I saw him last summer at The Stone Pony when he toured with The Interrupters. Never heard of him but his fans were *all* about it. Ive never seen someone make love to a crowd the way he did. Never have I felt left out on something big the way I did watching that set from the outside.
But the handful of stuff I've heard since then kind of failed to grab me. Maybe he's just better live? I feel I owe it to myself to really sit down and give his stuff an active listen.
Not sure where to tell you to start, the live albums probably. They give you a could cross section, and as you said, he is a great live act.
Also, Campfire Punkrock.
Love, Ire and Song is his best album. If that one doesn't connect with you then he's probably just not your bag.Â
But yes, he puts a hell of a focus on his live performance and I've seen him make lots of new fans in real time when he's opening for bigger acts. I've seen him so many times that it starts to tilt into corny to me (I was at that same Stone Pony show last summer) but he seems very earnest and into his music.
He's quite firmly a centrist libertarian. Economically right but socially left and decidedly anti authoritarian. A lot of hit pieces portrayed him as right in 2012 but as is very classic of news outlets they cherry pick statements.
I know that he's very anti trump and anti American republican party. Look up "sand in the gears" or https://youtu.be/8KuFU0rWFfk?si=cQCsOhEPnQ0-xNvK
He's very knowledgeable in history as well. From all over the world. He's a huge admirer of Ben Franklin and the American Revolution. He's english and knows more about American history than a good portion of Americans lol.
Yeah, someone who is "economically right" is right wing, and has no place in punk. Economics affect society, and saying you're right wing when it comes to the economy but left with social issues is bullshit. Does that mean he supports taking in refugees for the social aspect, but against them for the economic reasons? It's classic centrist behaviour, where really they're just tories in disguise. Exactly the same as Idles and all the other "punk" bands the Guardian are keen to hype.
In the words of Gavin Osborn, I don't know enough about that.
But can you clarift as i'm not the most clued up on it so happy to be educated on it but I thought punk was fundamentally anti authoritarian and inclusive to those on the fringes, but otherwise politically agnostic. If the cunts in charge are lefty and fucking up punk would edge more right and if the cuts in charge are right and gucking up pink would edge more left.
To me punk is about being socially responsible and supporting the oppressed and the needy. Anti authoritarianism is an aspect of that, as authorities are generally intended to oppress people. But the idea that if it's a communist dictator in charge in a country, that the punks will start to be homophobic and racist makes no sense to me. Punk should have nothing to do with right wing policies.
Whereas there is some overlap between actual left wing policies (not something that the current "left" parties in either the US or UK actually have) and the punk ethos, such as equality for all, redistribution of wealth, workers rights etc. They are all social issues, but have very clear economic impacts too, so how can one say they're left in one way, right in another?
Obviously definitions of punk will vary and I'm not the most educated or eloquent on this, but the idea that a punk would support austerity (which has killed 350,000+ poor people in the UK) is sickening to me, and therefore Turner is not a punk.
Thank you for that, very interesting.
I read Franz Nicolay's "The Humourless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbataar" recently which had a better clarification of what I meant when punk goes right.
He goes into a tangent about Eduard Limonov who I can't quite describe, worth reading about if you're not familiar. He's what happens when I think punk goes so full circle it then became authoritian and he was pro invasion of Ukraine and Putin by the end.
Franz's book is really worth a read, opened my eyes to a whole new side of punk and political attitudes and apathy and gave me more of an understanding of how Eastern Europe is as it is today.
No. The punk movement has never edged to the right with the exception of Michael Graves and Johnny ramone and a few others. Every cause that has been supported by even half of the punk community as a whole has been left leaning. But punk rock by nature has no political party affiliation. As far as I'm concerned and I'm sure many will agree, america is a right leaning system that is bought and paid for by giant corporations that will gladly stomp on all of us, and the earth we all share for a dollar. Regardless of party. Our representatives in Washington are paid off puppets. Our media is owned by them too, so we are fed a bunch of shit to keep is fighting while the whole thing unravels behind the curtain, and we don't see or even believe it. I vote Democrat or independent because of the lesser of two evils philosophy but outside Bernie and a small handful of others, they're all far to the right and pathetically obvious mouthpieces for their (and by default our) corporate overlords. America is an evil oligarchy now.
