Favorite Guitar Riffs

[Le_Big_Mac]

"Sunshine of Your Love" - Cream
"Layla" - Derek & the Dominos
"Satisfaction" - The Rolling Stones
"Bitch" - The Rolling Stones
"Heartbreaker" - Led Zeppelin
"Sweet Child 'O Mine" - Guns 'n Roses
"Walk This Way" - Aerosmith
"American Woman" - The Guess Who
"Back in Black" - AC/DC
"If You Want Blood (You Got It) - AC/DC
"Come As You Are" - Nirvana
"All Apologies" - Nirvana
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana
"Heart Shaped Box" - Nirvana
"Under Pressure" - Queen & David Bowie
"Another One Bites the Dust" - Queen
"Day Tripper" - The Beatles
"Oh, Pretty Woman" - Roy Orbison
"Iron Man" - Black Sabbath
"Paranoid" - Black Sabbath
"Crazy Train" - Ozzy Osbourne
"Enter Sandman" - Metallica
"Master of Puppets" - Metallica
"Purple Haze" - Jimi Hendrix
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" - Jimi Hendrix
"Monkey Man" - The Rolling Stones
"Stairway to Heaven" - Led Zeppelin
"Bo Diddley" - Bo Diddley
"Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd
"Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple


What are some of yours?

[Brando @$$ Fat]

"Smoke on the Water" is an abomination of a riff.

"There's No Other Way"- Blur
"Cover Me"- Bruce Springsteen
"Tenth Avenue Freeze Out"- Bruce Springsteen
"Run Through the Jungle"- Creedence Clearwater Revival
"(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea"- Elvis Costello
"Not Great Men"- Gang of Four
"Eternal Life"- Jeff Buckley
"She's Lost Control"- Joy Division
"Only Shallow"- My Bloody Valentine
"Supersonic"- Oasis
"Long Snake Moan"- PJ Harvey
"Bigmouth Strikes Again"- The Smiths (love that jangly guitar)
"LowDown"- Tom Waits


Meh, these are just the ones that first come to mind. I'll finish when I'm not so lazy.

[Cop No. 633]

"She's So Heavy" by the Beatles
"Minor Swing" by Django Reinhardt
"Haitian Fight Song" by Charles Mingus
"Mr PC" by John Coltrane
"Criminal" by Fiona Apple
"Pain It Black" by the Rolling Stones
"Where is My Mind?" by the Pixies
"Brick is Red" by the Pixies
"No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age
"Paranoid Android" by Radiohead
"This is a Man's World" by James Brown
"House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals
"Making Time" by the Creation
"Baba O'Riley" by the Who
"Vitamin C" by Can
"I Fought the Law" by the Clash
"Janie Jones" by the Clash
"Yer Blues" by the Beatles
"Imagine" by John Lennon
"Son of Sam" by Elliott Smith
"Summertime" by Janis Joplin and Big Brother & Holding Co.
"Save Me" by Aimee Mann
"Momentum" by Aimee Mann
"Dead in Love" by Desert Sessions
"A Quick One" by the Who (that song's got so many good riffs)
"Superstition" by Stevie Wonder
"Highway Chile" by Jimi Hendrix
"Chick Habit" by April March (Serge Gainsburg)
"Moonage Daydream" by David Bowie
"Just" by Radiohead
"Tangled Up in Plaid" by Queens of the Stone Age
"Jockey Full of Bourbon" by Tom Waits
"Singapore" by Tom Waits
"God Save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols
"Knock, Knock" by the Humane Society
"the Seeker" by the Who
"Goin' Out West" by Tom Waits
"London Calling" by the Clash
"Take 5" by Dave Brubeck Quartet
"Underdog" by Sly and Family Stone
"Run, Run, Run" by the Velvet Underground
"Waiting for the Man" by Velvet Underground

.... well, that's all I can think of at the moment. Oh, I realized some of these songs aren't "guitar riffs" but I think it's worth noting that some bass or piano riffs are just as good in my book. They're mostly guitar anyway.

