Greatest Guitar riffs

[Humiliation]

Interstellar Overdrive - Pink floyd (too bad it was used so little)
RATM - Killing in the name
Metallica - Enter Sandman

[Ferdinand_2]

Biff Bang Pow!--Creation

You really got me--Kinks

My Generation--Who

[yeahwho]

Out on the Tiles - - - Led Zeppelin

[dave790]

ocean colour scene - riverboat song!

[mickill]

Can't You Hear Me Knocking - The Rolling Stones
Queen Bitch - David Bowie
If Only - QOTSA
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N Roses
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath
And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles
12:51 - The Strokes
Bulls On Parade - RATM
Leper Messiah - Metallica
Wild Thing - The Troggs
Layla - Derek And The Dominoes
All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks
Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
Little Bird - The White Stripes
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
Alphabet St - Prince

Can't decide on any one AC/DC song.

[CrankItUp!]

Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues

[DipDipDive]

Just for participation's sake...

Pearl Jam - Glorified G
Weezer - Say it Ain't So
Radiohead - Airbag
Chris Whitley - Rocket House

There are plenty more that I could list but they're by all the artists that mickill already listed and I don't want to be that guy.

[ToucanSpam]

GNR-Sweet Child of Mine

[DipDipDive]

GNR-Sweet Child of Mine

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm officially not that guy.

[CrankItUp!]

Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water.. simple riff but always a great one ! (y)

[ToucanSpam]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm officially not that guy.
I cant see what he posted.

[Mr. Boomin'Granny]

doves - pounding
Secret Machines - Sad and Lonely
Air - Don't be light
King Crimson - 21st centry schizoid man
Ween - aids

[CrankItUp!]

I goddamn hate that motherfucking song AND that motherfucking band immensely worser than any fucking other fucking shit fucking out there ! Understand ? :mad:

[zippo]

Can't You Hear Me Knocking - The Rolling Stones
Queen Bitch - David Bowie
If Only - QOTSA
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N Roses
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath
And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles
12:51 - The Strokes
Bulls On Parade - RATM
Leper Messiah - Metallica
Wild Thing - The Troggs
Layla - Derek And The Dominoes
All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks
Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
Little Bird - The White Stripes
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
Alphabet St - Prince

Can't decide on any one AC/DC song.

i sware, one of the coolest things about coming to this board is constantly getting thorough musical answers like mickill´s

and i think this guitar riff is fucking mindblowing,i dare anyone to listen to it and tell me that im wrong...

Muse- Plug in Baby

[Mr. Boomin'Granny]

I goddamn hate that motherfucking song AND that motherfucking band immensely worser than any fucking other fucking shit fucking out there ! Understand ? :mad:
yeah me too.

[DipDipDive]

Joe Walsh - Funk 49 (y)

[Sandinista!]

I goddamn hate that motherfucking song AND that motherfucking band immensely worser than any fucking other fucking shit fucking out there ! Understand ? :mad:

Guns n' Roses> Whatever new shit you've been seduced by.

[Mr.Right]

Van Halen - Eruption

[Tzar]

Can't You Hear Me Knocking - The Rolling Stones
Queen Bitch - David Bowie
If Only - QOTSA
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N Roses
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath
And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles
12:51 - The Strokes
Bulls On Parade - RATM
Leper Messiah - Metallica
Wild Thing - The Troggs
Layla - Derek And The Dominoes
All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks
Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
Little Bird - The White Stripes
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
Alphabet St - Prince

Can't decide on any one AC/DC song.

nice list.
i agree with 'bulls' and on the ac/dc comment.
but leper messiah? hmmm.. the creeping death riff is up there with awesome-ness. metallica really do have alot of good riffs.

i can only add aerials - SOAD.

[grooveboy]

1.deep purple-smoke on the water
2.led zeppelin-black dog
3.sepultura-roots
4.methods of mayhem-metamorphosis
4.kyuss-conan the troutman
5.soundgarden-jesus christ pose
6.funkadelic-super stupid
7.the stooges-ann
8.s.o.d.-milk
9.bad brains-rise
10.jimi hendrix-purple haze

[Rock]

Ain't Talkin Bout Love - Van Halen

[Kid Presentable]

Back In Black-AC/DC

[tdot04]

Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash

Immediately thought of that one when I saw this thread.

[Calimero jr.]

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
AC/DC - Back In Black
The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night
Jane's Addiction - Had a Dad
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Pixies - Debaser
Dinosaur jr. - Out There
Pearl Jam - Alive
Faith No More - Kindergarten
Helmet - In The Meantime
Noir Désir - Tostaky
Preston School of Industry - Furnace Sun
QOTSA - No One Knows
RATM - Bombtrack
Sepultura - Roots
Soundgarden - Let Me Drown
Therapy? - Screamager

[Brass_Munkey]

Sunshine Of Your Love by Cream is a pretty awesome riff.

[Darko]

Seven Nation Army is definetely one of the best of the past few years.

[Tzar]

Seven Nation Army is definetely one of the best of the past few years.
grrr! their bassline riff is so recognisable yet they don't even have a bass player!!
fucking hate the white stripes... stupid cunts.

[Paul Kemp]

grrr! their bassline riff is so recognisable yet they don't even have a bass player!!
fucking hate the white stripes... stupid cunts.
it's an octave pedal, not a bass

[Tzar]

it's an octave pedal, not a bass
who cares..
they're still shit.

[Calimero jr.]

who cares..
they're still shit.

Word.