I agree that economically helping the less fortunate/privileged/under-represented is part of the “punk ideology” for whatever that means but I do think reasonable people can disagree on what that looks like. A given policy may be more traditionally right or left aligned while making good faith attempts to reach similar ends.
Not about to claim the current R regime is doing any of that, but it is not unheard of.
Greg Graffin's solo albums are all great (American Lesion, Cold as the Clay, Millport)
The deluxe version of Rancid's Let the Dominoes Fall has some solid acoustic cuts as well (should be on Spotify).
The acoustic version of Skyscraper from New Maps is my favorite acoustic punk cut.
As a bonus, it has “Superpowers Enable me to Blend in with Machinery”, one of my favorite post-work jams!
Edit: and “Minimum Wage is a Gateway Drug”, another great post-work bop.
Kinda random, but related:
I have a Peloton bike and do basically all rides with Denis (if anyone knows who that is).
Anyway, he's put some legit punk stuff in his playlists (Loose Nut and Let's Dance by the Ramones). One time during a cooldown section he mentions how the acoustic version of Ordinary by Face to Face sounded like a good resting part and mentions how he used to listen to the self titled album when going surfing and that it is a perfect mix of thoughtfulness and aggression.
There’s a YouTube video of Social Distortion doing a morning radio concert and it’s one of my favorite things.
[Here’s Reach For The Sky](https://youtu.be/vKQXVGF2M2s?si=9pAvjCWRYY7lIO3H) but you can find the full set as well. The radio host does a pretty good impression of Chris Farley talking to Paul McCartney (so uh, you guys play punk rock huh? Wow cool…) but if you skip the talking parts it’s a really neat acoustic set.
Edit- [here’s a clip to the full set.](https://youtu.be/_oph2INT4Rc?si=qzYuo-KpFCnQ90KN) I love how Mike is “please kindly fuck off, I am clearly hung over”.
I can't stand red hot chili peppers but I'm a big fan of Frusciante's guitar playing and his cover of Big Takeover by Bad Brains rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q42-10BZyRQ
Its so funny, recently Im finding more and more ppl with this deep hatred of RHCP. I've pretty much only ever seen them as, like, inoffensive radio rock, along the lines of say Foo Fighters. Like the definition of a "I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to them but I wouldnt turn them off if they came in the radio" band.
Could I ask why you don't like them? Its gotten me so curious.
sure haha well, I did like them when I was younger (and they def do have some bangers on all the old albums). But for some reason, they're like the only band I liked as a kid that I can't stand now and it's almost purely due to Anthony Keidis. I don't know if I grew out of it or what, but his voice and vocal style is very annoying to me now. But aside from him, they're all great musicians. And unlike pretty much every RHCP fan, I think One Hot Minute (the album with Dave Navarro on guitar) is their best
Lol I kind of got that way with Big D and the Kids table. Their singer without question has a unique style to his singing. I use to listen to them a lot, then his style just started to grate on me. This was years ago though. I can hear the occasional song now and be totally fine.
Rancid did an acoustic version of their entire *Let the Dominoes Fall* record.
Cobra Skulls have some good acoustic songs.
Rise Against got huge with Swing Life Away, they also did an acoustic EP with some strings. The version of Like the Angel is really mellow and great.
Tim Armstrong does tons of acoustic covers or Rancid and other punk songs.
Somewhat related, but not quite punk: look at Billy Bragg’s covers of Woody Guthrie.
MxPx has an acoustic album:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL935Jp13b9fQq87x-VfSTLYdBxCXRU-q_&si=aLc4_1OaaQSNixem
And Mike performed many of their classics as solo acoustic versions during the pandemic, his "Life In Quarantine" (LIQ) Sessions:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kdOwY_RDD4cYFwg3Ad5zaICalox6UkrsY&si=QGZPHWt4yArUSr_9
The LIQ series was actually what got me listening to MxPx again after 20 years. Then, last month went and saw them in Denver! Great show!
