and .... the guitar riff of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, and that Brian May executes with precision and accuracy being that one of the most difficult riffs to execute first because it is very long and lasts 2 minutes! but my dear watch mojo in spanish you were wrong, it is not from Brian May, it is from Freddie. yes gentlemen, Bohemian Rhapsody was written and composed in its entirety, by our dear Freddie. Lo ejecuta Brian obviamente, pero lo presentaste como un riff de Brian May.
@@jasonouellette2436 but there is a small drawback ... a small error, and in composers to Caesar what belongs to Caesar. Freddie did the riff for Bohemian Rhapsody. That song is entirely his. I would have liked Let it say look here is an interesting fact, the riff of the 20th century song, it was not composed by a guitarist, on the contrary, it made the guitars cry, Mr. Freddie Mercury (Meteor in his spare hours, ). Meteorite in his free hours, Precisely who made the papers to give him that name, in tribute to his great friend.
Pruthvi Dinesh I’m assuming he was being sarcastic because that song is one of the most iconic but yet wasn’t included in this list. Basically watch mojo made it seem like some nobody song so hes being sarcastic by following up with how he just found out about that “underrated” song
Clearly CM was expressing the clear injustice of stairway not being in the top 10 let alone an honorable mention. Especially because WM clearly know who the zep are!
This list should be all metallica. 10. Wherever I may roam 9. Seek & Destroy 8. And justice for all 7. Ride the lightning 6. For whom the bell tolls 5. Nothing else matters 4. Fade to black 3. Master of puppets 2. Welcome home sanitarium 1. ONE!!!
@@beefaveli3443 ONE as number 1 is more of a right answer than saying the absolute value of 1 plus the absolute value of 1 is 2 (if we are only using base 10)
Dr moist 69 when you think nirvana you think smells like teen spirit. When you think led zeppelin you think immigrant song and black dog not stairway to heaven
@@michaelb9537 A riff is a repeated chord progression or refrain in music; it is a pattern, or melody, often played by the rhythm section instruments or solo instrument, that forms the basis or accompaniment of a musical composition.
Like many of you out there, I also have some favorites that are not included in the list but, for most of the picks I agree. Van Halen's Jump, The Guess Who's American Woman, Jethro Tull's Aqualung, The Hollies' Cool Long Woman; also La Grange by ZZTop or Purple Haze by you know who may have at least been mentioned, but all this is so subjective and depends on taste and favoritism. There will never be a list on which we all concur.
My personal favorites, no particular order. Sweet child o' mine - Guns n Roses Plug in baby - Muse Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana Money - Pink Floyd Everlong - Foo Fighters Fortunate son - Creedence Clearwater Revival Here comes your man - Pixies Day tripper - The Beatles When I come around - Green Day Song 2 - Blur What do you think about this list :)?
No thunderstruck, eye of the tiger, smells like teen spirit, dream on, johnny b Goode, nothing by the Beatles or queen and sweet child of mine is an honorable mention WHAT?!??? Edit: i would have switched back in black and whole lotta love for thunderstruck and immigrant song. Also helter skelter/day tripper on the list at least honerable mention
My Opinion 10. Rock You Like A Hurrakine 9. Paranoid 8. Layla 7. Whole Lotta Love 6. Crazy Train 5. Back In Black 4. Voodoo Child 3. Johnny B Goode 2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 1. Smoke On The Water
Sara Sapphire Well, that is just your opinion. Because everyone thinks different, for example from me, the best riff on electric guitar is Shine On You Crazy Diamond of Pink Floyd, and I did not included on this list.
My best guitar riffs: Ozzy Osbourne- I Don't Know Iron Maiden- Aces High Loudness - Crazy Nights Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane Whitesnake- Still Of The Night Dokken- In My Dreams Ratt- Lay It Down Motley Crue- Looks That Kill Dio- We Rock Rush- Limelight Judas Priest- Breaking The Law Black Sabbath- Iron Man Van Halen - Runing With The Devil Poison- Talk Dirty To Me Cinderella- Gipsy Road Saxon- Denim and Leather Accept- Balls to the Wall Survivor- Eye of the Tiger Toto- Hold The Line Foreigner- Feels Like The First Time Heart- Barracuda Stryper- Soldiers Under Command
Yeah, I think its harsh to say he butchered it, especially since he had practically no time to learn the entire setlist. But the point is well taken about the video. I'm certain nobody at WatchMojo knows that's not Randy in the shots they showed.
