Wanted: a fist full of riffs

BossArky

Can you post up some songs (predominantly rock / metal) with excellent riffs in them.... can be as obscure as possible as long as you give the name of band and song so that I can find them in Limewire. I want to expand the playing range of my riffometer.

I'm presuming I've got a decent knowledge of the standard landscape (i.e. don't post up Sweet Child of Mine, or Enter Sandman).... so I would like to explore more obscure stuff.

One of the more decent riffs in recent times I though was "Last Resort" by ??

John

Peach - You Lied
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Thirsty Dog
pretty much anything by Kyuss
Earth - Earth 2 (it's an album of a riff and by a riff I mean THE RIFF)
Angels of Light - All Souls Rising
PJ Harvey - 50ft Queenie
Melvins - Joan of Arc
The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray (17 minutes, Lou Reed is master of the three chord riff)
Swans - New Mind
Neil Young - Hey Hey My My

And may I point out that downloading music is bold!

BossArky

Nice one thanks, I'll go out and buy all of those cds over the weekend

Doctor J

Sleep - Dopesmoker

One song, 62 minutes of the heaviest riffage you'll every have the pleasure of hearing.

John

Still haven't ordered it Doc. I've read about and the general consensus is that the one out on Tee Pee is the definitive Dopesmoker. Would you concur?

Arucard

Sex Type Thing by Stone Temple Pilots has a great main riff, and lets not forget Pantera - Cowboys From Hell.

bombidol

Potential for a fall - Sick Of It All

Doctor J

John2 wrote:

Still haven't ordered it Doc. I've read about and the general consensus is that the one out on Tee Pee is the definitive Dopesmoker. Would you concur?

The one and only. Jersusalem is beauty but Dopesmoker... ahhhh I don't have the words.

BossArky

Thanks for the suggestions. Haven't downloaded any of those yet,... but just to clarify I want decent riffs that you don't have to play drowned in distortion..... i.e. something with a lot of notes / palm muting / skill involved.... not Teen Spirit kind of stuff.

Keyzer

Dude, anything that has Jimmy Page playing on it
Rage Against the Machine
Audioslave
The White Stripes (good for some simplish blues riffs)...

John

BossArky wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions. Haven't downloaded any of those yet,... but just to clarify I want decent riffs that you don't have to play drowned in distortion..... i.e. something with a lot of notes / palm muting / skill involved.... not Teen Spirit kind of stuff.

Some of the riffs I mentioned were simple but delivered ingeniously. Listen to Sister Ray by VU on high volume, it's incredibly simple structure but my god does it rock.

I haven't heard Dopesmoker but it would want to be very very very good for me to leave Sister Ray for it as my riff of choice.

Doctor J

It is. Unlike Jerusalem it isn't split into segments. You put the tune on and that's it for the next 62 minutes. There can be no complaints

John

I really need to stop faffing about and buy the damn thing

doomsdayjeezuz

Dream Theatre - Images and Words
Black Label Society - Blessed Hellride

My two fav albums EVER! the riffage amazes me! get em man, you'd be doin the right thing!

BossArky

doomsdayjeezuz wrote:

Dream Theatre - Images and Words
Black Label Society - Blessed Hellride

My two fav albums EVER! the riffage amazes me! get em man, you'd be doin the right thing!

A French fellow I worked with was mad into Dream Theatre and gave me Image and Words... I had to play the songs on repeat about 20 times each to actually get "into" it. So many changes in the songs, good stuff though. Think I only got past the first two songs in a few weeks, then threw it under the carpet... heavy going... but yes good stuff.

the_syco

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The 1st bit is nice, me thinks. Also, alot of the other songs have a good bit of guitar in them. Not as heavy as their old stuff. Actually, its fairly light compared to the old stuff, imo.
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doomsdayjeezuz

BossArky wrote:

A French fellow I worked with was mad into Dream Theatre and gave me Image and Words... I had to play the songs on repeat about 20 times each to actually get "into" it. So many changes in the songs, good stuff though. Think I only got past the first two songs in a few weeks, then threw it under the carpet... heavy going... but yes good stuff.

i hear that man! so complex! i only know how to play the first song, Pull Me Under, its all i learned off it....

A_Distant_Sun

One of the more decent riffs in recent times I though was "Last Resort" by ??

For **** sake! This is typical! Last Resort was an abortion of a song by masters of mediocrity Papa Roach and the riff in question was actually ripped off from Iron Maiden. Check out "Infinite Dreams" by Iron Maiden. It's on the albumn "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son".

Dave

BossArky

A_Distant_Sun wrote:

For **** sake! This is typical! Last Resort was an abortion of a song by masters of mediocrity Papa Roach and the riff in question was actually ripped off from Iron Maiden. Check out "Infinite Dreams" by Iron Maiden. It's on the albumn "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son".

Dave

Alrighty I'll check it out. To be honest I don't know or listen to Papa Roach but that riff is fairly cool. Similar style to Therapy's Screamajor.

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