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Best Guitar Riff

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 NorthernRock 28 Mar 2011
Following on from The Best Guitar Solo thread

The Best Guitar Riff

Metallica - ......and justice for all?
 Bulls Crack 28 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:

I'm sure this was done very recently but: Comfortably Numb
Removed User 28 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:

Melvins: Honey Bucket
youtube.com/watch?v=wAl3A2pYFhM&

Black Sabbath: Symptom of the universe
youtube.com/watch?v=14qjtGEePVY&

 Tom Last 28 Mar 2011
In reply to Bulls Crack:
> (In reply to NorthernRock)
>
> I'm sure this was done very recently but: Comfortably Numb

Great tune, but I can't think of a riff as such?

Lithium - Nirvana
 Strife 28 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:

Trash Talk - Hash Wednesday: youtube.com/watch?v=yDFXz_MMjvk&

Throats - Locked Blue: youtube.com/watch?v=DCd0Ytljgzo&

Last, but not least, the last few minutes of The Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy): youtube.com/watch?v=x4CzqrPZtXk&
 Lankyman 29 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock: the old ones ARE the best ones:
Whole Lotta Love, Led Zep
Ain't Talkin Bout Love, Van Halen
Jailbreak, Thin Lizzy
Paranoid, Black Sabbath
and so and so on ........
 AndyE9 29 Mar 2011
Caint explaine , the who .
 graeme jackson 29 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:
Alice Cooper has all the best ones....

Schools out
Poison
Eighteen
 Stefan Kruger 29 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:

Muse, plugin baby

youtube.com/watch?v=Ke4KteNaU_s&
 MJ 29 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:

Smoke on the Water: -

youtube.com/watch?v=9f7LwuVF8Oo&
 Morgan Woods 29 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:

just about anything by ac/dc but A Long Way to the Top would be my pick.
 Thrudge 29 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:
AC/DC's "Beat Around the Bush" has got to be a contender:

youtube.com/watch?v=5CGLneL5LR4&

And there's a great violin cover of System of a Down's "Toxicity":

youtube.com/watch?v=WMKmQmkJ9gg&
 dunc56 29 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:

From 0.46 on - sounds a bit Racer X

youtube.com/watch?v=e3zI-WwrtcA&

or heavier - 0.43 on

youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-DTrMG4vs&
 The Ivanator 29 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock: It is the start of Voodoo Child by Hendrix. youtube.com/watch?v=WoAXW30mMAg&
 GrahamD 29 Mar 2011
In reply to Removed User:

> Black Sabbath: Symptom of the universe

What a great call !
 rallymania 29 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:
walk or cemetry gates by pantera

for "killer pop rock" enter sandman by metallica

no more tears and crazy train (RR, oh how "we" miss you sir!) from ozzy are pretty awesome too.

and going "old skool" how about the sentinel by the priiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeest?

crikey i'm old
 graeme jackson 29 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:
Budgie. Hammer and Tongs. Great heavy metal riff.
"Motorcycle Emptiness" Manics.
 jimhall 30 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock: John Butler - Oceans
 Danzig 30 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock: Black Sabbath-'sabbath bloody sabbath', Dokken-'Mr Scary', Metallica-'Master of Puppets'
In reply to Danzig:

Here are a few of my favourites off the top of my head

Metallica - Creeping Death
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Ratt - Lay it Down
Ozzy - I Don't Know or Crazy Train
Megadeth - Holy Wars The Punishment Due
Alice in Chains - We die Young
VAn Halen - Aint Talkin bout love or Panama or Unchained
Sound Garden - Jesus Christ Pose
 John.RH 30 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock: Dire Straits -Money For nothing,- The Lemon Song Led Zep, Sweet Emotion -Aerosmith.
 Danzig 30 Mar 2011
In reply to Michael Woods: Anything by Randy Rhoads, AC/DC-Whole lotta Rosie, Highway to Hell, Van Halen-Panama, Slayer-Reign in Blood or Dead Skin Mask (or the break in Angel of Death), George Lynch-Wicked Sensation, Sword-Life on the Sharp Edge
In reply to NorthernRock:

Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
Layla - Derek & The Dominoes
Ships in the Night -- Be-Bop Deluxe
 Dave Garnett 30 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:

Billy Bragg: Man in the Iron Mask.
 Steve John B 30 Mar 2011
In reply to NorthernRock:

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
Hendrix - Sunshine of Your Love
Derek & the Dominoes - Layla
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
The Smiths - This Charming Man

Good doesn't have to mean heavy!

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