The Big List of Tunes: Songs I Play, February 2017
Hi, folks! I’ve got something a little bit different today – partly because I think you’ll be interested, and partly for posterity. You probably guessed it from the title.
That’s right – this lousy excuse for a blog post is basically a big list of all of the different songs that I sing when I’m playing guitar. It includes both covers and originals, it’s sorted alphabetically, and there are loads of songs to get through. So without further ado, let’s get started!
A:
A-Ha: Take On Me
Alan Jackson: Chattahoochee
Alexi Murdoch: All of my Days
Alexi Murdoch: Breathe
Alexi Murdoch: Orange Sky
Alice in Chains: Down in a Hole
Alice in Chains: Nutshell
Alice in Chains: Rooster
Aloe Blacc: You Make Me Smile
Andy Shauf: Martha Sways
Angus and Julia Stone: Draw Your Sword
Aretha Franklin: Respect
B:
Badly Drawn Boy: A Minor Incident
Badly Drawn Boy: Something to Talk About
Ben Caplan: Birds with Broken Wings
Ben Caplan: Under Control
Bill Haley and the Comets: Rock Around the Clock
Bill Withers: Ain’t No Sunshine
Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday
Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath
Blink 182: All the Small Things
Blink 182: Always
Blink 182: I Miss You
Blink 182: Story of a Lonely Guy
Blondie: Atomic
Blur: Parklife
Blur: Tender
Bob Dylan: A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
Bob Dylan: Ballad of a Thin Man
Bob Dylan: Blowin’ in the Wind
Bob Dylan: Don’t Think Twice, it’s All Right
Bob Dylan: I Shall Be Released
Bob Dylan: It Ain’t Me, Babe
Bob Dylan: Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan: Mr. Bojangles
Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Blue
Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin’
Bob Marley: No Woman, No Cry
Bob Marley: Redemption Song
Bob Marley: Three Little Birds
Bobby Darin: Dream Lover
Bowling for Soup: Emily
Bowling for Soup: Out the Window
Bowling for Soup: Running from Your Dad
Bowling for Soup: Suckerpunch
Bowling for Soup: The Bitch Song
Bowling for Soup: Valentino
Bowling for Soup: Where to Begin
Bowling for Soup: You and Me
Boyzone: No Matter What
Boyzone: When You Say Nothing at All
Brand New: The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
Bright Eyes: A Spindle, a Darkness, a Fever and a Necklace
Bright Eyes: Amy in the White Coat
Bright Eyes: An Attempt to Tip the Scales
Bright Eyes: Another Travellin’ Song
Bright Eyes: Arienette
Bright Eyes: At the Bottom of Everything
Bright Eyes: Bowl of Oranges
Bright Eyes: Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed)
Bright Eyes: Don’t Know When But a Day is Gonna Come
Bright Eyes: Entry Way Song
Bright Eyes: First Day of my Life
Bright Eyes: Four Winds
Bright Eyes: Hit the Switch
Bright Eyes: I Must Belong Somewhere
Bright Eyes: I Won’t Ever Be Happy Again
Bright Eyes: If the Brakeman Turns My Way
Bright Eyes: If Winter Ends
Bright Eyes: I’ll Be Your Friend
Bright Eyes: It’s Cool, We Can Still Be Friends
Bright Eyes: I’ve Been Eating for You
Bright Eyes: June on the West Coast
Bright Eyes: Landlocked Blues
Bright Eyes: Laura Laurent
Bright Eyes: Lime Tree
Bright Eyes: Lua
Bright Eyes: Method Acting
Bright Eyes: Motion Sickness
Bright Eyes: Napoleon’s Hat
Bright Eyes: Oh, You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place
Bright Eyes: Padraic My Prince
Bright Eyes: Seashell Tale
Bright Eyes: Soon You’ll Be Leaving Your Man
Bright Eyes: Spent On Rainy Days
Bright Eyes: The Big Picture
Bright Eyes: The Calendar Hung Itself
Bright Eyes: Tourist Trap
Bright Eyes: Train Underwater
Bright Eyes: Well Whiskey
Bright Eyes: You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
Britney Spears: Hit Me Baby One More Time
Brother: New Year’s Day
Bryan Adams: When You’re Gone
Buddy Holly: Heartbeat
Buddy Holly: It Doesn’t Matter Any More
Buddy Holly: Oh Boy
Buddy Holly: Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly: That’ll be the Day
C:
Cage the Elephant: No Rest for the Wicked