In all fairness any TOP 10 list in any artistic category is purely speculative and subjective unless based on a verifiable, documented variable such as sales, etc.
“Money for Nothing” is definitely up there for greatest riff ever. Some of my favorites though are Black Sabbath’s “Heaven and Hell” and Dio’s “Straight Through the Heart.”
Why is no one saying anything about the Ozzy Osbourne footage? The narrator is talking about Randy Rhoads' guitar work... but the footage is Ozzy playing with frigging Brad Gillis! Rhoads wrote the damn riff and it's not like video doesn't exist of him playing this song. Gillis is awesome and everything, but Mojo, just make sure you're using footage of the artist you're talking about, alright?
Well done Erin!!!! I just watched this and was appalled by the Crazy Train video clip as you were. How the hell do you honor someones guitar work with a video of someone else playing it?????? ESPECIALLY, when there are plenty of video clips of Randy. Sometimes, WATCH MOJO has their head up their ass.
***** Yeah...it didn't sound like Randy either. Close but I knew something was off...Randy never played strats live and that was a dead giveaway. It was always the polka dot V or creme Les Paul.
I scrolled thru comments to c if anyone mentioned the footage of crazy train..... Yes younger viewers that wasn't the almighty Randy roads!!! C'mon mojo Wtf???!!?!!
Yea seems more like that rather than the "best". Certainly difficult to boil it down to 10 best since highly subjective but some here probably don't belong. Eric Clapton?? No freaking way that's in the top 10 and I would say probably not even in the top 100. The Kinks is very questionable also.
@@tfriddo most signature or skilled? Come on then Metallica doesn't belong here at all (they didn't anyway). They have none of that and can't even hear the guitars through all the noise to really put any defining label on it... besides noise I guess.
As a guitar player, I have to say that Chuck Berry's "Johnny B Goode" riff (which actually he used variants of in many songs) is ESSENTIAL. So much in rock depends on that riff, that it's inexplicable.
Totally agree with you, burst the list is not the most influential, but rather the greatest, & usually the first attempts at something are not the greatest
@thegeorgezila bruh this is a joke. Its actually a pun and most people can find humour in it. He never even said he knew what all the songs should be. Im a Metallica fan and i don't need to get mad when I see something that so much as mentions Megadeth. Everything will be ok. ✌
dBumpster if you are talking about the danish band, i would say that they are very good, but i dont think they have any particular riffs that match the ones on this list.
pro hacker it's led zeppelin song about Indian state kashmir. Plant wrote that song after visiting that place. And at that time kashmir was joyful place but today it's a terrorists territory.
I'm glad to see Iron Maiden and The Trooper get any acknowledgement, as they often get far too little, but I think they really should have made the top 10!
BarredToaster4556387 K, ok buddy 1. The intro to Stairway IS a riff 2. I’m aware, but what I’m saying is that they could’ve chosen Stairway to Heaven over Whole Lotta Love
random booster101 yeah I really was directing it more towards stairway and dream on, thunderstruck just popped into mind, the riff is a lot more memorable to me I guess lol
itsPayo6802 I feel like a top 50 that quickly goes through it would have to many of the same artists tho. I mean you have Prince, ACDC and so many more people/bands who are famous for gutair/riffs.
Ok cool so I wasn't going crazy lol. I don't know what Randy looks like well enough to distinguish between him and Brad, but I was thinking that it was really strange to see Randy playing a Strat over his usual guitars haha
Hey Mojo, Next time show the correct person when touting their abilities. The lead guitarist with Ozzy was not Randy Rhoads but Brad Gillis (Night Ranger) performing Crazy Train. He filled in to complete Ozzy's tour after Randy died from a plane crash in 1982...
MIA: Rolling Stones 'Jumpin' Jack Flash', Byrds ' Eight Miles High', Who 'I Can't Explain', Deep Purple 'Burn', Chicago '25 Or 6 To 4', Beatles 'I Feel Fine'.
