Repertoire

Decent pop music? Pop music is about melodies, not technique. It doesn’t matter how fast your fingers are moving, it matters where they’re going. Pop music is a devalued term, but for me, the Clash, the Killers, Radiohead and Crowded House are just as pop as Abba. Which is why I play songs from them all.

This is a list of the songs for which I have recorded backing tracks. Each of these takes me about 12 hours, but they’re mine, they work for me, and you won’t hear them anywhere else. Creating my own tracks means I can rearrange them if I want to, and I often do. My collection of acoustic covers includes most of these and a few hundred more.

As of February my repertoire is 954 songs.

Some of these songs are played with an acoustic guitar, some of them electric. It’s an alphabetical list, by song title. I’d use the search button if I were you!

20th Century Boy (T-Rex)
A Day in the Life (Beatles)
A Forest (The Cure)
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan)
A Little Respect (Erasure)
Across the Universe (Beatles)
Alison (Elvis Costello)
All I Want Is You (Roxy Music)
All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey)
All My Loving (The Beatles)
All Of My Heart (ABC)
All or Nothing (Small Faces)
All The Young Dudes (Mott the Hoople)
All These Things That I’ve Done (The Killers)
All You Ever Wanted (Rag’n’Bone Man)
Alone Again Or (Love)
Always On My Mind (Pet Shop Boys)
Always the Last To Know (Del Amitri)
Always The Sun (The Stranglers)
Always Where I Need To Be (Kooks)
America (Razorlight)
American Girl (Tom Petty)
Angels (Robbie Williams)
Another Girl Another Planet (Only Ones)
Atomic (Blondie)
Baba O’Reilly (The Who)
Baby Baby (The Vibrators)
Baby Jane (Rod Stewart)
Babylon (David Gray)
Baby One More Time (Travis (Britney Spears song))
Back For Good (Take That)
Bad Case of Loving You (Robert Palmer)
Bad Day (REM)
Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Bend Me Shape Me (Amen Corner)
Better Be Home Soon (Crowded House)
Black Eyed Boy (Texas)
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall)
Bohemian Like You (Dandy Warhols)
Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen)
Boys Don’t Cry (Cure)
Break the Night With Colour (Richard Ashcroft)
Breakfast At Tiffany’s (Deep Blue Something)
Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel)
Brown-Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
Burn Baby Burn (Ash)
C’mon Everybody (Eddie Cochran)
California Dreamin’ (Mammas and Pappas)
California Sun (Ramones)
Call Me (Blondie)
Can’t Get Used To Losing You (Andy Williams)
Can’t Stop Loving You (Leo Sayer)
Can’t Stand Losing You (The Police)
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (Andy Williams)
Change (Lightning Seeds)
Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol)
Come Back and Stay (Paul Young)
Come On Eileen (Dexy’s Midnight Runners)
Come On everybody (Eddie Cochran)
Come Together (Beatles)
Common People (Pulp)
Country Girl (Primal Scream)
Cowboy Dreams (Jimmy Nail)
Cracked (Tights)
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley)
Creep (Radiohead)
Cruel to be Kind (Nick Lowe)
Cry (Godley and Crème)
Crying (Roy Orbison)
Cum On Feel The Noize (Slade)
Dakota (Stereophonics)
Daydream Believer (Monkees)
Dear God (XTC)
Dear Prudence (The Beatles/Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Different Drum (Linda Ronstadt)
Different For Girls (Joe Jackson)
Disco 2000 (Pulp)
Distant Sun (Crowded House)
Do Anything You Wanna Do (Eddie and the Hot Rods)
Do Nothing (Specials)
Don’t Dream It’s Over (Crowded House)
