Top 20 Greatest Guitar Riffs of All Time

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@WatchMojo 2 года назад

Correction: It wasn’t Eddie Van Halen who played lead guitar on "Beat It", he played the solo. Rather it was Steve Lukather. Thanks for the comments letting us know about the error. thanks

@SweetBunny706 2 года назад

You’re welcome!

@BRO77TX 2 года назад

Ummm…the Lead Guitarist DOES play the solos !! Steve Lukather played the Rhythm Section. Get your terminology right WM!!!

@rbnh9827 2 года назад

@@BRO77TX Give them 3 more attempts !!

@megaton.settler 2 года назад

Also wasted years was not the title track for Powerslave. It was track 2 on somewhere in Time

@GearGasms 2 года назад

Lead guitar is the solo. Luke played rhythm and the riffs. 🤓

@mnagz5 2 года назад

AC/DC's Back in Black only getting an honourable mention is criminal.

@CptnWolfe 2 года назад

It was on the original top 10 though

@user-dn4pz3hc4d 2 года назад

True

@villain68 2 года назад

Malcolm came up with so many riffs! How can you choose?

@iaintbeendroppingnoeavessir 2 года назад

Ikr!

@texasboy5527 2 года назад

Let There Be Rock riff >> Back in Black riff

@HelloKittyisMyPal 2 года назад

No Cream? No Queen? Eagles? Lynyrd Skynard? ZZ Top? Creedence Clearwater Revival? Who wrote this list?!

@scottlemiere2024 2 года назад

People who know nothing about guitar riffs at all. They put the Dire Straights on the list.

@lauravargas6620 2 года назад

I was thinking the same thing who wrote this? Left out better riffs and gave good riff less place than others. I think is just base on popularity not really on the greatness of the actual riff

@cascito 2 года назад

Cream is ❤️❤️❤️

@rumple4skin140 2 года назад

Ya ccr, "up around the bend" definitely a recognized riff, not sure wth happened, but somebody done fucked up!!! Hahaha

@christophermerlot3366 2 года назад

No Nazareth either. And I agree 'Gimme Three Steps' is an earworm.

@SaguaroBlossom 2 года назад

Many of the "Honorable Mentions" were better then many riffs that made the list.

@angeloson2250 2 года назад

Exactly all the honourable mentions were electrifying

@donaldsmith8648 2 года назад

I totally agree with you

@user-dn4pz3hc4d 2 года назад

And we all know that Led Zeppelin's stairway to heaven should take first.

@donaldsmith8648 2 года назад

@@user-dn4pz3hc4d is the end of let's go crazy considered a riff?

@lindsi501 2 года назад

the honorable mentions are always the best.

@NewlyBoughtSpatula 2 года назад

The fact that AIC made it with "Check My Brain" is beyond ridiculous. Them Bones, We Die Young, Man in the fucking Box..........I'm mean come on

@rickysalinas23777 2 года назад

My thoughts exactly...Man in the Box is fucking psychedelic heaven especially mixed with the drums and echoed vocals

@chadsekeras9747 2 года назад

Dude I feel you. I was the late 80's-90's teen. This list means milenials run this shit.

@ericweaver2691 2 года назад

totally agree

@chadsekeras9747 2 года назад

Alice in Chains had many more better rifts than this. I grew up on them and I feel they were better than Nirvana and close to Chris Cornell. Not knocking Kurt Cobain. I was a teen than but I loved Cornell and still do. RIP Cobain and Cornell. And also Staley who had a big influence on my vocal style and music influence.

@Iwasbornin74 2 года назад

I stopped watching at that point. I thought that if THAT is the AIC song they picked, I'm over this. I was ready to stop when Ratt made the top 20. I liked them back in the day, but Round and Round a memorable riff? Methinks not.

@WatchMojo 2 года назад

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@zippygaming9305 2 года назад

@chrisakane9840 2 года назад

Pantera "cowboys from hell". And "this love"

@Dan-ud8hz 2 года назад

Muffin Man - Frank Zappa

@nathanboyle7573 2 года назад

Sunshine of Your Love by Cream

@pblreza 2 года назад

Please stop doing these, your embarrassing yourself

@andrewpappas9311 2 года назад

How the hell was there no riffs from Queen or even Johnny B. Goode from Chuck Berry, which was literally one of the best (not to mention one of the first) rock and roll riffs of all time

@JDP2104 2 года назад

Queen was better at solos than riffs

@isaacs3822 2 года назад

I was just on my way to comment about the exclusion of Johnny B. Goode! When I clicked on the video I thought it’d be top 10, if not #1. But then it wasn’t even an honorable mention…

@andrewpappas9311 2 года назад

@@isaacs3822 I know right, Chuck Berry paved the way for countless rock bands and artists after him so the fact that he wasn’t even mentioned is just baffling to me

@andrewpappas9311 2 года назад

@@JDP2104 Brian May does have some really damn great solos but he’s also got a lot of good riffs as well like Keep Yourself Alive, Stone Cold Crazy, Tie Your Mother Down, Hammer to Fall, Fat Bottomed Girls, I Want It All, etc.