Chris Cornell: Billie Jean
Chris Cornell: Nothing Compares 2 U
Cliff Richard: Move it
Coldplay: The Scientist
Conor Oberst: I Don’t Want to Die (In a Hospital)
Cornershop: Brimful of Asha
Counting Crows: Mr. Jones
Courtney Barnette: Avant Gardener
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Midnight Special
D:
Damien Jurado: Sheets
Damien Jurado: Working Titles
Damien Rice: Delicate
Damien Rice: Eskimo
Dane Cobain: A Little Piece of my Soul
Dane Cobain: A Love Like This
Dane Cobain: Alcohol Blues
Dane Cobain: All the Love
Dane Cobain: Annie
Dane Cobain: Beautiful Stranger
Dane Cobain: Bitter
Dane Cobain: Catch Me Out and Defeat Me
Dane Cobain: Comfort Me
Dane Cobain: Coming Back Around
Dane Cobain: Dreams (Don’t Get Me Started)
Dane Cobain: Forever Alone
Dane Cobain: Get Together and Dance
Dane Cobain: Got No Time for Jesus
Dane Cobain: Hey You (We’re Alive)
Dane Cobain: If I Die Before You
Dane Cobain: I’ll Never Want to Sink Again
Dane Cobain: In a State
Dane Cobain: In to the Jungle
Dane Cobain: It Doesn’t Matter Much
Dane Cobain: It Won’t Be Long
Dane Cobain: Kinda Lazy
Dane Cobain: Lean Down On Me
Dane Cobain: Let Go
Dane Cobain: Lifted
Dane Cobain: Lights
Dane Cobain: Like Bleeding
Dane Cobain: Love Through a Lens
Dane Cobain: Lowdown Blues
Dane Cobain: Mary Jane
Dane Cobain: Motorway
Dane Cobain: Never Go Back
Dane Cobain: No Electricity
Dane Cobain: Not Enough
Dane Cobain: Not the Same
Dane Cobain: On My Way
Dane Cobain: Philosophy
Dane Cobain: Sevens
Dane Cobain: Sheela Puts Her Jeans On
Dane Cobain: Shine
Dane Cobain: Sober
Dane Cobain: Stand Right By Your Guns
Dane Cobain: The Lover I Despise
Dane Cobain: The Storm
Dane Cobain: Waterfall
Dane Cobain: Who Will Lead the Sailors to the Shore?
Dane Cobain: Yes She Does
Dane Cobain: Your Life
Daniel Johnston: True Live Will Find You in the End
Dave Ford: Out in the World Tonight
Dave Ford: Thank Me in the End
Dave Ford: The Same Sun Shines On Everyone
David Bowie: Space Oddity
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
Dawn Penn: You Don’t Love Me
Deep Blue Something: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Del Shannon: Runaway
Desmond Dekker: Israelite
Dion and the Belmonts: I Was Born to Cry
Dion and the Belmonts: Runaround Sue
Dion and the Belmonts: Teenager in Love
Dion and the Belmonts: The Wanderer
Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You
Donna Summer: Hot Stuff
Duran Duran: Hungry Like the Wolf
Duran Duran: Rio
E:
Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues
Eddie Cochran: Three Steps to Heaven
Elliot Smith: The Biggest Lie
Elton John: Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me
Elton John: Your Song
Elvis Presley: All Shook Up
Elvis Presley: Blue Suede Shoes
Elvis Presley: It’s Now Or Never
Elvis Presley: Love Me Tender
Eminem: Stan
Erasure: A Little Respect
F:
Faith No More: Easy
Five: Keep On Movin’
Foo Fighters: Everlong
Foo Fighters: Times Like These
Fountains of Wayne: Stacey’s Mom
Frank Sinatra: New York, New York
Frank Sinatra: Somethin’ Stupid
Frank Sinatra: That’s Life
Frank Turner: Try This at Home
G:
Game of Thrones: Game of Thrones Theme
Garbage: Bleed Like Me
Garbage: Girls Talk
Gary Jules: Mad World
Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps: Be Bop a Lula
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
George Michael: Careless Whisper
George Michael: Faith
Gillian Welch: April the 14th (Part One)
Gillian Welch: Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor
Gillian Welch: Red Clay Halo
Gillian Welch: Time the Revelator
Goo Goo Dolls: Iris
Gorillaz: Up On Melancholy Hill
Green Day: Basketcase
Green Day: Give Me Novocaine
Green Day: Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Green Day: Macy’s Day Parade
Green Day: Nice Guy’s Finish Last
Green Day: She
Green Day: Wake Me Up When September Ends
Green Day: Warning
Green Day: Welcome to Paradise
Green Day: When I Come Around
Guns ‘n’ Roses: Patience
H:
