10 Best Songs Where Hard Rock Bands Went Acoustic

10. Patience - Guns N Roses

Every gigantic hair metal band to come out of the '80s had to have their sappy ballad to play during their shows. These were the pretty boys of rock and roll, and the anthems were always balanced by the slower moments, bringing the shows down a notch and almost turning the entire Sunset Strip into a sea of rock and roll anthems and pretty songs for the future housewives of the world. So in the middle of acts like Poison and Motley Crue having their balladesque songs, how did the street urchins of the Strip pull that off?

For most of Appetite for Destruction, there was never a moment where Guns N Roses let off the gas, having the same kind of attitude even when doing love songs like Sweet Child o Mine. The Lies EP was just a breather for them to test out new material though, and Izzy Stradlin brought a little folk rock diamond into the mix with Patience, talking about a couple who's in the middle of a slump in their relationship and giving themselves time to heal.

As much as this might have been a stretch for the same band who wrote My Michelle, Axl pours his soul into this vocal, filled with emotion while Slash's guitar work brings a bit of country flair to the whole thing. Since the rest of the EP has some questionable moments on tracks like Used to Love Her and One in a Million, this is the kind of down and out rocker that the Rolling Stones would have been proud to have their name on.