Most Memorable Guitar Riffs



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What guitar riffs are most memorable to you? Feel free to list any genre and/or era. Keep it to "riffs" in the song, not the song itself or a guitar solo.

My tops 5 are:

  1. Whole Lotta Love - Zeppelin
  2. Back In Black - AC/DC
  3. Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns & Roses
  4. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
  5. VooDoo Chili - Hendrix
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Re: Most Memorable Guitar Riffs

Ok, I don't see my fellow Texan Stevie Ray Vaughn on this list.  I am at this moment listening to his "riffs" in  "Pride and Joy". 



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Re: Most Memorable Guitar Riffs

ah yes, srv is one the great's.  i like his version of little wing.



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Re: Most Memorable Guitar Riffs

Clapton- Layla

The Eagles- Hotel California

Led Zeppelin- Ten Years Gone

George Harrison- Something

 

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Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
It needs more cow bell though. I downloaded a nice app for the ipod and iphone that allows additional cow bell to any song.

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/18/more-cowbell/



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Wow. I guess because I am from Alabama, I noticed nobody has mentioned Lynard Skynard!

Tuesdays Gone has my favorite riff.



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Led Zeppelin - Good Times, Bad Times

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

Golden Earring - Radar Love

Steppenwolf Born To Be WILD

MeatLoaf - Paradise By the Dashboard Lights

John Cougan - Small Town

Lynyrd Skynrd - Sweet Home Alabama (turn it up)

Free - All Right Now

Ted Nugent Cat Scratch Fever

George Thorogood - Bad to the BONE

The Monkeys - last Train to Clarksville Smiling



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Re: Most Memorable Guitar Riffs

dont forget billy squire - stroke me



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dont forget billy squire - stroke me

right on! huge squire fan here.

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Re: Most Memorable Guitar Riffs

Now for some mandolin riffs.

Cuts like a knife - Bryan Adams MTV Unpluged  

Loosin my religion - R.E.M.

Maggie May - Rod stewart

Iris - Goo goo dolls, origanaly played on guitar in an alternate tuning, played live on mondolin.

 



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Re: Most Memorable Guitar Riffs

these are quite memorable too...

1. INXS - need you tonight

2. beastie boys - no sleep till brooklyn

3. dire straights - money for nothing

4. jimi hendrix - foxy lady

5. U2 - streets have no name

6. NIN - closer (not really guitar, but..)

7. AC/DC - shook me all night long

8. michael jackson - beat it

9. van halen - aint talkin bout love

10. def leppard - pour some sugar on me

11. primus - my name is mud

12. korn - blind

13. green day - when i come around

14. tool - sober

15. no doubt - just a girl

16. mudvayne - dig

17. bob marley - exodus 



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Cemetary gates- Pantera (rip dime)

 Honestly though anything Dime has ever done is memorable hands down. The greatest guitarist of my generation I dont care what anyone thinks because I know I hvae thousands to back me up on this.

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here here!  ive always loved becoming, mouth for war,... could keep on going.



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Re: Most Memorable Guitar Riffs

oh! another one I don't think has been mentioned yet...

"don't fear the reaper" by blue oyster cult



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Can't listen to it anymore.  Serious.  The "Need More Cowbell" skit on SNL ruined it for me.  Forever.  Before that, I wasn't even aware there was a cowbell in the damn song and now that's all I hear. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctDX_s5QxZ8

 



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LOL that was awesome, I love Will Ferrel! My emotional history with this song is too deep-seated to be ruined by the skit, but I can understand why it's a joke to alot of people now.



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Reaper was in the set of a band I was once in.  Depending on the mood of the crowd, the singer would sometimes grab the cowbell for the 3rd verse and wail away.  Usually most in the audience knew the joke.

 



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rage against the machine; "bulls on parade" verse riff hands down.

deftones; "engine no. 9"

billy squier; "stroke me"



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Here's another good riff that I like to work into a solo.  If you have "Miss America" by Styx in your mp3 folder, check the rhythm guitar at 52 seconds in.  Quintessential Tommy Shaw.



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I've been playing rock guitar for what seems like forever - started learning when I was 14 and I'm now 46...  sheez..old...

