Best Guitar Riff....ever!

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  • rockmonkeysc
    rockmonkeysc Posts: 14,774
    Devils tattoo by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club or Lost art of keeping a secret by Queens Of the Stone Age. But the absolute greatest is Deamon Cleaner by Kyuss, no one gets it the first time they listen but it is just immense, one of the greatest rock songs ever, very dark.
    All the greatest riffs are in psychadelic/stoner rock music.
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  • Mettan
    Mettan Posts: 2,103
    Nuggs wrote:
    The intro to Kennedy by The Wedding Present.

    Great in their day.
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    Mettan wrote:
    Nuggs wrote:
    The intro to Kennedy by The Wedding Present.

    Great in their day.
    Still great today now that Gedge has got all that Cinerama crap out of his system...
  • prana-ferox
    prana-ferox Posts: 138
    shadow of the season... the screaming tress
  • mask of sanity
    mask of sanity Posts: 610
    Any Black Sabbath or AC/DC song. Iommi and Young are riff machines!!!

    Also:
    'Whole lotta love
    Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
    Black Night' and 'Mistreated', - Deep Purple
    'Since you've been gone' - Rainbow
    'South of Heaven' - Slayer
    'Holy Diver' - Dio
    'Sunshine of your love' - whoever it was that wrote it first... Cream? Clapton? Hendrix?
  • simonaspinall
    simonaspinall Posts: 645
    What's needed is a riff-based frontal attack on modern music to bring back the guitar hero, marshalls blazening on stage...
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  • prb007
    prb007 Posts: 703
    andy162 wrote:
    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

    +1 for the cult

    also the bass intro on Come as you are by Nirvana

    new-new-new-new-new-new-new-new-new-new.....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T0ySNQNE58
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  • ridelikeapro
    ridelikeapro Posts: 139
    Gentlemen and Ladies may I present for your head-shaking and listening pleasure the very lovely messrs Lynyrd Skynyrd and their popular tune "Sweet Home Alabama".

    Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8rnFKo4PAE
  • prb007
    prb007 Posts: 703
    mask of sanity wrote:
    Any Black Sabbath or AC/DC song. Iommi and Young are riff machines!!!

    Also:
    'Whole lotta love
    Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
    Black Night' and 'Mistreated', - Deep Purple
    'Since you've been gone' - Rainbow
    'South of Heaven' - Slayer
    'Holy Diver' - Dio
    'Sunshine of your love' - whoever it was that wrote it first... Cream? Clapton? Hendrix?

    as very much a 'johnny-come-lately' fan of AC/DC (last 3 years or so), I think for a pure guitar riff you'll go a long way to beat this...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h44LIiaZhHE

    anything that's good enough for Stuart Cable's funeral is good enough for me!
    If Wales was flattened out, it'd be bigger than England!
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  • morrisje
    morrisje Posts: 507
    How about

    Stranglehold - Ted Nugent

    and the ultimate riff
    Spirit in the Sly - Norman Greenbaum
    I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet.
  • CrackFox
    CrackFox Posts: 287
    Zepp - When the Levee Breaks
    Smiths - How Soon Is Now
    Stones - Jumpin Jack Flash
  • Bunnyman 5.5
    Bunnyman 5.5 Posts: 133
    The 'eeeaaaaawwww' bits in How Soon Is Now by the Smiths
    Sweet Emotion-Aerosmith
    Iron Man-Sabbath
    But probably ACDC are my faves
    "With just a little luck
    A little cold blue steel
    I'll cut the night like a razor blade
    Till I feel the way I wanna feel"
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  • HonestAl
    HonestAl Posts: 406
    How about some really obvious ones

    Black Dog - Led Zep
    Voodoo Chile - Hendrix
    Green Manalishi - Fleetwood Mac
    New Years Day - U2
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  • marusches
    marusches Posts: 129
    prana-ferox wrote:
    Raining Blood,Slayer

    should that be reign in blood ?

    revolution is my name by pantera !!!
    rose of sharyn killswitch engage !!
    False history Xerath
    war pigs 'sabbath
    no more tears ozzy ozbourne
  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    marusches wrote:
    prana-ferox wrote:
    Raining Blood,Slayer

    should that be reign in blood ?

    revolution is my name by pantera !!!
    rose of sharyn killswitch engage !!
    False history Xerath
    war pigs 'sabbath
    no more tears ozzy ozbourne

    Reign in blood is the album title, Raining blood the song.

    Walk by pantera!
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  • AndyRubio
    AndyRubio Posts: 880
    There's only one riff that matters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-du6uoo9Qu0&t=0m37s
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    T. Rex (no not the veg lard) and 20th Century Boy...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMm0RYovM5U

    Just adopt a pose and get yaw groove on.
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Has to be:- Gimme some lovin'. Spencer Davis group.

    Sometimes less is more. :D
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    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • schmako
    schmako Posts: 1,982
    Anything by Tosin Abasi
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Creeping Death - Metallica
    Walk - Pantera
  • stevec205gti
    stevec205gti Posts: 366
    Heart shaped box - Nirvana
    Jeremy - Pearl Jam
    She bangs the drums - Stone Roses

    Quite basic guitar riff intro's (quite basic says the guy who can't play any instrument at all lol) that lead into great songs that you can't help but play loud
    Has the head wind picked up or the tail wind dropped off???
  • mmitchell88
    mmitchell88 Posts: 340
    Panzer by Amplifier
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    And then you put in the milk.
  • Marky
    Marky Posts: 504
    The Undertones - Boys will be boys (Album: Hypnotised)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNVaGEwX0ks
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    I'm much more of an F1 fan than a rock fan, so my opinion my be clouded by that, but I do love the riff from Fleetwood Mac's The Chain.

    Rock fans may not think its a great riff, but it sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it and makes me drive a bit faster.
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  • StillGoing
    StillGoing Posts: 5,211
    Vince Neil - You're invited but your friend can't come
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qBg1cWp ... re=related

    Motley Crue - Kickstart my heart
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrOe8vX_Uk0

    Living Colour - Cult of personality
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzdUy90v ... re=related
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground
    The Passenger - Iggy Pop
    Rock n Roll Star - Oasis
    Dying to Meet You - Julian Cope
  • cyclingtaz
    cyclingtaz Posts: 326
    everlong - the foo fighters
    paint it black - the rolling stones
    nothing else matters- metalica
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