These are the songs I have recorded backing tracks for. The list of songs I can play acoustic versions of includes most of these and a couple of hundred more.

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.

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I’ve Been Losing You (A-ha)
Is This Love? (Alison Moyet)
Somewhere In My Heart (Aztec Camera)
Wild World (Cat Stevens/Maxi Priest)
London Calling (Clash)
Boys Don’t Cry (Cure)
Friday I'm in Love (Cure)
Just Like Heaven (Cure)
True Colours (Cyndi Lauper)
Heroes (David Bowie)
Nothing Ever Happens (Del Amitri)
Hungry Like The Wolf (Duran Duran)
Ordinary World (Duran Duran)
High Fidelity (Elvis Costello)
Here Comes the Rain (Eurythmics)
You Little Thief (Feargal Sharkey)
Good Thing (Fine Young Cannibals)
Our Lips Are Sealed (Fun Boy Three)
Faith (George Michael)
Cry (Godley and Crème)
Temptation (Heaven 17)
Don't You Want Me? (Human League)
Empire State Human (Human League)
Going Underground (Jam)
Taste of Your Tears (King)
There She Goes (La's)
The Sun and The Rain (Madness)
Tomorrow's Just Another Day (Madness)
Echo Beach (Martha and the Muffins)
Overkill (Men at Work)
Come Back and Stay (Paul Young)
Homosapien (Pete Shelley)
I Go To Sleep (Pretenders)
Talk of the Town (Pretenders)
Johnny and Mary (Robert Palmer)
Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Gangsters (Specials)
It Doesn't Make It Alright (Specials)
I Got You (Split Enz)
Tempted (Squeeze)
Pulling Mussels From A Shell (Squeeze)
Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads)
Take Me to the River (Talking Heads)
Reward (Teardrop Explodes)
Mad World (Tears for Fears)
Sign Your Name (Terence Trent D'Arby)
Freedom (Wham)
Making Plans For Nigel (XTC)
The Whole of the Moon (Waterboys)
Only You (Yazoo [Oasis style])
Poison Arrow (ABC)
Do Nothing (Specials)
Always The Sun (The Stranglers)
Fisherman's Blues (Waterboys)
Modern Love (David Bowie)
Rip It Up (Orange Juice)
A Little Respect (Erasure)
I Drove All Night (Roy Orbison)
Come On Eileen (Dexy's Midnight Runners)
It's My Life (Talk Talk)
Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode)
Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)