I’ve been playing bass for a couple months now and am looking to expand my repetoir (sp?). Fire off any suggestions you have, don’t worry about genre or anything like that.
A rough list of what I’ve got now, just in case:
Portrait of Tracy - Jaco Pastorius
Day Tripper - Beatles
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
NIB intro - Black Sabbath
Schism - Tool
Seemann - Rammstein
Louie Louie - Kingsmen
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
Pink Floyd - “Money” (One of the most catchy riffs)
The Who - “My Generation” (Finger bleeding good time)
Alan Parsons Project - “The Raven” (Just because it sounds cool to go Bwwwwaaaarrrrr…Thump…Thump…Thump)
Played Bass during my HS years in a garage band and I still play every once in awhile.
I learned to play by ear cause I dont know how to read music.
Heres a few good ones to learn…
Smoke on the water - Deep Purple
Chains - Fleetwood Mac
Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult
Another one bites the dust - Queen
And heres a tough one… (To me anyway)
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Higher Ground, Red Hot Chili Peppers (Flea is fucking awesome!)
Money, Pink Floyd
My Generation, The Who
White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane
The Lemon Song and Moby Dick, Led Zeppelin
Roundabout, Yes
From the Beginning, ELP
Tom Sawyer, Rush
…still thinking…there’s more.
Kick me. I can’t believe I forgot this one. 
Peaches and * No More Heroes* The Stranglers
The Nips Are Getting Bigger Mental As Anything
How about Classical Thump and Me and MY Bass Guitar by Victor Wooten? 
Not a bass player, but I always go nuts for the bassline on Led Zeppelin’s Ramble On.
Of course, anything by Bootsy Collins is worth adding to the repertoire… Though most closely associated with Parliament and Funkadelic, I think his best known bass line must be from Dee-Lite’s Groove is in the Heart. And it is damn cool.
“Judy in Disguise (with glasses)” - John Fred and His Playboy Band
“Grazing in the Grass” - Friends of Distinction
“Ace of Spades” - Motorhead
“(Don’t fear) The Reaper” - Blue Oyster Cult
“Oooh Child” - The Five Stairsteps
Can’t Stop - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Say It Ain’t So - Weezer (the chorus is so fun to play)
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Hash Pipe - Weezer (its really simple, but a fun song to play)
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Tommy the Cat, Primus
Formula 1, Satriani
Jukebox Hero, Foreigner
(Foreplay) Long Time, Boston
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“Six Pack” by Black Flag – the bass gets a long intro almost all to itself!
“The Model” by Big Black – prominent bass in a slow bulldozer of a song.
“Please Do Not Go” by The Violent Femmes – bass gets the middle of the song all to itself.
“Blood and Roses” - The Smithereens
“Walking on the Moon” - The Police
“Ted, Just Admit It” - Jane’s Addiction
“The Real Me” - The Who
None of these are particularly difficult (though “The Real Me” has its tricky bits), but they’re all very cool.
-Many fun Sublimes songs
-Some Jimi Hendrix tunes-- simple but good sounding stuff, like the bass line to “Hey, Joe.”
-If you can play some trickier stuff, some Motown songs…James Jamerson was the man. The book “Standing in the Shadows of Motown” can introduce you to his style and has transcriptions of many of his sweet basslines.
Neil
Great minds think alike.
Perhaps the greatest Motown™ bass line would be “Bernadette” by the Four Tops. If you don’t want to learn it, the bass is just damned good to listen to. To paraphrase the “Star Trek” cliche “it’s required listening at the Academy”.
“Reflections” by the Supremes - another great Motown™ bass line.
The bass part in “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys is very interesting. I believe it was played by Carol Kaye. (Wow a female electric bass player in 1966!!).
In my day, the archetypal bass run to learn was “Hungry” by Paul Revere and the Raiders. There are 3 basses used in that song - regular bass, fuzz bass and an octave bass. (They were one of the first groups in which the bass played an active role as opposed to the usual “one five” line). Their bass player, Phil Volk, immortalized the Vox Phantom Bass.
Bass player Jack Bruce always plays some great stuff too.
“Rock ‘N’ Roll Jelly” - Stanley Clarke
Talking Heads- “once in a lifetime” (most of their songs have amazing and inventive yet understated basslines. Tina Weymouth is a talented bassist in her ability to create and play moving parts that aren’t wanky).
the Pixies- “gigantic,” “bone machine,” etc. - ditto for the above. Kim Deal did simplistic, yet wonderfully effective bass parts.
“Tear Your Playhouse Down” - Paul Young. Almost anything involving Pino Palladino, really. He’s so good that he’s the replacement for Entwistle in the Who.
Phish - YEM, David Bowie
Rancid - Maxwell Murders, Ruby Soho
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze, Aeroplane
Moe - Rebubula, any of their other stuff really
Vic Wooten - Sinister Minister, Classical Thump - don’t know if you can get more than a little past the intro on those
Rush - Freewill
Tool - Schizm
Reel Big Fish - The Beer Song, Take on Me(cover duh)
Primus - Jerry Was a Racecar Driver, Laquer head, Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver
311 - Come Original
Damnit you said schism oh well
Another fun would be Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stone Cold Bush (really cool bass solo in the middle of the song)