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (Animals)
Don’t Look Back In Anger (Oasis)
Don’t Marry Her (Beautiful South)
Don’t You Want Me? (Human League)
Dream Lover (Bobby Darin)
Dreaming (Blondie)
Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
Drops of Jupiter (Train)
Duchess (The Stranglers)
Echo Beach (Martha and the Muffins)
Elenore (Turtles)
Eloise (Paul and Barry Ryan/Damned)
Empire State Human (Human League)
Ever Fallen In Love? (Buzzcocks)
Everlasting Love (Love Affair)
Everybody Hurts (REM)
Everybody’s Changing (Keane)
Everyday (Slade)
Everything I Own (Bread)
Fairytale of New York (Pogues)
Faith (George Michael)
Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead)
Fall At Your Feet (Crowded House)
Far Far Away (Slade)
Father and Son (Cat Stevens)
Feel (Robbie Williams)
Feel The Need In Me (Detroit Emeralds)
Feeling Good (Muse)
Feels Like Heaven (Fiction Factory)
Fisherman’s Blues (Waterboys)
Fix You (Coldplay)
Flowers In The Rain (The Move)
Flowers In The Window (Travis)
For Reasons Unknown (The Killers)
Fortunate Son (CCR)
Freedom (Wham)
Friday I’m in Love (Cure)
Friday On My Mind (Easybeats)
Friends and PVS (Rembrandts/Monkees)
Gangsters (Specials)
Genie in a Bottle (Speedway (Christina Aguilera song))
Get Back (Beatles)
Get Off Of My Cloud (Rolling Stones)
Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) (James)
Gimme Some Lovin’ (Spencer Davis Group)
Glad All Over (Dave Clark Five)
Go Now (Moody Blues)
Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
God Save The Queen (Sex Pistols)
Going Underground (Jam)
Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud) (The Beautiful South)
Good Morning Britain (Aztec Camera)
Good Thing (Fine Young Cannibals)
Goodbye My Love (Glitter Band)
Gotta Get Away (The Black Keys)
Handbags and Gladrags (Chris Farlowe etc)
Hanging on the Telephone (Blondie)
Happy Together (Turtles)
Harvest For The World (Isley Brothers)
Have I The Right? (Honeycombs)
Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Hazy Shade Of Winter (Simon and Garfunkel)
Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
Here Comes the Rain (Eurythmics)
Heroes (David Bowie)
He’s Misstra Know-It-All (Stevie Wonder)
Hey Jude (The Beatles)
Hey Mr Tambourine Man (The Byrds)
Hey Rock’n’Roll (Showaddywaddy)
High (James Blunt)
High Fidelity (Elvis Costello)
His Latest Flame (Elvis Presley)
Homosapien (Pete Shelley)
Hospital Food (David Gray)
Hotel California (Eagles)
How Sweet It Is (Marvin Gaye)
Hungry Like The Wolf (Duran Duran)
Hush (Deep Purple/Kula Shaker)
Hypersonic Missiles (Sam Fender)
I Can’t Stand Up (For Falling Down) (Sam and Dave)
I Drove All Night (Roy Orbison)
I Fought The Law (Clash)
I Go To Sleep (Pretenders)
I Got You (Split Enz)
I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself (Dusty Springfield)
I Love To Boogie (T-Rex)
I Only Want To Be With You (Dusty Springfield/The Tourists)
I Saw Her Standing There (Beatles)
I Stand Accused (Merseybeats/Elvis Costello)
I Think We’re Alone Now (Tommy Roe)
I Try (Macie Gray)
I Wanna Be Adored (Stone Roses)
I Wanna Get Lost With You (Stereophonics)
I Want You (Bob Dylan)
I Want You to Want Me (Cheap Trick)
I Won’t Back Down (Tom Petty)
I’ll Be There For You (Rembrandts)
I’ve Been Losing You (A-ha)
If Paradise (Is Half As Nice) (Andy Fairweather Lowe)
I’m Not In Love (10cc)
I’m Only Sleeping (Beatles)
I’m The Man (Joe Jackson)
Imitation Of Life (REM)
In A Broken Dream (Python Lee Jackson)
In My Place (Coldplay)
Is She Really Going Out With Him? (Joe Jackson)
Is This Love? (Alison Moyet)
It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over (Lenny Kravitz)