My personal definition of a riff is a repeating 1 - 2 measure musical pattern.  A good guitar riff to me is a repeating pattern that always makes me smile when I hear or play it.  Some excellent ones have been named already - here are some of my current favorites that make me smile.

"Tie Your Mother Down" (intro) - Queen
"Mama Kin" (intro) - Aerosmith
"Lit Up" (intro) - Buckcherry
"Let the  Good Times Roll" (intro) - The Cars
"Gypsy Road" (intro & chorus) - Cinderella
"Stone In Love" (intro) - Journey
"Heart-Shaped Box" (whole song) - Nirvana
"Snowballed" (intro) - AC/DC
"Jailbreak" (intro) - AC/DC



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Keep in touch with Mama Kin
Tell her where you've gone and been
Livin' out your fantasy
Sleepin' late and smokin' tea

 

You are my new favorite person for mentioning aerosmith!  



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i love the gnr cover of this song.



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Keep in touch with Mama Kin
Tell her where you've gone and been
Livin' out your fantasy
Sleepin' late and smokin' tea

okay AE, that would have been a great lyric entry for the 80's Music Trivia thread, doll.

 

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Its got the song title in the lyrics silly!



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uh..yea, just testing you love Cool.

 

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Spiderbait - Black Betty

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No joe perry riffs from aerosmith songs? im heartbroken Sad

joe satriani maybe? no? 



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yes yes! those too! i just put what comes to my mind. so this evening i'm playing the rattle & hum concert dvd and when i hear and watch the very beginning of U2's song "Bad".....arguably the Edge's greatest riff ever!

 

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forgot that one, great song, also forgot "All I want is you". there are just to many of Edges riffs to mention. He may not be the most technical guitarist, but he makes up for it with originality, melody, and a sound unlike anyone else, and thats what makes him great.

And for anyone who thinks its all about speed or some other Technical skill just know this, there are many nobody guitarist that can play every Hendrix, Van Halen, Clapton and slash lick, Riff or solo perfectly, But since they can't create anything themselves they will never hit it big.

The great guitarists are not popular for their technical ability but for their creative talent. The average person doesn't care how many notes someone plays, just as long as they can remember what you played five minutes later.    



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The Beatles - Day tripper

Cream - Sunshine of your love, cocaine  

The Eagles - Life in the fastlane

The Police - Message in a bottle, Every breath you take

Jimi Hendrix - All along the watch tower, little wing, Purple haze

U2 - Where the streets have no name, Even better than the real thing, One, The Fly, Beautiful day, Vertigo, I will follow, Electric CO, Elevation, Sunday bloody Sunday, Pride, In a little while, Mysterious Ways, All because of you.

Jeff Buckley - Last goodbye

The Kinks - You really got me, All day and all of the night.

Kansas - Carry on my wayward son

Bryan Adams - Summer of 69

now for a few bass riffs

Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4

U2 - New Years day, Bullet the blue sky.

The Association - Windy 

 

 

 

 



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ah yes! all excellent. i have to admit, i'd be totally lost without my music. i need it to think, clean, drive, chill, etc. sometimes some vintage metal while other times it can be bach's cello suite #1. just depends on what kind of mood i'm in.

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Ok, adding more:

Metallica - One

Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell (And basically all the recurring riffs throughout 'The Wall'.)

INXS - Devil Inside

Disturbed - Just Stop (All their songs have a cool, distinctive, raw guitar sound to them...) 



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nice mr. iamthedevil. i'll see your riffs and add four:

  1. Scorpions- The Zoo (love this live!)
  2. Nirvana - Come As You Are
  3. Black Sabbath - Iron Man (that song use to scare the shites out of me!)
  4. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker/Livin'Lovin' She's Just a Woman

 

 

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Re: Most Memorable Guitar Riffs

I was gonna also add:

Danzig - Mother

The Doors - L.A. Woman

Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused 



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The first one that comes to my mind is:

"I can't get no satisfaction" by the rolling stones. 

 



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Absolutely!!!  You beat me to it..



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Black Sabbath - N.I.B.

Slayer - Threshold 

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Megadeth - Holy wars

 

I'll add more later...