best riffs ever

hippu

if anyone is playing guitar and is looking for cool new things to play then could you put down youre fav riffs or what you think is the best riff ever and give bored people ideas!

Reni

Are u gonna go my way-Lenny Kravitz-classic!

Dathai

I'm Broken-Pantera

Speed Mental-Jim Dofka(legend)

Diablos de su mundo-Life of oppression(Best riffs)

Clash With reality-Pantera

Sarky

AC/DC- Riff Raff, Back In Black, Dirty Deeds, Whole Lotta Rosie, Satellite Blues...

Iron Maiden- Two Minutes To Midnight, Back In The Village, Sanctuary...

Judas Priest- Breaking The Law...

Pantera- Walk


And so, so many more...

Googe

The Doors - Roadhouse Blues
Qotsa - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer (so simple, so brilliant)
Kyuss - Thumb
Tool - Schism

Plus a bajillion more

MarkMI6

Originally posted by psp

Kyuss - Thumb

Yes, yes!!! A Kyuss fan, in Ireland! WOW! Good god Blues for the Red Sun and Sky Valley are stone-cold classics! *hyperventilates* Such brilliant riffs they made too, every one of them sticks into your brain the minute you hear them. And the acoustic number on Sky Valley was the first song I learned on my acoustic

Googe

Yeah man Kyuss are my favourite band ever. Do you mean Space Cadet cause that was the first Kyuss song I ever learned. They have so many classic riffs i.e. Odyssey, Demon Cleaner. I have never met anyone into Kyuss before.

radiospan

QOTSA - Regular John

Mystic Fibrosis

Zyklon - Psyklon Aeon

Nice & easy.

Doctor J

Honey Bucket by the Melvins and everything by Black Sabbath.


I think that about covers it.

daram

Sound of the Underground - Girls Aloud

Señor Juárez

System of a down - Spiders

daram

Wait.... Who said that...

nosmo

Cathedral - Mourning of a new day
Entombed - Living Dead
Entombed - Chief Rebel Angel
Morbid Angel - Dawn of the Angry
Pantera - 5 Minutes Alone
Testament - Into the Pit

WetDaddy

You'll probably laugh at this, but the riff / progression in Spinal Tap's "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock Ya (Tonight)" is damn damn catchy...

By the way Nosmo, I like the sig!

"Couldn't you just go around to someone's house and clean-up?... Yeah, and then ask for money for it..."

nosmo

Originally posted by deathfunk
By the way Nosmo, I like the sig!

"Couldn't you just go around to someone's house and clean-up?... Yeah, and then ask for money for it..."

"s'pose i could.. I mean it's a bit demeani-" "Thanks for talking to us"

Glad someone finally got it

wiped

Originally posted by Doctor J
Honey Bucket by the Melvins and everything by Black Sabbath.


I think that about covers it.

AC/DC man ...AC/DC man ... then you've just about covered it.

cournioni

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Pantera - Primal Concrete Sledge
Pantera - Heresy
Pantera - Psycho Holiday
Pantera - Becoming
Pantera - Walk
Pantera - I'm Broken
Pantera - 5 Minutes Alone
Pantera - Drag the Waters.

Pantera.

symbolic

have to agree with the people who said Kyuss! some excellent riffs, love Kyuss.

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Anything by Slayer, Death and At the Gates!

Doctor J

Originally posted by wiped
AC/DC man ...AC/DC man ... then you've just about covered it.

My bad. Everything by Black Sabbath, AC\DC and Honey Bucket by the Melvins. That covers it.

Zoton

Tool - Stinkfist
Soil - Breaking Me Down
System of a Down - Know
Korn - Blind
Queen - Hammer To Fall
QOTSA - No One Knows
Weezer - Sweater Song
Nirvana - All Apologies
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (intro)
Machine Head - Davidian (end riff)
Silverchair - Anthem for the year 2000
White Stripes - 7 nation army
Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode

....a good mix there methinks

cournioni

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Pantera - Primal Concrete Sledge
Pantera - Heresy
Pantera - Psycho Holiday
Pantera - Becoming
Pantera - Walk
Pantera - I'm Broken
Pantera - 5 Minutes Alone
Pantera - Drag the Waters.

Pantera.

Above and these...

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Judas Priest - Breakin' the Law
Down - Stone the Crow
Down - Underneath Everything
Down - Bury Me In Smoke
Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction
Slayer - Raining Blood
In Flames - Goliaths Disarm their Davids
In Flames - Episode 666
In Flames - Artifacts of the Black Rain
Alice In Chains - We Die Young
Alice In Chains - Man In the Box
Decapitated - Eye of Horus
QOTSA - No One Knows
The Haunted - Trespass
Testament - Over the Wall
Opeth - Master's Apprentices
Iced Earth - Dragons Child
Soundgarden - Outshined
Nirvana - School
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC - Money Talks
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
At the Gates - Blinded By Fear
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir


Hows that?