Itchycoo Park (The Small Faces)
It Doesn’t Make It Alright (Specials)
It Doesn’t Matter (Buddy Holly)
It’s All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan)
It’s Only Natural (Crowded House)
It’s My Life (Talk Talk)
Jealous Guy (John Lennon)
Jeepster (T-Rex)
Jimmy Jimmy (Undertones)
John, I’m Only Dancing (David Bowie)
Johnny and Mary (Robert Palmer)
Juke Box Jive (Rubettes)
Just Can’t Get Enough (Depeche Mode)
Just Like Heaven (Cure)
Karma Police (Radiohead)
Keep On Running (Spencer Davis Group)
Kingston Town (Lord Creator)
Knowing Me Knowing You (Abba)
Laid (James)
Last Christmas (Wham)
Lay All Your Love on Me (ABBA)
Let it Be (Beatles)
Let Me Entertain You (Robbie Williams)
Let The Good Times Roll (JD MacPherson)
Let Your Love Flow (Bellamy Brothers)
Let’s Spend The Night Together (Rolling Stones)
Let’s Stick Together (Bryan Ferry)
Life on Mars (David Bowie)
Like a Hurricane (Neil Young)
Little Does She Know (Kursaal Flyers)
Live It Up (Mental As Anything)
London Calling (Clash)
Lonely This Christmas (Mud)
Look What You’ve Done (Jet)
Losing My Religion (REM)
Lost Weekend (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions)
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) (Edison Lighthouse)
Lyin’ Eyes (Eagles)
Mad World (Tears for Fears)
Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) (Cockney Rebel)
Making Plans For Nigel (XTC)
Mamma Mia (Abba)
Man On The Moon (REM)
Merry Xmas Everybody (Slade)
Message In A Bottle (The Police)
Modern Love (David Bowie)
Mr Blue Sky (ELO)
Mr Brightside (Killers)
Mrs Robinson (Simon and Garfunkel)
Must Get Out (Maroon 5)
My Coo-ca-Choo (Alvin Stardust)
My Delirium (Ladyhawke)
My Funny Valentine (Elvis Costello)
My Girl (Temptations)
My Heart Will Go On and On (Celine Dion (Buzzcocks style)
My World is Empty When I’m Dreaming Of You (The Coral/Supremes)
National Express (Divine Comedy)
Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)
Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth (Sparks)
No Surprises (Radiohead)
Nothing Ever Happens (Del Amitri)
Oh Boy (Buddy Holly)
Oliver’s Army (Elvis Costello and The Attractions)
One (U2)
Only Happy When It Rains (Garbage)
Only You (Yazoo [Oasis style])
Ooh La (Kooks)
Ordinary World (Duran Duran)
Our Lips Are Sealed (Fun Boy Three)
Out of Time (Chris Farlowe)
Overkill (Men at Work)
Paint It, Black (Rolling Stones)
Paradise (George Ezra)
Pass It On (Coral)
Patience (Take That)
Peace Love and Understanding (Elvis Costello)
Perfect Day (Lou Reed)
Poison Arrow (ABC)
Poor Misguided Fool (Starsailor)
Pour Le Monde (Crowded House)
Pretty In Pink (The Psychedelic Furs)
Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)
Pulling Mussels From A Shell (Squeeze)
Pump It Up (Elvis Costello and the Attractions)
Rave On (Buddy Holly)
Read My Mind (The Killers)
Ready to Start (Arcade Fire)
Real Gone Kid (Deacon Blue)
Reason For Living (Aztec Camera)
Rebel Rebel (David Bowie)
Rebellion (Lies) (Arcade Fire)
Reward (Teardrop Explodes)
Rip It Up (Orange Juice)
River Deep, Mountain High (Ike and Tina Turner)
Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads)
Rockaway Beach (Ramones)
Roll Away The Stone (Mott the Hoople)
Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits/Killers)
Rotterdam (Beautiful South)
Ruby Tuesday (Rolling Stones)
Run (Snow Patrol)
Save Tonight (Eagle Eye Cherry)
Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers)
Sha-La-La-La-Lee (The Small Faces)
Shang-A-Lang (Bay City Rollers)
She (Elvis Costello)
She’s A Star (James)
She’s Electric (Oasis)
Should I Stay or Should I Go? (The Clash)
