Best Guitar Riff....ever!

simonaspinall
simonaspinall Posts: 645
edited January 2011 in The bottom bracket
To continue the ongoing guitar outbursts happening on here I would like to nominate and get suggestions for best ever guitar riffs...

Purple Haze - Jimi
Layla - Clapton (Though I believe Duane Allman played it on t'record)
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana - Hate the overexposure but was iconic
Whiskey in the Jar - Choooooooooooooooooooon!!!
All right now - Free - Simple in essence yet still being heard and abused today!

Quite a few well known ones there, have I missed any off?
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  • SteveR_100Milers
    SteveR_100Milers Posts: 5,987
    simonaspinall wrote:
    To continue the ongoing guitar outbursts happening on here I would like to nominate and get suggestions for best ever guitar riffs...

    Purple Haze - Jimi
    Layla - Clapton (Though I believe Duane Allman played it on t'record)
    Enter Sandman - Metallica
    Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana - Hate the overexposure but was iconic
    Whiskey in the Jar - Choooooooooooooooooooon!!!
    All right now - Free - Simple in essence yet still being heard and abused today!

    Quite a few well known ones there, have I missed any off?

    There are forums dedicated to playing this correctly! Kossof played it in several forms which didn't *help*

    I'll add Highway To Hell
    Smoke on the Water
    Bad to the Bone
    sweet child o' mine
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Intro to Thunderstruck, like Smoke on the water, always does it for me - spine-tingling and unique, but any idiot with a guitar (i.e. me) can play them
  • SteveR_100Milers
    SteveR_100Milers Posts: 5,987
    bompington wrote:
    Intro to Thunderstruck, like Smoke on the water, always does it for me - spine-tingling and unique, but any idiot with a guitar (i.e. me) can play them

    Maybe, but like any *simple* riff timing and 'feel' is everything, so I don't necessarily agree!
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    marc riley - how i wrote elastic man
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    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • richk
    richk Posts: 564
    I'd be torn between paranoid & smoke on the water.
    There is no secret ingredient...
  • skellator3
    skellator3 Posts: 200
    smoke on the water easily played but recognisable
    hotel california played on a 12 string pure class
    sweet child of mine again everyone knows it straight away
    dont only ride a bike
  • Bloodaxe
    Bloodaxe Posts: 15
    Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    Suicide Solution
    Crazy Train
    Paradise City
    Welcome to the Jungle
    Whole Lotta Rosie
    Hells Bells
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    One - Metallica
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Search and Destroy - Iggy and the Stooges. Absolute speaker breaker.

    All Day and All of the Night/You Really Got Me - The Kinks. If you don't like these songs you have no soul.
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  • jc4lab
    jc4lab Posts: 554
    One few have heard of but.....Camels Snowgoose.is one of my favs....
    jc
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    The ' Bow bow bow bowwwwww' bit on Shine on you crazy diamond by Pink Floyd.
  • T.C.
    T.C. Posts: 495
    JOHNNY WAS by Stiff Little Fingers !
  • prana-ferox
    prana-ferox Posts: 138
    Raining Blood,Slayer
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    The intro riff of Motorcycle Emptiness by Manic Street Preachers.
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  • brin
    brin Posts: 1,122
    Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
    WIshbone Ash - Blowin' free
    Free - Allright Now
    UFO - Doctor Doctor
    Thin Lizzy - Still In Love With You
    Doobie Brothers - China Grove
    Neil Young - Keep On Rocking In The Free World
    Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    Paul O´Dette - Santiago de Murcia: La Jota

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8SbpQWFhpM
  • cycologist
    cycologist Posts: 721
    Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters

    Jonny B Goode - Chuck Berry

    Boogie Chillun - John lee Hooker
    Two wheels good,four wheels bad
  • Slapshot
    Slapshot Posts: 211
    Thunderstruck - ACDC
    Hells Bells
    Whole Lotta Rosie
    Knights of Cydonia - Muse
    Anything by Pink Floyd, there's something spectacular in nearly every track, Shine on stands out as does Wish You Were Here
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Smoke on the Water for me with Paranoid a close second and Black Night third.
  • Chiggy
    Chiggy Posts: 261
    NapoleonD wrote:
    The ' Bow bow bow bowwwwww' bit on Shine on you crazy diamond by Pink Floyd.

    You took the words from my mouth... :(

    Gary Moore, 'Parisian Walkways'.
  • rob_spedding
    rob_spedding Posts: 442
    Ben6899 wrote:
    The intro riff of Motorcycle Emptiness by Manic Street Preachers.

    I'm a fan of the opening riff of Sleepflower by the Manics.
    Rob Spedding, Editor, Cycling Plus
  • Gadge
    Gadge Posts: 135
    Tumbling Dice - Stones

    Def deserves an honourable mention
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  • gmb
    gmb Posts: 456
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    Search and Destroy - Iggy and the Stooges. Absolute speaker breaker.

    Absolutely fantastic. The first time I heard it I thought there was something wrong with my hi-fi.

    Also Rebel Rebel and Stay by Bowie, 20th Century Boy by T Rex and Iggy again with I Wanna Be Your Dog.

    Just off to play Raw Power!
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  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Sweet Sixteen - Canned Heat
  • andy162
    andy162 Posts: 634
    MK Ultra (intro bit)....Muse.

    This Charming Man...The Smiths

    Paperback Writer...The Beatles

    Voodoo Chile...Jimi Hendrix

    Jacket Hangs...The Blue Aeroplanes

    Hey hey, my my....Neil Young

    She Sells Sanctuary...The Cult

    Money For Nothing...Dire Straits
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    Just Got Paid by ZZ Top
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    andy162 wrote:
    This Charming Man...The Smiths

    We need to start a new thread!
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  • mrushton
    mrushton Posts: 5,182
    A riff has to be carried right thro the song so I'd discount Thunderstruck. Sweet Child is good,Layla,Voodoo Chile,Back in Black,Brown Sugar. I hate Paranoid and don't think it's a good Sabbath riff compared to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Black Sabbath,Mob Rules,Neon Knights. Really AC/DC are prob. the current upholders of the riff with Metallica a close second
    M.Rushton
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    The intro to Kennedy by The Wedding Present.

    I've heard it live so many times and when it comes on, you just know the place is going to explode. Love it. :D

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