Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Best guitar riff ever?

Okay I'll start -

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Tommy Iommi has a pocketful of good riffs.

anything where it goes "der ner ner neeeer"

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Here are some memorable ones that are among my favs. Most are fairly obvious.

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Iron Man - Black Sabbath (Beavis and Butthead agree)
Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
B*tch - The Rolling Stones
My Sharona - The Knack
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Whole Lot of Love - Led Zeppelin
Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
Peter Gunn - Henri Mancini wrote it - pick your version
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
It's a Long Way to the Top if You Wanna Rock and Roll - AC/DC
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Alright Now - Free
Walk This Way - Aerosmith

for mettalicca i like "creeping death"

Maybe not the best ones technically, but they make an impact:
Dogs - Pink Floyd...those who have heard the song know what riff I mean
More than a Feeling- Boston
Back in Black- AC/DC
Sunday Bloody Sunday- U2
Jessica- The Allman Brothers Band
Du Hast- Rammstein...so crunchy

and tons more.

The bass line on the Beatles' Paperback Writer

Blind Faith: Had To Cry Today
Captain Beefheart: Moonlight On Vermont
The Kinks: Lola, (and many others)
The Beatles: Ticket To Ride, Daytripper
Led Zeppelinn: Black Dog (the vocal is superfluous...this song is entirely a riff)
King Crimson: Red (massive rolling thunder riff mows down everything in its path)
Bela Bartok: Piano Concerto #1, middle movement (Bartok deploys piano tone clusters, literally pounded out with fist and forearms...this music is very angry and furious; I love it!)

AC/DC- Dog Eat Dog
AC/DC- Back In Black
AC/DC- Hells Bells
AC/DC- Dirt Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

The list goes on for AC/DC...

Two I like off hand are:

Jose Neto has a nice solo in "Silvia (Who is she?)" on the album About Time-Steve Winwood

Jeff Beck "Beck's Bolero" from the album Truth

instrumental listening room:
http://www.guitar9.com/listeningroom.html

Metallica's 'Seek and Destroy' is hard to beat.

guns n roses - opening of sweet child o mine

Here are some memorable ones that are among my favs. Most are fairly obvious.

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Iron Man - Black Sabbath (Beavis and Butthead agree)
Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
B*tch - The Rolling Stones
My Sharona - The Knack
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Whole Lot of Love - Led Zeppelin
Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
Peter Gunn - Henri Mancini wrote it - pick your version
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
It's a Long Way to the Top if You Wanna Rock and Roll - AC/DC
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Alright Now - Free
Walk This Way - Aerosmith


Reading your list has taken me back in time. I thought I had a buzz goin' on!

Wipeout - The Sufaris
Tweezer - Phish
Virtually every song on G n R's Appetite for Destruction.


+1 on the Peter Gunn mention above

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Zepplin - Dazed and Confuzed, actually anything off the 1st album
Al DiMeola - Race with the Devil on Spanish Highway off Elegant Gypsy.
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing. listen to the amps cookin.
Beatles - And Your Bird can Sing
Derek and the Dominoes - Bell Bottom Blues
Stones - Can't you hear me knockin, and Bi tch
Allman brothers bass riff for whippin post.

Looking at the above list all I can say is "oh god, I'm old."

u2-the fly

Goverment Issue - Understand, or something by The Wipers

Funkadelic "Maggot Brain"

Iron Man - Black Sabbath (Beavis and Butthead agree)
It's a Long Way to the Top if You Wanna Rock and Roll - AC/DC
Enter Sandman - Metallica


Three songs that make me standup and dance...seriously I get up and want to jump through walls. Good pics

Yeah lots of great riffs from Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb is also one of my favorites.

OK here are some that NEED to be on the list,

Barracuda by Heart. One of the BIGGEST arse kicking riffs of all time.

We will Rock You by Queen. Absolute classic.

Not that I've ever been into glam rock but Kick Start My Heart by Motley Crue was a riff that always got me going.

Regards, Anthony

Get down wid da funk

What about...

