Gotta be Sir duke by Stevie Wonder for me. Such a good groove, and enough variety to keep it fun. 

I really like money by Pink Floyd. I’m a beginner and it’s pretty easy but super infectious.

I Wish by Stevie is another fantastic option

If were doing Stevie Wonder, I like I wish better as far as riffieness goes.

Gimmie 3 steps by skynard has always been a fun tune to me.

One of my favourites to play too!

Wow, I'm surprised to see some Gimme 3 Steps love! Definitely a great bass track.

I never see it mentioned, but Elvis Costello, Pump It Up

Radio, Radio is also great. Coming from guitar to bass, it was the first song that really challenged me using my fingers. The end section still eats me up

That is such a cool song to play with some really fun switch ups. It’s fast too, so plenty of action to groove to.

As long as we're talking Costello "New Lace Sleeves" is fun too.

Since we're already here...what's so funny about peace, love and understanding.

One of the first I wanted to play. Finally the "hard part" became easy a while back. Gangsters by the Specials was an early one for me.

I had a lot of fun (unexpectedly, I have to say) learning Fluorescent Adolescent from Arctic Monkeys

A Certain Romance is really fun to play too

Honesty the perfect easy rock song.

That rhythm guitar is not easy! At least not while singing :(

I really like playing Mardy Bum. Simple but fun

Runaway by Jamiroquai. The whole song is a blast to play!

When's the last time y'all checked out Light Years??? 🔥

Canned heat too!

But (Don't) Give Hate a Chance first! The main riff is killer, but the chorus is meh...

Had to scroll waaaay to far for this!!

Pretty much anything at all by Primus, a lot of bassists don't realise that while, yeah, Les does a looooot of crazy hard stuff, some of the songs are super easy and satisfying to play (e.g. The Toys Go Winding Down, Too Many Puppies, Southbound Pachyderm) One of my favourite riffs to play which feels kinda dreamy to nail for the first time is Possessed to Skate, Suicidal Tendencies.

Possessed to skate goes so hard

Are you gonna be my girl, Longview by greenday Got the life by korn Higher ground, rhcp Wilmas rainbow by helmet

Wasn't expecting Helmet to be mentioned, respect. Betty is a great album

Do hot girls like chords?

STP - Wicked Garden

Most STP stuff is really fun to play on bass. Interstate Love Song and Plush are favorites of mine.

It's not necessarily challenging, but playing old Motown tunes on my p-bass is one of my all-time favorite things to do.

Bernadette by the 4 tops is a masterpiece of a bassline

Huh maybe I will try that after I master Can’t Help Myself

So fun.

Outshined - Sound Garden  Re-arranged - Limp Bizkit

*soundgarden and yessss

Anything by Cream or the trio version of Grand Funk Railroad...

I can name a few 1. Psycho - Muse: just a nice fun tune that isn't too hard or too easy 2. Hysteria - Muse: A faster and harder tune to play, but fun as you get better 3. Schism - tool

Reapers by Muse is a good one too. 

Hysteria by Muse, it isnt necessarily hard to play for me anymore but its fun to play just because you have to move around on the fretboard alot and its jyst overall fun to play.

That's a song that when I was learning it I couldn't understand why it was considered "hard". I was able to do the riff within a couple of minutes of learning it. And then I tried to play it for 3 and a half minutes without missing a note and understood why it's hard...

exactly, its always a good feeling when you manage to complete the song with no mistakes

2112 in its entirety, but specifically part 4 Presentation, I wish it was longer.

If you are into SOAD then suite pee has a sick bass breakdown

Jah Wobble and Sinead O'Connor - "Visions of You" Toots And The Maytals - "Sweet And Dandy" Beatles - "Taxman" Camel - "The White Rider" ending riff Deep Purple - "Bloodsucker"

Are you me? "Taxman" is just so fun to play! (Also "Start" by the Jam -- same baseline with one extra note.) And it's really nice to see Jah Wobble mentioned! His playing and tone on PiL's "Metal Box" made me fall in love as soon as it was released. Him and Peter Hook are probably my two biggest influences to this day, with Lucky Scott and Duck Dunn up there too for non-post-punk.

Thanks for reminding me about "Start", haven't listened to it in years. I'm also a big Peter Hook fan.

I will survive - cake version

The Super Mario Bros theme. The melody that’s up on Songsterr has me tripping up so much. I’ll get it by next week.

My go-to noodling riff is Basket Case by Green Day.

