Your top 10 riffs

[Jérôme Frenchise]

You know, those riffs that won't ever go out of your head.
Think of perfect interaction with bass and drums.
Maybe I'll start the same about VH and Diamond in the Main.

Please don't mention any artist twice (though I know it's hard).

Here's my list:

1) "Voodoo Chile" - Hendrix ("Electric Ladyland")

2) "Moby Dick" - Led Zeppelin ("II")

3) "Blood sucker" - Deep Purple ("In Rock")

4) "Lick and a promise" - Aerosmith ("Rocks")

5) "Riff-raff" - AC/DC - ("Powerage")

6) "Ko Ko blue" - ZZ Top ("Rio Grande mud")

7) "Brown Sugar" - The Rolling Stones ("Sticky fingers")

8) "Substitute" - The Who ("Live at Leeds" version)

9) "Bad to the bone" - G. Thorogood & Destroyers ("Bad to the Bone")

10) "My Michelle" - Guns 'n' Roses ("Appetite for destruction")

Well, it's been a headache for me to set such a list, I obviously had to let many aside.

Anyway, what's YOURS now?
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:guitar:

[Mr Badguy]

Black Sabbath "Into the void"
Rush "Red Barchetta"
Judas Priest "Stained class"
Ratt "Wanted man"
Whitesnake "Give me all your love"
Iron Maiden "Iron Maiden"
Guns n Roses "Coma"
Diamond head "The Prince"
AC/DC "Spellbound"
Thin Lizzy "Don`t believa a word"

Just a few off the top of my head.

Can I do another ten every day?

[Coyote]

The Meters - Cissy Strut
Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
Aerosmith - Walk This Way
Scorpions - Still Loving You
Alice Cooper - School's Out
The Hellacopters - Toys And Flavours
Eric Clapton - Crossroads
Def Leppard - Photograph
Michael Schenker - Into The Arena
Whitesnake - Still Of The Night

[Atomic_Rob]

AC/DC - Riff Raff
Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe a Word
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
Status Quo - I Saw The Light
Van Halen - Feel Your Love Tonight
Black Sabbath - Children of The Grave
Deep Purple - Black Night
The Datsuns - In Love
Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol
The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by Mr Badguy
Black Sabbath "Into the void"
(...)
Guns n Roses "Coma"


Just a few off the top of my head.

Can I do another ten every day?


... :D
I nearly put those two. Well, it was a Cornelian dilemma.

[Rikk]

I just need one...

The amazing guitar in BARBARA STREISAND/KENNY ROGERS' You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore.

[The Alexster666]

the opening rift of THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER!!!! -Maiden-

[Jickson]

Originally posted by Jérôme Frenchise
You know, those riffs that won't ever go out of your head.
Think of perfect interaction with bass and drums.
Maybe I'll start the same about VH and Diamond in the Main.


5) "Riff-raff" - AC/DC - ("Powerage")

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nice, I just conquered this on guitar. The bass line took 2 times through to nail. I am a shitty guitarist. This was a great ego boost.

[Jano]

Deep Purple-smoke on the water
Iron Maiden- killers
ZZ Top- la grange
Judas priest- another thing coming
Ted Nugent- Wango tango
Golden earing -radar love
Trust- l' elite
led zeppelin- rock and roll
Motley Crue- kickstart my heart
thin lizzy- the boys are back in town

[Phil theStalker]

I remember back when I was a kid learning guitar the riff f4or Jumping Jack Flash was o1ne of my fav riffs t2o play.

1) Jumping Jack Flash (if you have t2o ask who...)

2 afta dat mmmy maggots ate mmmy brain

3) cuntil dat riff in BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, but it wuz gay Queen shit

4, dat little riff in Whiskey and Rye wuz good

5)) BUT DA NUMBER ON1E RIFF AFF ALL TIME IS CHUCK BERRY'S JOHNNY BE GOOD(dis should be numba 1)

6) Don't Call Me ******, Whitey Sly and the Family Stone

7.) Layla eric

8] We Gotta Get Out Of This Place animals cookies

9( Black Dog Zeppie

12) My fav rite now: Precious Gift Robin Trower

11) sTRay CAt Strut !!!

