Favourite Guitar Riffs

[The Apparition]

I know most of you probably post on this thread on the LORD Forum but i'm going start one here because i can

Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox (Funky Intro Riff)
Thin Lizzy - Fools Gold (Chorus Riff)
Solitude Aeturnus - It Came Upon One Night(Every Riff in the song)
Rainbow - Gates of Babylon (Intro Riff)
Rainbow - Stargazer(Chorus Riff)

 

[Jonno]

You forgot the intro to "Don't Believe a word"
Your Shame!

 

[Keeper of the Seven Cheese]

Whitesnake - Give Me All Your Love (Intro Riff)
Symphony X - Inferno (Verse Riff)

Transcending Mortality - Spiral (The part with the beautifully natural pinch harmonics)

That is all for now.

 

[The Apparition]

Whitesnake - Give Me All Your Love (Intro Riff)
Symphony X - Inferno (Verse Riff)

Transcending Mortality - Spiral (The part with the beautifully natural pinch harmonics)

That is all for now.

I hate you.

 

[RavenHasFlownAway]

Judas Priest - Between the Hammer and the Anvil (you know what one)

 

[James84]

Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox

 

[Aqualung]

Some ones I can't get out of my head lately:

Candlemass - Dark Reflections (intro/verse riff)
Iron Maiden - The Pilgrim (post chorus riff)
Dominici - Nowhere to Hide (pre chorus riff)
King Diamond - Arrival (first two riffs + 2nd verse riff)
Nevermore - Inside Four Walls (2nd riff)
Jethro Tull - Crossed Eyed Mary (chorus riff)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (intro/main verse riff)

 

[Watto]

Megadeth - Back in the day (the whole song has kick arse riffs)
TestAmenT - into the pit/burnt offerings every testament song has kick arse riffs
Micheal Jackson - Beat it
MetallicA - No Remorse/The four horsemen
That would do for now... oh and HOLY DIVER

 

[RavenHasFlownAway]

Micheal Jackson - Beat it
MetallicA - No Remorse/The four horsemen
HOLY DIVER

 

[metal evilution]

Anything as long as it is not that gawd awful looped beginning to Twilight that sounds like a total amatuer learning what his guitar teacher has just showed him.

 

[RavenHasFlownAway]

Anything as long as it is not that gawd awful looped beginning to Twilight that sounds like a total amatuer learning what his guitar teacher has just showed him.

What were they thinking ?!?! . Whack a Yngwie solo in there and theyll be happy

 

[whoneedstherapy]

I'm too sexy - Right said Fred

 

[FerretallicA]

I won't even get started on my favourite Dream Theater riffs or this list will go forever and it's probably going to end up long enough as it is. These are just off the top of my head:

A.C.T "Truth Is Pain" (outro riff = pure bliss)
Iron Maiden "Be Quick Or Be Dead", "Afraid to Shoot Strangers"
Vanden Plas "Push"
Angra "Live and Learn", "Speed"
Shaman "Time Will Come", "Iron Soul"
Helloween "First Time", "Departed" (simple but very atmospheric)
Children of Bodom "Better Off Dead"
Alice Cooper "Bed of Nails"
Iced Earth "Phantom Opera Ghost"
Megadeth "Tornado of Souls"
Steve Vai "Down Deep Into the Pain", "Building the Church"
Joe Satriani "Bamboo"
Metallica "Holier Than Thou"
Rage "Paint the Devil on the Wall", "Soundchaser"
Saber Tiger "It's Your World", "Sleep With Pain"
Twilightning "Gone to the Wall", "Plaguehouse Puppet Show", "Fever Pitch"
Pantera "13 Steps to Nowhere"
Rusty Cooley "Dark Matter", "War of the Angels"
John Petrucci "Glasgow Kiss", "Jaws of Life"
Haji's Kitchen "Free"
Thunderstone "Liquid of the King"
Psycroptic "Cruelty Incarnate", "Alpha Breed"
AC/DC "Back in Black"
Guns N' Roses "Welcome to the Jungle", "Locomotive", "You Could Be Mine"
Deep Purple "Anya", "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming"
Masters of Reality "Kill the King"
Slash's Snakepit "Be the Ball"
Van Halen "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love", "Pleasure Dome"
Blue Oyster Cult "Take Me Away"
Saber Tiger "Red Shadow"
Dire Straits "Sultans of Swing", "Money for Nothing"
John Farnham "All Our Sons and Daughters", "Diamonds"
ZZ Top "La Grange"
Buckethead "Park Theme", "Skull Scrape"
Racer X "Fire of Rock", "Superheroes"
Aghora "Atmas Heave"
Friar Rush "Abduction", "Eve"
Gordian Knot "Muttersprache" (simple yet freaky intro)
Lemur Voice "Akasha Chronicles"
Liquid Tension Experiment "Paradigm Shift", "Acid Rain", "Another Dimension"
Planet X "Poland"
Symphony X "In The Dragon's Den", "Evolution", "Absence Of Light", "Inferno", "Eve of Seduction"

I could probably think of more favourite riffs but I'm still in 24/7 Dream Theater and Iron Maiden mode

 

[DirTh]

+1 for Cruelty Incarnate and Glasgow Kiss.

Any riff from Dream Theaters Erotomania/Dance of Eternity.

 

[mel_progson]

Few of my faves..

Hexenhaus-Phobia from Dejavoodu album

Iced Earth-pick anything from Night of the Stormrider

Rage-anything on the Missing Link...Manny Schmidt huge riffmaster

Nevermore-the Psalm of Lydia from This Godless Endeavour

Pagan's Mind-Spirit Starcruiser outro riff from God's Equation

Symphony X-Of Sins and Shadows from Divine Wings of Tragedy

Jorn-Young Forever off Out to Every Nation

 

[fos]

maiden - revelations ( verse Riff)
its actually pretty simple but , the vocals go so god damn well over it.

 

[Mortalchewy]

Dawn of the angry - morbid angel
One by one - Immortal
and of course the heaviest riff EVER.....Summoning redemption - Morbid angel

 

[whoneedstherapy]

a few simple favourites here

Deep Purple - Stormbringer
Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vidda
Soundgarden - Outshined

 

[Taliwakker]

Ugly Side of Me-Freak Kitchen
He-Man Woman Hater-Extreme
Rights to You-Freak Kitchen
Lay it Down-Ratt
Shame Shame Shame-Ratt
Caught Between the Tigers-TNT

 

[FerretallicA]

I'm going through a bit of a glam- and pub-rock phase at the moment. These are by no means legendary world-changing riffs, just a few that happen to be stuck in my head at the moment.


Brazen Abbot "One Life To Live"
Dokken "Everybody Needs (To Be With Someone)"
Black Stone Cherry "Tired Of The Rain"
Talisman "Standing On Fire"
Big Cock "Fucked Up"
Rose Tattoo "Once In A Lifetime"
Skid Row "Shut Up Baby, I Love You"
Dreadnaught "Game"

PS: modern Dokken =