To Be With YouMr. Big
To Be With You
1991
Gilbert traded shred for acoustic guitar behind Martin's teenage lyric, and hand claps carried it to number one.
★ 2.5
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More Than Words
1990
Two voices and one acoustic guitar, dropped into a funk metal album, and A&M got a number one.
★ 4.3
Daughters
2004
Mayer lobbied his label against releasing it, then won Song of the Year in 2005 and said so onstage.
★ 4.4
Hey There Delilah
2006
Higgenson told a steeplechase runner he had written a song about her, then spent a year making it true.
★ 4.5
One (Johnny Cash)
2000 · From American III: Solitary Man
Rick Rubin's arrangement leaves it bare, and Cash, his voice thinned by illness, turns U2's Berlin song into a reckoning.
★ 4.8
I Will Follow You Into the Dark
2006 · From Plans
One microphone, mono, caught during a studio break when the headphones failed, and Gibbard's breath before the first chord.
★ 6.3
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
1997 · From Nimrod
Armstrong wrote it in 1993 about a girlfriend leaving for Ecuador; Cavallo added the strings while the band played foosball.
★ 6.4
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
1975 · From Wish You Were Here
Gilmour's twelve-string comes through a recorded car radio, and Grappelli's violin sits buried near the very end.
★ 8.0
Hurt
2002 · From American IV: The Man Comes Around
Rubin handed Cash a Nine Inch Nails song, and Reznor watched the video and said it was no longer his.
★ 8.5