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Top Guitar Riffs

39 Responses to “Top Guitar Riffs”

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   David Swain
   May 3rd, 2004 at 2:00 am

   I think that it is funny that most of those riffs are ones that that people learn on the guitar when they first begin to play. There are some good riffs in there, however. I remember how cool I felt the first time that I pulled of the intro riff to “Crazy Train.” Man, I miss those days!!!

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   Steven Garrity
   May 3rd, 2004 at 7:35 am

   No “Iron Man”?!

   A few more recent guitar riffs that I’ve always enjoyed:

   Foo Fighters - Hey, Johnny Park and I’ll Stick Around
   Green Day - Geek Stink Breath
   Smashing Pumpkins - Zero, Here is No Why, Through the Eyes of Ruby
   Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself
   Sloan - Sensory Deprivation, She Say What She Means, and Money City Maniacs, and The Good In Everyone
   Pearl Jam - Brain of J.
   Moist - Push

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   habnem
   May 3rd, 2004 at 6:42 pm

   Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
   AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
   Jeff Buckley - Grace
   They Might Be Giants - The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
   Beatles - Helter Skelter and Revolution
   White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
   Kinks - You Really Got Me Going
   Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

   god, there are thousands…

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   tim
   May 8th, 2004 at 10:57 pm

   I know i’m all late posting to this thread… but what the heck is “Plug In Baby - Muse”? I have never heard of this song, and it seems to be out of place on this list…? Am I crazy?

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   tim
   May 8th, 2004 at 11:03 pm

   You can hear the muse song here: http://www.muse.mu/

   Still seems out of place on a ‘Top’ list like this. and I know QotSA are hot now, but I think it’s premature to put them on there, too.

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   JJ
   May 14th, 2004 at 2:59 am

   WAT ABOUT ANYTHING FROM TOOL?!!!!!

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   Jimbo
   May 14th, 2004 at 1:46 pm

   Top5 Riffs shud b

   1.Sweet child o’ mine - Guns n roses
   2.Acoustic solo in master of puppets - METALLICA
   3.Black knight - deep purple
   4.enter sandman - metallica
   5.dumpweed - blink 182

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   jim
   May 18th, 2004 at 3:17 am

   hey johnny park, now that’s a good song.

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   markabey
   May 31st, 2004 at 7:42 pm

   oh my god Muse - plug in baby is in my most favourite songs ever. the riff is amazing.

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    trust me
    June 25th, 2004 at 12:53 pm

    Muse is the best!!!!

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    Led Zepp will neva die
    July 11th, 2004 at 4:38 pm

    well i see youhav black dog and whole lotta luv but what about stairway to heaven? oR the ocean, or moby dick or achilles last….never mind. How bout pinball wizard for the who or who EVERYONE who starts out on guitar plays Deep Purples Smoke on the water?

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    Invisible Kid
    August 13th, 2004 at 2:44 am

    No iron maiden??
    sepultura?
    id include
    the trooper
    hallowed be thy name
    roots bloody roots
    holy wars
    symphony of destruction
    ….

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    Brian
    October 25th, 2005 at 3:40 pm

    Opinions are like assholes. They stink like shit and everyone’s got one. Im about to fart my fecal matter of fact out right now. For starters, punk bands blow dick and do not have anything close to what i would call a “riff”. The pure lack of Pantera shows that everyone doesnt have a shit clue what the fuck they are talking about. Dime was one of the master riffers of the metal guitar (cowboys from hell, cemetery gates, im broken, ….). Even Steve Vai himself is quoted saying that he could not keep up with dimebag. What about Eric Johnson with cliffs of dover? The top list is decent, but the cat that picked Blink 182? Are you fucking serious? How about i run the vocals at a live show through a pitch corrector like those puss asses. Pop sucks man, get your head out of your ass. Its more about image. When’s the last time you heard a riff come out of new radio that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand and drive you to cut school for a week so you could learn the fuckin song? Music has been going down the shitter for the last 15 years or so. Thanks a bunch MTV! Gotta love the G-G-Gee Unit.

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    CousinEd
    October 25th, 2005 at 4:25 pm

    Hey man, what about Battle for Evermore???!!!?!?! Communication Breakcdown???? there’s sooooo many more to name… and don’t even get me STARTED on Iron Maiden!