Dathai

You forgot Immortally Insane and Uplift

Also, try these on for size:

Yngwie Malmsteen-Black Star
Yngwie Malmsteen-Fire And Ice
Judas Priest-Painkiller
Opeth-Harvest
Blind Guardian-Excalibur
Children of Bodom-Black Widow

Memnoch

you haven't heard guitar until you have listened to joe satriani
try crush of love
or summer song for starters and go from there, he makes the others seem like amatuers

cournioni

Originally posted by Memnoch
you haven't heard guitar until you have listened to joe satriani
try crush of love
or summer song for starters and go from there, he makes the others seem like amatuers

Yeah, I have most of Satriani's albums. But he doesn't really have too many memorable riffs ya know?

niallith

symphony of destruction - megadeth
hangar18 - megadeth
disciples of the watch - testament

DerekD Goldfish

Kyuss-Hurricane
Killing Joke- Eighties
Joy Division- Shaddow Play
Therapy- Meat Abstract
Manic's- Motorcycle empityness
Led Zeppelin- Whole lotta love
AC/DC- Highway to hell
Dead Kennedys- Holiday in cambodia
Dead Kennedys- Riot
Thin Lizzy- Massacre
Thin Lizzy- Emerald
MBV- feed me with your kiss
Whipping Boy- Valintine 69
QOTSA - Regular John
Gang of four - anthrax
Tevevision- Marquee moon
Neil Young- Cortez the killer
Neil Young- Hey hey my my
World domination enterprises- Asbestos lead asbestos

AngelofFire

Iron Maiden-fear of the dark
Money for Nothing-Dire straights
Thin Lizzy-whiskey in a jar
U2-When love comes to town
Blue oyster Cult-Dont fear the reaper
Lyrnrd Synrd-Sweet home alabama
Led Zepplin-Whole lotta love
Pink Floyd-Money

Quatre Mains

Most of the Randy Rhoads stuff with Ozzy is great

Trouble - 'Scuse Me / Come Touch the Sky

Dio - Stand Up and Shout / We Rock

40crush41

may i expand to some violin and sax riffs? (and yea, sometimes guitar...)
excuse me, i know im obsessed with these guys but neway:
dave matthews band: ants marching
dmb: #41
dmb: seek up
dmb: last stop
dmb satellite
led zeppelin: stairway to heaven, kashmir, so on and so forth.

AngelofFire: sweet home alabama (breaks out into air guitar and what few would call dancing) ahh, i love that song! and overall, nice selection there.

~beth

Sefrian

What Bout Bush with the song MAchine head..... Thats a killer riff? agree?

Antisocialiser

Ratm - freedom

$lash

any guns n' roses song...

triv88

Originally posted by $lash
any guns n' roses song...

double talkin jive-my personal fav

derrylahan

u are not gonna like this but, here are some ones u probaly have never heard(slipknot):
slipknot - every riff in metabolic
left behind
gently(bass riff and moshing riff)
the shape (intro)
interloper(at 1:11)
metallica- enter sandman
st anger
korn - somebody someone
falling away from me
wake up
lies
and u have all the obvious one which i do like

Explosive_Cornflake

The title track of the bleeding by cannibal corpse.
Suppose i should throw in some the haunted aswell.

Civilian_Target

Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Therapy? - So Much For The Ten Year Plan
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Bruce Dickinson - King In Crimson
Black Sabbath - Sabbra Caddabra
Fisto - Lucy (You're a Diamond)
Therapy? - Meat Abstract (as previously mentioned)
Iron Maiden - Rainmaker
Rage Against The Machine - Maggies Farm
Poisonus Aluminium Badger - Looking for the Magic

AdMMM

Originally posted by symbolic

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

Agreed

\/ialli

Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride the Lightening
Metallica - Fuel
Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

af666x

Metallica - The four horsemen (not the whole song. Where it changes in the middle)

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Think that's the right one. Probably Pantera Mouth for war too. Damn good song.

Why doesn't someone start a guitar solo thread? I'd vote for Domination by pantera.
Damn that's fast...

iasc

Rory Gallagher - Philby
Therapy? - Unbeliever
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
Horslips - An Dearg Doom
Rage - Killing In The Name
White Stripes - 7 nation army
Megadeth - Hangar 18




to name but a few

Whywontitwrok

Steve Vai anyone!!!!

I cant believe he hasnt been mentioned!!

Steve Vai - The audience is listening

^^ Nows they are some cool riffs, If ya can pull that out when your showing off then anyone who knows anything about guitar will bow down!!

Ye pantera stuff is excellent especially I`m Broken.

Oh and the first 30seconds of "Hot for teacher" by Van Halen, << that will get your fingers streching!!

Oh and Zakk Wylde If ya can do artificial harmonics

Keep these coming guys I gotta learn some new riffs!!

Treebeard

Pretty much anything written by Dave Mustaine or Jimmy Page

Fungtank

Voodoo Child

back in black

The Trooper

Paranoid

War Pigs

D!ve^Bomb!

i cant believe no one has mentioned moby dick!!..

guns n roses - dont damn me!!
guns n roses - estranged (come on people!!)
guns n roses - mr brownstone
guns n roses - rocket queen (amazing song)
guns n roses - Perfect Crime
guns n roses - Locomotive
metallica - master of puppets
metallica - sanitarium
metallica - dont tread on me (some of my favourite ever rhythm playing)
metallica - 2by4
metallica - fuel (s&m version - kiks muchos ass)
metallica - Seek And Destroy
metallica - hero of the day
metallica - My Friend Of Misery
ratm - take the power back
ratm - last riff of 'fist full of steal' (maybe no. 1 riff ever!!!)
ratm - sleep now in the fire
ratm - testify
ratm - Born as Ghosts
zep - Bring It On Home
zep - heartbreaker
zep - living lovin maid
zep - Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
zep - The Battle Of Evermore
audioslave - cochise
audioslave - Show Me How To Live
audioslave - Gasoline
muse - new born
hendrix - crosstown traffic
hendrix - voodoo child
hendrix - Izabella @ woodstock
hendrix - fire
hendrix - Spanish Castle Magic
hendrix - Red House
hendrix - foxy lady
clapton - Sunshine of Your Love
clapton - Crossroads
clapton - White Room
clapton - layla (acoustic)
clapton- hey hey (acoustic)
clapton - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (acoustic)
white stripes - dead leaves and the dirty ground
vai - Erotic Nightmares
vai - The Animal
vai - eugenes trick bag (from movie crossroads - NOT britney spears film!!!)
vai - bad horsie
chuck berry - jonny b goode

thats all i can think of at the moment!!