[Elusive]

it's an octave pedal, not a bass

I imagine that dude uses an octave pedal,
but I wonder if thats a regular bass in the recording.

[Elusive]

Out on the Tiles - - - Led Zeppelin

nice to know someone else has good taste.
that song is crazy.

[scotty]

Iron man - black sabbath
purple haze - hendrix
immigrant song & whole lotta love - led zep
highway to hell - ac/dc
wild thing - the troggs
friday on my mind - the easybeats
sunshine of your love - cream
smoke on the water - deep purple
redhead - magic dirt

[Humiliation]

Focus - Hocus Pocus

[Matt]

Liam Lynch - Rock and Roll Whore
Interpol - Roland

[DroppinScience]

The Smiths - "How Soon Is Now"

Gives me goosebumps!

[Matt]

The Smiths - "How Soon Is Now"

Gives me goosebumps!

that backwards riff reminds me of two stones griding together. I like it. alot. not so much the Peel Sessions version, but that gives some insight into Johnny Marr's playing ability. he could recrate that sound in a live setting, and it sounding convincing! Thats pretty awesome, if you ask me.

[Matt]

oh, and that one part right that the begining of This Charming Man by The Smiths.

whenever I let my mind go blank, this is the first thing I think of.

[Drederick Tatum]

Evil Eye-Fu Manchu
Jailbreak-Thin Lizzy
Sister Ray-Velvet Underground
One Inch Man-Kyuss
Midnight Rambler-Rolling Stones
Queen-Melvins

[enree erzweglle]

I don't know guitar well enough to say on my own, but a friend
who plays well heard this song the other day and stopped to listen
to the guitar solo part and then he praised it for a few minutes.
He rarely praises anything. It's from Yes and it's the solo in the middle
of Owner of a Lonely Heart.

[CrankItUp!]

KISS - Detroit Rock City (y)

[open letter]

I imagine that dude uses an octave pedal,
but I wonder if thats a regular bass in the recording.
no its all played on guitar,although beck did join them and play bass for a resent date on there US tour,i would love to here that gig :)

i realy like the hives-hate to say i told you so

[Humiliation]

Focus - Hocus Pocus
Listening to the guitar solos on this it is even more amazing. Jan ackermann does this frilly thing it's psycho

[yeahwho]

Focus - Hocus Pocus

One. Great. Song. (y)

Why it has never been sampled, I'll never know.

[Monsieur Decuts]

nofx - Brain Constipation

reminds of driving real fast in toyota tercel circa 94
http://www.epitaph.com/_lib/stream.php?f=Brain+Constipation.mp3&p=/51/145/1512.mp3&id=1512

[icy manipulator]

tool - schism

[abcdefz]

"What Goes On" - Velvet Underground
"Dry the Rain" - Beta Band
"Smokestack Lightning" - Howlin' Wolf
"Somethin' Else" - Eddie Cochran
"Sunspots" - Julian Cope
"Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" - Paul Simon
"Bo Diddly - Bo Diddly/"She's the One" - Bruce Springsteen (et al)
"Lawyers, Guns, and Money" - Warren Zevon

[abcdefz]

Oops:

"Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)" - Neil Young

[sumdummonkey]

Pantera - 5 Minutes Alone

Rolling Stones - Satisfaction

Robin Trower - Day of the Eagle

Frank Zappa - Muffin Man ---> Quirky but vastly underrated guitarist.

Jeff Beck - Rice Pudding ---> One of the greatest guitar Gods ever.

Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way

Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting for the Man.

Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion

Mountain - Mississippi Queen

Kiss - Parasite

[abcdefz]

The Who: "I Can't Explain"

The Kinks -"You Really Got Me"

T. Rex - "Mabo Sun"

...and my ELO tribute:

"10538 Overture," "Ma Ma Ma Belle," and "Do Ya" (also by The MOve, when Jeff was with them)

[abcdefz]

I think we forgot the electric version of "Layla."

[johny74]

AC/DC-back in black
AC/DC-thunderstruck
AC/DC-highway to hell

[Drederick Tatum]

hahaha, Freebird.

[Lex Diamonds]

Ted Nugent - Stormtroopin'
Stone Roses - Waterfall
Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle

[Videodrome]

Joe Walsh - Funk 49 (y)
song was done by The James Gang. Joe Walsh is a member of the group so you get partial credit.

[abcdefz]

"Solsbury Hill" - Peter Gabriel
"Pigs in Zen" - Jane's Addiction

[dave790]

grrr! their bassline riff is so recognisable yet they don't even have a bass player!!
fucking hate the white stripes... stupid cunts.

I don't hate them, but I can't stand that fucking song or that riff.

I think Plug In Baby's a better recent riff. In fact, Matt Bellamy - whilst influenced by a Mr. Morello - has come up with some of my favourite riffs of recent years.

I think the Pixies Hey deserves a shout.

[sumdummonkey]

song was done by The James Gang. Joe Walsh is a member of the group so you get partial credit.

Brain fart. You're right, of course, it was James Gang.

Still think its one the better riffs, though.

Somewhat on the subject: How about a thread on some of the greatest BASS riffs? I can already think of a few.

[Documad]

Beatles - I Feel Fine
Nirvana - Breed

(I always think of them together)

[sumdummonkey]

song was done by The James Gang. Joe Walsh is a member of the group so you get partial credit.

Almost had me going there, Intro. ;)

The song "Rocky Mountain Way" was from Joe's 1973 solo record, The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tdjn7i2jg77r) (he left James Gang after '72).

Great song, all the same.