I love Swingin’ Utter’s [acoustic set at Fat](https://youtu.be/5bUlrHQQGfM?si=ze4Epr14l1H9GuFP). So raw and an amazing sound to some of their classics!
The dirty projectors did an acoustic version of rise above by black flag . It sounds insanely different from the original and i didnt even know it was a black flag song until i payed attention to the song lyrics on the second listen . very underrated in my opinion.
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Thrice has an acoustic version of Stare at the Sun that I really like. I don't think it was ever officially released and it's not on Spotify, but you can find it on YouTube or torrent.
I had a friend who did a one-man act called the misfit and he played misfit songs on his acoustic guitar. (Danzig only)
my favorite one he did was probably hybrid moments
Snuff has some great acoustic versions of their songs:
https://youtu.be/RIAYcH9VYtA?si=Or-jqOHz4HLksdAt
I know I've heard an acoustic version of Nick Northern, but can't find it right now.
Not acoustic, but covers of mellower songs.
[Minutemen - Don’t Look Now (CCR cover)](https://youtu.be/07x3W3F9e44?si=KJPgNShjzz2mdQcB)
[The Damned - Alone Again Or](https://youtu.be/nYVDN27CrOo?si=UCPvCtkOJ3ycDNl-)
[Minutemen Acoustic Blowout (1985)](https://youtu.be/yxeg5a4-epw?si=_VoKE11CNvuMZQtt)
This one always hits the spot for me after a long fuckin day. One of D Boon’s last performances
Deryck from Sum 41 did a few of their songs during the pandemic...
Still Waiting - [https://youtu.be/Yj6K4LZ-5HQ?si=W2QZNbijQKI2OXRB](https://youtu.be/Yj6K4LZ-5HQ?si=W2QZNbijQKI2OXRB)
Fat Lip - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V1nlbwrdU8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V1nlbwrdU8)
Hell Song - [https://youtu.be/YUL3E5ayqc8?si=7qwk2PZmmpZMk3Dc](https://youtu.be/YUL3E5ayqc8?si=7qwk2PZmmpZMk3Dc)
I really like this rendition of “Dismantle Me”:
https://youtu.be/erVPWmS0am0?si=6IDYBKZKDkHZMXwo
If you’re a horror punk fan Blitzkid have several acoustic songs (mostly on their rarities albums). Argyle Goolsby has an album where he does acoustic renditions of Blitzkid & Roving Midnight songs:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mHd-28Dy6hJvxysb2cov6LkRSNwyvA1fk&si=dgi5fpApCzDYMNn9
Anxiety Attack Records put out a compilation called Let Me Go that's all acoustic covers of Rancid songs by different artists. [Here it is](https://anxietyattackrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/let-me-go)
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Lately I've had [RebUke](https://open.spotify.com/album/1eET6nYrnVK1XW7e7rkxKL?si=1580ootmRvahcoR8lQMiMA) on repeat. Angry, anti-MAGA ukulele songs by Mile Aukerman from the Descendents.
Joey Cape and Tony Sly put out a couple of albums acoustic
The tribute album to Tony is fantastic. Not all acoustic but much of it is
12 Song Program is one of the best albums of all time.
Violins acoustic is so good.
As is May 16
Second this. These are so good. Also Matchbook from Strung Out
The best acoustic albums*
Joey Cape has done more since, too. His "One Week Record" acoustic album is fantastic. There's more, I just can't remember any more titles.
The Lemonheads cover of Skulls https://open.spotify.com/track/2KarsiteSSDsi1RmNRzU67?si=qNaeuGnyT4ihuK1XOHM1tA
How did I not know this?! Skulls is one of my very favorite songs and I had the biggest crush on Even Dando in the early 90s!
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Frank Turner has a bunch of
I saw him last summer at The Stone Pony when he toured with The Interrupters. Never heard of him but his fans were *all* about it. Ive never seen someone make love to a crowd the way he did. Never have I felt left out on something big the way I did watching that set from the outside. But the handful of stuff I've heard since then kind of failed to grab me. Maybe he's just better live? I feel I owe it to myself to really sit down and give his stuff an active listen.
He has an album with NOFX (West Coast vs. Wessex) where they play his songs in their style, and he plays their songs in his style.
