Favourite Riffs???

[materamagic]

Walk This Way - Aerosmith

What Is Life - George Harrison

Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

Enter Sandman - Metallica

Handle With Care - Travelling Wilburys

Day Tripper - The Beatles

to name a few memorable riffs from songs

 

[P_D]

Definitely NOT most favourite, but most catchy:
Andrew W.K - Party Hard

And my fav? Would probably be Transylvanian Concubine by Rasputina & Marilyn Manson

 

[Darky]

Originally posted by materamagic
Walk This Way - Aerosmith

What Is Life - George Harrison

Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

Enter Sandman - Metallica

Handle With Care - Travelling Wilburys

Day Tripper - The Beatles

to name a few memorable riffs from songs

All great riffs, especially Randy's intro to "Crazy Train". The whole song is pure guitar heaven.

Throw in :

MANOWAR - Achilles Agony and Ecstasy in eight parts
MANOWAR - Blood of the Kings
Arch Enemy - Silverwing (and the whole "Burning Bridges" album)
Black Majesty - Fall of the Reich
Anthrax - Medusa
Megadeth - Dread & The Fugitive Mind
AC/DC - Down Payment Blues
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
judas Priest - the entire "Sad Wings of Destiny" album

 

[PeteLX]

Marquee Moon - Television
Hells Bells - ACDC
Back in Black - ACDC
Louie Louie - lots of bands

 

[Stocka]

Quite a few really, but the following ones are probably the biggest hook:

Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
Dissident - Pearl Jam
Forty Six and Two - Tool
Zero - Smashing Pumpkins

 

[tomaraya]

a few of my favourites.

in no particular order:
anthrax - caught in a mosh
metallica - master of puppets
ozzy - i dont know (all of rhandy's riffs in fact.)
smashing pumpkins - where boys fear to tread
megadeth - symphony of destruction
slayer - raining blood
alice in chains - we die young
black sabbath - iron man
iron maiden - number of the beast

and many more. too numerous to mention now.

 

[Braddock]

Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
Doves - Words
AC/DC - Back In Black
Violent Femms - Blister In The Sun
U2 - Gloria
The Beatles - I Feel Fine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away
Muse - Plug In Baby
Muse - New Born
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
Coldplay - Shiver
Coldplay - You Only Live Twice
Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly
The Offspring - Genocide
The Offspring - Dirty Magic
Metallica - Orion
Metallica - Fade To Black
The Knack - My Sharona
Something For Kate - Easy
Snout - Got Sold On Heaven
Foo Fighters - Baker Street (if we're talking purely guitar riffs)

Once again I couldn't stop myself once I started

 

[dodgey]

Smoke on the Water

 

[jerry springer]

Sweet child o' mine- GNR

 

[WILKO_6]

Any riff by Thrice... they are the riff kings. Common someone must have heard them!

 

[GhostofJimJess]

Celibate Rifles - "Electravision Mantra"

 

[Magpira]

One of my all time fave riff is..

For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica
This song has about 4 awesome changing riffs in the intro which makes me wanna play guitar every time I hear it.

Ministry - Just One Fix
Another awesome riff that just thrashes and also makes me wanna play guitar


Old - Machinehead

Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck - Prong

5 Minutes Alone - Pantera

Unsung - Helmet

Du Hast - Rammstein

Electric Head Part 1 - White Zombie

Jesus Saves - Slayer

Season In The Abyss - Slayer

Wasting Away - Nailbomb

Slave Girl - Lime Spiders

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

Self Bias Resistor - Fear Factory (not so much the intro riff but it has an awesome change in the middle which is **** hot).

I have many more also but this is it for now!

 

[TheWackedYak]

Opening guitar intros to:

March of the SOD/Speak English or Die - SOD

Quality or Quantity - Bad Religion

And the middle riffs/solo on Slayer's Chemical Warfare, especially on the Decade of Aggression live album, leading up to the "fach it up" and then its just a high speed assault after that

 

[Stevo]

Dark Tranquillity's album "The Gallery": great riff after great riff after great riff.

 

[St-KriS]

Originally posted by Stocka


Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins

Yes yes yes! I absolutely love that!

Also...

Smashing Pumpkins - Soma (if that's counted as a riff? I dunno..)
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
A Perfect Circle - Judith

 

[LordLucifer]

"Jailbreak" - AC/DC
"Lust For Life" - Iggy Pop
"Woman From Tokyo" - Deep Purple
"20th Century Boy" - T-REX
"Under My Thumb" - Rolling Stones
"Stop The Rock" - Apollo Four Forty
"Paperback Writer" - Beatles

 

[LordLucifer]

Originally posted by Magpira


Du Hast - Rammstein

Slave Girl - Lime Spiders

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

A few of my faves there too !!

 

[SydneyBomber]

Originally posted by Stevo
Dark Tranquillity's album "The Gallery": great riff after great riff after great riff.

Fave intro riffs....
Angel of Death - Slayer
Day of Suffering - Morbid Angel (the subtle flange just helps top it off nicely)
Emperor - Ye Entrancemperium
Blinded by Fear - At the Gates
Twist of Cain - Danzig
Hate Song - The Haunted
Litany - Vader
Cruelty brought thee orchids - COF
Into the pit - Testament

And my fave for today: Chaos Breed by Entombed.

 

[RogerMellie]

The main horn riff from Kool & the Gang's Jungle Boogie.

 

[Angus1]

2 classic riffs are Iron Man and Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
F!@#$%^ awesome.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

Originally posted by Angus1
2 classic riffs are Iron Man and Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
F!@#$%^ awesome.

All the riffs on Into the Void are pretty special too. Dominance and Submission by Blue Oyster Cult is probably my all time favourite. Also love the riffs in Jailbreak by AC/DC, Pinhead by the Ramones, Submission by the Sex Pistols and All Day and All of the Night by the Kinks.

 

[Dogs 13]

Originally posted by Rusty Brookes
All Day and All of the Night by the Kinks.

Girl I Want To be With You is so similar to I All Day and All of The night. I wondered when someone was going to list some intros by The Kinks and those Riff Meisters, Keef and Mick such as Brown Sugar and Get Offa My Cloud.

 

[Portia]

Shazam! - Spiderbait

 

[hotpie]

Calypso - Spiderbait
Just Ace - Grinspoon

 

[hotpie]

Originally posted by Dogs 13
Girl I Want To be With You is so similar to I All Day and All of The night.

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very very similar i'd suggest