I don't mean to seem like I'm spamming the board here, but I think since I started a best solo thread it's only right that I make one for the best riff too.
So lets hear it, what is your favourite guitar riff?
Smoke On The Water still makes me feel like a boss every time I throw it out on my guitar.
Honorable mention to 20th Century Boy
What's with all these highly specific music questions? Are we going to have 'Best 2 seconds of guitar feedback' next?
Quote from: Spaceghost on 02 May, 2014, 09:41:03 AM
Are we going to have 'Best 2 seconds of guitar feedback' next?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3gN9Up6hmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAXYMOgHQI4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAXYMOgHQI4)
We can lock this thread now, right?
Quote from: Spaceghost on 02 May, 2014, 09:41:03 AM
What's with all these highly specific music questions? Are we going to have 'Best 2 seconds of guitar feedback' next?
All 2 of em?
That's it now. I promise.
Dragonaut (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-FjO3E8K-E)
Definitely something by Tool for me, almost everything they do riff/rhythm-wise just mesmerises me (I could stick anything from the 10,000 Days album on here and be happy with my choice!). Usually I love the complexity of their stuff but for this I'll go simple and pick Stinkfist. Ridiculously simple (just 2 notes with a bend) but man, the power in them two notes!
I've been ripping off the chords in the chorus for years too and will continue to do so for a long time yet.
Stinkfist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07pLGIgyfjw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07pLGIgyfjw)
Honorable mentions -
Last by NIN needs a mention for sheer beastly face-shredding stomp-factor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeoyOIRIeHs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeoyOIRIeHs)
Hey Man Nice Shot by Filter, which is doubly epic because as well as having one of the coolest bass lines of all time on the verse it also boasts one of the mightiest riffs ever conceived on the chorus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E#t=80 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E#t=80)
Oh, please. They knew what a good riff was in the Eighties. Exhibit A: The Cult. (http://youtu.be/8I8mWG6HlmU)
Cheers
Jim
Exhibit B: Zodiac Mindwarp. (http://youtu.be/mtnCcWOS7y8)
:-)
Cheers!
Jim
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 02 May, 2014, 03:39:43 PM
Exhibit B: Zodiac Mindwarp. (http://youtu.be/mtnCcWOS7y8)
:-)
Cheers!
Jim
That video reminds me of Warriors Of Genghis Khan. I pray that Zodiac Mindwarp was a piss take. If not, I never realized how bad the 80's had it.
Quote from: GrinningChimera on 02 May, 2014, 04:41:47 PM
I pray that Zodiac Mindwarp was a piss take.
That video was directed by Ade Edmonson so, yeah, pretty much taking the piss. Good riff, though.
Cheers
Jim
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 02 May, 2014, 03:38:00 PM
Oh, please. They knew what a good riff was in the Eighties. Exhibit A: The Cult. (http://youtu.be/8I8mWG6HlmU)
For some reason my brain went straight to Bowie. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5P63qGTm_g)
But yeah.
She Sells Sanctuary. No argument.
Quote from: Fungus on 02 May, 2014, 04:56:32 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 02 May, 2014, 03:38:00 PM
Oh, please. They knew what a good riff was in the Eighties. Exhibit A: The Cult. (http://youtu.be/8I8mWG6HlmU)
For some reason my brain went straight to Bowie. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5P63qGTm_g)
But yeah. She Sells Sanctuary. No argument.
It really is fantastic.
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 02 May, 2014, 03:38:00 PM
Oh, please. They knew what a good riff was in the Eighties. Exhibit A: The Cult. (http://youtu.be/8I8mWG6HlmU)
Cheers
Jim
How many times have I listened to that song? Many hundreds, if not thousands of times, but the opening few second always make the hairs stand on my neck. Incredible stuff.
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzd9KyIDrM
Jim wins.
Cheers
James
Boston - More Than A Feeling.
http://youtu.be/SSR6ZzjDZ94 (http://youtu.be/SSR6ZzjDZ94)
It gets no better.
