Top Fifty Guitar Riffs of All Time
Air guitarists of the world unite!
Get your ya-ya's out? The smashing of the amps! High voltage! Rockin' in the free world! Te-Riff-ic!
Here are our top 50 guitar riffs of all time, enough grunt to keep you happy for life!
1. Back In Black - AC/DC
2. Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
3. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix Experience
4. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
6. Barracuda - Heart
7. Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
8. Natural Born Stepson - Sonny Landreth
9. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
10. Cocaine - Eric Clapton
11. Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
12. Sad but True - Metallica
13. Iron Man - Black Sabbath
14. Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
15. You Really Got Me - The Kinks
16. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience
17. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
18. Revolve - The Melvins
19. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
20. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
21. Baba O'Reilly - The Who
22. Funk #49 - James Gang
23. Frankenstein - Edgar Winter
24. Thunderstruck - AC/DC
25. Kick Start My Heart - Motley Crue
26. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
27. Wild Thing - The Troggs
28. Five Minutes Alone - Pantera
29. Take the Time - Dream Theater
30. Alive - Pearl Jam
31. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
32. Wango Tango - Ted Nuggent
33. Sweet Child of Mine - Guns and Roses
34. Live Light to the Flies - Trivium
35. Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
36. Operation Ground and Pound - Dragonforce
37. Master Of Puppets - Metallica
38. All Right Now - Free
39. Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother
40. BYOB - System of a Down
41. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - Van Halen
42. Killing in the Name - Rage Against The Machine
43. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
44. Walk This Way - Aerosmith
45. Sabra Cadabra - Black Sabbath
46. Tush - ZZ Top
47. Blood and Thunder - Mastodon
48. On the Hunt - Lynyrd Skynyrd
49. Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
50. Fortunate Son - CCR
Great that you are back! I saw some movies on YouTube from the old days of WNEW last night, 'A day in a life of WNEW'. Great to see Scott Munny and Meg Griffin at the turntables and playing rock 'n roll ;-).
I listen online to WNEW but the sound quality is a little bit to 'flat' and there are lots of level problems. Sometimes the music and imaging is louder and sometimes the music is softer. Please can you fix this problem and put the output of the stream on one level with soundprocessing like an limiter/compressor?
Posted by: Erwin | April 15, 2008 at 03:18 AM
Where is 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago (Terry Kath)?
Posted by: Dan | April 15, 2008 at 08:33 AM
Not even close. List of great songs, but definately not the top fifty riffs of all time
Posted by: Mike | April 15, 2008 at 04:51 PM
Not ONE Beatles riff? "Come Together"?
Posted by: Susie from Philly | April 16, 2008 at 06:07 AM
I think this list is inverted; shouldn't "Fortunate Son" be #1 ? No "Start Me Up"? No Beatles at all (as the gal above notes).
A great debate starter, though. These things can never be fully satisfying.
tws
Posted by: siebertws | April 16, 2008 at 08:11 AM