Penny royal tea
Still to this day one of the very very small handful of songs I can play all the way through on the guitar.
House of the Rising Sun as my dad taught me to play (it was on his old guitar from when he was a teenager).
When I was teaching myself songs from my own records it was Wide Open Space by Mansun (still one of the few songs I can play all the way through 20 years on)
Came back to this thread to marvel at this. I must find my own copy.
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Wild Thing, obvs.
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Think ‘So Young’ by Suede was the first one i strummed through, ‘shaker maker’ by oasis first one i played properly.
Hotel Yorba. 3 chords, easy to strum and sing along.
I worked out how to play the piano using the guitar tab to suede’s the next life
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First song I picked instead of strummed, Everybody Hurts. Tedious but good arpeggio practice. First song I enjoyed playing properly was probably Day Tripper. Great riff
Wonderful Tonight by racist bastard Eric Clapton
Was determined to learn Street Spirit, but probably got the hang of Everybody Hurts and When I Come Around faster
Had a random songbook which came with my first guitar and the first thing I learnt was Mull of Kintyre, had never actually heard the song before and this was pre internet so my interpretation was a bit
I Wanna Be Your Dog or New Dawn Fades… and that’s still the only two I might have a chance of playing all the way through
went to guitar lessons and i think the first song we were taught was Lucky Man by The Verve cos it’s only 3 chords
let’s just say growing up in manchester in the 90s there was only one band everyone played along with. my left hand is permanently in the em7 chord shape