Show me the Way to Amarillo (Tony Christie)
Sign of the Times (Harry Styles)
Sign Your Name (Terence Trent D’Arby)
Solid Gold Easy Action (T-Rex)
Solitaire (Andy Williams)
Somebody Told Me (Killers)
Somethin’ Else (Eddie Cochran)
Somewhere In My Heart (Aztec Camera)
Somewhere Only We Know (Keane)
SOS (Abba)
Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel)
Spitting Games (Snow Patrol)
Sprawl (Arcade Fire)
Stand By Me (Ben E King)
Starlight (Muse)
Starman (David Bowie)
Statue of Liberty (XTC)
Stayin’ Alive (Beegees)
Steady As She Goes (Raconteurs)
Stop Crying Your Heart Out (Oasis)
Stop! In The Name of Love (The Supremes)
Stop Your Sobbing (Pretenders)
Stuck in the Middle (Stealer’s Wheel)
Substitute (Who)
Sugar Coated Iceberg (The Lightning Seeds)
Summer of ’69 (Bryan Adams)
Sunny Afternoon (Kinks)
Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
Supreme (Robbie Williams)
Suspicious Minds (Elvis Presley)
Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Take It Easy (Eagles)
Take It To The Limit (The Eagles)
Take Me to the River (Talking Heads)
Talk of the Town (Pretenders)
Taste of Your Tears (King)
Teenage Kicks (Undertones)
Tell Him (Hello)
Tell Laura I Love Her (Ray Peterson)
Temptation (Heaven 17)
Tempted (Squeeze)
The Air That I Breathe (Hollies)
The Day Before Yesterday’s Man (Supernaturals)
The Drugs Don’t Work (Verve)
The First Cut Is The Deepest (Cat Stevens)
The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff)
The Kids Are Alright (Who)
The King of Rock’n’Roll (Prefab Sprout)
The Last Time (Rolling Stones)
The Letter (Boxtops)
The Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie)
The Passenger (Iggy Pop)
The Pop Singer’s Fear of the Pollen Count (The Divine Comedy)
The One I Love (David Gray)
The Saints Are Coming (Skids)
The Scientist (Coldplay)
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (REM)
The Stranger (The Ebons)
The Sun and The Rain (Madness)
The Universal (Blur)
The Whole of the Moon (Waterboys)
There She Goes (La’s)
There’s A Ghost In My House (R Dean Taylor)
These Boots Are Made For Walking (Nancy Sinatra)
They Don’t Know About Us (Kirsty McColl)
This Is How It Feels (Inspiral Carpets)
Three Imaginary Boys (Cure)
Three Lions (Lightning Seeds etc)
Tiger Feet (Mud)
Times Like These (Foo Fighters)
To Cut A Long Story Short (Spandau Ballet)
To Love Somebody (Beegees)
Tomorrow’s Just Another Day (Madness)
Tonight’s The Kind Of Night (Noah and the Whale)
True Colours (Cyndi Lauper)
Turning Japanese (Vapors)
Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones)
Use Somebody (Kings of Leon)
Valerie (Zutons/Amy Winehouse)
Victoria (Kinks)
Video Killed The Radio Star (The Buggles)
Virginia Plain (Roxy Music)
Viva La Vida (Coldplay)
Walking On The Milky Way (OMD)
Watching the Detectives (Elvis Costello)
Waterloo Sunset (Kinks)
Weather With You (Crowded House)
West One(Shine on Me) (Ruts)
What Do I Get? (Buzzcocks)
Whatever (Oasis)
When You Were Young (The Killers)
When You’re Young (Jam)
Whiskey In The Jar (Thin Lizzy)
Whistle for the Choir (The Fratellis)
White Man (In Hammersmith Palais) (Clash)
Whole Again (Atomic Kitten (reggae version))
Why Does It Always Rain On Me? (Travis)
Wild World (Cat Stevens/Maxi Priest)
Wishing (A Flock of Seagulls)
Wonderwall (Oasis)
Yellow (Coldplay)
You Got It (Roy Orbison)
You Keep Me Hanging On (Kim Wilde)
You Little Thief (Feargal Sharkey)
You Might Think (The Cars)
You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart and the Faces)
You’re Not Alone (Enemy)
You’re So Vain (Carly Simon)
Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)

Updated 28th February 2023