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| Best Guitar Riffs You Might Not Know!
Everyone knows the best guitar riffs are Smoke On the Water, Enter Sandman, and Iron Man right? Wrong! There are plenty of other great riffs by bands you may not know, or maybe the bands are famous but these particular songs aren't. So here they are! | | 1 | Melvins
Copache
Buzz Osbourne is the king of grunge, and this song shows why. It has two great riffs for the price of one: the ominous build-up leads into a ferocious riff based around the standard rockabilly melody, then Buzz goes into an awesome solo section that puts this song above all others on this list. | | 2 | Black Sabbath
Supernaut
Tony Iommi is one of the most famous riffmasters of all time, but this song's main riff is more intriguing to me than say, Iron Man or N.I.B. I guess I'm just a sucker for those two-part riffs. | | 3 | Rage Against The Machine
Know Your Enemy
Rage is a band built entirely around Tom Morello's vast array of riffs, and like #2 "Supernaut," this two-parter makes me prefer it over the more well-known RATM songs. | | 4 | The Jesus Lizard
Mouth Breather
I still have no idea how Duane Denison plays this simple yet tricky riff, but I do know that it works perfectly. | | 5 | Mastodon
Blood And Thunder
I could probably name several Mastodon songs that are brutally awesome, but this is one of the few that has some semblance of structure and clearly-defined riffs. Even more impressive is the interlude section. | | 6 | Drive Like Jehu
Golden Brown
This is the perfect way to start off a song. | | 7 | Bear Vs. Shark
Ma Jolie
This is the perfect way to start off an album. | | 8 | Sunny Day Real Estate
47
Outside of Iommi, not many guitarists can write a riff that sums up an entire album. But Dan Hoerner's melancholy wail at the beginning of this song perfectly encapsulates the mood of Diary, a landmark album in alt/indie rock. | | 9 | The Flaming Lips
Kim's Watermelon Gun
Believe it or not, the Flaming Lips used to play music with guitars in it! Thanks to the acidy guitar of Ronald Jones (who mysteriously disappeared shortly after this album), even the most imaginative of bands can hold their own with the riff-oriented rockers. | | 10 | Dinosaur Jr.
Repulsion
I suddenly realize that limiting this list to ten entries was a big mistake, because I could think of a lot more. But I have to include this one for J. Mascis's little interludes (not the actual solo) that accurately define the somber-yet-not-grungey tone of an entire band. | |
YDload
08.09.06 | i want my fucking descriptions back DAMMIT | YDload
08.09.06 | 1. Buzz Osbourne is the king of grunge, and this song shows why. It has two great riffs for the price of one: the ominous build-up leads into a ferocious riff based around the standard rockabilly melody, then Buzz goes into an awesome solo section that puts this song above all others on this list.
2. Tony Iommi is one of the most famous riffmasters of all time, but this song's main riff is more intriguing to me than say, Iron Man or N.I.B. I guess I'm just a sucker for those two-part riffs.
3. Rage is a band built entirely around Tom Morello's vast array of riffs, and like #2 "Supernaut," this two-parter makes me prefer it over the more well-known RATM songs.
4. I still have no idea how Duane Denison plays this simple yet tricky riff, but I do know that it works perfectly.
5. I could probably name several Mastodon songs that are brutally awesome, but this is one of the few that has some semblance of structure and clearly-defined riffs. Even more impressive is the interlude section.
| YDload
08.09.06 | I couldn't think of anything to say for 6 or 7, sorry:
8. Outside of Iommi, not many guitarists can write a riff that sums up an entire album. But Dan Hoerner's melancholy wail at the beginning of this song perfectly encapsulates the mood of Diary, a landmark album in alt/indie rock.
9. Believe it or not, the Flaming Lips used to play music with guitars in it! Thanks to the acidy guitar of Ronald Jones (who mysteriously disappeared shortly after this album), even the most imaginative of bands can hold their own with the riff-oriented rockers.
10. I suddenly realize that limiting this list to ten entries was a big mistake, because I could think of a lot more. But I have to include this one for J. Mascis's little interludes (not the actual solo) that accurately define the somber-yet-not-grungey tone of an entire band. | Patrick
08.09.06 | dangit you successfully created anther perfect list and now i'm gonna have to force myself to listen to these songs. | Angmar
08.09.06 | supernaut is great! | francesfarmer
08.10.06 | Dinosaur Jr. FTW. | Pyramidman
08.10.06 | SDRE ftw! | YDload
08.10.06 | "dangit you successfully created anther perfect list and now i'm gonna have to force myself to listen to these songs."
wow, really? cool :-) | Zesty Mordant
08.10.06 | man, "Blood and Thunder" is just a barrage of face-melting riffage. | Cantar
08.10.06 | "Children of Decadence"
I didn't know that song until someone on this site recommended it. | El_Goodo
08.17.06 | I hadn't heard Supernaut before I read this list...I think I still prefer the N.I.B. riff, but Supernaut is a great song! |
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