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| The Unknown Stuntman  |
Lol. That Social D song is 200+ BPM and in F#. He's looking for easy playing acoustic tunes, go easy on the guy.  The problem with 40-somethings (and I are one) is that a lot of our music was in the grunge or punk range. Crazy tunings like drop B, funky time sigs like 5/4 etc. The reason everyone likes the 60s-70s stuff is because it's easier to play, and therefore more common or popular in impromptu acoustic sessions. If you want easy to play and fun, try some stuff like Bryan Adams. Summer of 69, songs like that are easy to play and everyone knows the words. | |||
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| Evil Asian Member |
No Journey "Don't Stop Believin' " or Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"? | |||
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Lost |
Bionic218 is right on. He's looking for easy, 3-chord songs to bang out on a beach guitar, not complicated chord progressions and tunings. That's why I made a list of simple but timeless classics that most people will know. Certainly 40-somethings. If it were millenials, yeah, different story. | |||
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Never Gonna Give You Up  When in doubt, mumble | |||
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Still finding my way |
40 somethings grew up listening to late 80's-90's stuff.Van Halen, Metallica, etc. American Pie? Eagles? Go to bed, gramps!  | |||
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Foo Fighters: Everlong and Times Like These. Smashing Pumpkins: Disarm, 1979 (1/2 step down), Tonight Tonight (also 1/2 down). Oasis you bloody wankers! Mongo only pawn in game of life... | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
Oh yeah. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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I'm 45 and know almost every song mentioned so far (I am far from a music enthusiast as well), so stick with the ones that stood the test of time with wide airplay from late '60s to now and you'll be good to go. “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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Charmingly unsophisticated |
I think an acoustic version of "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" might be fun. And I just learned the TMBG version is actually a cover! Original is from the 1950s!! _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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Go Vols! |
This is my own age group. It was more for reminders. It’s appreciated but some of the songs,while good, I wouldn’t know more than a few words. They can be a little more complicated to play but alternate tunings, aside from just a capo, generally wouldn’t work. | |||
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Live - Lightning Crashes Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm Bush - Glycerine Hootie & the Blowfish - Only wanna be with you and I go Blind Counting Crows - Mr. Jones Jane's Addiction Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm (you laugh, but everyone will sing along) Marcy Playground - Sex & Candy Stone Temple Pilots - Plush Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Pixies - Where is My Mind? Nirvana - anything from the Unplugged album Oasis - Wonderwall Pearl Jam - Daughter Presidents of the United States - Peaches Pink Floyd - Wish you were here Weezer - Say it Ain't so Better than Ezra - Good The Verve Pipe - Colorful Barenaked Ladies - If I had a Million Dollars Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 4 Non Blondes - What's Up? The Lumineers - Ho Hey John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane, Pink Houses, Small Town Tom Petty - I won't back down, Mary Jane's Last Dance, Free Fallin, Into the Great Wide Open, Learning to Fly Eagles - Take it Easy Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee John Denver - Take me Home, Country Roads The Animals - House of the Rising Sun Van Morrison - Brown Eyed GirlThis message has been edited. Last edited by: KDR, ____________________ I Like Guns and stuff | |||
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non ducor, duco |
I spit coffee on my keyboard!@! First In Last Out | |||
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I have no idea if your list meets the criteria, but I love it. Add in “Closing Time” by Semisonic mentioned earlier and I am very pleased. | |||
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Stangosaurus Rex |
Run to the hills by Iron Maiden! ___________________________ "I Get It Now" Beth Greene | |||
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Oh, then... Give a Little BIt - Supertramp and She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes (in Open E). -- I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. JALLEN 10/18/18 https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...610094844#7610094844 | |||
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Raptorman |
Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling The Church - Under The Milky Way The Smiths - How Soon Is Now Pixies - Where Is My Mind ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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| Raptorman |
That was Jane's Addiction ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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That's what I get for going off my memory. I've had a few Alice in Chains songs in my current rotation and I guess the name seeped in there somehow. Thanks for the correction. ____________________ I Like Guns and stuff | |||
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| Get Off My Lawn |
Three chords, easy lyrics, great melody, fun song all around by a really cool band that almost everyone knows. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Triumph - Magic Power Queen - we are the champions Boston- all their songs The Who - my generation iron Maiden - The trooper and aces high Sublime - date rape song Billy Joel- scenes at an Italian restaurant Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. Benjamin Franklin | |||
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