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    Mike
    November 13th, 2005 at 8:56 am

    Paradise city by Guns N’ Roses, ’nuff said.

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    I_hate_idiots
    December 8th, 2005 at 11:49 am

    Pantera sucks, always has… Dimebag sucks, even in death. Get over it.

    This list is meaningless, as none of the worlds best guitarists or riffs are even on it. This is an MTV nu-metal low-pants wearing idiots guide to guitar riffs.

    You people need to die. Thanks.

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    Anonymous
    December 29th, 2005 at 2:20 am

    Fuck man that dude that said that shit about pantera riffs……LEGEND!!! pantera are the sickest band ever and yes dime is the king of riffs (r.i.p).

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    WTF
    December 29th, 2005 at 7:35 pm

    1: These should be added
    2: These should be removed

    1.
    Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
    Iron Man - Black Sabbath
    Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
    Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
    Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin

    2.
    Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine
    No-One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age
    All Right Now - Free
    Plug In Baby - Muse
    Paradise City - Guns N’ Roses

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    Lol
    April 12th, 2006 at 4:42 pm

    I_hate_idiots should stop being such a hypocrite.

    Pantera is not nu-metal, nor are any of the bands on that list, bar RATM. Oh, and you are unable to dispute Dimebag’s talent, seeing as you are a shitbag and you doing so would be an abomination to the universe.

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    assbag
    April 29th, 2006 at 10:01 am

    u guys r fuckers, metallica and ac/dc rule. and wheres jimi hendrix’s ”all alo ng the watchtower’?! cmon guys stick a pole up ur ear and clean the shit inside

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    codeman
    June 30th, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    dimebag is the best guitar player ever!!!i play guitar and play hard for over 10 years and anyone who talks shit about dime’s music is a fucking idiot and don’t know shit about music or what it means love metal and i miss you dime

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    Rob
    July 10th, 2006 at 8:33 pm

    Hmmmmm……… Stone Temple Pilots have some great riffs in my opinion.

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    fartbucket
    November 28th, 2006 at 11:26 am

    sever the silence from houston texas have the best riffs around they dont just play scales like all of the crap bands and call them riffs

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    Joe
    December 15th, 2006 at 7:37 pm

    OK, i agree with the “WHERE THE FUCK IS IRON MAN???” but to all the people who are like oMg ltek MUSE who teh fok are tey thay shudnt bee on dis lisst i leik Greene Gay!!” go fuck yourselves. Plug in baby, in my opinion, isnt muse’s best. Hysteria and Stockholm Syndrome blow plug in baby out of the water, at least live anyway…

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    OMG...!
    December 22nd, 2006 at 10:56 am

    OMG how did people manage to make such a bad list? where’s:

    Iron Man - Black Sabbath
    Highway to Hell - AC-DC
    Hold Me Thrill Me etc. - U2
    Message in a Bottle - Police
    Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

    and what happened to the great intro on Hey Joe by Hendrix?

    i dont know… Also SLTS should b 1st not 2nd!!!

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    no way
    February 22nd, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    tht list sucks…

    1.The trooper-iron maiden
    2.iron man-sabbath
    3.Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
    4.Master Of Puppets - Metallica
    5.Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love - Van Halen
    6.Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
    7.Halowed be thy name - Iron Maiden
    8.Wake up - Rage Against the machine

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    goat
    March 11th, 2007 at 3:19 am

    metallica sucks. hammet is obviously homosexual but aside from that, mustaine wrote all their best songs, which DOESNT include master of puppets. i love nirvana but teen spirit is questionable. the dude who brought up STP has a good point, throw interstate into that list. and this list isnt most influential riffs, its best riffs, so get iron man out of there, its not that good. id say put in cowboys or domination by pantera. whoever made this list didnt put much thought into it, but either did half the people who responded to it, especially the fucker who badmouthed dime.

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    lacadam
    April 14th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    God… Poeple have diffrent ideas of what is good and what is not, do be so self centerd that everything you like is the best and thats it no one is like you…

    my mini list
    willie the pimp - frank zappa
    Stairway To Heaven - led zeppilin
    Smels like Teenage Spirit - nirvana
    Cherub Rock - the smashing pumpkins
    sister ray - the velvet underground
    am waiting for my man - the velvet underground
    all along the whachtower - hendrix

    cant think of anything else right now
    but i think the best guitarist ever was Frank Zappa or hendrix but i like more Zappa

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    braddy
    May 18th, 2007 at 3:10 pm

    GO NIRVANA!!!!!

