Best Riffs of All Time...

[x0o_BurnOut_o0x]

Whats your favorite riff, one that makes you feel like your gonna orgasm everytime you hear it?

Bad Brains- She's Calling You (Intro)

[stackny]

AC/DC Beating Around the Bush intro
Skid Row Here I Am Intro

These will prolly suck compared to some of your favorites, but what can I say, Im new to the guitar....

[Jolly McJollyson]

Metallica- Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden- Losfer Words
Iron Maiden- Powerslave
Zeppelin- Black Dog

[CW14]

Slayer - Dead Skin Mask (well mabe not orgasm... perhaps hurt someone)
Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow and Fade to Black (the one around 4:00)

[Randal Floyd]

Not the best of all time but good none the less.....

Pink Floyd - Money
Led Zeppelin- Over the Hills and Far Away
Dire Straights - Money for Nothing
Van Halen - Aint Talkin Bout Love
Peter Frampton - Do you Feel Like we Do

[Leedogg]

Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Pantera - Cemetary Gates
GNR - Locomotive
Satriani - Extremist

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Metallica - Sandman (or enter the sandman, or whatever, I always forget the name)
a bunch of red hot chili peppers riffs
and just about any kind of solo that fits really well with the emotion of the song

[iiholly]

Dazed and Confused

[Akira]

Symphony X - Of Sins and Shadows
Symphony X - Smoke and Mirrors
Joe Satriani - One Big Rush
Joe Satriani - The Extremist
Steve Vai - Erotic Nightmares
Steve Vai - The Animal
Racer X - Poison Eyes
Racer X - Heart of a Lion
Fu Manchu - Hell on Wheels
Fu Manchu - Hogwash
Ratm - Freedom
Ratm - Bullet in the Head
Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
Muse - Sober
Extreme - Li'l Jack Horny
Extreme - Warheads

Uhh, did you want just one favourite riff? If so, then i'm void.

[PRSplaya]

VH- Unchained
VH- Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
VH- Panama
G'N'R- Sweet Child Of Mine
G'N'R- Welcome to the Jungle
RATM- Killing In The Name Of
Candlebox- Don't You

Not best, but probably my favorites.

[Leedogg]

I just remembered another I really love...


Led Zeppelin - Traveling Riverside Blues

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

oh, I just remembered one...
Velvot revolver - fall to pieces, at the part where the guitar goes DAAA-da-da-da-da-dun-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-dun-dun-dun-dun... you know what I mean right?

[Jolly McJollyson]

Dazed and Confused
I was gonna say that one, but I couldn't remember the name of the song, haha.

[aschleman]

oh, I just remembered one...
Velvot revolver - fall to pieces, at the part where the guitar goes DAAA-da-da-da-da-dun-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-dun-dun-dun-dun... you know what I mean right?
I do know what you mean! haha... I love the riff to "Slither" by Velvet Revolver... that song is probably the best rock song to come out in the past few years. Some others...

Metallica - Seek and Destroy
Metallica - Master of Puppets.... Hettfield is arguably one of the best rythym players out there.
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child
Pantera - Cemetary Gates
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Pantera - I'm Broken
Chevelle - anything by these guys. the dude is a riff machine!!!
Pink Floyd - Money! haha
I could go on.... but I won't.

[Randal Floyd]

Ozma - Baseball

[-Plastic-]

Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun(Intro)

[R. Shackleferd]

Well not sure that they're riffs exactly, but:
Moonlight Sonata-Beethoven
Capricho Arabe-Francisco Tarrega
Revolution Is My Name-Pantera
Blackened-Metallica
La Villa Strangiato-Rush (especially the solo)
One Nation-Deadhorse
mmmk...there's lots more, but that's plenty for here.
Nice choice on that Machine Gun track by Jimi btw.

[dakine80]

Dime- "Regular People"
Dime- "Mouth for War"
Dime- "Death Rattle" interlude
Slash- "Sweet Child O' Mine"
Slash- "Estranged" intro
Slash- "You Could Be Mine"
Eddie- "Take Your Whiskey Home" acoustic intro
Eddie- "Drop Dead Legs"
Eddie- "Hot For Teacher"

Zakk- "No More Tears"
Cantrell- "Man in the Box"
Satch- "Satch Boogie"

I could also go on for ever, but I too, will not.

