Karnidge 2 Posted May 3, 2004 Share Posted May 3, 2004 What exactly is a "riff" anyway? A poll on BBC. The top 20 riffs: 1. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses 2. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 3. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin 4. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple 5. Enter Sandman - Metallica 6. Layla - Derek & The Dominoes/Eric Clapton 7. Master Of Puppets - Metallica 8. Back In Black - AC/DC 9. Voodoo Chili (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix 10. Paranoid - Black Sabbath 11. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne 12. All Right Now - Free 13. Plug In Baby - Muse 14. Black Dog - Led Zeppelin 15. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - Van Halen 16. Walk This Way - Aerosmith w Run DMC 17. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream 18. No-One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age 19. Paradise City - Guns N' Roses 20. Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 This sounds like a "tick your favourite song with guitars on out of a list someone has come up with" type poll, and is from Guitar Player magazine whose readers are only going to listen to a fairly narrow range of music. Even still, some of the tunes in there don't even have clear riffs. "Paranoid" is classic hard rock, but it has kind of a shuffly rhythm, and not a riff. My fave Sabs riff would be "Hole in the Sky". Since its from Guitar Player magazine, maybe it's too much to expect to see a bass riff in there. From the 90s, "Give It Away" pretty much beats everything else from rock music. My king of the riffs is Ron Asheton from the Stooges. Most rock guitarists are too much up their own behinds to give him much credit, but he blows them all away. Link to post Share on other sites
mina2 6 Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 Hmmm. Boston. I used to love that first lp of theirs. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 Stooges. Good taste! Link to post Share on other sites
stripper on coke 0 Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 Guitar riff - Dire Straits 'Money for nothing (and your chicks for free)' Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted May 7, 2004 Share Posted May 7, 2004 and what about Pink Floyd??? Shine on you crazy diamond??? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted May 8, 2004 Share Posted May 8, 2004 Riff? Hmm, but class all the same - How Soon Is Now? The Smiths. Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted May 9, 2004 Share Posted May 9, 2004 Voodoo Chili? Some good riffs there. Some of my faves: Soundgarden: Jesus Christ Pose Kenny Wayne Sheppard: Blue on Black Megadeth: Trust Weezer: My Name is Jonas Link to post Share on other sites
KlingKlang 1 Posted May 15, 2004 Share Posted May 15, 2004 I'm not really into guitars. Link to post Share on other sites
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