Greatest guitar solo's according to Planet Rock's audience

[Midwinter_melancholY]

1. Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb

2. Guns n Roses, Sweet Child of mine

3. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Freebird


Full list (40)

A well deserved nr. 1 imo.

 

[Pethical]

i was pretty suprised to see 3x GnR entries. decent enough list i guess, has most of the more popular classic rock essentials

 

[saut]

i agree with comfortably numb, but not the others in the top 3. i dunno what else i would pick.. maybe something from nfu

the list is actually decent, i was surprised at the amount of deep purple

 

[Sadguru]

I also agree with Comfortably Numb.

 

[Tubbs]

#1 is definitely deserved. I'm a huge fan of Pink Floyd. However, I don't think Gn'R or AC/DC should be on this list at all, and the rest of the list is mostly crap that I've heard on the radio 10000X times already, so the songs bore me..

(There are a few good ones there... not the majority though imo.)

 

[a rofl nazi]

good thing aqualung is on there

king crimson - exiles ftlog

 

[CAIRATH]

Good number one. That solo almost brought a tear to my eye when I watched the Live Eight performance.

Putting Van Halen - Eruption as number four seems silly to me. That track may have been influential to other guitarists, but it's not really a great solo or track by itself.

 

[Talking Meat]

I guess its a given that its all 70s/80s pop rock? Given that limitation its a decent list.

 

[:Wreath:]

I still get the feeling that such lists of 'greatest...' whatever should be renamed to 'the most popular'...

especially when it comes to stuff associated with guitar

 

[FRUGiHOYi]

Hm, no Pantera - Floods.

 

[Kenneth R.]

shit list. Floyd is the only thing they got right.

 

[illidurit]

lol the freebird solo is awful

 

[opeth8]

Freebird is amongst the most popular solo's of all-time. I'm not surprised it ranked so high.

Metallica - Unforgiven
nice choice

 

[i aint play this]

no Judas Priest's Painkiller? wtf

 

[metal_wrath]

what is freebird?????......!!!!!!???111111111

 

[NFU]

i dont have too many gripes with this list. sure theyre missing a lot...but out of all the songs ever written with good guitar solos...picking just 40 of the best is a fairly hard task. certainly not a job id want.

 

[i aint play this]

what is freebird?????......!!!!!!???111111111

Read the first post in case you are not being sarcastic.

 

[worldwide_suicide]

good, but far from excellent.

 

[saut]

lol @ m_w not knowing freebird, jesus christ

 

[i aint play this]

Hm, no Pantera - Floods.

That one slays, the ''10's'' solo off Trendkill also rules.