Quote from: Eightball on 02 May, 2014, 08:16:32 PM
Boston - More Than A Feeling http://youtu.be/SSR6ZzjDZ94 (http://youtu.be/SSR6ZzjDZ94) It gets no better
That opinion may be related to our mutual love of Nirvana (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiTFp3vUxkg).
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 02 May, 2014, 05:24:46 PM
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzd9KyIDrM
System of a Down beat
Zodiac Mindwarp in the most cartoonish sounding band comp.
Best, and easiest, riff ever - Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols
Quote from: Spikes on 02 May, 2014, 08:51:38 PM
Best, and easiest, riff ever - Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols
You're right. Superb...
Cheers
Jim
Enough of the preamble, this is the real shit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzLewXVMIpk).
Soap and CFM have had the best ones so far, but it occurs to me that the title track to the GREATEST HEAVY METAL ALBUM OF ALL TIME might just have the odd decent riff on it....
Thought so. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKhsTXoKCI)
Fuckin' white boys:
SLEEPERS JUST STOP SLEEPIN' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnbdXWvmysg)
CAN'T BUST A GRAPE IN A FOOD FIGHT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoM5fLITfk)
I STAND UP NEXT TO THE MOUNTAIN (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9irsg1vBmq0#t=60)
Surprised nobody's menitoned Seek and Destroy or Paranoid yet. You can't really go wrong with either of those but I reckon the fewer notes the better (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGVy-PVmotI).
How few can you take (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5a22_75rWE)?
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 02 May, 2014, 09:59:25 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAXYMOgHQI4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAXYMOgHQI4)
We can lock this thread now, right?
Where does a riff end and a groove begin Stevie?
Quote from: The Cosh on 03 May, 2014, 12:00:08 AM
How few can you take (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5a22_75rWE)?
WANKER! I was going to do synth riffs next, and that's one of my favourite tunes of all time. Might as well bung these out while we're at it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6FBfAQ-NDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XMVokT5e0zs#t=92
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjUyVDkS2w0
Quote from: sauchie on 02 May, 2014, 11:49:37 PMFuckin' white boys
Step aside, bro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqclyRrHoZI).
Quote from: sauchie on 03 May, 2014, 12:16:58 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6FBfAQ-NDE
Now we're getting somewhere.
Do the Math! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN1DlWYJ6G0&t=1m13s)
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 03 May, 2014, 12:18:05 AM
Step aside, bro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqclyRrHoZI)
Damn, that's some funky shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBVfd3prKho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zkOOCx8tT08#t=25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkB_aiwjgzk
Three of the recent best on one album:
1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVV_3Z1mp_c&t=1m0s)
2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVV_3Z1mp_c&t=3m15s)
3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVV_3Z1mp_c&t=47m34s)
One for old crusties (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ZfQUVNsqo&t=1m53s).
Another for Space-Cadets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfzGkldPnc).
Turn your speakers up now:
A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM)
C (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKggnBh2Mdw)
/ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA)
D (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8fZeaUHsjw)
C (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR30knJs4Xk)
Now...
...Deploy the Heavy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2S9rwyQkJE) Metal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iwC2QljLn4) Umlaut (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0sik4yZHY8)
Yeah, yeah, scary metal men. What all you long hairs are too petrified to admit is that all your rock heroes, jamming 24 hours a day, drinking swimming pools of Jack Daniels, screwing entire fleets of stewardesses, and mainlining the GDP of Columbia straight into their perineum, could not come up with a guitar hook as instant and as deadly - which SPEAKS SO DIRECTLY TO THE WHITE MAN'S SOUL IT MAY AS WELL BE THE VOICE OF GOD - as a novelty song by a bunch of nerds, recorded as a tie-in for what was essentially a cheesy eighties children's film.
SUFFER (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4)
You old Hippie Metallers were so busy combing your long hair and smokin' your Peace Pipes that you missed this. http://youtu.be/RQOeK1EuDao
So did everyone else pretty much but I still think they were a great band who like Stiff Little Fingers and others to numerous to mention somehow didn't quite seem to get the success that I certainly felt they deserved.