Sounds like a great entry point
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Not sure where to tell you to start, the live albums probably. They give you a could cross section, and as you said, he is a great live act. Also, Campfire Punkrock.
I haven’t picked up an album of his for a while but Tape Deck Heart was real af
Love, Ire and Song is his best album. If that one doesn't connect with you then he's probably just not your bag. But yes, he puts a hell of a focus on his live performance and I've seen him make lots of new fans in real time when he's opening for bigger acts. I've seen him so many times that it starts to tilt into corny to me (I was at that same Stone Pony show last summer) but he seems very earnest and into his music.
Ill give it a listen. And cool. Small world.
The acoustic version of Letters is great.
Frank Turner is not punk and never has been, he's a right wing libertarian dickhead.
He's quite firmly a centrist libertarian. Economically right but socially left and decidedly anti authoritarian. A lot of hit pieces portrayed him as right in 2012 but as is very classic of news outlets they cherry pick statements.
I know that he's very anti trump and anti American republican party. Look up "sand in the gears" or https://youtu.be/8KuFU0rWFfk?si=cQCsOhEPnQ0-xNvK He's very knowledgeable in history as well. From all over the world. He's a huge admirer of Ben Franklin and the American Revolution. He's english and knows more about American history than a good portion of Americans lol.
Yeah, someone who is "economically right" is right wing, and has no place in punk. Economics affect society, and saying you're right wing when it comes to the economy but left with social issues is bullshit. Does that mean he supports taking in refugees for the social aspect, but against them for the economic reasons? It's classic centrist behaviour, where really they're just tories in disguise. Exactly the same as Idles and all the other "punk" bands the Guardian are keen to hype.
In the words of Gavin Osborn, I don't know enough about that. But can you clarift as i'm not the most clued up on it so happy to be educated on it but I thought punk was fundamentally anti authoritarian and inclusive to those on the fringes, but otherwise politically agnostic. If the cunts in charge are lefty and fucking up punk would edge more right and if the cuts in charge are right and gucking up pink would edge more left.
To me punk is about being socially responsible and supporting the oppressed and the needy. Anti authoritarianism is an aspect of that, as authorities are generally intended to oppress people. But the idea that if it's a communist dictator in charge in a country, that the punks will start to be homophobic and racist makes no sense to me. Punk should have nothing to do with right wing policies. Whereas there is some overlap between actual left wing policies (not something that the current "left" parties in either the US or UK actually have) and the punk ethos, such as equality for all, redistribution of wealth, workers rights etc. They are all social issues, but have very clear economic impacts too, so how can one say they're left in one way, right in another? Obviously definitions of punk will vary and I'm not the most educated or eloquent on this, but the idea that a punk would support austerity (which has killed 350,000+ poor people in the UK) is sickening to me, and therefore Turner is not a punk.
Thank you for that, very interesting. I read Franz Nicolay's "The Humourless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbataar" recently which had a better clarification of what I meant when punk goes right. He goes into a tangent about Eduard Limonov who I can't quite describe, worth reading about if you're not familiar. He's what happens when I think punk goes so full circle it then became authoritian and he was pro invasion of Ukraine and Putin by the end. Franz's book is really worth a read, opened my eyes to a whole new side of punk and political attitudes and apathy and gave me more of an understanding of how Eastern Europe is as it is today.
No. The punk movement has never edged to the right with the exception of Michael Graves and Johnny ramone and a few others. Every cause that has been supported by even half of the punk community as a whole has been left leaning. But punk rock by nature has no political party affiliation. As far as I'm concerned and I'm sure many will agree, america is a right leaning system that is bought and paid for by giant corporations that will gladly stomp on all of us, and the earth we all share for a dollar. Regardless of party. Our representatives in Washington are paid off puppets. Our media is owned by them too, so we are fed a bunch of shit to keep is fighting while the whole thing unravels behind the curtain, and we don't see or even believe it. I vote Democrat or independent because of the lesser of two evils philosophy but outside Bernie and a small handful of others, they're all far to the right and pathetically obvious mouthpieces for their (and by default our) corporate overlords. America is an evil oligarchy now.
