im looking to learn songs that i mean everybody knows, even people who like rap. i usually play for my friends and most of them know metallica and van halen and so on, but when i play like for example hit the lights they can't all sing to that. so here some of the songs im thinking of, or ones that i can play, for example. born to be wild, you really got me, rockn roll all night. and thats about it, if anybody could think of songs that i could learn to play i would be very thankful.
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
U2 - One
John Denver - Leaving On A Jet Plane
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Not all that rockin' unless you want them to be (excepting ac/dc of course), but basically everyone should know the chorus' to these songs (and if they don't, high time to learn..)
it may be the wrong genre but greenday- time of your life, i've never had a single person not recognize or sing along with me
be good at what you can do-
These are pretty good sing-a-long tunes -- many know at least the chorus:
Lola
Lawyers Guns & Money
Good Lovin'
Casey Jones
Takin' Care of Business
Satisfaction
Back in the USSR
Johnny B Good
Tequila -- really easy word(s)
Many Beatles' tunes
-=tension & release=-
Don't know Good Riddance?.. that's tragic man
Also: Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Brown eyed girl - Van Morrison
American pie - Don McLean
Again they just might know the chorus
I can look back with a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.
Here's a Few Ideas:
Mrs. Robinson
Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
Blowin' In The Wind
Southern Cross
Take Me To The River
Regards,
Mike
"Growing Older But Not UP!"
Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters
(easy to play and everybody knows it or should)
...
Bohemian Rhapsody
aka Izabella
it may be the wrong genre but greenday- time of your life, i've never had a single person not recognize or sing along with me
Never heard it or of it.
Shout by the Isley brothers would be my pick.
Tim Madsen
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
"What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away you keep forever." -Axel Munthe
Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville - Volcano
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Elton John - Rocket Man - Crockodile Rock
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Charlie Daniels - Devil Went Down to Georgia
Greatful Dead - Truckin'
CCR - Down on the Corner
Three Dog Night- Joy to the World
aka Izabella
Country Roads, John Denver, good acoustic song.
:D
Pinball Wizard
Twist and Shout
Proud Mary
China Grove
Start Me Up
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Now we're talkin'. I've always hoped for a post like this but I would like it to have been “Songs everyone should know.†I think guitarists should have maybe 40 songs as standard crowd-pleasers. Hopefully this post will now be the place to pick up your “need-to-learn/know†songs. Some great suggestions so far. I'm getting my pen out….
"Nothing...can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts."
