Best riff ever

[Knotted]

That's my new nomination.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Texas Radio And The Big Beat - The Doors

 

[Hearse Pileup]

Off the top of my head:

QOTSA - No One Knows Song for the Dead
MUSE - Citizen Erased or Stockholm Syndrome
Motorhead - We are the Road Crew
Cavalli - Drum Destroyer



E2A: I embedded Cavalli because they're personal mates and they deserve your fuckin' attention. These other guys already got all the kudos they need. I also honestly think that they're face-meltingly good.

Edit 2: Actually fuck No One Knows. It's a great song and probably the most memorable hook, but if you want to talk riffs then you need to be looking at Song for the Dead, imo.

 

[Knotted]

It's an insanely broad question when you think about it. Eg. most hip hop songs are riff based. That may not be part of the hip hop lingo but it's nevertheless the case. Eg. Me Myself and I as an IMO good one.

 

[Dr. Furface]

 

[Argonia]

Off the top of my head:

QOTSA - No One Knows Song for the Dead
MUSE - Citizen Erased or Stockholm Syndrome
Motorhead - We are the Road Crew
Cavalli - Drum Destroyer



E2A: I embedded Cavalli because they're personal mates and they deserve your fuckin' attention. These other guys already got all the kudos they need. I also honestly think that they're face-meltingly good.

Edit 2: Actually fuck No One Knows. It's a great song and probably the most memorable hook, but if you want to talk riffs then you need to be looking at Song for the Dead, imo.

Surprised you didn't go for something from Horse Pickup

 

[girasol]

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car? (only because I can play it)
Small Town Boy. (Also because I can play it )

 

[rutabowa]

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car? (only because I can play it)
Small Town Boy. (Also because I can play it )

did you know it got reused in this classic of meme rap?


But anyway for real I think that is a good pick.

 

[steveo87]

This (starts at about 1:10)

and this:

 

[Orang Utan]

Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don’t Care

 

[Hearse Pileup]

Surprised you didn't go for something from Horse Pickup

I'm already skirting the line of being too self-promotional; I don't like rubbing it in.

Also, not only do I not think any of our riffs could qualify for "best riff ever" (I don't feel qualified to say that), but our best riffs aren't available online yet

 

[Argonia]

Fair enough

 

[rutabowa]

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.

I quite like it when riffs do this, sometimes. the riff that comes in after the breakdown keeps sounding like it is going to just repeat but then goes off somewhere else for a bit

 

[Knotted]

I quite like it when riffs do this, sometimes. the riff that comes in after the breakdown keeps sounding like it is going to just repeat but then goes off somewhere else for a bit

Yeah that's cool. Not quite what I meant though. In the one I was talking about the actual phrase that gets repeated is four bars (16 beats) of slow rock long. I just find it amusingly daft.

 

[Argonia]

3.58

 

[Knotted]

Maybe not the best riff but the riff that is most likely to break you:

 

[rutabowa]

Yeah that's cool. Not quite what I meant though. In the one I was talking about the actual phrase that gets repeated is four bars (16 beats) of slow rock long. I just find it amusingly daft.

yeh I listened to it! not sure if the dawn of humans one is 4 bars long exactly, but it does repeat, just it takes longer than you expect to repeat/

 

[Knotted]

yeh I listened to it! not sure if the dawn of humans one is 4 bars long exactly, but it does repeat, just it takes longer than you expect to repeat/

Hmmm. I'm going to listen to that again.

I would call that a lengthy (power) chord progression rather than a riff or riffing, but I'm not exactly sure there is an absolute difference. Though whatever it is, I liked the energy lots.

 

[cloudyday]

 

[ska invita]

The first one that popped into my mind out of seemingly nowhere was
The Doors - Love Me Two Times

funny how your brain works

 

[Sprocket.]

The first one that popped into my mind out of seemingly nowhere was
The Doors - Love Me Two Times

funny how your brain works

At least it wasn’t Smoke on the Water!!

 

[ska invita]

At least it wasn’t Smoke on the Water!!

that was my first one tbh

i can play that you know!

*i do like love me two times - tune in my book

 

[SpookyFrank]

Whiskey in the Jar

Thin Lizzy version obviously, not the pisstake version by those whinging bedwetters Metallica.

 

[ska invita]

Whiskey in the Jar

Thin Lizzy version obviously, not the pisstake version by those whinging bedwetters Metallica.

 

[ska invita]

Les Claypool could do a riff


DMV is a catchy one too

 

[Steel Icarus]

I wanna be your dog

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Orang Utan]

Jean Michel Jarre looking like a young Gordon Brown here:

 

[Jay Park]

Bad Brains

She’s Calling You

 

[Smangus]

This is an absolute monster , fucking great.