Top 10 Guitar Riffs

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Continuing with the musical theme in the forum at the minute what do you think are the top 10 best guitar riffs of all time?

This is the top 20 according to Total Guitar
Top 20 Guitar Riffs

1. "Sweet Child O' Mine" Guns N' Roses
2. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nirvana
3. "Whole Lotta Love" Led Zeppelin
4. "Smoke On The Water" Deep Purple
5. "Enter Sandman" Metallica
6. "Layla" Derek & The Dominoes/Eric Clapton
7. "Master Of Puppets" Metallica
8. "Back In Black" AC/DC
9. "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" Jimi Hendrix
10. "Paranoid" Black Sabbath
11. "Crazy Train" Ozzy Osbourne
12. "All Right Now" Free
13. "Plug in Baby" Muse
14. "Black Dog" Led Zeppelin (featuring Jimmy Page)
15. "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" Van Halen
16. "Walk This Way" Aerosmith with Run DMC
17. "Sunshine Of Your Love" Cream
18. "No-One Knows" Queens Of The Stone Age
19. "Paradise City" Guns N' Roses
20. "Killing In The Name" Rage Against The Machine

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TWU1J-ydNLA


My list

1. Muse 'Stockholm Syndrome'
2. Jimi Hendrix 'Voodoo Chile'
3. Nirvana 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
4. Metallica 'Enter Sandman'
5. Smashing Pumpkins 'Zero'
6. AC/DC 'Thunderstruck'
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers 'Can't Stop'
8. Muse 'New Born'
9. Led Zeppelin 'Kashmir'
10. AC/DC 'Hells Bells'

[leopard]

You have complete list from the olds to today's band. :)

Talking about guitar riffs, I think Slash GNR has the most sophisticated riffs. Sweet child o' mine deserves the pick from all their songs.

Van Halen deserves a mention too, especially with their characteristic vocal of Sammy Saggar.

I think Mods will merge this thread, talk of mods I don't see pino lately, is he in holiday?

[harsha]

too many actually....really dig megadeth's riffs

dave mustaine \m/

[Daniel]

You have complete list from the olds to today's band. :)

Talking about guitar riffs, I think Slash GNR has the most sophisticated riffs. Sweet child o' mine deserves the pick from all their songs.

Van Halen deserves a mention too, especially with their characteristic vocal of Sammy Saggar.

I think Mods will merge this thread, talk of mods I don't see pino lately, is he in holiday?
Mean streets is my favourite Van Halen song of all time :)

[harsha]

Eruption by Van Halen

[ShiftingGears]

Motorbreath by Metallica is a great riff. Very catchy.

Also Deep Purple are a fantastic band with great songs...but I just can't listen to Smoke on the Water.

[Rudy Tamasz]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks and "Satisfaction" by the Stones, which are the first true rock riffs.

[leopard]

Also Deep Purple are a fantastic band with great songs...but I just can't listen to Smoke on the Water.
I think NSYNC was far better :p :

[ShiftingGears]

I think NSYNC was far better :p :

Blasphemy! :p :

[Tomi]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks and "Satisfaction" by the Stones, which are the first true rock riffs.
agree, start me up, with the stones the same too.

[ShiftingGears]

Also, it might not be chart music but The Moor by Opeth just has utterly brilliant guitar riffs that all just flow into each other so fluidly.

And Black Sabbath riffs! Iron Man, Into The Void, Electric Funeral, Black Sabbath all have fantastic riffs. Tony Iommi is a genius.

[leopard]

Blasphemy! :p :

why changed, thought you are fan of Spice Girl :p : :)

[Donney]

You have complete list from the olds to today's band. :)

(...) is he in holiday?


I think he is in Italy enjoying the pleasures of IRC live.

[harsha]

the only reason why Black Sabbath isn't higher in my list is because of ***** ozzy

that said the Dio,Martin era black sabbath albums were brilliant

[CarlMetro]

ZZ Top La Grange should definately be on there

[A.F.F.]

The beauty of grey by LIVE. In it's all simplyness :)

[ChrisS]

I'm surprised to see a Gn'R song top that list. a lot of people today say that Gn'R was an average band that got famous only because Mtv played their songs all the time.

They still are one of my all time favorites though.

[harsha]

^^ for that matter,i can show you polls where people kept chester bannington and mike shinoda in the list of 100 heavy metal vocalists...

[Storm]

Top 10 guitar riffs ?