@JDP2104 2 года назад

@@andrewpappas9311 that is true. Part of the reason why May is my favorite guitarist of all time

@littlee4620 2 года назад

I would have given “Don’t Fear The Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult at least an honorable mention. With or without More Cowbell.

@mattr3250 2 года назад

Nothing from Pink Floyd either.

@Stormtrooper-oc4vn 2 года назад

What an annoying song

@yaywoohoohooray 2 года назад

You da man

@jonstreng7850 2 года назад

@Eric Cohen: 😂😂😂. You nailed it with the cowbell reference.

@roymiller6964 Год назад

I agree

@jerrumite4425 2 года назад

I find your lack of AC⚡DC disturbing. Yes, I saw the the honorable mentions but come on.

@mikerazor8246 2 года назад

it seems to me that watchmojo doesn't even like to mention the word ac/dc at all, they always try to put another unknown artist instead of them.

@guitarist6494 2 года назад

Crediting EVH for the riff that Steve Lukather wrote. So many people get that one wrong

@rjlack1975 2 года назад

Good catch. I was about to make this point but you put it better than I could.

@lotuseater1775 2 года назад

Thank you👍👍👍

@mlggamer5296 2 года назад

I didn't even know that

@davengeance4811 2 года назад

Yup and the rest of this list is terrible as well

@allieg.1120 2 года назад

yes they do.

@acdcfan21 2 года назад

How dare you disrespect Back in Black by putting them in Honorable Mentions

@moncalimarimoncalimari8964 2 года назад

Its better than most of the riffs on the list

@guitartunez 2 года назад

20. Walk This Way - Aerosmith 19. Round and Round - Ratt 18. No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age 17. Check My Brain - Alice In Chains 16. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor 15. Beat It - Michael Jackson 14. Barracuda - Heart 13. Paranoid - Black Sabbath 12. Wasted Years - Iron Maiden 11. Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love - Van Halen 10. Raining Blood - Slayer 9. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns ‘n’ Roses 8. Money for Nothing - Dire Straights 7. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne 6. Master of Puppets - Metallica 5. You Really Got Me - The Kinks 4. Layla - Derek and the Dominos 3. I Can’t Get No Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones 2. Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple 1. Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin

@nathanboyle7573 2 года назад

I'd replace beat it with Sunshine of Your Love by Cream

@nathanboyle7573 2 года назад

But I'd place it higher too

@robertpadua6096 2 года назад

No KISS?

@lukemcbean 2 года назад

I'd replace Wasted Years with Charlotte the Harlot

@pvantongeren9178 2 года назад

Where is thunderstruck or back in black by ac dc

@kwantumangaliso2562 Год назад

No ways purple haze isn't mentioned. Thats literally perfection

@cristianconnolly2709 Год назад

When it comes to hendrix theres Many great riffs, normally its either Voodoo child or purple haze, personally I think his Best one is little wing, but theres Many more, castles Made of sand, foxy lady, wait until tomorrow, hey Joe, burning of The midnight lamp etc. Same with Zeppelin, black Sabbath, ACDC and Van Halen, so Many riff candidates. VH for instance everybody picks Aint talkin bout love, but theres also panama, Unchained, meanstreet, somebody get me a doctor, im The one, hoy for teacher, 5150 etc.

@andrewwalker5081 2 года назад

Where is Killing in the name by Rage against the machine? That’s the greatest guitar riff I’ve ever heard.

@ScottPerdue 2 года назад

I was surprised RATM didn't make an appearance, whether Killing in the Name, Guerrilla Radio, Sleep Now in the Fire... so many choices.

@adityahariharan581 Год назад

Doesn't that just sound like Kashmir by Led Zeppelin?

@TheBengineerTV Год назад

@@adityahariharan581 those two riffs sound nothing alike what so ever . Unless we’re thinking of different songs

@ThePlayer176 Год назад

@@TheBengineerTV right lol what is he smoking lmao two very different can't even compare.

@pennyc11 Год назад

What a miss. A lot of misses in this review.

@jeffreybrown4015 Год назад

I'd put Led Zep on top as well, but for Kashmir. That opening riff builds the tension in a sublime way.

@childishfromthe79th13 Год назад

Kashmir would’ve been better choice

@spat1u 2 года назад

Black Sabbath's "Into the Void" is one of the best riffs for me

@orionpax123 Год назад

Which one… lol! there’s like 5 amazing riffs in that song. It’s also low key the best Sabbath song

@kiowahorse2561 2 года назад

Jesus... How the hell "Walk" or any of AC/DC's songs didn't get a spot is beyond ridiculous! Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" riff deserves a spot as well.

@LB199910 2 года назад

The fact that Queen is not on this list is insulting.

@jakefjk9104 2 года назад

U mean the fact that Nirvana is not listed is insulting

@dangeletti84 2 года назад

@@jakefjk9104 Dont ever compare Queen and Nirvana

@Rekko82 2 года назад

Does Queen have great riffs?

