The 10 Greatest Rock'n'Roll riffs ever!

[phlogiston]

http://entertainment.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4459,11563705%5E10431%5E%5Enbv,00.html

1. Smoke On The Water: Deep Purple

2. Enter Sandman: Metallica

3. Back In Black: AC/DC

4. Sweet Child Of Mine: Guns N' Roses

5. Kashmir: Led Zeppelin

6. Whole Lotta Love: Led Zeppelin

7. Smells Like Teen Spirit: Nirvana

8. Seven Nation Army: White Stripes

9. Stairway To Heaven: Led Zeppelin

10. Thunderstruck: AC/DC

 

[Icarus]

White stripes..what the dang is that doing there?

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Pfffft,

Ratt - Lay It Down shits on all of them already.

 

[Goreripper]

That list is good until it gets to No. 8. Surely "Satisfaction" and "Wild Thing" should have figured on there somewhere, and "Stairway to Heaven" isn't exactly riff driven.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Some of my favourite riffs are in about a million RATT songs (THE KINGS OF RIFFING) plus stuff like Kingdom Come - Do You Like It (great riff, great song), Firehouse - All She Wrote even if it is a rip-off from Ratt - Round & Round but as I said Ratt riffs are awesome so that's all good, Van Halen - Unchained, and I would agree with AC/DC - Back In Black, classic!!!

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I actually think Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes has the coolest main driving riff I have heard in a rock song in ages. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand has great rock riffing as well.

 

[spawn]

The top 4 you could probably agree with actually. Not too bad a list all up, considering some of the crap ones we have seen recently.

 

[Spiff]

What puzzles me is that the article says that Smoke on the Water was somewhat of a surprise choice for the top spot.

 

[Southy]

the people that didn't expect it are well...dickheads Spiff

 

[The Amazer]

Nice list,

but I don't think The White Stripes should be there, not because of the lack of time they've been around, but because although it's an awesome riff, riffs like that do come surprisingly often. Silverchair's "Anthem for the year 2000" had one of the best riffs I'd heard, but now it's forgotten about. I can only see the same for Seven Nation Army.

 

[plattopus]

That list is OK up until number 8...

- Why the fuck is Seven Nation Army there? It's a mediocre song at best that gets incredibly annoying if you listen to it more than once in a day.
- Stairway to Heaven is a good song (way, WAY over-rated IMO but that's a different story)... it doesn't deserve to be in the "best riffs of all time" category.
- Thunderstruck is very over-rated and I would call it boring at best.

 

[spawn]

No Association is a WAY better riff than Anthem For The Year 2000 Ceydn!

 

[Wrathchild]

Pffft! Any list that doesn't include Man On The Silver Mountain is null and void.

W

 

[The Amazer]

hahaha, I don't really like Silverchair that much, I'm just saying that the riff in that song is a monster riff that hit you hard like the first time you hear Seven Nation Army, but no one seems to remember it now.

 

[spawn]

The riff in Anthem For The Year 2000 aint even that good

 

[phlogiston]

Is Seven Nation Army the one that goes, Naaaah na-nah nah nah naaaah naaah?

Screw it, I'll go download it.

 

[Spruce Goose]

Is Seven Nation Army the one that goes, Naaaah na-nah nah nah naaaah naaah?

No, that is the theme from the childrens classic Peter and the Wolf

 

[Spiff]

Where's Money for Nothing?

 

[Blitzkrieg]

'Are You Gonna Go My Way', 'My Sharona', and 'Beat It' are also ones I would consider including. I agree with Spiff on 'Money For Nothing' as well.

Beat It rocks so much, awesome riffing, and one of the best solos ever.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Crazy Train is killer as well, along with every second Sabbath song. Iron Man.