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Best riff EVER EVEr EVer Ever..

Post by Nudger » Tue May 24, 2022 1:01 pm

Whats your fave riff EVER!!!!

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Post by marqueemoon » Tue May 24, 2022 1:24 pm

So many good ones.

I’m going to go with Television’s Call Mr. Lee just because I can’t seem to pick up a guitar without playing it.

Of course like so many off their songs the “riff” is a call and response thing, so one player can only approximate it.

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Post by jthomas » Tue May 24, 2022 1:35 pm

Layla. Any riff in Layla.

But yea... so many.

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Post by wooderson » Tue May 24, 2022 1:40 pm

Neil's "Ohio" riff, probably

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Post by s_mcsleazy » Tue May 24, 2022 3:11 pm

i feel like corpse pose - unwound has soo many cool riffs that make up the song but if i had to pick any riff in the song, it's that weird sounding riff at the 1:50 mark. i learned how to play the song in standard and the positioning is sooooo fucking weird.
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Post by Veitchy » Tue May 24, 2022 4:00 pm

Not necessarily the best riff (though its pretty good) but I was sat down last night thinking how fucking good Queen Bitch sounds when Rono comes roaring in from the right over Bowie's acoustic at the beginning.

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Post by stevejamsecono » Tue May 24, 2022 5:15 pm

Some favorites:

Ain't Talkin 'Bout Love
Daytripper
Celebrated Summer
Into the Valley
Superstitious
Cliffs of Dover
That violin shit from Britney Spears' Toxic
And you find out life isn't like that
It's so hard to understand
Why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam

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Post by HedonismBot » Tue May 24, 2022 5:51 pm

Flipper - Ever (ba-dum-bump!)

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Post by Veitchy » Tue May 24, 2022 7:20 pm

stevejamsecono wrote:
Tue May 24, 2022 5:15 pm
Into the Valley
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Post by windmill » Tue May 24, 2022 11:05 pm

The riff from Sonny and Cher's The Beat Goes On

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Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Wed May 25, 2022 1:46 am

marqueemoon wrote:
Tue May 24, 2022 1:24 pm
So many good ones.

I’m going to go with Television’s Call Mr. Lee just because I can’t seem to pick up a guitar without playing it.

Of course like so many off their songs the “riff” is a call and response thing, so one player can only approximate it.
I call Guiding Light as the Television riff one player can handle, but 1880 or So is the best riffage from their third LP in my book. Venus works for solo guitar too.

But the riff that sends me into transports of delight every time is from The Clientele's We Could Walk Together.

Edit: meant to say Days, not Guiding Light.
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Post by Plumerai » Wed May 25, 2022 4:25 am

the intro/verse bass riff from Siouxsie's Cascade is my go to when I pick up a bass

fave guitar riff is probably Black Sabbath's Supernaut

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Post by panoramic » Wed May 25, 2022 10:00 am

Disappearer -Sonic Youth starting at 2:30 like 4:00
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Swervedriver - You find it everywhere
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Post by AwesomeWelles » Wed May 25, 2022 10:12 am

'Freya‘ by The Sword is 100 percent pure high quality riffage.

Also, many many tracks by Fu Manchu

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Post by DeathJag » Wed May 25, 2022 1:11 pm

Beat It by Michael Jackson. So good it didn’t need to stop for the entire chart-topping song!

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