Rolling Stones-Satisfaction Deep Purple-Smoke on the Water Black Sabbath-Iron Man Jimi Hendrix-Voodo Child Cream-Sunshine of Your Love, Crossroads Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog, Heartbreaker, Kashmir, Dazed and Confused, The Ocean, Misty Mountain Hop Derek and the Dominos-Layla Van Halen-You really Got Me, Aint Talkin About Love, Unchained, Runnin With the Devil, Panama AC/DC-Back in Black, Hells Bells, Dirty Deeds, Highway to Hell, TNT ZZ Top-La Grange Ozzy-Crazy Train Lynyrd Skynyrd-Sweet Home Alabama Guns and Roses-Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child O' Mine Nirvana-Smells like Teen Spirit Motley Crue-Looks That Kill The Who-Pinball Wizard T-Rex-Bang a Gong Metallica-Enter Sandman, Master of Puppets
This could be debatable for hours....but let’s not forget, Jimi, SRV, the great Billy F Gibbons, Mark Knopfler and etc....iconic riffs for life...🎸💪🏻🙏🏻
Interesting. I'd go... 1. Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones 2. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 3. Layla - Derek and the Dominoes and/or Californication - RHCP
I’d say either Layla, which Duane Allman wrote the riff. Or The Rover - Jimmy Page Or La Grange - Billy Gibbons Oooorrrrrrr Whole Lotta Love - Jimmy Page
Sorry all..The Song Remains the Same is the best and greatest opening guitar riff of all time. Jimmy Page is from another planet..if you don’t believe me watch The Live in New York 1973 Concert..no one compares to JP not even close.
The biggest riff band is AC/DC. If you're going to pick from Gn'R Sweet Child is over Jungle. I like Jungle better but Sweet Child is extremely well know everywhere
Jimmy Page had some amazing riffs: Kashmir, Heartbreaker, and Whole Lotta Love. All 3 of those songs could Legitmently be #1
Whole Lotta Love
1,000,000 percent all the way
Not even close.
@@KittenBasher69 Ok, so what is?
Hard to match Jimmy Page in this category, he could take the three spots himself, maybe even the top ten.
AC/DC’s back in black is definitely in the conversation.
Rolling Stones-Satisfaction
Deep Purple-Smoke on the Water
Black Sabbath-Iron Man
Jimi Hendrix-Voodo Child
Cream-Sunshine of Your Love, Crossroads
Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love,
Black Dog, Heartbreaker, Kashmir, Dazed and Confused, The Ocean, Misty Mountain Hop
Derek and the Dominos-Layla
Van Halen-You really Got Me, Aint Talkin About Love, Unchained, Runnin With the Devil, Panama
AC/DC-Back in Black, Hells Bells, Dirty Deeds, Highway to Hell, TNT
ZZ Top-La Grange
Ozzy-Crazy Train
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Sweet Home Alabama
Guns and Roses-Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child O' Mine
Nirvana-Smells like Teen Spirit
Motley Crue-Looks That Kill
The Who-Pinball Wizard
T-Rex-Bang a Gong
Metallica-Enter Sandman, Master of Puppets
Great list!
Great list, though You Really Got Me was the Kinks. I know Van Halen covered it, but the legendary riff belongs to the Kinks.
This could be debatable for hours....but let’s not forget, Jimi, SRV, the great Billy F Gibbons, Mark Knopfler and etc....iconic riffs for life...🎸💪🏻🙏🏻
Also Edge
Yay Stevie Ray
@@MrGenexxx absolutely!
@@larrymays4244 💪🏻🎸
Billy Strings... You’re gonna hear a lot more of him in the near future. Now THERE’S an act you must get on your show!!!!
1. Panama - Van Halen
2. Black dog - Led Zeppelin
3. Voodooo child - Jimi Hendrix
Your list is backwards...
You could make an entire list only on Led Zepplin
You really Got Me, I don't think there is a single guitar riff that is more iconic than this one
You fools, the greatest guitar Rifffffff is The Rover by Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin‘s whole Lotta love
Jimmy Page has the most killer riffs!
According to Me:
1. White Room: Cream
2. Purple Haze: Hendrix
3. CCR: Proud Mary
Layla by Eric Clapton has to be up there
Duane Allman wrote the riff. Legend
@@TheGuitarMan71 albert king really
Randy Rhoads still to this day gets overlooked...sad
#3 - Kashmir
#2 - Hotel California
#1 - Voodoo Chile (slight return)
Satisfaction, You Really Got Me, Purple Haze
Interesting. I'd go...
1. Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
2. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
3. Layla - Derek and the Dominoes and/or Californication - RHCP
Four greatest riff composers in rock:
Tony Iommi
Keith Richards
Malcolm Young
Jimmy Page
AC/DC probably had the greatest Riffs collectively of all time.
Beating around the bush and Hells Bells are my favorite AC/DC riffs. Favorite songs too.
Acdc came to my mind first
Almost every new AC/DC song I listen to has a great riff. Led Zeppelin, Kiss, and Metallica are also some of the best riff bands imo
Sabbath and Zeppelin are tied
Rolling Stones
My favorite-"Blue Highway" by Steve Stevens with Billy Idol..starts at 3:40 mark....and one of the most difficult IMO.
Smoke on the water
Sweet Child O mine
Run to the Hills
Honestly pretty hard to just pick 3 lol
Tom Petty - Runnin Down A Dream
That riff is just killer...I don't get why it doesn't show up on more lists.
