Guitar Worlds 100 Worst Guitar Riffs, solos, etc.

[NathanRay]

Yankee Rose kicks ass those faggots are just Jealous Cause they never learned how to make Their Guitars Talk... and if they could theyed be like

Hey Bruce.. What!!!???{lisp}

Did you See that Guys Ass??

Well Let me Roll up to the CatWalk and Take a look!!!

Woohoo!!!! Woohoo!!!!

I'ts beutiful I'm talkin bout Yankee Fruit

HeeHee HeeHee

He's Wearin' a thong and he looks gay!!

Gay!!! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!

[NathanRay]

CC Deville's solo in Every rose has it's thorn Kicks ass.

The song may be cheesy but I Dig It.

[ClemTater]

Clearly the list has no credibility at all:

43. "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd
Soloist: David Gilmour
Album: The Wall
Year: 1979

I once thought this was a pretty impressive guitar solo. Then I read somewhere that Gilmour painstakingly sliced up a few different versions of the solo, and meticulously pieced them together in the studio. Okay, maybe you need a few takes to get it right, but this is preposterous. After all, what are we dealing with here? Rock 'n' roll or gene- splicing?


This guy apparently has never heard Gilmour play this song live. And, he has his facts wrong -- Gilmour wrote a few separate solos, and PLAYED the best parts to get the solo that's on the record... there was no splicing involved. Small dicked dumbass.

[Wayne L.]

Poison is the biggest joke of 80's rock so C. C. Deville getting the honor of worst guitar rifs in rock isn't too much of a surprise.

[ODShowtime]

I'd just like to specifically point out that this opinion is incorrect:

11. "Willie the Pimp" by Frank Zappa
Soloist: Frank Zappa
Album: Hot Rats
Year: 1969

Zappa's certainly come up with some tasty guitar excursions ("Transylvania Boogie," "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama"). But on "Willie the Pimp," Captain Beefheart does his Howlin' Wolf thing for a couple of minutes before allowing Zappa to launch into a grueling 7+ minute blues yank- off. Conventional and repetitive, this kind of blatant disregard for economy would influence a lot of really bad extended soloing in the years to come.


This asshole totally missed the point.

[singerman]

any guitar solo by jimi page.....zep had fantastic songs....jimi wrote some of the best guitar riffs ever.....but his solos?...mmmm

[DLRdelight!]

At least Eddie aint on the list

[Antman]

Originally posted by sambo
Yep I know.... the list is a shocker... this however is interesting..

27. "Sucker in a 3-Piece" by Van Halen
Soloist: Eddie Van Halen
Album: OU812
Year: 1988

Sure, ol' Eddie has had his moments-- he flaunts his nimble fingertips on early VH instrumentals like "Cathedral" and "Eruption." Yet he's probably one of the worst group players in history. To anyone whose higher brain functions have developed beyond a sixth grade level, these aforementioned instrumentals must seem like empty, childish pleas for attention. Eddie is all about showy technique that elicits a lot of "Wow, dude's" from hyperactive, misguided suburban adolescents. But at least this kind of technically- obsessive masturbation was somewhat original for its time. On "Sucker in a 3-Piece" Eddie relies on hyperbolic whammy-bar hijinks without really "playing" much of anything. Unable to break out of the stylistic prison he locked himself in years before, he's seen here as just another aging rock virtuoso making stale rock- god gestures on yet another incredibly forgettable Van Halen album.

I'll admit this isn't one of VH's best, in fact I always though it as a rip off of Panama. But who is this ass clown? I guarantee this guy has never picked up a guitar or gotten laid to VH. Eddie is great plain and simple. That can not be denied.

[flappo]

30. "Big Block" by Jeff Beck
Soloist: Jeff Beck
Album: Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop
Year: 1989

Although Jeff Beck's always been just a tad overrated, he's certainly had his share of great moments over the past few decades: check his innovative fractured blues playing on Truth and that great dirty solo break on "Train Kept a Rollin'" with the Yardbirds. But Guitar Shop is simply an ill- conceived over- produced abomination. Beck feels compelled to play like all the finger- happy shredding kiddos of the day (this was 1989, you understand). On "Big Block," in particular, Beck initially repeatledly quotes the main lick in Hendrix's "Catfish Blues," then adds a little Eddie Van Halen tapping nonsense and lots of annoying high- note keening. Although one of the original "flash" guitarists, here Beck employs a much more exaggerated, blinding form of flash-- it isn't original or ground- breaking, and it doesn't make for much listening pleasure, either.

i think this guy needs to get a fucking clue

[flappo]

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/community/

when his forum's on-line , i'm gonna spam it off the face of the fucking net

[Vivian Campbell]

I don’t give a rat’s behind whether or not a riff or a solo is “technically proficient.” If it sounds good - it is GOOD. If we judged riffs and solos by ANY accepted standards and practices, Eddie Van Halen, Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, Vivian Campbell and many other great guitarists would be considered jokes. Media punks are never kind to innovators. But, sure enough, when the innovator becomes a star, they jump right on the band wagon giving complimentary hand jobs until the star releases one bad cd, at which point they bring back their shovels and attempt to bury yet another career.

[VHII]

i happend to enjoy the love gun solo, especially live

[WACF]

Bullshit list.....some fine solos on there.

[DaveIsKing]

COMFORTABLY NUMB is on this list ?!?!?!?!?!?

He is obviously a fool.

[Atomic_Rob]

Obviously folks he wasn't listening with his ears. Must of been is arse. Musical taste escapes people like that. Fuck em