Friday fun - Best Guitar riff to cycle too - top 5.

gtvlusso
gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
edited April 2009 in Commuting chat
For me:

1, Wake Up - RATM
2, Rock me baby - Hendrix
3, Highway to Hell - AC/DC
4, Shallow be thy game - RHCP
5, Doomsday clock - Smashing Pumpkins

Controversial, but there are millions that I love - including Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" or "I'm a man".....to Eric Claptons "Bad Love" or Cream's "Spoonful"
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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    edited April 2009
    I wait at lights with The Chain in my head. The UNKLE edit off Big Brother is Watching, disc 2.
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Bit of Fleetwood Mac is good for the soul.......!
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Back in black - has a good hill-climbing tempo.
    Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34335188@N07/3336802663/
  • kidRobot
    kidRobot Posts: 1
    Nice one Brun. I always save the james lavelle mix of QOTSA No One Knows, off the global underground mix for the hard bit of my local loop!
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Paranoid - gets my blood pumping.
    Ace of spades - of course
    All right now (Free) - because I'm a traditionalist
    Iron Man (Sabbath) - just because
    Black knight (Purple) - a classic
    Shoot the runner (Kasabian) - I'm down with the kids
    Welcome to the jungle (GNR) - Scalping music

    Going to stop there, just too damn many!
    Great thread BTW!
    Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34335188@N07/3336802663/
  • sheepworryingbhoy
    sheepworryingbhoy Posts: 167
    I'd be here all day trying to sort of out my top five, so I'll throw in the Damned's New Rose; you'd go a long way to beat that bass intro......
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Just - Radiohead.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    +1 Robmanic 1, some quality tunes

    I'll add

    Subhumans - Religious wars
    Wolfmother - Mother
    Airbourne - Stand Up for Rock and Roll
    Joan Jett - I love Roack & Roll
    Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (for just cruising)
    Dusty Springfield - Son of Preacherman (cruising again)
    Drive by Truckers - Ronnie & Neil, Zip City

    I'd better stop there
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    That 'here I go again on my own' one.
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Ooh - Deep Puple - A bit of "Hush" goes down a treat!
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    That would be Whitesnake. quality 80's rock :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Stargazer by Rainbow always brings a smile when it randomly appears, as does A Touch Too Much [ACDC], Ummm... Girls In Their Summer Clothes, Going For the One by Yes, but perennial favourite is We Will Rock You, the version put together for John Peel's show way back when in 1977. Magnificent.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Rich158 wrote:
    That would be Whitesnake. quality 80's rock :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    I love it!
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    from what i gather from the comments on this thread so far....

    the 80's was the best decade for riding music :D:D:D

    *and driving
    Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.

    H.G. Wells.
  • downwardslide
    downwardslide Posts: 73
    +1 for Back in Black

    And Jack Pepsi by tad
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    cee wrote:
    from what i gather from the comments on this thread so far....

    the 80's was the best decade for riding music :D:D:D

    *and driving

    70s mate. We had the lot - cheesy pop, serious pop, glam, metal, prog, discotheque music, and then punk. Add Teenage Kicks to my list. And Anarchy In The UK. and... drones on & on, cont p94....

    :)
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Rich158 wrote:
    That would be Whitesnake. quality 80's rock :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    I love it!

    Some quality song titles to boot, just look at the track list for 'slide it in' :shock: :shock:

    How did they get away with it :lol::lol::lol:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Brothers in arms - when your feeling mean and moody
    Black Dog (Zep)
    Thunderstruck (ACDC)
    Wish you were here (Floyd)
    Voodoo Chile (JH)
    All my life (Foo Fighters)
    Hammer to fall (Queen)
    Godzilla (BOC)


    That's all, I've got work to do dammit!

    :wink:
    Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34335188@N07/3336802663/
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Motorhead + Girlschool - Bomber
    The Jam - Going Underground
    Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (if you've got 20 mins to spare :shock: )

    I could keep going
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • King Donut
    King Donut Posts: 498
    @ Robmanic1 some great choices

    Not all are strictly riffs but I would go:

    Favours in the beetroot fields - British Sea Power
    You Think I ain't worth a dollar... - QOTSA
    Breed - Nirvana
    I'm your torpedo - Eagles of Death Metal
    Amour for a broken heart - Archie Bronson Outfit

    good thread!

    Anyone else have a playlist purely for commuting?
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I like a bit of Mendelssohn.
    My Focus / My Bob Jackson
    Blog (incl. bikes)
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    I forgot about QOTSA - Go with the flow...or make it wit u.
  • Chewy Cheeks
    Chewy Cheeks Posts: 234
    The Smiths - This Charming Man
    Fat Boy Slim - Right Here Right Now
    The Primatives - Crash (??????? its still a great song)
    JH Experience - Crosstown Traffic
    The Clash - Train in vain
    No Babbit No, Look what Birdy doing
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Chewy Cheeks wrote:
    The Primatives - Crash (??????? its still a great song)

    "Here we go, way too fast, don't slow down we're gonna crash" - are you sure that's what you want to be thinking?
    My Focus / My Bob Jackson
    Blog (incl. bikes)
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    On the way to work:

    Chris Rea "road to hell"

    (which seems to be about the Credit Crunch rather strangely given the vintage)
  • pllb
    pllb Posts: 158
    Come Home by James does it for me - "the way I feel just makes me want to scream!!!!"
    roadie
    off roadie
  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    That 'here I go again on my own' one.
    Oh great that is going to bug me all Sunday morning now.
    Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.

    Felt F55 - 2007
    Specialized Singlecross - 2008
    Marin Rift Zone - 1998
    Peugeot Tourmalet - 1983 - taken more hits than Mohammed Ali
  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    Run to the Hills- Iron Maiden is a current favourite (as is Running up that Hill - Kate Bush, I think I am getting slightly obsessed with big hills at the moment :shock: )

    Even Flow - Pearl Jam
    Machinehead - Bush (very appropriate for the opening lyrics)
    Rifles - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
    Sympton of the Universe - Black Sabbath
    Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.

    Felt F55 - 2007
    Specialized Singlecross - 2008
    Marin Rift Zone - 1998
    Peugeot Tourmalet - 1983 - taken more hits than Mohammed Ali
  • Chewy Cheeks
    Chewy Cheeks Posts: 234
    biondino wrote:
    Chewy Cheeks wrote:
    The Primatives - Crash (??????? its still a great song)

    "Here we go, way too fast, don't slow down we're gonna crash" - are you sure that's what you want to be thinking?

    I did put question marks around the song to be fair - but I'm much too short of oxygen going along and worried about jaywalking ped's to fret about lyrics and a part of the appeal is when it came out - exams being over
    No Babbit No, Look what Birdy doing
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    No competition this guy is amazing 8)

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0638076087

    If you've not seen this where have you been at about 3:20 :shock: :D
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