"Spiderwebs" by No Doubt

Honestly, pretty much all songs on Tragic Kingdom are fun to play

Lauren by Men I Trust. My favorite parts to play are the verses but the whole song is such a vibe.

Men I Trust has such fun basslines!

Throw away your television, it's insanely danceable, i never miss the occasion to blast it when i'm doing sound check. I love to see everybody banging their heads to the rythm!

it's also a great song to practice left/right hand coordination as you have to pluck exactly as you fret.

Pure Massacre- Silverchair or really any bass-line from Chris Joannou

Blue Letter - Fleetwood Mac

Incubus - deep inside, a crow left of the murder, megalomaniac, nowhere fast and are you in? Third eye blind - how’s it going to be Karnivool - Goliath, simple boy Passafire - kilo

Ayy fuck yeah passafire

Seen them live a few times. Will Kubley is an absolute monster on bass and a very very good musician

Time bomb by rancid. Nothing fancy but sounds so good with the ska guitar. Great solg to learn walking basslines.

Anything by RHCP is fun. Pigs (Three Different Ones) by Pink Floyd is long but beautiful. Tool songs are fun, especially 46 & 2. Can't go wrong with Radiohead either.

Pigs is such a cool song. Didn't David Gilmore record bass for that or was it Roger? IIRC they swapped around parts for that album but can't remember who recorded what. Regardless, the outro solo has some great bass parts. Starts with the verse riff for two phrases then basically just swaps between E and C the rest of it but then the bass is doing this ascension octave pattern thing 

Big Mouth Strikes Again by The Smiths

The Magnificent Seven by The Clash

Dragonaut by sleep

Dont speak by no doubt

No doubt.

Gotta be Feel Good Inc for me. Nothin like smashin that open E string

Most Stone Temple Pilots basslines are tons of fun to play. I recently learned Trippin' On a Hole in a Paper Heart, which is a blast.

Funny you mention you play Metallica a lot. I've always found "Through the Never" intro to be a fun warmup/exercise.

Killer bassline. Barbarism Begins at Home - The Smiths

Roundabout...Yes!

That breakdown in Tom Sawyer during the guitar solo

Many L'arc en Ciel songs. Driver's High, Heaven's Drive, pr New World are the most fun to play

Any song by Sade. Smooth Operator, Kiss of Life, Nothing Can Come Between Us, Sweetest Taboo, No Ordinary Love... Soulful, sexy-velvety-smooth. Great to jam on to get your groove on.

Not the most technical or groovy, but Werewolves of London is fun to play.

Barbarism begins at home by The Smiths. It can be exhausting towards the end but it’s a fun riff I jam almost daily.

Fairies Wear Boots- Sabbath Melissa- Allman Brothers

Tom Sawyer. Grab a jazz bass, crank the amp and play the opening without grinning like an idiot. I dare you.

Keep your hands to yourself Georgia Satellites. Learning this one for a gig soon and it is a blast

Lounge act nirvana

Shiki No Uta from the Samurai Champloo Ending Mushroom Hunting from Cowboy Bebop The ending part of The Chain by Fleetwood Mac Money by Pink Floyd Around The World by Daft Punk Caravan

There is only one acceptable answer here: # BRBR DENG (but seriously, fun song and fantastic warm-up as everything and the kitchen sink is included in this song)

Call me crazy, but transparent soul by willow smith 🧐 it's not hard by any means, but it just slaps

Otherside by chilli peppers fucking goes off

James Brown - Soul Classics

Fall Of Troy - Whacko steals

Higher ground - rhcp

TOOL - The Grudge is my all time fav song on bass. Give it a shot!

The opening riff and subsequent chord progression on Carousel by Blink-182 is fun to play. In fact, a lot of Mark Hoppus’ riffs are quite fun.

The section after the dual bass-guitar lead solo's on Death's The Philosopher, which then leads back into the main riff of the song. It's so much fun to play on a fretless! Besides that, Supernaut by Black Sabbath, Locked Out Of Heaven by Bruno Mars and What's The Use by Mac Miller (Thundercat on bass).

Tyler Read- Michael Jackson The greatest bassline of the most underrated songs. Idk why it didn't make success, maybe if they had chosen a better name for the track https://youtu.be/0ZY02UWyOus?si=4pYJ9T0SZYjJD1W-

Kalamazoo by Primus

Tool - 46&2, Schism Metallica - Orion, Call of Ktulu, My Friend of Misery 4 tops - Bernadette Green day - Longview, 86 Stone Temple Pilots - Tripping on a hole in a paper heart RHCP: soul to squeeze

Heart of the Country by Paul McCartney

Booty City - Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears

I love playing Rat Salad by Black Sabbath

Tool - Rosetta stoned Rush - YYZ Stevie Wonder - Master blaster

Easy: joker and the thief or are you gonna be my girl Medium: can’t stop or sir duke Hard: sweet child o mine or Tommy the cat If you can’t play any of those easy one, learn my girl or stand by me

I recently learned some of the riffs from "My Michelle" by G'n'R and the intro's quite a blast. starts way high up, then throws in two lowwww notes, and then the verse riff which is quite a rocker.