[Gibson13601]

Sweet Child of mine! But then again there are so many its hard to choose. But Sweet Child was the one that made me really want to become a serious guitar player when I was just a litttle Nard!

[alucard0941]

wow im suprized no one said crazy train

[x0o_BurnOut_o0x]

Have any of you listened to PRS_Playa's mic checks? I heard an extremely badass riff in his most recent one...Sounds almost metallicay

[Blues_Man]

jimi hendrix: voodoo chile, machine gun, purple haze

eric clapton: sunshine of your love, white room, Layla

Lynyrd skynyrd: sweet home alabama, tuesdays gone, gimme three steps

AC/DC: Highway to hell, back in black, hells bells

Led Zeppelin: the ocean, immigrant song, black dog

[panterrules925]

Pantera - Cowboys from hell (intro)
Guns n Roses - welcome to the jungle (chorus)
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile ( THE WHOLE ****ING SONG)
Van Halen - Ice Cream man ( intro....not alot of ppl i know like this song but i think there ****ing crazy)

[sikamikanico]

rhcp- search and destroy

[kill em all]

Jump in the fire - metallica
crazy train - ozzy
always with me always with you - Satriani

[Jolly McJollyson]

Jump in the fire - metallica
Why does it not shock me that someone with the name "Kill em all" would like this song?

[Caliko]

Defenitely Dazed and Confused.

Others:
Most Led Zeppelin and ACDC
Machine Gun
Purple Haze
Voodoo Chile
Sweet Home Alabama
Up Around the Bend
Money
Have a Cigar
A couple of Jethro Tull's heavy riffs are okay

[stackny]

Over the Hills and Far Away is the song that made me wanna play guitar. I love it.

[stackny]

I keep thinking of more and have to post....

GNR Rocket Queen, especially the riff from 4 minutes til the end. Amazing ending to an amazing album.

Metallica-Phantom Lord

[konman]

The original post was about riffs:

The Rolling Stones "Satisfaction", "Jumping Jack Flash"
Deep Purple "Smoke On The Water"
The Beatles "Day Tripper", "And Your Bird Can Sing", "Birthday"
Led Zeppelin "Rock N' Roll"

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Deep Purple "Smoke On The Water"
I was waiting for someone to say that! seriously, it's got to be one of the first licks that everybody learns! so it just doesn't get appreciated just because of that!

[Caliko]

The Rolling Stones "Satisfaction", "Jumping Jack Flash"

Yea! Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones

I just saw them do their A Bigger Bang Concert in Moncton, New Brunswick. :eek: All I can say is that it was the most amazing and energizing experience of my life. Played to a crowd of roughly 85 000.

[stratman!]

lets see..

Zep- Wanton Song, Achilies Last Stand
Rainbow- Man on the Silver Mountain
Malmsteen- I'll See the Light Tonight.

Tons more..my opinion changes every 30 seconds..so i'll stick with these!

[Hooker83]

Incubus- Vitamin, Under My Umbrella
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Scar Tissue
The Mars Volta- Roulette Dares (the haunt of)
White Stripes- Offend in Every Way

[gogogo]

Hendrix-Little Wing,Red House,Hey Joe,Watchtower,Fire,Voodoo Chile Blues,Voodoo Child,Beginnings(As u can tell im a huge hendrix fan ;) )
SRV-Boot hill, Texas Flood
LEd Zep- Black Dog,WHole Lotta Love,



Plenty others not enough time to name

[b_hoves]

Deep Purple – Black Night
Eric Clapton (Cream) – Sunshine of Your Love, Cocaine
Dream Theatre – Peruvian Skies (the riff at the end of the song)
It’s not really a riff but I think it deserves honourable mention: Beatles – Something (you know that little lick)
AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie & Let There be Rock
Black Sabbath – Paranoid

[xXhardcorekidXx]

Van Halen - Eruption
Cro-Mags - Hard Times
Agnostic Front - Crucified
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under the Bridge
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills...
Saigon Kick - Love is on the Way
Extreme - Mutha (Don't Wanna Go To School Today)

[Cryptic Excretions]

I don't know about a specific riff... there are a lot of riffs and other things that always do it for me with every listen. Off hand I can think of one specific note in Steve Vai's I know you're here that just never ceases to amaze me. I love the whole song, but it's pretty much the only song I can think off the top of my head that I can single one certain note over all others. I love that song. Talking about it makes me want to watch the DVD again... for, like, the 100th time.

