What's your favorite song with only TWO chords? Mine is "Baby Come Back" by The Equals. Yours??

Yeah, it's basically just G and C. And John's tremolo'd guitar part is just those open chords.

 

Those two songs also came to my mind.

Also, I believe "Trip Away" from JA's live debut is only 2 chords (A and G, I think).

 

Forgot to mention this one

Joy to You Baby
Josh Ritter

 

Too bad they're not A, B and C.

 

CCR Bootleg and Effigy. Also Steely. Dan Show Biz Kids. Far from boring.

 

Sounds like G and C7 with octaves in "96 Tears" by Question Mark and the Mysterians...



At least that's what comes up in a Google search on "How many chords in 96 tears".

 

Can we have more than one favorite?

Talking Heads - Life During Wartime

 

4 chords if played correctly:
Em, D9/6, Em9, Dmaj9

 

I guess it's inevitable that a 2 chord restriction will eventually descend into EDM stuff, so I'll throw this Daniel Ash fav
from the early 2000's

"Kid 2000"


Love the kid's vision of the future that has us flying around with shooty rocket thingies attached to our ankles.

 

Great song, 3 chords though.

 

Eleanor Rigby, but I guess it doesn’t really count due to the colorations on the Em chord...

 

Miles Davis - So What

 

Aretha - Chain Of Fools

It's a Cm vamp all the way through, but the very opening guitar motif resolves to a C major (I think!)

 

Look it up.

 

No need, I have ears.

 

Uriah Heep - Woman In Black
Only two chords but certainly not boring.
In fact, it is one of their biggest hits.

 

Nirvana's cover of the vaselines....Molly's lips

 

Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus

 

Love this one, great choice

 

Fleetwood Mac "Dreams"

 

The only song my band allows me to sing: Copperhead Road. Lots of D and a bit of G.

 

Three chords, surely?

 

Lulu - Shout

 

Just D and A7 I think.

 

Definitely three chords.