Superfreak - Rick James
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Le Freak - Chic
Lady Marmalade - La Belle

?:D

Bootsy!

Ow, we want the funk
Give up the funk
Ow, we need the funk
We gotta have that funk

I wish I had the guts to walk through life and dress like Bootsy .

http://wmg.jp/artist/bootsycollins/images/mid/WA_302766.jpg

http://spectacle.provocateuse.com/images/spectacles/bootsy_collins_01.jpg

I'd imagine off stage he's a jeans & tee-shirt kinda guy. Not really any more eccentric than someone like Ric Flair, Dennis Rodman or Tyrell Owens... Just way more funk!

No way. Bootsy dresses like a pimp peacock on acid all of the time. Even to mow the lawns or go get the paper in the morning.

The Eleven on Live Dead, for that matter Live Dead the entire album. It is almost 1 long riff. and as a bonus you'll swear you can see the "Matrix" of life around you.:D

Rebel Rebel - David Bowie

Nobody knows the name "Chuck Berry?" All later rock sounds SO wimpy after "Johnny B. Goode."
Honorable mentions--either Hubert Sumlin or Buddy Guy playing on "Hidden Charms" by Howlin' Wolf, and
Django Reinhardt on "HCQ Strut."

The acoustic guitar opening to Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

This is talking about rock guitar, so I'll say
Crazy Train-Ozzy/Randy Rhoads
Ain't talkin' bout love-Van Halen
Enter Sandman-Metalica
Smoke This-Lynch Mob
Lifes been good- Joe Walsh
LeGrange-ZZ Top
Voodoo Chile-Hendrix (I like the SRV version better)
There are so many more but thats just a few off the top of my head.

LeGrange-ZZ Top


How the fudge did I miss that one?:)

LeGrange-ZZ Top
Take a listen to Fried Hockey Boogie by Canned Heat from 1967. ZZ Top stole it from Canned Heat. Canned Heat probably stole it from John Lee Hooker.

Take a listen to Fried Hockey Boogie by Canned Heat from 1967. ZZ Top stole it from Canned Heat. Canned Heat probably stole it from John Lee Hooker.

True, many old blues songs with that riff or something close.

Definitely should have mentioned:

Rage Against the Machine "Killing in the Name"

Megadeth- Hanger 18

Hendrix, Machine Gun, From Live at the Fillmore East

Accidents-Alexisonfire

The 2 quitar solo(s) in Hotel California

Ernie Isley - That Lady

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Back My Bullets on Southern By The Grace of God Album (Steve Morse on guitar)

^ the last 2 minutes are just amazing to me :eek: :eek: :eek:

Link Wray - Rumble

Nobody knows the name "Chuck Berry?" All later rock sounds SO wimpy after "Johnny B. Goode."



Thank you!

For you youngsters I can
only recommend Jimmy Hendrix.

Enough Said.

dragon force-prepare for war, 4:24+

Jessica- The Allman Brothers Band
+1 This is my fave.....it's not the most talented, but has the most style I think.

Another of my faves...not sure if its really a riff though...it's a slow instrumental guitar song, and again, not the most talented guirtar playing, but major kudos on sound and style.
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross

Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King and Paul Butterfield
http://www.sugarjar.com/media/47915/

Jeff Healey
http://www.sugarjar.com/media/47915/

Jimi Hendrix (at woodstock, '69)
http://www.sugarjar.com/media/49279/

Intro to "Kickstart My Heart" by Motley Crue

You all drank the bongwater, and forgot the #1 riff of all time:

Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters

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All rock riffs are derivative of the original barnstormer. Yes, even Ionni admits it.




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You all drank the bongwater, and forgot the #1 riff of all time:

Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters

:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer::beer::beer::beer:

All rock riffs are derivative of the original barnstormer. Yes, even Ionni admits it.




Threads over, go home, thanks for playing!

LOL that's a crazay song

ac/dc - heatseeker

kicka** riff, if it doesn't make you drive 100mph you haven't a soul