Best Guitar Riff Ever?

The Free Man

I was wondering what u guys and girls fave rock/metal riff is, heres my few-
Black Sabbath - The Wizard
Down - Bury me in Smoke (especially the end bit )
Foo Fighters - Weenie Beenie
Muse - New Born
QOTSA - Tension Head
RATM - erm... cant choose 1

i luv powerful riffs!

Fusion251

There are a few guitar shop riffs that are amazing but I have grown to hate the last few years due to hearing them played so so badly in shops......

Enter Sandman would be one, Stairway to Heaven another, Nothing Else Matters etc....


But I would have to say my favourite riff would be Voodoo Chile(Slight Return) what a riff!

Tom Morello has loadsa good riffs too, including Take the Power Back, Killing in the Name and Bulls on Parade simple but very effective.

I still think Hendrix was one of the best when it comes to riffs, Castles made of Sand, Little Wing, Maching Gun, If 6 was 9, Crosstown Traffic, Little Miss Lover, Dolly Dagger, Who Knows, Midnight, Message to Love ahhh loads!

Then we got Zepplin, Kashmir, Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog etc...

So many to choose but I'm still gonna stick with Voodoo Chile!

:cool:

wayfarer

Dont forget Nigel Tufnel's guitar solo in This Is Spinal Tap

- to pause mid performance to tune the violin he was using as a bow.
*sigh* wow!

nesf

Voodoo Chile, probably my favourite riff.

Pugsley

Leyla
Voodoo Child, N.I.B.
In Flames - Jester Script Transfigured
Opeth - A Fair Judgement
Threshold - Paradox

Cavman

tubular bells 2, dark star

they guitar is animal!

calis

oh well
sunshine of ur love
money for nothing
mannish boy

NeroTheExtreme

Van Halen - Aint talkin' bout Love (til it got killed in various dance songs)
Metallica - Dyers Eve
Testament - Practice What You Preach

Too tired to think of any others.
Nero

E@gle.

This is a really simple riff.
But Pantera -Walk

Its a classic.

cournioni

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - NIB
(nearly any Black Sabbath song)
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Pantera - Heresy
Pantera - Domination
Pantera - A New Level
Pantera - Walk.

Just too many.

Evilution

Pantera - Walk
Pantera - Cemetary gates (the beginning bit)
Fear Factory - Self Bias resistor
Strapping Young Lad - Detox
Strapping Young Lad - In the rainy season (the bit at the end)
Rage against the machine - Guerilla Radio
Rage against the machine - Sleep now in the fire

Spalk0

Metallica's Orion!
Holy Wars - Megadeth!
Riff after the second chorus on Damage Inc. - Metallica
RATM - Know your enemy
RATM - Killing in the name of
Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Zombienosh

this is just impossible to say anything

Doctor J

Gotta say my favourite is about three and a half minutes into Wheels Of Confusion by Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi is a genius, but the riff works because of Geezer's bass line. Gets me every time.

As for the greatest riff? Probably Smoke On The Water, because everyone knows it, everyone, but impossible to say definitively.

meditraitor

Hendrix - Purple haze,Voodoo child, All along the watchtower
J Page - Heartbreaker, whole lotta lovin
Panthera - Walk, Im broken
Richie blackmore - Smoke on the water
Slash/Izzy stradlin - Sweet child o mine
Stone roses - driving south
Megadeth - hanger 18
Tool - aenima, parabola
Robby Krieger(doors) - Roadhouse blues
Eric clapton- Cocaine
Alice in chains - what the hell have I, man in a box
Metallica - Seek and destroy

Zoton

Rush - Earthshine
Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave
Silverchair - Israel's Son
Deftones - My Own Summer
Kinks - You Really Got Me
Some random status quo riff (they're all pretty similar)
Nirvana - All Apologies
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Papa Roach - Last Resort
Machine Head - closing riff of Davidian....awesome!
Creed - Bullets
Everclear - Fire Maple song


.....to name but a few.

Evilution

Zoton wrote:

Silverchair - Israel's Son

Great bass riff at the start.

Zoton wrote:

Creed - Bullets

Another absolute cracker, especially when it takes off.

Zulu

Easy : Zepplin - Kasmir.

powerage22

just one from each band so....

black sabbath - iron man
pantera - walk
ac/dc - highway to hell
metallica - for whom the bell tolls
led zeppelin - kashmir
deep purple - smoke on the water
aerosmith - walk this way
megadeth - symphony of destruction
iron maiden - revelations
motorhead - we are the road crew

could add about 100 more......

ether

Sabbath - Iron Man
Tallica - Creeping Death
Pantera - Walk
Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused.

Any of above.

ven0m

OMG - I CANNOT believe no one mentioned it;

What about 'Becoming' by Pantera..... if that is not the GREATEST riff ever, I really do not know what is.... there's so much groove there in such simplicity it's frightening!!!!!!


::: ven0mous :::

Ren0

Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - Enter Sandman
The Haunted - Trespass
RATM - Sleep Now In The Fire
RATM - Wake Up
Megadeth - Holy Wars
The Black Mages - Still More Fighting (FF7 Boss Battle Theme)
In Flames - Biosphere


Plenty more where they came from

derrylahan

personally
slayer - angel of death
slayer - raining blood
slayer - new faith
slayer - god send death
slayer - mandatory suicide
slayer - post mortem
slayer - seasons in the abyss
slayer - disciple
slayer - killing fields
slayer - i hate you
slayer - payback
slayer - bloodline
slayer - south of heaven
pantera - cementary gates
pantera - primal concrete sledge
pantera - shedding skin
chimaira - pure hatred
chimaira - cleansation
chimaira - impossibility of reason
chimaira - let go
and a sh*t load of others

wasnt this this greatest riff thread done b4? and prob b4 that

Pyr0

ven0m wrote:

OMG - I CANNOT believe no one mentioned it;

What about 'Becoming' by Pantera..... if that is not the GREATEST riff ever, I really do not know what is.... there's so much groove there in such simplicity it's frightening!!!!!!


::: ven0mous :::

Aye the 'Becoming' Riff is an class riff along with 'Strenght Beyond Strenght'
To many Pantera riff's to mention.

Birdman

Metallica- The Four Horseman
I love the way it sounds like the gallop of a horse with the drums!

cournioni

Birdman wrote:

Metallica- The Four Horseman
I love the way it sounds like the gallop of a horse with the drums!

Should that not be Megadeth - Mechanix?

ether

Wasn't it co written by mundayne?

cournioni

ether wrote:

Wasn't it co written by mundayne?

Nope... Dave Mustaine wrote it.

ether

sorry thats what I call Mustaine, album credits go to Hetfield, Ulrich and Mustaine, thats why I said he co- wrote it.

Fobia

I really like alot of the Japanese band "Sigh"'s riffs....


Greatest ever you say, well....I don't think there is any....I could list my personal favourites but it would take pages

Fobia.

mp3guy

dream theater - the mirror riff, a.k.a puppies on acid