May 21, 2004
Great Guitar Riffs
So I’m a little late, sue me. As we all by now know, Sweet Child O Mine was voted the top guitar riff by Total Guitar magazine. I started having a think about what my favourite general guitary bits were, and I’ve concluded my top two. At least, this is what I think today.
1. The end guitar bit of Wuthering Heights. Just ace. Kate wailing over the top - bliss for me. I know Kate Bush is an aquired taste but for the last two years I’ve been obsessed, I just think she’s so brilliant.
2. The guitar solo in Golden Brown by The Stranglers. I think that is a slice of musical perfection, I swear to god…
What’s your favourite guitary bit? Alternatively, if you steer clear of anything with a guitar in it and prefer processed pop (as is your god given right, and lord knows I’m partial to a killer pop tune) what’s the greatest pop bit in history? As many or as few answers as you like, dears!
Posted by Jess at May 21, 2004 11:21 PM— Filed under Common
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No Pierre Bensusan? Tibetan monks? Why Patrick, I’m shocked!
I remember really vividly when I was first learning guitar alllll those years ago struggling to play Come As You Are by Nirvana. Once I mastered it (bless my novice hands) I noticed that whenever any teenager entered a music store to buy their first proper guitar, that was always the “test tune” of choice.
I guess I’m trying to say… well, I don’t know what I’m trying to say. Come As You Are is good? Rehashing teenage memories? Early morning insanity? Who knows?
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The greatest guitar riff ever? they must be joking?
Of the two songs from Guns N’ Roses I can noly remember one guitar riff, the intro to Sweet Child O’ Mine. For me, the intro to Soundgarden’s Rusty Cage leaves it for dead.
Why is it that there are so many songs here where it’s the chorus that stands out and not the riff. Of course, Smells Like Teen Spirit needs a place, but it does sound rather like Wild Thing.
Here’s just some of my own favorites - in no order. I haven’t gone for anything obscure, which is my natural tendancy.
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You. (How could this ever be overlooked?) Helmet - One of the many off the album Meantime, my pick is “Turned Out” Deicide - Satan Spawn, Caco-Daemon (Seriously brilliant deth metal riff-age)
I could think of plenty others.