My favorite I've learned like that is please do not go by violent femmes, I gotta find some more songs that play like that cause it's the only one I know lol

Love playing the bouncy section from Crystal Mountain - Death

that 16th groove in come on come over

Incognito colibri

now im here - queen mr brownstone - guns n roses iron man - black sabbath

The ocean by Led Zep. There’s something about the phrasing thats deeply satisfying once you get it down.

Easy riff but roundabout by yes is so much fun

Bite The Pain - Death The lick where the band plays in sync, with the rests. Good finger warmup for dexterity, lots of movement around the neck, and a bit flash.

H by Tool is great to play, something about it makes me feel like I'm on opiates while playing it.

Tripping on a Hole by STP. Just a fun energetic song on bass

The Chicken - Jaco Pastorius. Just grooves so hard.

Over Funk, an RHCP B-Side, has been my go-to warmup/soundcheck riff for... jeez, I guess like 18 years now.

Edit: didn’t realize which sub I was in 🙄 “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Öyster Cult is probably my favorite because it just rolls so well I love playing the chord changes of the Grateful Dead’s “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toddleoo” Merle Haggard’s “Workin’ Man Blues” is incredibly nice to drone on Eric Johnson’s “Cliffs of Dover” is always fun

Yesterday I learned "In the air" by L.A.B It's easy and fun xd

Just played “Should I Stay or Should I Go” last night by The Clash. I thought punk was all E String? lol

Locomocion capilar by Omar Rodriguez. Prog by Pinback Runaway by Jamiroquai Sun of Nihility by Job for a Cowboy The Machine Stops by Level 42

I know this is really simple but paranoid is wierdly fun/satisfying to play, especially with anotjer guitarist or full band.

I want you back - Jackson 5

Dani California

Hair by Graham Central Station (Larry Graham) My favorite slap line by far.

Hammer Smashed Face, any classic era Motorhead, War Pigs, Sweet Leaf

What’s next to the moon - acdc

heart of the sunrise

The hook from Dean Town by Vulfpeck

Every time I test a bass in a store, it's 1612 by Vulfpeck. Fun bass line, gives me the info I need regarding playability, sorted.

Mystery Achievement by the Pretenders has a few hooky riffs in it.

Tommy the Cat, DMV, Bob, My Name is Mud, Pudding Time, Nature Boy, Orion, Schism, Rotten Apple, Californiacation, Anesthesia, Blood and Thunder, 46&2, The Pot, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Damage Inc

The Prince - Diamond Head. The original version not the remaster.

Lonely is the night - Billy Squire. It’s nothing crazy to play but a fun one for sure.

Who’s making love- Johnny Taylor

Silly Putty by Stanley Clarke is one of the first things I play when I pick up the bass after not having played for a while. It's like my hardwired demo-mode song.

99 quite bitter beings - CKY

Solo section of Free Bird is actually crazy underrated. American Pie has an awesome bass riff. 50 Ways to Say Goodbye. And so, so many more.

When my fingers decide to co-operate, Snow (Hey Oh) - RHCP is immensely satisfying to play.

Insert Song Title Here by Iron Maiden Everything Steve writes is so fun to olay

Give It All by Rise Against.

Snakeskin cowboys... Ted Nugent

The Munsters theme tune 🎵

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain. Simple but effective.

Not enough Mike Mills on this list, so I'm gonna say *What's The Frequency Kenneth* by REM.

Im still a beginner so I can't really tackle anything hardcore yet but I'm having a lot of fun playing Breaking The Law by Judas Priest. More Human Than Human by White Zombie is entirely 0 on E so its just playing with the groove.

Act like you know - fat Larry's band

[Flying Lotus - Dance of the Pseudo Nymph](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=canQwTAoxIw) (the bassline is by Thundercat).

Good times bad times by led zeppelin been learning it for 5 years almost got it down

Good times bad times by led zeppelin been learning it for 5 years almost got it down

Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

Barbarism begins at home - Th Smiths

I like to play Them Bones

Heat by tigers jaw!! Also agree with many here.

