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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:17 AM
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Sweet Child O' Mine voted the greatest guitar riff
Not my own personal favourite, but there ya go!

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3677965.stm?display=1

Guns N' Roses' anthem Sweet Child O' Mine has the greatest guitar riff ever, according to a poll in a music monthly. Total Guitar magazine's readers put it in top place, ahead of Nirvana's grunge anthem Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love came third, followed by Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water.

Total Guitar editor Scott Rowley said: "To a new generation of guitarists, Guns N' Roses are more thrilling than the Sex Pistols."

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 Child (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
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:27 AM
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1. I bleepin hate Guns and Roses.
I turn them off whenever they come on.
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:28 AM
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2. I just hit 1000 posts!
Somebody please-- find me a life! Gah!
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 06:23 PM
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19. congrats FSC
now you are really in trouble :)
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annagull Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:29 AM
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3. Ugh, what, did they poll the trailer park?
Everyone knows "Kashmir" is the best guitar riff ever, if you can really rank these things :-)
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:33 AM
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6. My own personal favourite riff...
...is Dark are the Veils by Candlemass, which just about nobody else has ever heard of!

Beside that I'm quite partial to a bit of Refuse/Resist by Sepultura, my mobile phone ringtone is Black Night and I'm glad to see Muse in that top 20. It's all a matter of personal taste really.
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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:29 AM
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4. What a AWSOME song!!!!
eom
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:31 AM
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5. Walk This Way - Aerosmith w Run DMC?
Why not the original version? It's the same one isn't it? :shrug:
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:46 AM
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7. heck, 'whole lotta love' ain't even pages' best riff.
his best stuff in on 'physical graffiti'
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 09:01 AM
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12. Right on.
You're right...Whole Lotta Love ain't it, by FAR.
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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 08:32 AM
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8. No way
I demand a recount. What, they compiled this list using Diebold style voting? Two Guns N' Roses songs in the top twenty??????? Give me that Voodoo Child (either by Jimmy or SRV)
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 06:22 AM
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24. 2000 readers...
of Total Guitar magazine. That's who voted for this list. What worries me is that Sweet Child O'Mine is top of the BBC poll in the story too!

Perhaps we should do a DU poll on the subject instead!
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 08:42 AM
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9. I hate to look into your eyes and see and ounce of pain...
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bmbmd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 08:49 AM
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10. What? No "Sultans of Swing"?
Sounds good to me.
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Dees Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 09:29 AM
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15. I agree...Knopfler's extraordinary performance
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 10:18 AM
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17. Yeah. Odd. nt.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 08:57 AM
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11. No Pink Floyd?
Dark side of the moon is one long riff
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 09:03 AM
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13. Killing in the Name of is a great pick...
There's a lot of garbage on that list, though...

AC/DC? Gimme a break.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 09:23 AM
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14. Ugh. Some people have no taste in music.
I mean, come on...how is Jimi Hendrix number nine and Guns N' Roses is number one? Even those Old Greedy Balding Bastards, er, I mean Metallica, is number five and seven. :puke: God, help us all.
Duckie
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 10:17 AM
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16. Is Randy Rhodes on their twice? And where is Free Bird?
If I remember correctly, Randy Rhodes is on the list twice? He was on Crazy Train, right? Not Hendrix, not Clapton, not Van Halen. Just Rhodes.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 11:42 AM
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18. Where's The Spirit of Radio by Rush?
Or, more importantly, where is the Who's Baba O'Riley? Or Stairway to Heaven? Heaven Can Wait by Iron Maiden is also beautiful--although that's a stretch for this list; the best lick in Heaven Can Wait is a Steve Harris bass line.

Hell, you could fill the whole list with Who, Zeppelin, Iron Maiden and Rush licks. But I agree with Smoke on the Water and Crazy Train, they are great licks.
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 06:47 PM
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23. Ahhh... Rush!
Spirit of Radio... Limelight... Passage to Bangkok...

All of them better than any g-n-r shite!
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LastKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 06:24 PM
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20. i hate gnr... ill say it again...
i hate gnr...

phuck em

-LK
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 06:25 PM
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21. No Edge = junk. (nt)
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 06:43 PM
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22. The Beatles' "I Feel Fine" belongs on that list
As does the following Hendrix:

Purple Haze
Manic Depression
Crosstown Traffic
The Wind Cries Mary


Pink Floyd:
Money
Fearless


AND FOR CHRISSAKE:

Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode

AND

Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love

AND

Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away
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