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From The Times
April 25, 2008

The top ten riffs of all time

Do you agree? Listen to the riffs below, then vote for your number one

Greatest Guitar Riffs of all time

So, which of the guitar riffs below would get your vote in a poll to find the greatest guitar riff of all time?

VOTE NOW, and make your opinion count!

I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses

I Love Rock 'n' Roll - Joan Jett

Seven Nation Army - White Stripes

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Come On Everybody by Eddie Cochran

There She Goes - The La?s

Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones

Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

Vote: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3809123.ece

No Black Sabbath?  No Metallica?  Did they forget about heavy metal?

Where's ONE Of Metallica ???....


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ok i like the Arctic Monkeys.... but this is goin' a stretch too farr!!! haha of all time?!?  :hihi:

done. GNR all the way.

nice to see Arctic Monkeys, BTW.   ;D
and Eddie Cochran

The La's never wrote another great song. The Arctic Monkeys are just NME babies. I like Satisfaction, but there are better Stones songs/riffs. Teen Spirit was Nirvana's greatest hit, but did not have their best riff. I though Zepp had better riffs than WLL. I cannot argue the Deep Purple or Guns. Eddie Cochran is quite random. Joan Jett is American Idol fodder. The White Stripes are added just to make the list look cool to people in their early to mid 20's.

The list could be better imo

The Seven Nation Army "riff" sounds like a bass line to me.  I know is supposedly isn't but I don't think guitar when I hear it.

The related article...

From The Times
April 25, 2008

Why the riff is the cornerstone of rock

It may be no more than a repeated series of notes, but the guitar riff is the cornerstone of rock - and Will Hodgkinson would sell his soul for one

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3809122.ece

the caption is not so random.

"Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses
Slash thought it was too throwaway. Thank God the band convinced him to keep it in.. "

Still trying to find the "riff" in "Smells like Teen Spirit".

what about iron man...one of the greatest (at least as far as metal goes)

we need to vote way more... :beer:

Jesus no Sabbath? What the hell! Iommi basically wrote the riff dictionary. A lot of Sabbath songs have enough riffs to make 3 songs out of. Hole in the sky, symptom of the universe, snowblind, paranoid, sabbath bloody sabbath....you could put any Ozzy era song on that list and it would be right.

There are millions out there that are worthy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR4YH1N04pc

or...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hkjkTe5kZE

Its called the 'rifftionary'  :peace:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rifftionary-Worlds-Most-Famous-Riffs/dp/1843286432

the only ones I agree with are

Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones

Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

and of course SCOM

Timeless Melody is pretty good....  ;)




Yeah, that often seems to be the case. They add something recent to get younger people to notice the list.

It's also interesting how the lists are different in the US compared to the UK.

I don't think the Arctic Monkeys would make a list in the US.

But the classics, like GN'R, appear on lists both sides of the Atlantic.





/jarmo

Where the hell is Hell's Bells?? :rant:

I agree with the other posters about the lack of Sabbath. And Enter Sandman or For Whom The Bell Tolls should have been there. The Arctic Monkeys? The hell are they doing there?

EDIT: I just thought of Raining Blood by Slayer but then remembered that it is The Times...

Arctic Monkeys?  I'm no guitar wizard but I really don't even hear a riff in that song.

Nice to see another list of "riffs"-songs which have no riff in them  :peace:


I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys

A chord progression and a little run... very bad ones at that

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses

A lick, then licks over chord progressions.... of all the songs of GnR they pick the one without a single riff, that is an achievement on it's own

I Love Rock 'n' Roll - Joan Jett

Chord progression and licks..... this song was nominated by Johnny Clueless, middle name ToneDeaf

Seven Nation Army - White Stripes

Ah finally, a riff in the list.... a corny one but still  :peace:

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Chord progressions and some chord progressions and then some chord progressions, a very little small riff after chorus, about 5 seconds long but no one even noticed that, they only hear the chord progressions and some chord progressions and then some chord progressions, the end

Come On Everybody by Eddie Cochran

Chord progressions with dorky melody

There She Goes - The La?s

Licks and chords, anyone who thinks there is a riff in there should be shot in the face, taped and uploaded on youtube for everyone to see

Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones

Riff... one to entertain people with 2 braincells, but it is a riff  :peace:

Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

Riff and chords, so 50-50  :peace:

Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

You can't get more riff than this one  :peace:

maybe arctic monkeys are modern day cliff richard and the shadows? :hihi:

well it's the times, not a rock magazine or a rock radio station.
On the contrary I wonder if the two from the us, Eddie Cochran and Joan Jett, be there if it was NYtimes?

I would like to add Megadeth's Train Of Consequences :drool: