBLY catchy... check out the chorus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnOFJtNxfSM


Banderas's Mariachi, one of the best acoustic songs i've ever heard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu4Hnbor9rI

Lol you people are so predictable, all posting the acoustic songs of your favorite metal bands.

I think you should try some folk, Anything by Natural Snow Buildings, Twinsistermoon or Spires Than in the Sunset Rise should be great. Also the album First Utterance by Comus is something you should try. Opeth got some lyrics from there (My Arms, Your Hearse are part from the lyrics of Drip Drip, a song of the album) and it's quite evil and badass, singing about rape.

If you want REAL acoustic music, just stay away from most metal.