Recommended Guitar Songs (by Reddit users)

List of recommended guitar songs from 30+ Reddit posts requesting songs to learn.

Motivation

I have picked up guitar off and on for over a decade. I finally feel like I am improving, but I often feel demotivated when I am not sure what to play. It can be difficult to find songs that both are enjoyable to play and to listen to.

So I scoured some of the top Reddit posts on song recommendations and compiled this list.

Hopefully this help some intermediate players in a rut. Enough learning scales; I hope to be able to play through the full list some day.

Overview

This list was generated by manually copying song names from 30+ Reddit posts requesting songs to play. The songs can be found in the "recommended-guitar-songs" file. The list is sorted by frequency of recommendations. Sub-comments were not included. Usually only comments with more than one upvote was included. It wasn't an exact science. Some comments were skipped (namely some Wonderwall or Freebird comments that were obviously jokes).

Beginner to Intermediate

Intermediate to Advanced

20: Blackbird - The Beatles
17: Over The Hills And Far Away - Led Zeppelin
15: Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
12: Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
11: Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
11: Layla - Eric Clapton
10: Everlong - Foo Fighters
10: Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
9: Master Of Puppets - Metallica
9: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
8: Lenny - Stevie Ray Vaughan
8: Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
8: Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
8: The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
8: Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
7: Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
7: November Rain - Guns N' Roses
6: Hotel California - The Eagles
6: Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
6: I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab For Cutie
6: Paranoid Android - Radiohead
5: Pinball Wizard - The Who
5: Jessica - The Allman Brothers
5: Spirit Of The Radio - Rush
5: Hotel California - Eagles
5: Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
5: Bron-Yr-Aur - Led Zeppelin
5: Crazy Train - Ozzy Osborne
5: Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
5: Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
5: Hurt - Johnny Cash
5: Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
4: The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix
4: Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
4: Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
4: Yesterday - The Beatles
4: Night Moves - Bob Seger
4: For The Love Of God - Steve Vai
4: Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam
4: Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce
4: Karma Police - Radiohead
4: Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
4: Ocean - John Butler Trio
4: The General - Dispatch
4: Say It Ain't So - Weezer
4: Crazy On You - Heart
4: Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
4: Gravity - John Mayer
4: House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals
4: More Than A Feeling - Boston
4: Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
4: Redemption Song - Bob Marley
4: Stop This Train - John Mayer
4: Time - Pink Floyd
3: Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
3: Satch Boogie - Joe Satriani
3: Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
3: Cocaine - Eric Clapton
3: Life By The Drop - Stevie Ray Vaughan
3: Technical Difficulties - Paul Gilbert
3: Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
3: Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
3: While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
3: Angeles - Elliott Smith
3: Eruption - Van Halen
3: War Pigs - Black Sabbath
3: Hot For Teacher - Van Halen
3: If I Could Fly - Joe Satriani
3: Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
3: Needle And The Damage Done - Neil Young
3: Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
3: Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
3: Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
3: Fuzz Universe - Paul Gilbert
3: Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
3: Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers
3: Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
3: Santeria - Sublime
3: The Trooper - Iron Maiden
3: Rylynn - Andy McKee
3: Going To California - Led Zeppelin
3: Limelight - Rush
3: Drive - Incubus
3: Hey Joe - Roy Buchanan
3: Stash - Phish
3: Knights Of Cydonia - Muse
3: Always With Me, Always With You - Joe Satriani
3: Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
3: Wasted Years - Iron Maiden
3: Money - Pink Floyd
3: Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
3: Kathy's Song - Simon & Garfunkel
3: Dear Prudence - The Beatles
3: Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
3: Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show
3: Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson
3: Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas
3: Creep - Radiohead
3: Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
3: More Than Words - Extreme
3: Swing Life Away - Rise Against
3: Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix
2: Castles Made Of Sand - Jimi Hendrix
2: Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
2: Red House - Jimi Hendrix
2: The Ocean - Led Zeppelin
2: Yyz - Rush
2: Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
2: Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
2: Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
2: Take It Easy - The Eagles
2: Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
2: Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
2: Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty
2: Crossroads - Cream
2: Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
2: Wait Until Tomorrow - Jimi Hendrix
2: All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
2: Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
2: Woman - Wolfmother
2: Pull Me Under - Dream Theater
2: Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
2: Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
2: Something Like Olivia - John Mayer
2: All Along The Watchtower - Bob Dylan
2: Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson
2: Free Falling - Tom Petty
2: Little Martha - Allman Brothers
2: American Pie - Don McLean
2: Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood
2: Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
2: Fire And Rain - James Taylor
2: Time Of Your Life - Green Day
2: I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
2: One - Metallica
2: My Iron Lung - Radiohead
2: Midnight - Joe Satriani
2: Tornado Of Souls - Megadeth
2: Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
2: What I Got - Sublime
2: Wayfaring Stranger - Johnny Cash
2: Basket Case - Green Day
2: Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
2: Scuttle Buttin - Stevie Ray Vaughan
2: Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
2: Patience - Guns 'N Roses
2: Razor - Foo Fighters
2: Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
2: Cavatina - John Williams
2: Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
2: 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
2: Mister Sandman - Chet Atkins
2: 2112 - Rush
2: Alive - Pearl Jam
2: Blister In The Sun - The Violent Femmes
2: Street Spirit - Radiohead
2: Tangerine - Led Zeppelin
2: Africa - Toto
2: Nutshell - Alice In Chains
2: Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine
2: Scarborough Fair - Paul Simon
2: Enter Sandman - Metallica
2: Operator - Jim Croce
2: Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters
2: Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
2: These Days - Nico
2: From The Morning - Nick Drake
2: Across The Universe - The Beatles
2: Someone Like You - Adele
2: I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick
2: Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
2: The Joker - Steve Miller Band
2: Thunderstruck - AC/DC
2: Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
2: Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
2: Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground - White Stripes
2: Fell In Love With A Girl - White Stripes
2: Message In A Bottle - The Police
2: The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel
2: Back In Black - AC/DC
2: Breaking The Girl - Red Hot Chili Peppers
2: Heart Of Gold - Neil Young
2: Day Tripper - The Beatles
2: Blackbird - Alter Bridge
2: Black Magic Woman - Santana
2: Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
2: May You Never - John Martyn
2: Naked As We Came - Iron & Wine
2: Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
2: Dee - Randy Rhoads
2: Blackwater Park - Opeth
2: Every Breath You Take - The Police
2: Badfish - Sublime
2: Walk This Way - Aerosmith
2: Crossroads - Robert Johnson

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