The first song you ever learned.?

[Geek99]

If we are talking "all the way through" it would have to be the (simple) version of "all along the watch tower" off "Rattle and Hum"
I figured it out by ear, along with the small rhythmic variations in an otherwise fairly consistent riff. It made me want a sunburst 70s precision just for the sound alone,.

[flyfisher]

House Of The Rising Sun, though that was on acoustic guitar. I can't remember my first bass line . . . It probably just followed the root notes

[matski]

'Another One Bites The Dust'.

I begged my dad to buy me a bass when I was 12, and he agreed as long as I learnt to play that bassline. If not, he told me he would take the bass back to the shop!

[ratman]

In The City - The Jam.

[JTUK]

Living Loving Maid, Led Zep

[W11ATO]

Walking On The Moon

[ratman]

I'm not seeing any Cliff Richard on this list! Surely somebody wants to own up..............

[JamesBass]

Back in black. I also then went from that to Run To The Hills and The Trooper. I was just shy of my 10th birthday. Pretty much exactly 10 years ago now! Wow, scary to think that!

[paulconnolly]

Whole Lotta Love was the first one I played all the way through.

[RhysP]

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My Shadow In Vain - Tubeway Army
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Good man - I'm a big Paul Gardiner fan.
All the bass parts on that first album are great.

[Colonel36]

Rose Garden...Lynn Anderson.

[mike 110]

Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric ......

[Roger2611]

Public Image, Public Image Limited Mr Wobble at his best

[icastle]

Well it should be 'Remember You're A Womble'.

In fact it was this cheerful little ditty:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XynJtr2UpNo

[Myke]

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Living Loving Maid, Led Zep
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What a song!

I can't remember my first song exactly but the 'breakthrough' song was Eat The Rich by Aerosmith..

[John Schoen]

Little Green Bag - The George Baker Selection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xUJZRWkc0w

[pobrien_ie]

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That wa the first thing I learned to play on bass, but only the famous bit at the end.
The first actual song I learned was Bowie's John I'm Only Dancing, because it was in the copy of Bassist I had just bought.
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Me too with the famous bit from The Chain! Well either that or Lounge Act by Nirvana.

Lounge Act was the reason I picked up a bass, but I think the guy I bought the bass off showed me The Chain before I bought it. I then plugged the bass into my dad's hifi at home....very quickly blowing the speakers!

[ML94]

My first song I learnt throughout was 'ain't no mountain high' - Marvin Gaye version. As you can imagine it was very frustrating learning a line like that and having absolutely no technique! I then gave Louis Johnsons 'Stomp' a go and loved the slap part, when it eventually fell in place. It was a frustrating 6 months !

[yepmop]

it was either Down, Down - Status Quo or Wishing Well - Free I remember really being chuffed about it and had a real sense of achievement.

[yepmop]

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My first song I learnt throughout was 'ain't no mountain high' - Marvin Gaye version.
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Wow - I (had) trouble with that one recently and this was your first!!! I doff my hat to you sir!

[Hobbayne]

The Police - So Lonely. The decending line in the verse picked out by ear.
The Jam - Pretty Green, or was it Precious??

[stu_g]

i was learning jumping jack flash which was going to be the first song played live by our little band at a school concert back in 1980 something, i learnt the tune but sadly my management ie my mum & dad had booked a holiday which clashed with the gig
so my moment of fame had to go on the backburner

[Dad3353]

'Fat Angel', Jefferson Airplane, starring Jack Casady.

Only 2 notes; it's all in the timing and interplay. Happy daze...

[KingBollock]

Until I joined a proper band I spent the first year either making stuff up or playing blues patterns from a book I had. Once I joined a band I had to learn a few songs, obviously, but the first would be either Metallica - Seek & Destroy, Megadeth - Peace Sells or a song by Zodiac Mindwarp that I don't think I ever learned the name of. Oh! Or it could have been Dressed in White by King Diamond. Gah! I can't remember for sure, one of those.
The trouble was that they didn't play any songs that I had ever even heard before. Those first couple of weeks were tricky, while trying to keep them impressed enough to keep me as they were all 18+ and I was only 13.

[Myke]

I was so wrong!

It was Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine!