Your favourite riffs, solos and basslines.

Sorry if the thread is a bit silly, but it's pretty self explanatory. List your 5 (or so) favourite riffs, basslines or solos.

Riffs

The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
Muse - Plug In Baby
Soundgarden - Spoonman

Basslines

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Primus - Tommy The Cat
Pink Floyd - Money

Solos

Metallica - To Live Is To Die
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Pearl Jam - Alive
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Van Halen - Eruption

I just like solos:)

Solo.

1.Bat country-Avenged sevenfold
2.Over the mountain-Ozzy Osbourne
3.Hangar 18-Megadeth
4.Mallaria-L.A. Guns
5.Locomotive breath-W.A.S.P.
6.Piece of your action-Motley Crue
7.South of Heaven-Slayer
8.The Four horseman-Metallica
9.Smoke on the water-Deep Purple
10.Iron Man-Black Sabbath
11.Mad House-Anthrax

Riffs

The Datsuns - I Got No Words

Solos

Pink Floyd - Dogs, Comfortably Numb

I'm not really one for solos. When you label a song outstanding on it's solo work then it seems as though you're putting less emphasis on the song. Unless a track involves a solo solo (i.e. no other elements) then it should be taking on it's whole merit. With that in mind I have no "favourite" solos per say.

Virtually everything CKY did pre-AACBF contains my favourite riffs. Escape From Hellview, Flesh Into Gear, Disengage the Simulator, Testing... So many classic riffs.

Children of Bodom, Helloween, Dream Theater, and other prog/power bands would get my vote for having the best solos.

I love the bassline in Radiohead's "The National Anthem".

solo

If the beginning of maps by yeah yeah yeah's counts ill say that.

bass lines yes-roundabout beatles-dig a pony pink floyd-money

solos pink floyd comfortably numb yes- starship trooper and most of rush's drum solos

I'm not to sure what a Riff is but my mind tells me in a guess that it's the body and main part of a song. Like the verses and such. And my favorite Solo is "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" - Greenday. The Solo is at the end. It kicks major ass...

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Originally Posted by Chaos Prophecy.Crash..

I'm not to sure what a Riff is but my mind tells me in a guess that it's the body and main part of a song. Like the verses and such. And my favorite Solo is "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" - Greenday. The Solo is at the end. It kicks major ass...

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Riffs are the stanzas used in guitar tabbing

Alexander the great-iron maiden

The riff in "The Ballad of Darcy Farrow." Serious finger-picking skill. I can play about three notes of it.

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Originally Posted by lord shishio

Riffs are the stanzas used in guitar tabbing

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Yeah I know but what's it's definition??

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Originally Posted by Chaos Prophecy.Crash..

Yeah I know but what's it's definition??

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.... that is the definition.

XD Well the riff in "Heart Shaped Box" - Nirvana is pretty cool. I like the chorus chords better though...

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Originally Posted by Suikojowy

Sorry if the thread is a bit silly, but it's pretty self explanatory. List your 5 (or so) favourite riffs, basslines or solos.

Riffs

The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
Muse - Plug In Baby
Soundgarden - Spoonman

Basslines

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Primus - Tommy The Cat
Pink Floyd - Money

Solos

Metallica - To Live Is To Die
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Pearl Jam - Alive
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Van Halen - Eruption

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Wow. I love you.
Les Claypool is amazing and totally underrated. And, its really nice to see good, classic rock represented. (That's not a stab at Floyd, because I love them too..)

Riffs

Black Sabbath-Iron man
Iron Maiden-Dont look to the eyes of a stranger
Iron Maiden-Dance of death
Slayer-Seasons in the abbys
Judas Priest-Silent screems
Basslines

Nirvana-Come as you are
RHCP-Cant stop
Pink Floyd-Money

Solos

Pantera-Floods
Judas Priest-Hellrider
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Pantera-Domination
Judas Priest-Painkiller

Riffs:

Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar
AC/DC - Back in Black
The Wildhearts - Stormy in the North, Karma in the South
CKY - 96 Quiet Bitter Beings
CKY - Flesh into Gear

Yeah, I struggled with that one. I don't notice many Riffs.

Basslines:

The Mad Capsule Markets - Tribe (It's nothing special, I just love the sound of Takeshi's bass in this song.)
The Mad Capsule Markets - Track 23 on the best of 1990 - 1996 album. (Hay kiss my ass man, I can't read Japanese.)
The Mad Capsule Markets - Possess in Loop
The Mad Capsule Markets - Island
The Mad Capsule Markets - Come (Just for the Bridge)

Yeah. I like Takeshi. :D I guess it's because he doesn't just lay down the Rhthym, a lot of his basslines are also the main Melodies for the song, such as Island and Good Day.

Solos:

The Mad Capsule Markets - Tribe (Bass)
The Mad Capsule Markets - Systematic (Bass)
The Mad Capsule Markets - Midi Surf (Bass)
Iron Maiden - The Evil that Men do
Iron Maiden - No More Lies

Riffs

AC/DC-Back in Black
Live-Dam at Otter Creek
Deep Purple-Pictures of Home
Rush-Leave that thing alone
Jimmy Hendrix-Voodoo Chile

BassLines

Rush-Leave that thing alone
Rage Against the Machine-Bombtrack
Rage Against the Machine-Calm like a bomb

Solo's

Rush(Niel Peart)-O' Baterista (drums)
Deep Purple-Smoke on the water
Led Zepplin-Rock and Roll, Moby Dick (drums)

That's all i can think of atm.

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Riffs
Nirvana - Dive(Well I like tons of Nirvana riffs but that's my fav)
Soundgarden - Ty Cobb
Pixies - Debaser
Green Day - Castaway
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Black Sabbath - Evil Woman
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Foo Fighters - Good Grief
And there's tons and tons more but there's some.

Basslines
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
Shocking Blue - Love Buzz
Nirvana - Even In His Youth
And many more...

Solos
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
Nirvana - About A Girl(MTV Unplugged is best version)
Queen - Bahemian Rhapsody
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
And many many many more..

One of my favorite intro's are "Lights And Sounds" - Yellow Card...

Coheed & Cambria - Welcome Home has a pretty nifty solo and In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth 3 has a very catchy riff.

fade to black-Metallica
I can't get past the opening solo.

thin lizzy/metallica- whiskey in the jar
back in black-acdc
for solos everything by gnr (especially estranged)
rolling stones- paint it black
gnr- rocket queen (bassline)
aerosmith- mama kin
lenny kravitz- american woman
metallica- the whole black album (riff)

many more too many to mention

Riffs
Randy Rhoads - Crazy Train
Metallica - Battery
Muse - New Born
Dream Theater - Glass Prison
Lamb of God - Laid to Rest

Basslines
Muse - Hysteria, Citizen Erased
Cake - I will Survive
Blink 182- Carousel

Solos
Randy Rhoads - Mr. Crowley
Dragonforce - Fury of the Storm
Dream Theater - the intro solo thing for glass prison
Avenged Sevenfold - Second Heartbeat
Pantera - Im broken
Joe Satriani - Crushing Day