Guns N' Roses top rock riff poll: Total Guitar magazine poll

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The top 20 riffs:

1. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses

2. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

3. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

4. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

5. Enter Sandman - Metallica

6. Layla - Derek & The Dominoes/Eric Clapton

7. Master Of Puppets - Metallica

8. Back In Black - AC/DC

9. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix

10. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

11. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

12. All Right Now - Free

13. Plug In Baby - Muse

14. Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

15. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - Van Halen

16. Walk This Way - Aerosmith w Run DMC

17. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream

18. No-One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age

19. Paradise City - Guns N' Roses

20. Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine

I was pleased I know quite a few of them - I don't know #3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 or 19 - oh wait I only know half the list then :wgrin

Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

That is one hell of a list!!

Whole Lotta Love would be my favorite, I guess, if I HAD to pick.

:bcool

lolson · Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 1009

I can play: 2. 3. 4. 5, 10 on this list

Let there be ®ock

MIKE BURN

My list!

1st. "Smoke On The Water", isn't it?

2nd. "La Grange" by ZZ Top

3rd. "Hold The Line" by Toto

MIKE

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Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

lolson...."Paranoid - Black Sabbath"....!!!! How about "Children Of The Grave"??

Mike...I , too, find it hard to believe "La Grange" isn't on the list from that Lil Ol' Band From Texas...hey....no Beck??!! :lol

And SOTW would be my #2..."Machine Head" is the 1st tape I ever bought at the ripe old age of 13 in 1974....an 8-Track!!!!!!! :dang

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

What's this? Nary a mention in the list of a Chuck Berry tune - if nothing else, at least for the opening riff of "Johnny B. Goode"? :insane

Shame, Shame!!

I didn't expect to see my take on it - the ersatz, klutzy "Ronny's No Goode" (with profound apolgies to Chuck, hahahaha!!!) - make the list. But I'm talkin' Mr. Chuck Berry here!!

questionnaire · Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 640

My two favourites are missing:

George Harrison's middle-section riff on Cream's 'Badge'

Robert Fripp's riff on King Crimson's '21st Century Schizoid Man'.

As for that 'Guns and Roses' crap being better than Cream's 'Sunshine of Your Love' .. oh dear me .....

:bleh

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

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As for that 'Guns and Roses' crap being better than Cream's 'Sunshine of Your Love' .. oh dear me

and Metallica???

For an opening riff they couldn't even touch "Hot Smoke And Sassafras" by Bubble Puppy. Link to Amazon page for a "Hot Smoke & Sassafras" clip for the young and/or uninitiated. Scroll down to "listen to samples":

Bupple Pubby CD

HatefulMusic · Ears bleeding yet? Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 793

Rockin' List. Must admit, I prefer Space Truckin' to SOTW, tho'.

Theo

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Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

Quote:
Robert Fripp's riff on King Crimson's '21st Century Schizoid Man'.

Now THERE is a classic....man, that brings back some old memories of when me and my buddies used to play poker for tapes, not cash...I won "In The Court Of The Crimson King" in one game...awesome...music AND artwork...

WELL LOOKIE HERE...

Edited by: Seismic Anamoly at: 5/4/04 2:25 am

lolson · Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 1009

Quote:
lolson...."Paranoid - Black Sabbath"....!!!! How about "Children Of The Grave"??

I'm working on it :dang

Let there be ®ock

HatefulMusic · Ears bleeding yet? Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 793

21st Century Schizoid Man rules. That whole album is excellent.

Theo

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