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 03 May, 2014, 10:37:43 AM
Stiff Little Fingers and others to numerous to mention somehow didn't quite seem to get the success that I certainly felt they deserved
If we're talking Northern Ireland and teenage riffs, this is hard to beat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKumfRiGdQI) every time she walks down the street. This is an even better guitar line (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_mIIvUSTig) in my opinion, and the band chipping in
DO IT_DO IT backing vocals in their Derry accents gets me every time.
I agree!
I'm still well into forumer Keef's old band You Already Know - I got told off for playing this on the radio once. Like I ever said the name of the song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEw3iu-IflQ) - ! Some primary riffage there.
Gotta go with Spikes on this one: Pretty Vacant. Mind you some great early Bowie riffs - Rebel Rebel and SLF - gotta get away. Z
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 03 May, 2014, 04:34:46 PM
I'm still well into forumer Keef's old band You Already Know - I got told off for playing this on the radio once. Like I ever said the name of the song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEw3iu-IflQ) - ! Some primary riffage there.
Aw, you've made me all nostalgic now! Still chuffed you got us on the radio, pretty sure that was the only time! Cheers!
I go away for a few months and you make a new section on the board? Better kill this thread then...
I'm slightly saddened by there being only one solitary mention of the greatest, and I mean greatest, riff merchants there have ever been. So much to choose from that the thread should really be about their ouvre alone, but what follows is I think is the epitome of what guitar riffs, never mind the entirety of rock music, are all about. Also includes a nomination for the best solo and best rhythm work, like, ever dudes.
\m/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5yR5XhCIeg)
I'd nominate the whole frickin album, but as a bonus: It's named after a beard!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCT5uTdPRgs)
EDIT: Forgot to add This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zWDa9NT88E)
M.
Quote from: Mikey on 07 May, 2014, 11:00:31 AM
I'm slightly saddened by there being only one solitary mention of the greatest, and I mean greatest, riff merchants there have ever been.
Agreed - I think Sabbath's riff catalogue is so massively consistent it's hard to pick a singular one out. Into the Void is definitely a massive contender. Also a nod to the Dio era (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUjUIP2ugG4). Amazing live.
I have gone through this whole thread and did not see it. though I can't believe it is missing Whole Lotta Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQmmM_qwG4k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQmmM_qwG4k)
I think 'Thunderkiss '65' deserves a mention for sure. They've got a ton of great riffs but this one is pure gold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPNFVj-pISU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPNFVj-pISU)
Always been a favourite of mine, though I'd imagine Nigel Farage begs to differ!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RlNhD0oS5pk
Yeah, but what about...
Stone Roses - Driving South
http://youtu.be/YgfQ9G3vi-8 (http://youtu.be/YgfQ9G3vi-8)
Guns N' Roses - Mr Brownstone
http://youtu.be/9ZcQ5e761AY (http://youtu.be/9ZcQ5e761AY)
or even,
Placebo - Teenage Angst
http://youtu.be/Fx5bfLI5slU (http://youtu.be/Fx5bfLI5slU)
Quote from: Eightball on 07 May, 2014, 10:23:19 PM
Yeah, but what about...
Guns N' Roses - Mr Brownstone
http://youtu.be/9ZcQ5e761AY (http://youtu.be/9ZcQ5e761AY)
Appetite For Destruction is stall ball bag bashingly brilliant and one of the defining rock albums of all time.
What a shame Guns N' Roses' decline was so rapid and the music that followed so turgid.
Quote from: dweezil2 on 07 May, 2014, 10:46:25 PM
Quote from: Eightball on 07 May, 2014, 10:23:19 PM
Yeah, but what about...
Guns N' Roses - Mr Brownstone
http://youtu.be/9ZcQ5e761AY (http://youtu.be/9ZcQ5e761AY)
Appetite For Destruction is stall ball bag bashingly brilliant and one of the defining rock albums ever made.
What a shame Guns N' Roses decline was so rapid and the music that followed so turgid.