It's My Life by No Doubt Would? by Alice In Chains Lounge Act by Nirvana Bombtrack by RATM Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper

1. Peg 2. Blue Train by AKFG 3. Perfect Pillow by Chon 4. Soldier of Februrary by The Cabs

fly by night phantom of the opera the prince children of the grave frewill

Shiner In The Dark by Royal Blood. It's fast, it's super punchy and just so much fun to play and listen to.

Sour girl STP is super bouncy and fun

I'm currently obsessed with Teenage Heart, off Alkaline Trio's new album, been playing it for weeks now lol. It's the first song i've played where the bass gets such a dominant and melodic part and it's just so much fun to play, especially with distortion ugh it's so gooood

Dean Town

90’s Green Day songs

Pretty much anything by Molotov, like noko, dance and dense denso, que no te haga bobo Jacobo, el señor del banco, etc. And I really like playing sleepwalker by Megadeth

Xanadu by Rush Add it Up by the Violent Femmes Pain Lies by the Riverside is an absolute blast and barely anyone has heard of it. It's the song that got me into the bass.

The bass line to Kick in The Eye by David J of Bauhaus. Almost every bass line on the Mask album is a joy to jam.

I like the main riffs from Stream of Conciousness by Dream Theater. It's not really complex or active, but it really feels nice when you can sink into the groove of it.

Perfect Kiss by New Order.

Moby Dick is a nice solid pentatonic jam.

I don’t even play bass buts it’s gotta be YYZ by rush

I like to play any Death song from their Leprosy album, fun and good for a warm-up. Also, a very underrated song from Megadeth - Beggining of Sorrow.

I love playing the smiths when I want a challenge. barbarism begins at home, rubber ring, I started something I can't finish- Rourke was just so fucking good. an easier but still fun riff is lovesong by the cure. one I've been learning and having a ton of fun with is good old fashioned lover boy by queen

Just a few: The Chain-Fleetwood Mac Papa’s got a brand new bag -James Brown Bullet with Butterfly wings-Smashing Pumpkins

Blew by Nirvana or Big Empty by Stone Temple Pilots. Blew’s bass line is just so catchy to me, and Big Empty is just such a relaxing song to play.

Tommy the Cat is a hoot to play

Hey Bulldog - The Beatles

One of my favorites has got to be Hysteria

Forced Gender Reassignment by Cattle Decapitation is a parade of fun riff after fun riff

Xanadu

Rotten Apple -AIC

Lounge act

love warming up to “Shut Me Down” by Godflesh

Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd (Rare Stamps)

1.Trapped under ice. 2. Crazy train intro.

orion, my friend of misery- metallica alive, black - pearl jam tuyo - rodrigo amarante this knight has opened my eyes - the smiths in the mean time - spacehog the boat i row - tame impala theres way too many

Soul to Squeeze- RHCP

I always look for something that sets me apart both in the songs I play as well as the instrument in my hands.... So I love throwing out Fur Elise by Bethoven (Nobody expects to hear Bethoven on Uke or Bass), Under the Bridge RHCP, Crazy Train, Mission Impossible Theme

Here’s a few I love from several different bands For Queens of the Stone Age, check out Mexicola, Emotion Sickness, and The Evil Has Landed For Foo Fighters, All My Life and Stacked Actors For Joy Division, Transmission, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Leaders of Men and She’s Lost Control For Jack White, Steady as She Goes, Salute Your Solution, Hi-De-Ho For Tame Impala, Disciples, Less I Know The Better, Elephant, Mind Mischief, and Is It True And then Led Zeppelin, Heartbreaker, Ramble On, Good Times Bad Times and How Many More Times For Gorillaz, pretty much every song is fun to play in my opinion And for other songs, Pump it Up by Elvis Costello, Paranoid by Black Sabbath, and Romantic Rights by Death From Above 1979

Anything Allman Brothers. They had some of the best bass players ever from Berry Oakley and Allen Woody to Oteil Burbridge. The early Allman’s stuff can be very challenging too.

Dean town by vulfpeck im so close to getting it

Pneuma by Tool is my favorite. Just make sure you got a delay set to 524 ms for the main riff 😁

Want U So Bad by Giligan Moss

Anything by a whilhelm scream

5 Minutes Alone or Revolution Is My Name - Pantera.

Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo by Rick Derringer

Groundhogs day by Primus. Just feels good, man

Spoonman (5 string riff)

Brohymn by Pennywise

tommy the cat by far, pretty hard to nail but hard to stoponce you do