OK, The Stones have delivered the GOODS over the years. But there are also a few other artists who have come up with powerfull riffs, contributing to a soundtrack for 3 generations. Which are your favourite rock riffs of all time?
Here are mine:
1) Honky Tonk Women
2) Jumping Jack Flash
3) 20th Century Boy (T. Rex)
4) Lust for Life (Iggy Pop)
5) Satisfaction.

Not necessarily in this chronology, depending on which mood I'm in... Come on! Ooops, My favourite riff is of course The Human Riff Himself.

1. The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash
2. Status Quo - Big Fat Mama
3. Taj Mahal - Leavin' Trunk (originally Sleepy John Estes)
4. The Cult - Lil' Devil
5. The Rolling Stones - Slave

santa monica by everclear

Of course, "The Last Time" by a birthday man, BRIAN JONES.

- Doxa

1. intro Can't You Hear Me Knocking
2. Locomotion, Guns & Roses (an one-note riff, encredible)
3. Machine Gun, Hendrix live at Fillmore
4. Mama Said, Lenny Kravitz/Slash
5. intro of Tumbling Dice (everything you need to know about open G in 3 seconds)
6. No Quarter, Led Zep. I still can't play it right...

Mathijs

JJF

Brown Sugar surely????

Regards,

Ian.

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Lots of riffs out there. I may have missed a few.... Too many Stones riffs to include. Here's a couple fun ones

1. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
2. No Fun - The Stooges
3. Poptones - Public Image Ltd.
4. Stupidly Happy - XTC
5. Ina Gadda Di Vida - Iron Butterfly
6. You Really Got Me - The Kinks
7. Misty Mountain Hop - Led Zeppelin
8. Wipe-Out - The Surfaris

JJF
SFM
Whole Lotta Love

1. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

2. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream

3. Had To Cry Today - Blind Faith

4. Custard Pie - Led Zeppelin

5. Satisfaction - Rolling Stones

6. Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath

7. All Day, And All Of The Night - The Kinks

8. Burn - Deep Purple

9. Lively Up Yourself - Bob Marley and The Wailers (Bass/guitar riff)

10. Happy - The Rolling Stones

JJF - after that...fight it out for #2

Nobody remembers AC/DC????

[There'll be no wedding today...]

Satisfaction
Smoke On The Water (Deep Purple)
JJF
I'm Going Down

"got to be worked on
don't have no bark nor bite..."

zz top: sharp dressed man and pincushion
stones: JJF, HTW
Beasty boys: fight for your right

Kinks----you really got me

Smoke On The Water. The riff everyone tries to play when they first pick up a guitar!!

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> Smoke On The Water. The riff everyone tries to
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Also the riff that almost everyone plays wrong. Most people use powerchords on the E-A-D strings, while it should be played on the D-G strings without a plectrum.

- Koen.

1. Run Rudolph Run - Chuckster, preferrably played by Keef Riff-hard
2. JBG - Chuckster
(3-12 really anything from Chuckster catalogue, but to make it more readable
3. Satisfaction - RS
4. God Save The Queen - Pistols
5. Voodo Chile - JH
6. Passenger - Iggy & Stooges
7. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
8. I´m Going Down - RS
9. Space Truckin´- Purple
10. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - BS
11. Tüzvihar - Omega (from Hungary; they´ve played for 43 years now...)
12. Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy

Holy smoke!

Forgive me, English...

These I forgot:

You Really Got Me &
All Day And All Of The Night- The Kinks...
Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath ...My Generation - the Who...

...Can´t push out any of the others; pleez sqeez´em in the midst of my list.... Or...
Philosophically-semantically Chuckster-stuff may be categorized as Best Rock 'n' Roll Songs, and not Best Riffs; so, OK, here´s my new list
(completed with some Danes and another Hungarian ensemble at the end...)

1. Satisfaction - RS , 2. You Really Got Me - The Kinks, 3. All Day And All Of The Night- The Kinks, 4.Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath, 5. My Generation - the Who6. God Save The Queen - Pistols , 7. Voodo Chile - JH, 8. Passenger - Iggy & Stooges , 9. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana, 10. I´m Going Down - RS, 11. Space Truckin´- Purple, 12. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - BS, 13. Tüzvihar - Omega (from Hungary; they´ve played for 43 years now...) , 14. Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
15. Bobo´s sang - Gasolin´ 16. Tüz Van - Dinamit (Gyúla Vikidal vocals)

Comment on last one: Lizzy should be possible to contribute with ant tune on a list like this; but they were (note tempus) not really a riff-based band.
"Tüz" (long dots) means fire.

Margareth -Glad to see T. Rex make your list.
He/ They certainly deserve another OT thead here
someday soon!!!!!!!!

Just some great riffs:

1. Stones - JJF
2. AC/DC - Riff Raff
3. David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
4. Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
5. Chuck Berry - Johnny Be Goode
6. T.Rex - Get It On
7. Black Crowes - My Morning Song
8. Aerosmith - Walk This Way
9. INXS - Need You Tonight
10. Judas Priest - Breaking The Law

I will assume the question was best Stones riff ever. Too many to decide. They have all been mentined above except for one

All Down The Line.

Milo, NYC
My feet are hurtin'

There are soooooo many!

Anyway here are some more, in no particular order: black dog (zep) paranoid (sabbath) tv-eye (stooges) T&A (stones) message in a bottle (police) hells bells (AC DC) foxy lady (Jimi) eruption (VH) flip the switch (stones) pain of love (stones) etc. etc.

C

I'd like to add a few -

Walk This Way - Aerosmith
Day Tripper - Beatles
Iron Man - Sabbath
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
Sweet Home Alabama - Skynyrd
Heartbreaker/LLM - Led Zep
Pretty Woman - Orbison
Don't Be Cruel - Elvis
Fortunate Son - CCR



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Great riffs? Too many to count, but Led Zep's "Black Dog" and "In My Time oF Dying" come to mind. Also, Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" and the James Gang's "Funk 49".

18 - Alice Cooper
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Wild Thing (almost idiotic in its simplicity, but, still...)

Led Zep - Moby Dick

JJF, everything else isant even comparable

Add Chuck Berry's
Little Queenie
Sweet Little 16
+Johnny B Goode
to the list.................

Adding to my list, previously posted above...


11. Aqualung - Jethro Tull

12. The Ocean - Led Zeppelin

13. Still Alive And Well - Johnny Winter

14. And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles

15. Black Hearted Woman - The Allman Brothers

16. Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash

17. Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac

18. Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young

19. Layla - Derrick and The Dominoes

20. Manic Depression - Jimi Hendrix