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The Greatest Riffs Ever


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Let's discuss about riffs and riffers, people :D

 

All those pieces of a song everyone knows, even without knowing the name of the song or the band that plays it. Those are problably the most famous sounds we ever created.

 

 

 

My list on greatest/most famous would be:

 

1)Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water

 

2)Led Zeppelin's Black Dog

 

3)Eric Clapton's Layla

 

4)Guns N' Roses' November Rain

 

5)The Who's Pinball Wizard

 

6)Many Led Zeppelin songs, like Fool in the Rain, Hearbraker and Houses of the Holy

 

 

 

In my opinion, Jimmy Page is by far the greatest riff maker, since so many Led Zeppelin songs have famous riffs.

 

 

 

So, what are, in your opinion, the greatest/most famous riffs, and the best riff makers?

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Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

 

Nirvana -Smells like Teen Spirit :P

 

Pink Floyd - Money. Have Cigar. Fearless

 

The Kinks - Wild Thing, You Got Me Goin'

 

Hendrix' - Voodoo Child, Foxy Lady, Purple Haze, Fire, All Along The Watchtower

 

Eric Clapton - Cocain

 

Alot of the CCR songs

 

Lynrd Skynrd - FREE BIRD!

 

Black Sabbath/Ozzy - Iron Man, No More Tears, Crazy Train + Many more.

 

Pantera - 5 Minutes, Walk, Cemetary Gates

 

Eagles - Hotel California

 

GNR - Sweet Child o' Mine

 

ACDC - :| to many to list...

 

Red Hot Chile Peppers - Scar Tissue, plus a few more.

 

Aerosmith has some pretty good ones. forget the names though.

 

I could go on for a long time... :P

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LP, isn't Wild Thing Troggs'?

 

How could I forget Cocaine :P

 

 

 

Might be.. Kinks, and Hendrix have version also. I always thought the Kinks were the original.

 

 

 

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Also The Doors have some pretty good Riffs, especially their keyboard ones..

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Deep Purple - Black Night

 

Deep Purple - Lazy

 

Deep Purple - Space Truckin'

 

Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain

 

Rainbow - Long Live Rock'n'Roll

 

Rainbow - Stargazer

 

Rainbow - Kill the King

 

 

 

Nobody beats Blackmore's riffs.

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Deep Purple - Black Night

 

Deep Purple - Lazy

 

Deep Purple - Space Truckin'

 

Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain

 

Rainbow - Long Live Rock'n'Roll

 

Rainbow - Stargazer

 

Rainbow - Kill the King

 

 

 

Nobody beats Blackmore's riffs.

 

 

 

His riffs and solos are really amazing :)

 

I was gonna add Lazy to my list, but I thought there was no actual riff on it. Is there one? I mean, it has like 5 minutes of "solo", what part is the riff?

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His riffs and solos are really amazing :)

 

I was gonna add Lazy to my list, but I thought there was no actual riff on it. Is there one? I mean, it has like 5 minutes of "solo", what part is the riff?

 

 

 

I guess it's more a theme than a riff. But I'm calling it a riff.

 

 

 

What part is it? It's the part you'd hum if someone asked you to hum "Lazy".

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I quite like the one in UFO - Rock Bottom.

 

 

 

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Hard to pick whats better in Rock Bottom, the riff or the solo :D. Also would add Scorpions - The Sails of Charon. You really couldnt go wrong with either.

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Fleetwood Mac have come up with a few classics too. Albatross and the unforgettable bass rift in 'The Chain'.

 

Everytime I hear that I imagine Murray Walker speeding past in a McLaren :shock:

 

 

 

Excellent call on The Chain. What a song, and the bass riff rocks me in a way I don't care to describe.

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