EmotionDetector Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I'm sure this has probably been tackled before...but what is your favourite riff, or riffs in history? I know this will be another VH moment, but every time I hear it, it still blows me away...the intro to... AIN'T TALKIN' 'BOUT LOVE By far, one of, if not my absolute favourite riff ever. That intro riff just kicks my a**!! Like my uncle always says, "it's a song you just can't play loud enough". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaldad Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Pantera -Walk , makes me want to smash someones face in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclonus X-1 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 If I were to list the riffs I love, I'd probably just go on forever, but my favorite is the one that Tool's Prison Sex kicks off with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Unchained is the single coolest riff I've ever heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Not Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 RUSH - YYZ Coheed and Cambria - Heartshot Kid Disaster (intro) King's X - Ono (chorus) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driventotheedge Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Here's some off the top of my head...... Limelight Back in Black Satisfaction Start Me Up (Keith has a real knack for riffs) 25 or 6 to 4 Owner of a Lonely Heart Barracuda Wild Child (The Doors) Paranoid Supernaut Whole Lotta Love The Ocean You Really Got Me etc. etc. etc. There are so many good ones I could do this for hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Not Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 QUOTE (driventotheedge @ Jan 18 2012, 12:08 PM) Owner of a Lonely Heart in 90125 - the best guitar riff is found in "Our Song" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adace1 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral, Into the Void, Iron Man, Supernaut Metallica - Master of Puppets, Enter Sandman, And Justice for All, One, Ride the Lightning Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction, Holy Wars, Train of Consequences Slayer - South of Heaven, Raining Blood Opeth - The Drapery Falls, Blackwater Park, The Grand Conjuration, Ghost of Perdition Pantera - I'm Broken, 5 Minutes Alone Iron Maiden - Aces High, The Trooper Meshuggah - Bleed, Rational Gaze Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes, Anesthetize Tool - 46&2, Lateralus, The Pot Mastodon - The Last Baron, Divinations, Colony of Birchmen Gojira - Vacuity Amon Amarth - Pursuit of Vikings, Guardians of Asgaard, Doom Over Dead Man Rammstein - Du Hast, Stein um Stein, Morgenstern Dream Theater - As I Am, These Walls, Pull Me Under Trivium - Down from the Sky, In Waves, Throes of Perdition Symphony X - Serpent's Kiss, Dehumanized, Inferno Children of Bodom - In Your Face, Angels Don't Kill, Are You Dead Yet? Arch Enemy - Exist to Exit, Nemesis, Revolution Begins Dimmu Borgir - Dimmu Borgir, Puritania Animals as Leaders - CAFO, Isolated Incidents, Do Not Go Gently Isis - 20 Minutes/40 Years Agalloch - Not Unlike the Waves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Out there somewhere in the universe there's a civilization whose inhabitants communicate purely through guitar riffs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaldad Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 QUOTE (Ovningskora @ Jan 18 2012, 03:26 PM) QUOTE (driventotheedge @ Jan 18 2012, 12:08 PM) Owner of a Lonely Heart in 90125 - the best guitar riff is nowhere to be found because Steve Howe is not on it I fixed it for ya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driventotheedge Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 And if I had to choose just one, it would be You Really Got Me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 QUOTE (Ovningskora @ Jan 18 2012, 08:26 PM)QUOTE (driventotheedge @ Jan 18 2012, 12:08 PM) Owner of a Lonely Heart in 90125 - the best guitar riff is found in "Our Song" I just love Owner Of A Lonely Heart (esp the bassline..! Unrelated, I know!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchetaxe&saw Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 QUOTE (metaldad @ Jan 18 2012, 09:36 PM) QUOTE (Ovningskora @ Jan 18 2012, 03:26 PM) QUOTE (driventotheedge @ Jan 18 2012, 12:08 PM) Owner of a Lonely Heart in 90125 - the best guitar riff is nowhere to be found because Steve Howe is not on it I fixed it for ya Way-hey!!! Love me some Trevor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Not overly complicated, but The Alarm's "Under Attack" is chock-full of great riffs...courtesy of Mike Peters and James Stevenson. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31IYVnmATqL._SL500_AA300_.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaldad Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Jan 18 2012, 04:41 PM) QUOTE (metaldad @ Jan 18 2012, 09:36 PM) QUOTE (Ovningskora @ Jan 18 2012, 03:26 PM) QUOTE (driventotheedge @ Jan 18 2012, 12:08 PM) Owner of a Lonely Heart in 90125 - the best guitar riff is nowhere to be found because Steve Howe is not on it I fixed it for ya Way-hey!!! Love me some Trevor. So does his Mom, that makes 2 of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 (edited) Foo Fighters - All My Life Edited January 18, 2012 by invisible airwave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jan 18 2012, 05:42 PM) Foo Fighters - One By One Yes, FF are the current reigning kings of the guitar riff, that much is certain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 QUOTE (ReGorLaTroy @ Jan 18 2012, 05:58 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jan 18 2012, 05:42 PM) Foo Fighters - One By One Yes, FF are the current reigning kings of the guitar riff, that much is certain. That would be Buckethead by about 60,000 light years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Sawyer Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 There's about 500 I could list, but I'll keep it short. Long Distance Runaround Limelight The Snow Goose Fat Old Sun One each by my favorite guitarists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastille Dave Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Black Sabbath '69-'76, choose any song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthshine Emmeline Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 QUOTE (treeduck @ Jan 18 2012, 06:03 PM) QUOTE (ReGorLaTroy @ Jan 18 2012, 05:58 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jan 18 2012, 05:42 PM) Foo Fighters - One By One Yes, FF are the current reigning kings of the guitar riff, that much is certain. That would be Buckethead by about 60,000 light years... That's true, Buckethead is a beast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony R Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Smoke on The Water Spirit Of Radio Whole Lotta Love Runnin With The Devil Stranglehold Back In Black Sunshine Of Your Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driventotheedge Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) Space Truckin' Smoke on the Water Mississippi Queen On The Hunt (Skynyrd) Gimme Three Steps Lovin' You Sunday Morning (Scorpions) The Zoo Funk 49 Life in the Fast Lane China Grove Long Train Runnin' N.I.B. Takin' Care of Business Symphony of Destruction All Along The Watchtower Mama Kin La Grange Tush Sharp Dressed Man Day of the Eagle (Robin Trower) Somebody Calling (ditto) Slow Ride (Foghat) Who's That Lady (Isley Bros.) Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress Wild Thing Born on the Bayou . . . To be continued.............. Edited January 19, 2012 by driventotheedge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) Heart - Magic Man. Beastie Boys did a good sampling of it. And also the classic AC/DC wer chord hook that, when re-worked repeatedly, resulted in over a dozen albums. Edited January 19, 2012 by goose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 QUOTE (treeduck @ Jan 18 2012, 06:03 PM) QUOTE (ReGorLaTroy @ Jan 18 2012, 05:58 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jan 18 2012, 05:42 PM) Foo Fighters - One By One Yes, FF are the current reigning kings of the guitar riff, that much is certain. That would be Buckethead by about 60,000 light years... Then I need to check out some Buckethead...what do you recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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