13 -- THE BEST LEAD RIFF OF ALL TIME Out of Limits The Ventures

14 --- BEST RYTHEM GUITAR RIFF AFF ALL TIMESLouie, Louie Kingsmen

100) Eighteen Alice Pooper

101_ Born To Be Wild Steppinwolfie

2A] Running With The Devil Some party group from the 70's

2B] Black Diamond Kiss sucks, but the riff is good

3B) Freebird Lenardo Skinardo

4c) Secret Agent Man Johnny Rivers

5d) Funk 49 Joey Walsh

gosh there are so fakking many riffs, I wuz just playing Rocky Mountain wAY the other dAY...

eh fak tit

play 'em all


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[Soul Reaper]

Here's a few which I'm thinking of now.

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Guns N' Roses - Out Ta Get Me
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker

[nosuchluck]

tough...but off the top of my head

1. Taste My Fist - Freak Kitchen
2. Undoing - Brett Garsed
3. 24 Grand Avenue - Michael Lee Firkins
4. He-man Woman Hater - Extreme
5. the outro riff in Wake Up Dead - Megadeth
6. Lights Out - Savatage
7. Burn - Deep Purple
8. Take a Walk - Mr.Big
9. The Communion and The Oracle - Symphony X
10. Lie - Dream Theater

there's so many more...

[Soul Reaper]

Taste My Fist - Freak Kitchen (thanks for reminding me)
Lie - Dream Theater (that too is awesome)
Get The Funk Out - Extreme

[Mr Badguy]

Judas Priest "Genocide"(live)

You could get the top ten riffs ever out of that one song.

[Reverberator]

Riffs yeah right .

Figs knows what that means .

[GAR]

No Spike Jones mentions..

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by Mr Badguy
Judas Priest "Genocide"(live)

You could get the top ten riffs ever out of that one song.

That opening one is WAY up there.

[Jano]

Genocide live it's a killer!!!

[Jickson]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper

Get The Funk Out - Extreme

Egads!!!!! I pray you are lying.

[nosuchluck]

Originally posted by Jickson
Egads!!!!! I pray you are lying.

the riffing during the chorus is pretty cool. and what a solo. nuno is a damn good guitarist...

[Atomic_Rob]

Also I think the intro riffs for UFO's Rock Bottom are pretty cool

[Jérôme Frenchise]

:) OK. I thought everybody would set a top 10, though I know it takes much time and some... sacrifices! :D

So I'll tell you about a riff of a band that were never considered as they should have: The Pretty Things.

The track is "£$D" which was released circa 1967. I won't explain who they are (they still tour today), the web will do that better than I.
But the riff on "£$D" is tremendous. It sounds of its time, a bit Indian (from India), hippy-like, but it's grand. A bit ethereal, but tough. It stretches pretty much, but it's masterful.

Another mere gem is the riff of "Old man going", in their masterpiece S.F. Sorrow (1968). The same kind, but harder. Purple, Zep' and Sabbath must have listened to Dick Taylor (the guitarist's name :D). A neglected wizard.
I saw them twice on stage. I went backstage the first time, had a fine chat with Phil May (the singer) whom I unintentionally shoved, Taylor whose coffee I spilled to start with, and finally the bassist, Wally Waller, who composed my favorite record of theirs, Parachute (1970).

If you dig guitars, go for S.F. SORROW. ;)

I may be missing the subject a little in this post, but the riffs I mentioned make it in my opinion.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Snapper Music. Superbly remastered.

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by Atomic_Rob
Also I think the intro riffs for UFO's Rock Bottom are pretty cool

"Natural Thing" contains one helluva riff.

[rustoffa]

"Miss America"

Deyoung probably didn't like that song alot.

[Last_Child]

Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
Unchained - VAn Halen
Give It Up - AC/DC
Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
Don't Damn Me - Guns N' Roses
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
My Personal Riff Made out of 2 Chords. - ME
About To Crash (Reprise) - Dream Theater
Bye Bye - Femi Gange
Fortunate Son - CCR