Wow! For the most part this was actually a good list. Only a few things, one I wouldn't have chosen I Can't Get No satisfaction as number one but the riff does make the top ten. Another: Whole Lotta Love would be one of my last picks for Jimmy Page's greatest riff: I would've chosen Communication Breakdown, No Quarter, The Ocean, How Many More Times, The Lemon Song, Heartbreaker, Moby Dick, Black Dog, Immigrant Song, Out on The Tiles, Rock and Roll, When The Levee Breaks, Misty Mountain Hop, Stairway to Heaven, The Rover, In My Time of Dying, Houses of The Holy, Kashmir, Ten Years Gone, The Wanton Song, Sick Again, Nobody's Fault But Mine, In The Evening, heck even Hot Dog before I chose Whole Lotta Love (sorry for the long list I won't do it again). Also Ain't Talking bout Love is far from Eddie's best riff, I think Unchained, Mean Street, Panama, or 5150 should've made the list (not just the honorable mentions)
You're prosto not in course. The best riff is in K Crimsion's "21-st Century Schizoid Man". The rests are kids. But Led Zepp, Jimi and objectively DP's "Smoke on the Water" in favour. Talents are not drunk.
*Here in alphabetical order are just a few bands that could have made the honorable mention list, if not the top ten:* Boston ("Smokin'") David Bowie ("Moonage Daydream", "Suffragette City", "Rebel Rebel") Eddie Cochran ("Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody", "Somethin' Else") Alice Cooper ("I'm Eighteen", "Muscle of Love", "Cold Ethyl") Kiss ("Black Diamond", "Parasite", "Detroit Rock City") Mountain ("Mississippi Queen") Elvis Presley ("Jailhouse Rock") The Sex Pistols ("God Save the Queen", "Anarchy in the UK", "Problems") The Stooges ("Search and Destroy", "Gimme Danger", "Raw Power") The Who ("Pinball Wizard", "My Generation")
@@sakikogookheng there is no Kashmir without the early success of Zepp I and II. It took them years to get to Kashmir, which even Plant identifies as their peak. I literally wore out the grooves in my copy of LZII on my folks' old turntable.
1 Song per artist. Puts a song by Ozzy Osbourne and another from Black Sabbath. It's not because the name is different that the artist is not. Come on WatchMojo.
Most people in the comments don't seem to know what a riff is: It's a phrase that's repeated all through a song, a simple motif that is the basis of the song. There's no riff on tracks like "Eruption" or "Hotel California", or "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" (except maybe the iconic "4 notes", but I see it as a theme more than a riff) . "Ain't Talk About Love", "Life in the Fast Lane" or "In The Flesh?" are riff based.
MetalSonic A rift doesn’t have to be repeated throughout the song that’s more of a hook and a hook is a Rift but yeah they were getting guitar parts or guitar solos mixed up with riffs lol
*No Johnny B. Goode?* Not even an honorable mention? I'd put it at least in the top 3, Chuck Berry literally invented rock & roll. Basically every guitarist that came after him was influenced by him. I'm shocked Johnny B. Goode wasn't at least in the top 5, but not even giving it an honorable mention? Really?
my list(no particular order) stairway to heaven-led zeppelin layla-derek and the dominoes sunshine of your love-cream thunderstruck-ACDC iron man-black sabbath back in black- ACDC All along the watchtower-jimi Hendrix Purple haze-jimi Hendrix experience Fortunate son-CCR white room-cream honorable mentions black diamond-KISS N.I.B-Black sabbath Heart full of soul- the Yardbirds
@@potofgoals9660 The clip is Brad Gillis from Night Ranger. Brad joined Ozzy for the Speak of the Devil album in 82 after Randy's death. Brad left after the album was completed rejoining Night Ranger, and Jake E. Lee replaced Brad for the "Bark at the Moon" and "The Ultimate Sin" albums.
Never mind the ball bustin', just happy to have lived in an era that we all shared in such great music. Now we're living through the era of RU-vid/social media on our electronic devices 24/7. Honourable mention to Watchmojo.
