The Guitar Riff Appreciation Thread

Post up your favorite guitar riffs, gogogo!

My #1 spot goes go Metallica-Sad But True (It is my very favorite)

Other greats in my opinion include-

Welcome to the Jungle-GnR
Walk This Way-Aerosmith
Sweet Child O' Mine-GnR
Crazy Train-Ozzy (I absolutely hate Ozzy, but have always loved his guitarists)
Judith-APC
Holy Diver-Dio
La Grange-ZZ Top
Thunderstruck-AC/DC
Spoonman-Soundgarden
Cowboys From Hell-Pantera
Stranglehold-THE NUGE
Schism-Tool
Money For Nothing-Dire Straits
Cult of Personality-Living Colour
Eye of the Tiger-Survivor

Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (simple but VERY effective)
Neil Young - Like A Hurricane
John Lee Hooker: Boom boom
Iron Butterfly - In-a-gadda-da-vida
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
Beatles - I Want You (the riff for the chorus I think)
Beatles - Helter Skelter
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze (No idea how you could leave out Jimi Hendrix)
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
RATM - Bombtrack
Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Alice In Chains - Them Bones

Instead of naming all the usual popular guitar riffs I'll break out of the norm here and say 15 Steps by Radiohead.

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Originally Posted by ozzy

Instead of naming all the usual popular guitar riffs I'll break out of the norm here and say 15 Steps by Radiohead.

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Good selection. I tried to stray from the usual a little bit, but then realized that most of the songs that popped into my head were poplular classics.

I'd also like to add that almost any given Breaking Benjamin song is pretty great to me.

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Originally Posted by ozzy

Instead of naming all the usual popular guitar riffs I'll break out of the norm here and say 15 Steps by Radiohead.

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Bodysnatchers anyone?

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Originally Posted by ozzy

Instead of naming all the usual popular guitar riffs I'll break out of the norm here and say 15 Steps by Radiohead.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOQ51NM57BM

no guitars in the video btw

Hey! I'm from SA, had this bookmarked for a while and thought I'd register.

The best 30 seconds of any song for me is when Brian May comes out of nowhere with that face-melting riff near the end of Bohemian Rhapsody. I can't help but break out a smile when it comes around, because of its sheer awesomeness.

Most of my favourites are by Metallica (pre-90's, and a couple from the Black Album).

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Originally Posted by kriyou

The best 30 seconds of any song for me is when Brian May comes out of nowhere with that face-melting riff near the end of Bohemian Rhapsody. I can't help but break out a smile when it comes around, because of its sheer awesomeness.

Most of my favourites are by Metallica (pre-90's, and a couple from the Black Album).

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All of Bohemian Rhapsody is pure gold, as for pre-90's Metallica, yes.

Any Led Zeppelin song but namely:
The Rover
Nobody's Fault But Mine
Black Dog
Immigrant Song
Kashmir
How Many More Times
Heartbreaker

Not even sure if it is guitar and if any of it has guitar riffs. On Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, at about 1:33 and so forth, I really like that part. Like they're jamming out or something. Kinda wish I could do something like that.

All of SRV's cover of Little Wing gives me a massive, painful erection

And that song from "The Piano" was pretty good, but I can't remember the name because it is long