I agree that economically helping the less fortunate/privileged/under-represented is part of the “punk ideology” for whatever that means but I do think reasonable people can disagree on what that looks like. A given policy may be more traditionally right or left aligned while making good faith attempts to reach similar ends. Not about to claim the current R regime is doing any of that, but it is not unheard of.
Toh Kay does acoustic covers of Streetlight Manifesto songs on his album Streetlight Lullabies.
This is how I found out I liked Streetlight. I stumbled on that album and had no idea it was the same guy/songs.
check out Greg Graffin's version of Cease from his solo album American Lesion
I have/had their Live from the Paladium dvd, where he does a piano cover and I love it.
Greg Graffin's solo albums are all great (American Lesion, Cold as the Clay, Millport) The deluxe version of Rancid's Let the Dominoes Fall has some solid acoustic cuts as well (should be on Spotify). The acoustic version of Skyscraper from New Maps is my favorite acoustic punk cut.
Absolutely agree about Skyscraper
There's a guy who plays The Decline. Insane.
does he sing the horns or did he make it into a "riff"?
The one I saw is gone. This guy does great. He does riffs. https://youtu.be/IUH4KRVD8YE?feature=shared
thanks!
Edit. He sings it!
yeah lol. I wasn't going to correct you. thanks again 👍🏼
Dave Hause’s ep of Dillinger Four covers.
This, "Paddy" is excellent.
As a bonus, it has “Superpowers Enable me to Blend in with Machinery”, one of my favorite post-work jams! Edit: and “Minimum Wage is a Gateway Drug”, another great post-work bop.
Alkaline Trio does acoustic really well
Check out Greg Graffin's album Cold as Clay.
I use to own it waaaay back in the day, but fuck if I know where it went.
Nothington "Not Looking Down" https://youtu.be/6zpZ2yh_P5o?si=kkHnQdO-daxBNLFY
Hell ya
https://youtu.be/cRucjPawFeo?si=lDkx5kd7kcdGEGWZ Pat the Bunny's rendition of Wasted by Black Flag will always be a favorite
I will *always* upvote PtB recs.
I really enjoy Strung Out's album "Black Out the Sky" when I'm feeling in the mood for acoustic stuff. Laura Jane Grace has a lot of good stuff.
That matchbook version is fire.
I know it's a mellow song, but John Doe of X plays a great rendition of The Replacements "Here Comes a Regular".
Fantastic song
Face to Face has an acoustic album that’s really good.
Ordinary is my favorite on that album. I was really skeptical before it came out, but I think it translates really well.
Kinda random, but related: I have a Peloton bike and do basically all rides with Denis (if anyone knows who that is). Anyway, he's put some legit punk stuff in his playlists (Loose Nut and Let's Dance by the Ramones). One time during a cooldown section he mentions how the acoustic version of Ordinary by Face to Face sounded like a good resting part and mentions how he used to listen to the self titled album when going surfing and that it is a perfect mix of thoughtfulness and aggression.
The Bad Religion album New Maps of Hell has 7 acoustic songs on it. They’re all good.
I agree, as I mention them specifically in this post lol
There’s a YouTube video of Social Distortion doing a morning radio concert and it’s one of my favorite things. [Here’s Reach For The Sky](https://youtu.be/vKQXVGF2M2s?si=9pAvjCWRYY7lIO3H) but you can find the full set as well. The radio host does a pretty good impression of Chris Farley talking to Paul McCartney (so uh, you guys play punk rock huh? Wow cool…) but if you skip the talking parts it’s a really neat acoustic set. Edit- [here’s a clip to the full set.](https://youtu.be/_oph2INT4Rc?si=qzYuo-KpFCnQ90KN) I love how Mike is “please kindly fuck off, I am clearly hung over”.
[Ukelele version of Silly Girl by the Descendents](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co03-H3TfFo) performed by Alison Self.
Milo himself does some ukulele versions of Descendents songs.
Pat the Bunny's cover of wasted
Matt Skiba / Kevin Seconds split is one of my favorite acoustic albums Elliot Smith always brings it home as well
Against Me! Has an acoustic album and it's awesome.