Hank Williams: I’m So Lonseome I Could Cry
Hank Williams: Stoned and Alone
Harry Nilsson: Everybody’s Talkin’
Harry Nilsson: Without You
Harvey Danger: Flagpole Sitta
Hole: Doll Parts
Hole: Northern Star
Hugh Laurie: Mystery
I:
I Am Kloot: Proof
INXS: Never Tear Us Apart
J:
Jack Savoretti: Not Worthy
James Brown: I Feel Good
Jandek: Down in a Mirror
Jeff Buckley: Hallelujah
Jeff Buckley: Lilac Wine
Jeffrey Lewis: Sad, Screaming Old Man
Jet: Cigarettes and Cola
Jimi Hendrix: Foxy Lady
Jimi Hendrix: Hey Joe
Joan Jett: I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll
John Lennon: God
John Lennon: Imagine
John Lennon: Instant Karma
John Lennon: Isolation
John Lennon: Jealous Guy
John Lennon: Mother
John Lennon: Nobody Loves You (When You’re Down and Out)
John Lennon: Working Class Hero
John Newman: Love Me Again
Johnny Burnette: You’re Sixteen
Johnny Cash: A Boy Named Sue
Johnny Cash: Cocaine Blues
Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash: Get Rhythm
Johnny Cash: Hurt
Johnny Cash: I Got Stripes
Johnny Cash: Jackson
Johnny Cash: Personal Jesus
Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates: Shakin’ All Over
Johnny Tillotson: Poetry in Motion
Jose Gonzales: Heartbeats
Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart
K:
KC and the Sunshine Band: Give it Up
Keaton Henson: If I’m to Die
Kylie Minogue: Especially for You
L:
Lady Gaga: Bad Romance
Leadbelly: Goodnight Irene
Leadbelly: Rock Island Line
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Leonard Cohen: Chelsea Hotel
Leonard Cohen: So Long, Marianne
Leonard Cohen: Teachers
Lionel Richie: Hello
Lou Reed: Perfect Day
M:
M. Ward: Lullaby and Exile
M. Ward: Chinese Translation
Malcolm Middleton: Ballad of Fuck All
Malcolm Middleton: Blue Plastic Bags
Malcolm Middleton: Break My Heart
Malcolm Middleton: Follow Robin Down
Malcolm Middleton: Fuck it, I Love You
Malcolm Middleton: Speed on the M9
Malcolm Middleton: We’re All Going to Die
Max Jury: Love That Grows Old
McFly: It’s All About You
Mike Bygrave: Gypsy Lover
Mike Bygrave: Middle Class Girl
Monsters of Folk: Baby Boomer
Monsters of Folk: Good Way
Monsters of Folk: Map of the World
Monsters of Folk: The Right Place
Morrissey: Every Day is Like Sunday
Morrissey: First of the Gang to Die
Morrissey: Irish Blood, English Heart
Mumford and Sons: Little Lion Man
Mumford and Sons: The Cave
Muse: Starlight
N:
Nancy Sinatra: Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
Natalie Imbruglia: Torn
Neil Diamond: Pretty Amazing Grace
Neil Diamond: Song Sung Blue
Neil Diamond: Sweet Caroline
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush
Neil Young: Four Strong Winds
Neil Young: Harvest Moon
Neil Young: Rockin’ in the Free World
Neutral Milk Hotel: Communist Daughter
Neutral Milk Hotel: Engine
Neutral Milk Hotel: Holland 1945
Neutral Milk Hotel: I Love How You Love Me
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel: Oh Comely
Neutral Milk Hotel: The King of Carrot Flowers (Part One)
Newton Faulkner: Teardrop
Nirvana: Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam
Nirvana: Lithium
Nirvana: Oh Me
Nirvana: Polly
Nirvana: Rape Me
Nirvana: Sappy
Nirvana: Serve the Servants
Nirvana: Something in the Way
Nirvana: The Money Will Roll Right in
Nirvana: Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
Nirvana: You Know You’re Right
Noah and the Whale: Life Goes On
Nobuo Uematsu: Aeris’ Theme
Nobuo Uematsu: Ukulele de Chocobo
NOFX: Drugs are Good
O:
Oasis: (As Long As They’ve Got) Cigarettes in Hell
Oasis: Champagne Supernova
Oasis: Cigarettes and Alcohol
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger
Oasis: Half the World Away
Oasis: Live Forever
Oasis: Morning Glory
Oasis: Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
Oasis: Some Might Say
Oasis: The Importance of Being Idle
Oasis: Wonderwall
OPM: Heaven is a Half-Pipe
P:
Paolo Nutini: New Shoes
Paolo Nutini: Pencil Full of Lead
Pat Boone: Speedy Gonzales
