Best riff ever

[rutabowa]

Follow on from Guns N Roses thread. Two nominations so far, Sweet Child Of Mine and AC/DC Back In Black. please continue.

 

[maomao]

Seven Nation Army.

 

[butchersapron]

Search and desist of course.

Er search and destroy.

 

[JimW]

Shoplifters of the World springs to mind. What's his face's Battle Without Honor or Humanity

 

[killer b]

Follow on from Guns N Roses thread. Two nominations so far, Sweet Child Of Mine and AC/DC Back In Black. please continue.

I don't love the song particularly, but when I saw the thread title the riff from 'Back In Black' started playing in my head, so I guess it's that.

 

[Knotted]

Maybe not the best but very probably the longest goes to Gentle Giant's The House The Street The Room. It takes you on a little journey before starting over again.

Otherwise I'd go with Budgie's Breadfan or Sasbbath's Sympton of the Universe.

 

[souljacker]

Hell aint a bad place to be - ACDC
Problem Child - ACDC
Over the hills and far away - Led Zep
Aint Talkin about love - Van Halen
Crazy Train - Ozzy
Slayer - Angel of Death
Metallica - Leper Messiah
Kiss - Cold Gin

I could keep going for a while here.

 

[Argonia]

The riff that comes in at 1.39.

 

[rutabowa]

I don't love the song particularly, but when I saw the thread title the riff from 'Back In Black' started playing in my head, so I guess it's that.

exactly, I don't love AC/DC and partciularly don't like that song but that riff is obviously the no.1 riff ever.

 

[rutabowa]

Hell aint a bad place to be - ACDC
Problem Child - ACDC
Over the hills and far away - Led Zep
Aint Talkin about love - Van Halen
Crazy Train - Ozzy
Slayer - Angel of Death
Metallica - Leper Messiah
Kiss - Cold Gin

I could keep going for a while here.

6 million ways to die, choose one.

(that's an instruction, not a nomination)

 

[souljacker]

6 million ways to die, choose one.

(that's an instruction, not a nomination)

 

[rutabowa]

I was asking you to pick only one of your choices. sorry i just realised that probably sounded a bit harsh. (6 million ways to die is also a song name, it was a lame joke)

 

[souljacker]

I was asking you to pick only one of your choices. sorry i just realised that probably sounded a bit harsh. (6 million ways to die is also a song name, it was a lame joke)

Ahh...ok. I thought you were dissing my exceptional taste in metal.

Probably Led Zep - Over the hills

 

[danny la rouge]

The Damned - Smash It Up (Part II)

 

[souljacker]

Although butchersapron may have also nailed it with search and destroy too. Or perhaps I wanna be your dog. Or maybe Peace Sells by Megadeath.

 

[rutabowa]

Ahh...ok. I thought you were dissing my exceptional taste in metal.

Probably Led Zep - Over the hills

No it was a solid selection imo

 

[rutabowa]

Although butchersapron may have also nailed it with search and destroy too. Or perhaps I wanna be your dog. Or maybe Peace Sells by Megadeath.

I mean I love the song search and destroy but not sure I count it as a riff exactly, it is just a band rocking out

 

[Knotted]

OK to pick one it's Breadfan.

 

[JimW]

Uriah Heep had some good ones, Gypsy maybe

 

[rutabowa]

of course there is this:



helpful chart from the youtube comments:

riff chart: "part" 1 00:00 departure 05:25 hotel room 07:28 sonic titan ("drop out of life...") 10:27 hotel room 12:28 12th solo riff, first solo 16:29 10th-11th-12th (hotel room) ("proceeds the weedian, nazareth") "part" 2 21:28 12th ("creedsmen roll...") 25:51 morris riff ("lungsmen unearth...") 27:44 12th ("arise - son of the god of israel...") 30:38 morris riff ("stoner caravan emerge...") 32:32 12th ("raise up...") 35:34 blackened 36:59 12th ("weed-priests...") 38:53 second solo "part" 3 41:25 clean riff, intro to cultivator 43:25 cultivator ("the molten fire...") 48:31 morris riff (flight version), third solo, morris riff (flight version) 53:15 hot lava man/spade/descent/space jam 58:26 sonic titan ("drop out of life...") 01:00:24 departure
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[Knotted]

I've already picked but Killing Floor deserves a special mention.

 

[Chilli.s]

Today its




Go on and laugh yourself in half

 

[Sprocket.]

The Wanton Song - Led Zeppelin

 

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Do basslines count as riffs? If they're this good I say they do.

 

[Knotted]

We're all thinking guitars. How about Riley/Cale and Ides of March for a piano/drum riff.

 

[rutabowa]

We're all thinking guitars. How about Riley/Cale and Ides of March for a piano/drum riff.

True. Also No Limits.

 

[Knotted]

Yeah I suppose it is actually a good riff.

 

[rutabowa]

Really awful songs can have good riffs for sure

 

[Knotted]

OK then. Whigfield - Saturday Night.