@@keefriff99 simple but it works
Don't forget Eddie van halen.🍻😂👏
The greatest guitar riffs of all time are from British players!! That’s bloody obvious, and yes I’m a guitarist myself and British 👍🇬🇧
Cream sunshine of your love!
I honestly think Smoke on Water is the greatest riff ever.
3. Layla
2. Crazy Train
1. Purple Haze
Everyone forgets Mick Mars... Kickstart my heart... SOS... cmon
80s rock should be forgotten
(I can get no) Satisfaction, kashmir and sunshine of your love.
Good list
Unchained by Van Halen
Heartbreaker!
I was just at rehearsal and played that riff and could only describe it as “sexy” which is not a word I typically use to describe riffs
Kashmir
3.sunshine of your love
2.voodo child
1.crazy train randy rhodes
im a throw in the lick at the beginning of seek and destroy from kirk hammet!!
I love Howard's impersenation of the Guitar
The greatest guitar riffs....of all time is from while my guitar gently weeps
Surprised Howard didn’t mention “Mississippi Queen” considering he’s such a huge Leslie West fan.
Don’t you mean Tippi Tippi?
Steve needs a click track
Keef: "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?", "Satisfaction", "jumping Jack Flash", "Brown Sugar", "Honky Tonk Woman", "Start Me Up" etc., etc ...
My vote would be Layla. So iconic.
Pantera cemetery gates is great
Jumping Jack Flash...!
Layla is an awesome riff
Fair to say that Howard is a guitar owner, not a guitar player.
Purple Haze
I know Orgasmatron by Motorhead might not be on top of any list...but for me the whole combination its amazing.
Satisfaction, Smoke on the Water, you really got me
That's a great list. Very obvious choices, but they're classics for a reason.
if your talking about riffs its gotta be king riff himself keeff
I’d say either Layla, which Duane Allman wrote the riff. Or The Rover - Jimmy Page
Or La Grange - Billy Gibbons
Oooorrrrrrr Whole Lotta Love - Jimmy Page
The Rover, so underrated!
Sorry all..The Song Remains the Same is the best and greatest opening guitar riff of all time. Jimmy Page is from another planet..if you don’t believe me watch The Live in New York 1973 Concert..no one compares to JP not even close.
Hendrix, Beck for starters.
The biggest riff band is AC/DC. If you're going to pick from Gn'R Sweet Child is over Jungle. I like Jungle better but Sweet Child is extremely well know everywhere
Paradise city and dont damn me also have to be in the conversation for best GNR riff
1. Purple Haze
2. Kashmir
3. Mr. Crowley
1. Whole lotta love
2. Purple haze
3. Heartbreaker
Or Kashmir...
Smoke on the Water, Eye of the Tiger and Hotel California’s solo
The Rover definitely
Agree 💯❤️👍
Yeah that’s a big riff
Rumble by Link Wray, really the genesis of the power riff.
Tony Iommi is THE fuckin riff master... Howard's out of his element
(I can’t get no) satisfaction
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Back in Black
Whole lotta Love
Paranoid
BMFS---One of the best guitarists (and songwriters) out on the current scene....
Riff Lord Leslie West
Mississippi Queen 👑
“Shine On You Crazy Diamond”. “Kashmir”. “Voodoo Child”. Good question.
Hey, howard. I LOVE YOU!!!
Rebel Rebel -- hands down!
They are forgetting Bowie
what about "Smoke on the Water"... this riff is what we ALL learn when we started playing
Layla, Smoke on the water and Stranglehold would be my top 3
Money for Nothing..........Dire Straits
Whole lotta love
Just put Jimmy Page as the top 10 riffs ever
Knop is the 🐐
"Money for Nothing". Nuff said.
Sultans of swing much better
Really? No one is gonna mention Layla?
Probably Layla of derek, or smoke on the water, sunshine of... is good too and representative
Look at Stevie Ray Vai-wicki ripping it over there. Nice!
Johnny B Good, Walk and Hey Joe
ACDC, Deep Purple,Hendrix
#1 Randy Rhodes - CRAZY TRAIN ❤️🤘
These conversations are pointless but must be had lol. Everyone will have a different list.
Master of puppets
I don’t care what they have to say no guitar solo made me feel some type of way except for comfortably numb
What about Red - The Gazette?
Back in Black is up there
"Lose my number" lol
Eric Clapton‘s Layla....and she’s got me on my knees
I think nothing else matters could debatably make it into top 5 or top 10
What's a 'guitar riff'? The opening? The hook? The lead?
Subjective as hell.
True that. My choices are opening riffs by how recognizable they are and not really my personal choices.
I would say the "The hook"
A guitar ‘riff’ is just a repeating pattern/sequence of chords/notes, so any of those qualify.
Satriani's Summer Song
Great song
I'd say What is Love by Haddaway.
I know when SHA Skynyrd comes on most everyone knows the song
Smoke.....
Rocky Mountain Way
Buckethead has about 100 riffs far superior to this bunch and thats no disrespect to these legendary riffs
Buckethead has more songs than everybody mentioned in this thread.
Iron Butterfly In-a gadda-da-vida
Ain't Talkin About Love- EVH
All along the watchtower
Mississippi Queen!!!!!! Are you kidding me!
I need help I can't find that Joe Walsh song
Gilmour Marooned