So so true. :'(
Ah to hell and damnation with G&R....you do have a point with Placebo mind you. Z
Quote from: ZenArcade on 07 May, 2014, 11:01:43 PM
Ah to hell and damnation with G&R....you do have a point with Placebo mind you. Z
Why thank you kind sir! :D To be honest I have a serious
love/
HATE relationship with Guns N' Roses but I do like that song (if not it's lyrical content - just say NO kids) and I wanted to share it with the group. And if I am being honest basslines are more my thing than lead guitar or keyboard riffs so I am struggling with this topic.
Tell me about it, as a long time Pixies fan, and starcrossed lover if the mighty Kim Deal, basslines are my life. The bass intro for sliver from Nirvanas first Album is amazing! Z
The opening riff to The Rocker by Thin Lizzy is awesome, as are the riffs throughout.
Synth-tastic riffs:
Numan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99fRdfVIOr4)
Human (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0)
Horses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf-VHsGznFI)
Norses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnqYwcuIjPM)
M.
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 08 May, 2014, 09:09:20 AM
The opening riff to The Rocker by Thin Lizzy is awesome, as are the riffs throughout.
Yeah fantastic song that.
Quote from: Keef Monkey on 02 May, 2014, 03:09:06 PM
Definitely something by Tool for me, almost everything they do riff/rhythm-wise just mesmerises me (I could stick anything from the 10,000 Days album on here and be happy with my choice!). Usually I love the complexity of their stuff but for this I'll go simple and pick Stinkfist. Ridiculously simple (just 2 notes with a bend) but man, the power in them two notes!
I've been ripping off the chords in the chorus for years too and will continue to do so for a long time yet.
Stinkfist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07pLGIgyfjw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07pLGIgyfjw)
Got to agree with those , but have a listen to the riff in Art of Dying by Gojira it comes in at about 5 minutes 45 seconds (but you need to listen through to then cos its the power of the counterpoint of that riff that creates the impact) Oh and if you ever get the chance to see them live then take it a truly stunning live band .
Honorable mentions -
Last by NIN needs a mention for sheer beastly face-shredding stomp-factor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeoyOIRIeHs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeoyOIRIeHs)
Hey Man Nice Shot by Filter, which is doubly epic because as well as having one of the coolest bass lines of all time on the verse it also boasts one of the mightiest riffs ever conceived on the chorus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E#t=80 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E#t=80)
Quote from: Diggerboot on 25 May, 2014, 10:08:32 PM
Got to agree with those , but have a listen to the riff in Art of Dying by Gojira it comes in at about 5 minutes 45 seconds (but you need to listen through to then cos its the power of the counterpoint of that riff that creates the impact) Oh and if you ever get the chance to see them live then take it a truly stunning live band .
Brilliant shout. Another quality example: Explosia - blows me away every time I hear it. And that outro!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqB4YPcacdo
Quote from: lord sauchie on 02 May, 2014, 09:48:00 AM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 02 May, 2014, 09:41:03 AM
Are we going to have 'Best 2 seconds of guitar feedback' next?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3gN9Up6hmc
No dice, baby! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1JOf3QHvf4)
Oh, if we're talking heavy riffs, then this is The Daddy.
The Wildhearts - Anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfsAwxVj4UI
Amazingly, this got on TOTP once!
And one amazing riff every guitarist should know but hardly any do for some peculiar reason.
Cardiacs - Is This The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAEO3Dvugcw
Quote from: Goosegash on 10 August, 2014, 09:28:44 PM
And one amazing riff every guitarist should know but hardly any do for some peculiar reason.
Cardiacs - Is This The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAEO3Dvugcw
Never heard of the Cardiacs but that tunes a cracker.
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 11 August, 2014, 10:26:34 AM
Quote from: Goosegash on 10 August, 2014, 09:28:44 PM
And one amazing riff every guitarist should know but hardly any do for some peculiar reason.
Cardiacs - Is This The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAEO3Dvugcw
Never heard of the Cardiacs but that tunes a cracker.
Wow !!....Never heard of the Cardiacs either...but what a belter of a tune !! ....
That's definitely an album to get onto my iPod...
Cheers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNtO91LJ_f0
well knock me down...
Icons of Filth - 'Plastic Wrap'
Mere words cannot express my love of the main guitar riff.