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Presidents of the USA: Kitty
Puddle of Mudd: She Hates Me
Q:
Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Queen: Fat-Bottomed Girls
Queen: I Want to Break Free
R:
Radiohead: Creep
Rage Against the Machine: Killing in the Name
Randy Newman: You’ve Got a Friend in Me
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Can’t Stop
Red Hot Chili Peppers: I Could Have Lied
REM: Everybody Hurts
REM: Losing My Religion
Rick Astley: Never Gonna Give You Up
Rihanna: Only Girl in the World
Rilo Kiley: A Better Son/Daughter
Rilo Kiley: Breakin’ Up
Rilo Kiley: Go Ahead
Rilo Kiley: Papillon
Rilo Kiley: Portions for Foxes
Rilo Kiley: Ripchord
Rilo Kiley: Science V.S. Romance
Rilo Kiley: With Arms Outstretched
Ringo Starr: It Don’t Come Easy
Rob Lynch: Youth
Robbie Williams: Angels
Robbie Williams: Let Me Entertain You
Robbie Williams: She’s the One
Roger Miller: Dang Me
Roger Miller: Whistle Stop
Roy Orbison: Pretty Woman
Ryan Adams: Damn, Sam, I Love a Woman That Rains
Ryan Adams: English Girls Approximately
Ryan Adams: Gimme Something Good
Ryan Adams: My Wrecking Ball
S:
Shania Twain: You’re Still the One
Simon Joyner: Blue
Simon Joyner: Burn Rubber
Simon Joyner: Fearful Man
Simon Joyner: Folk Song for Sara
Simon Joyner: Joy Division
Simon Joyner: Love is Worth Suffering for
Simon Joyner: Medicine Blues
Simon Joyner: Nocturne
Soft Cell: Tainted Love
Son, Ambulance: Katie Come True
Sonny and Cher: I Got You Babe
Spencer Davis Group: Gimme Some Lovin’
Steve Harley: (Come Up and See Me) Make Me Smile
Stevie Wonder: Superstition
Stone Sour: Bother
Sum 41: Makes No Difference
Sum 41: Pieces
Sunforest: I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper
System of a Down: Aerials
System of a Down: Toxicity
T:
Take That: Back for Good
Taylor Swift: Love Story
Tenacious D: Tribute
The Animals: The House of the Rising Sun
The Avett Brothers: Colorshow
The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You
The Avett Brothers: I Would Be Sad
The Avett Brothers: Love Like the Movies
The Backstreet Boys: I Want it That Way
The Beatles: A Little Help from My Friends
The Beatles: Across the Universe
The Beatles: Act Naturally
The Beatles: All My Loving
The Beatles: All You Need is Love
The Beatles: Baby it’s You
The Beatles: Back in the USSR
The Beatles: Blackbird
The Beatles: Chains
The Beatles: Dear Prudence
The Beatles: Do You Want to Know a Secret?
The Beatles: Hide Your Love Away
The Beatles: I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles: I’ve Just Seen a Face
The Beatles: Let it Be
The Beatles: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
The Beatles: Money (That’s What I Want)
The Beatles: Norwegian Wood
The Beatles: Octopus’ Garden
The Beatles: Tomorrow Never Knows
The Beatles: Twist and Shout
The Beatles: Yellow Submarine
The Beautiful South: Don’t Marry Her
The Beautiful South: Rotterdam
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: A New Low in Getting High
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Anemone
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Cabin Fever
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: David Bowie (I Love You Since I Was Six)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Devil May Care (Mom and Dad Don’t)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Got My Eye On You
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Jennifer
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Not if You Were the Last Dandy On Earth
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Oh Lord
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Reign On
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Servo
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: The Ballad of Jim Jones
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Wasting Away
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Wisdom
The Buzzcocks: Boredom
The Buzzcocks: Ever Fallen In Love?
The Buzzcocks: What Do I Get?