[Leedogg]

I don't know about a specific riff... there are a lot of riffs and other things that always do it for me with every listen. Off hand I can think of one specific note in Steve Vai's I know you're here that just never ceases to amaze me. I love the whole song, but it's pretty much the only song I can think off the top of my head that I can single one certain note over all others. I love that song. Talking about it makes me want to watch the DVD again... for, like, the 100th time.


I like the Squall he makes about 30 seconds into Blue Powder before the sweeps. If I could faithfully recreate that sounds some day, I'd put down my guitar.....for about 10 minutes....then pick it back up again.....and make the noise again.....:p

[Superhuman]

I hate The Scorpions but they have one amazing track from the old days called "Dark Night". It's been covered by a load of bands including Testament and Yngwie Malmsteen. Kick ass riff that erupts ito some really cool lead, check it out.

[walpur2001]

sunshine of my life ,cream is another good one

[z0s0_jp]

Black Sabbath-Supernaut-----totally kicks ass
Zep-Heartbreaker
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
Rush-What Your Doing
Pink Floyd-Echoes
Scorpions-Virgin Killer
Iron Butterfly- Ina-Goda-Davida??
and many UFO songs

[R. Shackleferd]

Speaking of Rush...I gotta go with Working Man. That one seems to especially hark of their roots.

Also I gotta throw out there Just Got Paid and Tush-ZZ Top.

[Grambo]

I'm not a Bon Jovi fan, but i really like the Guitar sound on :

Living on a prayer

[earthman buck]

Helter Skelter by the Beatles
Mongoloid by Devo
Mein Teil by Rammstein

I dunno, those are just a few that I like that I didn't think anyone else would mention.

[ericthecableguy]

Hallowed be thy name- Iron Maiden
A Passage to Bangkok- Rush
Metropolis pt. 1- Dream Theater

[ericthecableguy]

Iron Butterfly- Ina-Goda-Davida??

(in the garden of eden ;) )

[jiujitsu_jesus]

(in the garden of eden ;) )

I thought that's what he was saying as well - but the song is in fact titled "Inna-Gadda-Davida"... :confused:

[earthman buck]

The story goes that it was originally called "In the Garden of Eden," but one night the singer was so doped up he kept slurring the words, and it just stuck.

[ericthecableguy]

OOPS. :o

Sorry dude. My deepest apologies.

[DAMAGED ONE]

Balls to the wall (Accept)
2112 (Rush)
Jonny B Good (Frank Marino)
Great White Buffalo (Ted Nugent)
Whom the bell tolls ( Metallica)

[hunter60]

Z.Z. TOP - Tush

Rush - Working Man

BOC - Godzilla

Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave

Yessir....Hunter's gone ol' Skool!!!! Hell yea...

(and I simply refuse to apologize for the Godzilla reference. Might be a silly song, but it kicks!)

[earthman buck]

(and I simply refuse to apologize for the Godzilla reference. Might be a silly song, but it kicks!)
The man knows his Godzilla.

I think my favourite riff ever is the beginning of "Gimme Shelter." By the time the lead comes in, I usually have to change my pants.

[hunter60]

The man knows his Godzilla.

I think my favourite riff ever is the beginning of "Gimme Shelter." By the time the lead comes in, I usually have to change my pants.


Yes sir, AGREE!!! I feel the same way about 'Monkey Man'....

[chnain]

That s what make me feel good.

favourite intro : locomotive guns n roses. like it.

favourite riff : painkiller judas priest (and many more)

favourite solo : i m goin home alvin lee ten years after. (whaou very good 10 minute song 6 minutes solo, good effort).

favourite song : there so many don t know what to choose. i ll go for
trust antisocial
eric clapton 5 long years
one more hendrix (bob dylan) all along the watchtower.

ch nain.

[snakeguitars]

um i like nightrain intro by guns n roses, voodoo child by jimi hendrix and um...

[cdm442]

Sweet Child O' Mine is the second best guitar song ever right after freebird
:cool:

[damaged]

Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Aces High - Iron Maiden
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Soldier of Fortune - Deep Purple

Aussie metal band Black Majesty has a cover of soldier of fortune on their latest album it is great, progressive\power metal fans should check them out Here (www.blackmajesty.com)

[noisetherapy]

schism - tool (main riff)
tom sawyer - rush (pre chorus)
tarkus - ELP (intro)
manic depression - hendrix

off the top of my head