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10 songs with your favourite guitar riffs

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  • 31-10-2009 12:17am
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    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭


    what are your 10 songs with your guitar riffs, here are mine

    the beatles-hey bulldog
    blur-trimm trabb
    paul weller-hung up
    paul mccartney-maybe im amazed
    guns n roses-sweet child o mine
    led zeppelin-whole lotta love
    the stone roses-she bangs the drums
    the smiths-what difference does it make
    U2-the fly
    thin lizzy-boys are back in town

    what are yours?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,159 ✭✭✭rednik


    Beatles : Day tripper
    Led Zep : Kashmir
    Deep Purple : Perfect Strangers
    Deep Purple : Smoke on the water
    Thin Lizzy : Jailbreak
    Van Halen : Runnin' with the devil
    Hawkwind : Master of the universe
    ACDC : Let there be rock
    Chris Rea : The road to Hell pt2
    Def Leppard : Photograph


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,247 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Ohio Players - What The Hell
    Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
    Funkadelic - Super Stupid
    Funkadelic - Alice In My Fantasies
    David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
    David Bowie - Cracked Actor
    Jefferson Airplane - The Ballad of You And Me And Pooneil
    Mott The Hoople - Sweet Jane
    Jimi Hendrix - Burnind of the Midnight Lamp
    The Yardbirds - Stroll On


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,224 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    Off top of head

    Oasis Acquiesce
    Strokes Last Nite
    Killers Mr Brightside
    Metallica Enter Sandman
    System of a Down Toxicity
    Strokes Heart in a Cage
    Nirvana Smells like Teen Spirit
    Sex Pistols God Save the Queen
    White Stripes Seven Nation Army
    Muse Newborn


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,271 ✭✭✭irish_bob


    oasis = supersonic
    deep purple = smoke on the water
    led zeplin = whole lotta love
    led zeplin = black dog
    stone roses = i wana be adored
    the smiths = how soon is now
    nirvana = smells like teen spirit
    rolling stones = jumpin jack flash
    rolling stones = gimme shelter
    santana = smooth


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭Bodysmart


    The Ocean - Led Zeppelin
    Love Is The Law - The Seahorses
    I'm The One - Van Halen
    AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
    AC/DC - Back In Black
    Black Sabbath - Supernaut
    Black Sabbath - Iron Man
    Ain't Talking Bout Love - Van Halen
    Spoonman - Soundgarden
    Dam That River - Alice In Chains


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,783 ✭✭✭handsomecake


    rage against the machine .............know your enemy
    red hot chili peppers .................scar tissue
    kings of leon.............trani,pistol of fire,mollys chambers,red morning light,the bucket
    arctic monkeys.............a certain romance,mardy bum
    dire straits..............sultans of swing
    jimi hendrix.................purple haze
    bloc party...........helicopter


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,737 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    The ones I like to play myself are (or at least try :o)...

    Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
    ACDC - Thunderstruck
    Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
    White Stipes - Icky Thump
    Rory Gallagher - A Million Miles Away
    U2 - Bad
    David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
    The Darkness - Love Is Only A Feeling
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Cant Stop
    Led Zeppelin - Black Dog


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 loc5


    only ten eh? sh!te!

    rory gallagher- shadow play
    rory gallagher-big guns (Montreux 85)
    same again - bad penny (top priority) (which one of his albums wasnt)
    light a big fire- mr twlight
    zztop - sharp dressed man
    zztop -if only i could flag her down
    scheer -wish you were dead
    scheer -howling boy
    whipping boy-twinkle
    thin lizzy -its only money (live in dublin 1975 or UK tour 1975)

    no particular order

    if it were 12 you could add bat out of hell the album version and the frames revelate live in dublin in 99 it was on 2fm some years ago and it was fucin mind blowing the best version i ever heard the one where afterwards he asks "is everyone ok there" (after that -are we wha???)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,330 ✭✭✭niallon


    Layla - Derek and the Dominos
    Day Tripper - The Beatles
    Rosalita - The Boss
    Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
    Life In The Fast Lane - The Eagles
    Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
    Plug In Baby - Muse
    Downtown Train - Tom Waits
    Chinatown - Thin Lizzy
    Get On Your Boots - U2 (Hate the song, love the riff)

    Yeah they're mostly obvious but they're obvious cause they're iconic, simple as!


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