The Cardigans: My Favourite Game
The Clash: London Calling
The Clash: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
The Clash: The Guns of Brixton
The Coral: Dreaming of You
The Cranberries: Zombie
The Cure: Friday I’m in Love
The Dandy Warhols: Bohemian Like You
The Dandy Warhols: Boys Better
The Dandy Warhols: Not If You Were the Last Dandy On Earth
The Dandy Warhols: The Last High
The Distillers: Gypsy Rose Lee
The Doors: Light My Fire
The Doors: People Are Strange
The Doors: Roadhouse Blues
The Drifters: Under the Boardwalk
The Dubliners: Irish Rover
The Dubliners: Seven Drunken Nights
The Dubliners: Whiskey in the Jar
The Dubliners: Wild Rover
The Eels: Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues
The Eels: My Beloved Monster
The Eels: Novocaine for the Soul
The Everly Brothers: All I Have to Do is Dream
The Flaming Lips: Do You Realise?
The Four Seasons: Reach Out
The Grateful Dead: Friend of the Devil
The Hives: Main Offender
The Human League: Don’t You Want Me?
The Inkspots: I Don’t Want to Set the World On Fire
The Jam: A Town Called Malice
The Jam: Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
The Killers: Mr. Brightside
The Kinks: Sunny Afternoon
The Kooks: She Moves in Her Own Way
The Lemonheads: It’s a Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads: My Drug Buddy
The Lemonheads: Style
The Libertines: Can’t Stand Me Now
The Libertines: Don’t Look Back into the Sun
The Lighthouse Family: High
The Monkees: I’m a Believer
The Mountain Goats: Against Pollution
The Mountain Goats: Alibi
The Mountain Goats: Colour in Your Cheeks
The Mountain Goats: Cotton
The Mountain Goats: Dance Music
The Mountain Goats: Game Shows Touch Our Lives
The Mountain Goats: Going to Georgia
The Mountain Goats: International Small Arms Traffic Blues
The Mountain Goats: Jenny
The Mountain Goats: Love, Love, Love
The Mountain Goats: No Children
The Mountain Goats: Palmcorder Yajna
The Mountain Goats: Sax Rohmer #1
The Mountain Goats: See America Right
The Mountain Goats: The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
The Mountain Goats: Up the Wolves
The Offspring: Walla Walla
The Pixies: Where is My Mind?
The Prodigy: Breathe
The Ramones: Beat on the Brat
The Ramones: Pet Semetary
The Ramones: The KKK Took My Baby Away
The Renegades: Thirteen Women
The Saw Doctors: I Useta Love Her
The Searchers: Needles and Pins
The Smiths: This Charming Man
The Spice Girls: Wannabe
The Stone Roses: Fool’s Gold
The Stone Roses: Going Down
The Stranglers: Golden Brown
The Strokes: Last Night
The Temptations: My Girl
The Troggs: Wild Thing
The Undertones: Teenage Kicks
The Verve: The Drugs Don’t Work
The Vines: Highly Evolved
The Vines: Outtathaway
The Vines: Ride
The Vines: Spaceship
The White Stripes: Fell in Love with a Girl
The Wooden Wolf: Your Drinking Shoulder
Tilly and the Wall: Coughing Colours
Tilly and the Wall: Dust Me Off
Tilly and the Wall: Fell Down the Stairs
Tilly and the Wall: Let it Rain
Tilly and the Wall: Love Song
Tilly and the Wall: Nights of the Living Dead
Tilly and the Wall: The Ice Storm, the Big Gust and You
Tom Jones: Sex Bomb
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Free Fallin’
Tom Waits: Annie’s Back in Town
Tom Waits: Blue Valentines
Tom Waits: Bronx Lullaby/Smugglers’ Waltz
Tom Waits: Chocolate Jesus
Tom Waits: Cold Water
Tom Waits: Come On Up to the House
Tom Waits: Dead and Lovely
Tom Waits: Georgia Lee
Tom Waits: Heart Attack and Vine
Tom Waits: House Where Nobody Lives
Tom Waits: I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
Tom Waits: I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You
Tom Waits: Jersey Girl
Tom Waits: Picture in a Frame
Tom Waits: Pony
Toploader: Dancing in the Moonlight
Travis: Why Does it Always Rain On Me?
U:
UB40: Kingston Town
Ugly Kid Joe: I Hate Everything About You
V:
Voxhaul Broadcast: You Are the Wilderness
W:
Wet Wet Wet: Love is All Around
Wham: I’m Your Man
WWF: The Rock Theme
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