[Cermond]

Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Black Sabbath - Snowblind
King Crimson - Red
King Crimson - 21th Century Schizoid Man
Iron Maiden - Prowler
Iron Maiden - The Phantom Of The Opera
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Jethro Tull - New Day Yesterday
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
Running Wild - Tortuga Bay
Running Wild - Riding The Storm
Running Wild - Conquistadores
Running Wild - Marooned
Sepultura - Arise
Sodom - Baptism Of Fire
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - Raining Blood
Slayer - Necrophobic
Metallica - Creeping Death
Metallica - Motorbreath
Celtic Frost - Progeny
Celtic Frost - Ain Elohim
Celtic Frost - The Usurper
Reverend Bizarre - Doom Over The World
Reverend Bizarre - They Used Dark Forces
Impaled Nazarene - Armageddon Death Squad
King Diamond - Magic
King Diamond - Mansion In The Darkness
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul.. Please
King Diamond - Dressed In White
Death - Zero Tolerance
Death - Flattening Of Emotions
Death - Suicide Machine
Death - Empty Words
Ayreon - Loser
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Pantera - Domination
Pantera - Cemetery Gates
Pungent Stench - Festered Offals
Morbid Angel - Visions From The Dark Side
Pink Floyd - Money
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Venom - Countess Bathory
Venom - Bloodlust
Anthrax - Armed And Dangerous
Anthrax - A.I.R
Autopsy - Charred Remains
Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face
Cannibal Corpse - Skull Full Of Maggots
Cannibal Corpse - Fucked With A Knife
Candlemass - Julie Laughs No More
Kalmah - Groan Of Wind
Obituary - Chopped In Half
Obituary - Turned Inside Out
Vader - Wings
Vader - The Sea Came In At Last
Velvet Underground - Heroin
Peer Günt - Fuck The Jazz
Rush - Limelight
Rush - Spirit Of The Radio
Rush - Freewill

[therealjohng]

Master of Puppets - Metallica
Schism - Tool
Wish - Nine Inch Nails
Come as You Are - Nirvana
Sick, Sick, Sick - Queens of the Stone Age

[The Postmaster General]

Anything off of Physical Graffiti.

[athf1980]

Back in the Black-AC/DC
Entersand man-Metallica
Master of Puppets-Metallica
Walk-Panerta
Iron Man-Black Sabbath
NIB-Black Sabbath
Smoke on the Water-deep purple
Thunderkiss-White Zombie

[Jerk Shapiro]

"The Ocean" - Led Zeppelin
"Freedom" - Rage Against the Machine
"Aenima" - Tool
"Slaves and Bulldozers" - Soundgarden
"Sludge Factory" - Alice in Chains
"5 Minutes Alone" - Pantera
"Purple Stain'' - Red Hot Chili Peppers

[dreamcurls]

The guitar solos from:
Man in the Box-Alice in Chains
Livin on the Edge-Aerosmith
Gel-Collective Soul
Rest in Peace-Extreme
No More Tears-Ozzy
Fade to Black-Metallica
No One Knows-Queens of the Stoneage

[one_crow_sorrow]

Cherub Rock. Pretty much anything from the Pumpkins' first three albums, really.

[starcat]

beautiful people - marilyn manson
teenage frankentein - alice cooper
anything by ac/dc
talk dirty to me - poison
paradise city, sweet child of mine, bad obsession, and many more - guns n roses
runnin with the devil - van halen
i hear you knockin - dave edmunds
black betty - ram jam
bad to the bone, gear jammer, one bourban - george thourogood
smoke on the water - deep purple
iron man - black sabbath

[dreamcurls]

Train Kept A Rollin'- Aerosmith

[Jon Lyrik]

King Crimson - Red
King Crimson - 21th Century Schizoid Man

Add Marquee Moon by Television. Thread over.