Iron Maiden - Trooper,
Metallica - Master of Puppets, The Four Horsemen
Deep Purple - Smoke on the water
Judas Priest - Hellion/Electric Eye, Breaking the law (simple but truly catchy)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Dio - Holy Diver
Megadeth - (like harsha said Mustaine is the king of riffs) Holy Wars, Vortex
AC/DC - Back in Black

[Sleeper]

In no order:

Opeth- The Drapery Falls
Dream Theater- Metropolis Part 1
Pain of Salvation- Beyond the Pale
Threshold- Narcissus
Maudlin of the Well- Gleam in Ranks
Tool- Parabola
White Willow- Chemical Sunset
Opeth- Moonlaps Vertigo
Pain of Salvation- !(Forward)
King Crimson- Larks Tongues' in Aspic part II
Vanden Plas- Nightwalker

[jim mcglinchey]

Wow, I havent heard of any one of those ...hold on. I've heard of King Crimson but I wouldnt know any of their stuff.

[Will L]

em..

map of the problematique - muse

opening?

[CarlMetro]

Wow, I havent heard of any one of those ...hold on. I've heard of King Crimson but I wouldnt know any of their stuff.

I'm glad I'm not the only one then :s

[leopard]

I'm surprised to see a Gn'R song top that list. a lot of people today say that Gn'R was an average band that got famous only because Mtv played their songs all the time.

It's just like saying that today's bands are average.

[oily oaf]

Lulu's seering guitar lick on Boom Bang A Bang accompanied by the tribal throb of Lonnie Donegan on the spoons takes a bit of beating in my book.

A poor second comes King Crimson with the mighty "21st Century Shizoid Man"

LET'S ROCK!
(lights pipe, headbangs furiously and throws cat and television from hotel window)

[ShiftingGears]

In no order:

Opeth- The Drapery Falls



Has some of the greatest riffs ever!

[Sleeper]

Has some of the greatest riffs ever!
One of the best songs of the last 10 years :D

[harsha]

am i the only one here who thinks maiden's music is repetitive,boring and monotonous :/

[Hondo]

Some age here.

House of the Rising Sun, not a riff per se, but a great tune.-Animals
Ohio-Neil Young
You're Gonna Miss Me-13th Floor Elevators and Dell commercial check it out on youtube in grainy black and white. Note the guy playing the jug. Yup, jug.
Fiero's first rock tune and stepping stone to garage stardom.
Funk 49-James Gang
Purple Haze-No name necessary
Brown Sugar-Rolling Stones
Start me up-Rolling Stones
Iron Man-lol, I've forgotten, was that Sabbath? (time to go back to the home)
Cinnamon Girl-Neil Young, requires different string tuning.

[Storm]

am i the only one here who thinks maiden's music is repetitive,boring and monotonous :/

I thought you were a Maiden fan.....:O

and hell no...its not repetitive or boring in any sense....there are plenty of other (black/death metal) bands that can fit your criteria though.

[leopard]

I would have said so about Maiden, they and Megadeth's were similar, slightly repetitive and can't find any bold character vocal of black metal there.

However band that is likely acceptable for this forum choir is Metallica, because mostly member are familiar with their song entitled "sad but true"

Alonso's chance on this year title was deteriorated from his DNF at Fuji, "sad but true" :( :p :

[ShiftingGears]

One of the best songs of the last 10 years :D

Definitely.


am i the only one here who thinks maiden's music is repetitive,boring and monotonous :/

Nope!
I still love Phantom of the Opera though. Their best IMO.

[SEAN-B.]

Eruption by Van Halen

OOh,that is a good one!You can practicaly smell Eddie's fingers smoke on that trac! But,try this one:Planet Caravan by Pantera.Killer guitar riff at the end of that song.

[Storm]

you mean Planet Caravan by Sabbath, covered by Pantera ;) (or if they changed it a lot , my mistake!)

[SEAN-B.]

you mean Planet Caravan by Sabbath, covered by Pantera ;) (or if they changed it a lot , my mistake!)

Yes,that is correct.I have not actually listened to the original by Sabbath,so I could not say.But I do love Pantera's version and the killer vid on it as well.

Also to note I love TOOL,but I personally think the drummer is more of a remarkable notice on most tracs than for their guitar riffs albeit GREAT band all together along with Maynard's other band,A Perfect Circle.

As Marvel comics use to say it-'nuf said.

[leopard]

I see nobody talk about Swedish band, there were many but the most recognized one and get familiar with their song is Hammerfall.

There were also ABBA and millencolin :)

[harsha]

@Storm-i'm a maiden fan,however not that big a fan...

[CarlMetro]

One vision by Queen also deserves a mention, I can't play it without turning up the volume at the beginning :)