the easiest song ever ??

For me the 2 easiest were
Wild Thing by the Troggs
and
Free Falling by Tom Petty

Smells like team spirit - Nirvana
Blue Monday - Orgy version
Adam's Song - Blink 182

here's a couple for ya!

Duh! Has anyone ever heard of the out of key version of smoke on the water?!?! On your top string(big E) do 0,3,5 0,3,6,5 0,3,5,3,0 . Yep. 8)

Simple Man
Knockin' on heavens door
Where did you sleep last night

Dave

Horse with no name.
Knockin' on heavens door
Good Riddance

Mind you these songs are "considered" to be simple. However, they may prove to be tough if, for instance, you havent gotten the hang of chord changes or the rhythm.

The verses of Wonderwall by Oasis are very easy and pretty contempary imho.

Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam - Nirvana
She belongs to me - Bob Dylan
Stand by me - Ben E King

Saves The Day - At Your Funeral
Biffy Clyro - 27
Yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

And a lot of Bright Eyes stuff and Ryan Adams stuff is based on very simple chords (e.g. Bright Eyes' "Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh" or Ryan Adams' "So Alive" or "Afraid Not Scared").

Seven Nation Army - White Stripes.

You've heard of two or three chords songs before right..............this is a two string song and most of the time you are just on the A string.

I learnt Stand by Me - Ben E King first just after Christmas, it was something like G Em C D, I found some basic lesson movies on an Aussie Country music site by a good Oz player called Matt Scullion... the chord progressions just clicked straight away so then I began to trawl the tab sites for songs I knew and liked that used these basic chords or introduced the odd new one... (still having problems with F)

I moved on to a lot of Oasis - Wonderwall, Talk Tonight were the first... I've recently bought the complete Oasis songbook but I don't think you can beat the tab/chord sites to find all kinds of versions of popular choons...

I don't know, you get the basics of many songs down cold quickly, i think the difficulties come, when you try nice details, a riff here a riff there.

The first song I could play (and I also liked) was "Nobody's Home" (darn easy) and then i found GuitarNoise and the next few songs were "Horse with no name","Margarita Ville", "Riders on the Storm" and "Hurt", all these are simple (okay Mr. Hodges did a great thing on "Riders on the Storm" else it wouldn't be that cool) and i like them.

Harry Nilsson did a song in the 70s called "Coconut" (She put the lime in the coconut and drank them both up...)

Tab on the internet shows this as two chords, A7 and D7, but I'm pretty sure the original is a SINGLE chord with an alternating bass - it's the only one chord tune I know :)

I remember 'Coconut' as a one chord song as well. But I've had an ongoing argument with someone who insists on the A7 - D7 version (probably getting that from the tab on the net). Been looking for some proof, but so far no luck.