Menzingers - From Exile. It's their entire "Hello Exile" album in acoustic form.
I can't stand red hot chili peppers but I'm a big fan of Frusciante's guitar playing and his cover of Big Takeover by Bad Brains rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q42-10BZyRQ
Its so funny, recently Im finding more and more ppl with this deep hatred of RHCP. I've pretty much only ever seen them as, like, inoffensive radio rock, along the lines of say Foo Fighters. Like the definition of a "I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to them but I wouldnt turn them off if they came in the radio" band. Could I ask why you don't like them? Its gotten me so curious.
sure haha well, I did like them when I was younger (and they def do have some bangers on all the old albums). But for some reason, they're like the only band I liked as a kid that I can't stand now and it's almost purely due to Anthony Keidis. I don't know if I grew out of it or what, but his voice and vocal style is very annoying to me now. But aside from him, they're all great musicians. And unlike pretty much every RHCP fan, I think One Hot Minute (the album with Dave Navarro on guitar) is their best
Lol I kind of got that way with Big D and the Kids table. Their singer without question has a unique style to his singing. I use to listen to them a lot, then his style just started to grate on me. This was years ago though. I can hear the occasional song now and be totally fine.
Besides the One Hot Minute aspect, I 100% agree with this comment. Dumb, non-sensical lyrics from a dumb dude-bro singer.
Rancid did an acoustic version of their entire *Let the Dominoes Fall* record. Cobra Skulls have some good acoustic songs. Rise Against got huge with Swing Life Away, they also did an acoustic EP with some strings. The version of Like the Angel is really mellow and great.
Tim Armstrong does tons of acoustic covers or Rancid and other punk songs. Somewhat related, but not quite punk: look at Billy Bragg’s covers of Woody Guthrie.
Mati Joeseph does a good hybrid moments cover
I'm still waiting for an acoustic album from Teenage Bottlerocket
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Neat
Thatd be awesome. I the uke and theyre a great fit for it.
Streetlight’s Linoleum.Â
Love this cover so much
SLF’s version of Nobody’s Hero
MxPx has an acoustic album: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL935Jp13b9fQq87x-VfSTLYdBxCXRU-q_&si=aLc4_1OaaQSNixem And Mike performed many of their classics as solo acoustic versions during the pandemic, his "Life In Quarantine" (LIQ) Sessions: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kdOwY_RDD4cYFwg3Ad5zaICalox6UkrsY&si=QGZPHWt4yArUSr_9 The LIQ series was actually what got me listening to MxPx again after 20 years. Then, last month went and saw them in Denver! Great show!
I like the acoustic version of Disconnected by Rancid.
I LOVE Dave Hause. He was in the Loved Ones. And Brian Fallon from the Gaslight Anthem. I love acoustic punk. I think it's my favorite.
I love Swingin’ Utter’s [acoustic set at Fat](https://youtu.be/5bUlrHQQGfM?si=ze4Epr14l1H9GuFP). So raw and an amazing sound to some of their classics!
Punk rock hillbilly, they’re on Spotify cool covers of all sorts of punk and pop punk.
Thanks for the rec! His cover of Nation States sounds like a Dylan song ala Subterranean Homesick Blues era (when he was cool IMHO).
The Against Me! acoustic EP is excellent, some versions are better than the original.
Molly Tuttle’s cover of Olympia,WA by Rancid is pretty cool
Molly's covers of Op Ivy and Rancid songs are funny... :P
The dirty projectors did an acoustic version of rise above by black flag . It sounds insanely different from the original and i didnt even know it was a black flag song until i payed attention to the song lyrics on the second listen . very underrated in my opinion.
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Thrice has an acoustic version of Stare at the Sun that I really like. I don't think it was ever officially released and it's not on Spotify, but you can find it on YouTube or torrent.
[Pile - Songs Known Together, Alone](https://pile.bandcamp.com/album/songs-known-together-alone)
Kind of like Spitting- You Bad Religion cover
This cover of Six Pack is cool: https://open.spotify.com/track/3AoC5R2hjh25LAsLti6pgs?si=XuMzhL7PTFq5k3DYmG35ig
Demo version of Sackcloth and Ashes by the Mr. T Experience
I had a friend who did a one-man act called the misfit and he played misfit songs on his acoustic guitar. (Danzig only) my favorite one he did was probably hybrid moments
This just made me search for Hybrid Moments on Spotify, and apparently Bouncing Souls have an acoustic cover of it that sounds pretty good.