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    Mc_Mutha_fuckin_PANTERA
    June 30th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    listen goat, ur right about that faggot that was talkin about dimebag bein out of line, but, how dare u talk about metallica like that,which would you rather hear: Kill Em’ All or gay ass Metal Magic. both were released in 83′,which is the hardest? The answer of course is NOT metal magic. metallica came harcore and stayed hardcore, the pre-CFH pantera is definitely in the top 20 gayest fuckin shit ever list. for the record i fuckin love pantera(after CFH), but, metallica would stomp a fuckin mudhole in pantera’s fuckin glam-rock asses and walk that shit dry.

    and hammet has had more fuckin poon tang this fuckin week than you will ever recieve

    You sir are out of line

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    Mr. Sherlock Holmes
    July 10th, 2007 at 2:11 am

    Muse - Plug in Baby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncO5O37fNqQ

    or check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5lNAUrGJ3k for my personal favorite riff (and solo). He’s just bloody good at guitar.

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    Amazing Forehead
    July 21st, 2007 at 7:05 am

    uhhh wtf im pretty sure megadeth, pantera, metallica, led zeppelin and grunge bands should be the dominant particularly:
    cowboys from hell, cemetery gates, live in a hole
    holy wars, good mourning (and ALL megadeth)
    back in black (i no its already there meh)
    leper messiah
    KASHMIR

    u guys suck balls apart from the pplz that mentioned thrash metal

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    Mc_Mutha_fuckin_PANTERA
    July 25th, 2007 at 2:32 am

    Amazing Forehead: uhhh wtf im pretty sure megadeth, pantera, metallica, led zeppelin and grunge bands should be the dominant

    thats RIGHT!!!!!!!! and i dont think that rage should be excluded just because sum think they r nu-metal. lets be honest the dude is a fukcin wizard on guitar

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    Kirk Hammett
    August 21st, 2007 at 12:59 am

    Wassup bitces?!
    Metallica sucks pantera’s balls and we both are gay

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    James Hetfield
    August 21st, 2007 at 1:03 am

    YEAHHHHHHHH!!!
    Lars just “came” in my mouth!!!
    Heavy metal is for gay dudes,so if you’re gay,listen to heavy metal!!
    Call me

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    Hector
    August 21st, 2007 at 1:13 am

    I am a gay guy and i listen to thrash/speed/heavy/back metal while masturbating all over my pantera/metallica/iron maiden/motorhead pictures

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    Thrash TIl DEath!!!
    March 2nd, 2008 at 4:51 am

    You think people who listen to metal are gay? I wouldn’t be talkin with your pussy ass pop and emo fag shit. and metallica did come hardcore but who said they ever stayed harcore? Listen to St Anger. Does that sound even a little hardcore compared to kill ‘em all? No. It doesn’t. At least PanterA ended as good ‘ol american Metal, instead of falling into the pussy mainstream shit. Metallica KICKED ass but they don’t kick ass now. Megadeth and Pantera are a 100 times greater than pussy Alternica.

    My list:
    Cowboys from Hell by Pantera
    Zombie Ritual by DEATH and alot of their early music has great riffs too! RIP Chuck Schuldiner!
    The Trooper by Iron Maiden
    Eaten by Bloodbath
    Cementary Gates by Pantera
    Bonded by Blood by Exodus AWESOME RIFFS!

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    boston pwns u
    May 30th, 2008 at 2:29 am

    how can u put smells like teen spirit there and not even put the riff that inspired it boston’s more than a feeling? ring a bell? ive yet to see this song on any of the top riffs list and it makes me quite angry like any of u care though lol

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    Dock Emery
    May 30th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    Uhm, HELLO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Has any of you ever heard of a band called TRIUMPH?
    Not everyone who reads these can be oblivious to the guitar playing of Rik Emmet…… If you want a song that stands out from just the opening riffs like Smoke on the Water, Jumping Jack Flash, and Stairway to Heaven……. try listening to FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT by Triumph…… just the first six cords gets ANYONE who knows ANYTHING about 80’s music or great guitar playing in general, singing…..If you do not believe me, listen to it once, and you will see for yourself.

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