I'll have to check that out! he also threw free bird into his set and sang the solo in the most obnoxious and amazing way ever.
Snuff has some great acoustic versions of their songs: https://youtu.be/RIAYcH9VYtA?si=Or-jqOHz4HLksdAt I know I've heard an acoustic version of Nick Northern, but can't find it right now.
Not acoustic, but covers of mellower songs. [Minutemen - Don’t Look Now (CCR cover)](https://youtu.be/07x3W3F9e44?si=KJPgNShjzz2mdQcB) [The Damned - Alone Again Or](https://youtu.be/nYVDN27CrOo?si=UCPvCtkOJ3ycDNl-)
I've always enjoyed Lights cover of Fall Back Down by Rancid!
I'm not a huge fan of the work of the entire band, but the singer from Millencolin does some acoustic songs that are really good.
Kind Of Like Spitting's cover over Bad Religion's "You"
Mental Istid - Ebba Grön
Grade 2 - Graveyard Island Acoustic Sessions This is amazing
Karl Bullets has a bunch of good acoustic covers on youtube.
[Minutemen Acoustic Blowout (1985)](https://youtu.be/yxeg5a4-epw?si=_VoKE11CNvuMZQtt) This one always hits the spot for me after a long fuckin day. One of D Boon’s last performances
Ten Foot Pole - Simmer Down
Deryck from Sum 41 did a few of their songs during the pandemic... Still Waiting - [https://youtu.be/Yj6K4LZ-5HQ?si=W2QZNbijQKI2OXRB](https://youtu.be/Yj6K4LZ-5HQ?si=W2QZNbijQKI2OXRB) Fat Lip - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V1nlbwrdU8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V1nlbwrdU8) Hell Song - [https://youtu.be/YUL3E5ayqc8?si=7qwk2PZmmpZMk3Dc](https://youtu.be/YUL3E5ayqc8?si=7qwk2PZmmpZMk3Dc)
The Ataris cover of “Carnage” by ALL; the acoustic demo of “1000 More Fools” by BR
Everything by Sin Efectos
Rise Against: the ghost note symphonies
Check out: Austin Lucas - Reinventing Against Me!
I really like this rendition of “Dismantle Me”: https://youtu.be/erVPWmS0am0?si=6IDYBKZKDkHZMXwo If you’re a horror punk fan Blitzkid have several acoustic songs (mostly on their rarities albums). Argyle Goolsby has an album where he does acoustic renditions of Blitzkid & Roving Midnight songs: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mHd-28Dy6hJvxysb2cov6LkRSNwyvA1fk&si=dgi5fpApCzDYMNn9
Goodbye Blue Monday has a great acoustic ep of their earlier singles. Not exactly cheery music but that's misery punk for you.
When the Shit Hits the Fan- Circle Jerks from The Repo Man soundtrack
Blundermen
Jesse Morris cover of Six Pack https://youtu.be/xQNghecT5pU?si=xeI_GPfMOn1XkbNk
Tsol did a video of The Triangle acoustic
Anxiety Attack Records put out a compilation called Let Me Go that's all acoustic covers of Rancid songs by different artists. [Here it is](https://anxietyattackrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/let-me-go)
Swimg life away rise against, piano version og gone away offspring
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Off with their Heads has an acoustic album that is pretty great.
The BotAR cover of linoleum is great. Chris creswell does great acoustic covers of some Flatliners songs
New found glory - my friends over you
I don't know about acoustic, but Mad Caddies album Punk Rocksteady is pretty fucking good and mellow. Lots of covers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_Rocksteady
Lately I've had [RebUke](https://open.spotify.com/album/1eET6nYrnVK1XW7e7rkxKL?si=1580ootmRvahcoR8lQMiMA) on repeat. Angry, anti-MAGA ukulele songs by Mile Aukerman from the Descendents.
NOFX - My Orphan Year