@Rekko82 2 года назад

Royal shit! You need "God Save the Queen" by Sex Pistols!!!

@LB199910 2 года назад

@@Rekko82 basically almost their entire discography, but Bohemian Rhapsody is arguably their best

@loveolicity4542 2 года назад

What about Kansas' 'Carry On Wayward Son?" (SPN family ASSEMBLE)

@timfortch5553 2 года назад

I feel like smells like teen Spirit should have been on this list being one of the most iconic riffs of the 90s

@ranger13 2 года назад

Yes!

@TheKey304 2 года назад

Definitely should. It's guitar 101.

@tatendachilisa7046 2 года назад

Facts 🤌🏾

@boomstick1980 2 года назад

Teen spirit is overrated and not even close to the best riff of the 90's

@ranger13 2 года назад

@@boomstick1980 your opinion but thank you though

@someguythatwasmorbed8251 2 года назад

Some of my favorite riffs come from a band called Pink Floyd. They have a lot of iconic guitar, bass and classic guitar riffs that shouldn't be overlooked. "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2", "Wish You Were Here", "One of These Days", "Comfortably Numb", "Young Lust", "Money", "Time", "In The Flesh?", "Echoes", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "Hey You", "Have a Cigar", "Interstellar Overdrive", "High Hopes" and much much more.

@redemptionx2918 Год назад

Pink floyd are my favourite band, for many reasons. I’ll put a album on most days. But something about “Young Lust” from the “the Wall” is just perfect! Everything about it, from the bass to the main riff. It’s just great😊 yet I don’t hear much about it!

@robertschiffhauer1679 Год назад

I love playing Wish You We’re Here on my acoustic.That and Led Zeppelin’s Rain Song should be there.I guess lay both of those songs on my acoustic every day.

@antoniomccoy6733 Год назад

Go ahead and list the rest of the songs lmao

@fezphilip7024 8 месяцев назад

You don't have to say "a band called Pink Floyd". I would assume.. well, hope that most people know who they are.

@zaphodbeebleprox5043 2 месяца назад

don´t forget Interstellar Overdrive, this opening riff is catchy af...

@TheKey304 2 года назад

Seriously, it's virtually impossible to narrow the entire guitar spectrum down to just 20 riffs.

@barbecuebaas5539 2 года назад

i agree a hundred percent

@kevinhummel6901 2 года назад

Agreed. you could make this list once a month for 10 months in a row and have 20 different songs on it each time. The omission from this list to me is Purple Haze.

@melancholia9345 2 года назад

Should I Stay or Should I Go- The Clash The Trooper-Iron Maiden Anything by Queen Breaking the Law- Judas Priest

@terdguitarcovers5534 2 года назад

well, all Metallica riffs are great and influencing but the And just for all album for me had the best riffs👌🏻🔥

@davidrihacek3095 2 года назад

For me the best metallica riff is The four horsemen, Love that shit

@curtisthompson6921 2 года назад

I love Metallica's cover of turn the page

@seanslawson98 2 года назад

The best riff is the one in Damage Inc. halfway through right before the solo

@alexh2217 2 года назад

I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine Paranoid Android - Radiohead Thunderstruck - AC/DC Paradise City/Sweet Child O Mine - Guns N Roses Hot For Teacher - Van Halen Enter Sandman - Metallica

@Chi-TownToon 2 года назад

Dope video with Classics!

@karenbroadhurst7302 Год назад

This is absolutely awesome xxxx 🤘 🎶🎸🎹🥁🎤🎵❤💯🤘

@Thomas_pgnr 2 года назад

more honorable mentions : AC/DC - Highway to hell ZZ Top - La grange The white stripes - Seven nation army Ram Jam - Black betty T-rex - 20th century boys The animals - House of the rising sun U2 - sunday bloody sunday Lenny Kravitz - Are you go my way Beastie boys - No sleep till Brooklyn Queen - Tie your mother down

@randycunningham7318 2 дня назад

ZZ Top Tush, Sharp Dressed Man, Legs....

@shivanshgilhotra701 2 года назад

Back in black in honourable mentions just hurts too much Though i like the list (not sure) Some songs like sunshine of love (cream ) , Day tripper (beatles) , Californication (RHCP) deserved a spot or honourable mention too i guess

@benjaminvittini7524 2 года назад

Just like: Another brick in the wall, black betty and anything by Brian May...

@CptnWolfe 2 года назад

Day Tripper and Sunshine of your Love were on the "top 10 classic rock riffs"

@michaelbullock8011 2 года назад

Great video and I enjoyed it and have a blessed night

@RFGfotografie Год назад

Good list :)

@corkycobon1481 2 года назад

The description of Slayer being "The sound of all hell breaking loose" is the most accurate thing I have ever heard about the band. Their live shows are simply hard to describe.

@christophermerlot3366 2 года назад

Agreed. My first Slayer show was for the 'South of Heaven' tour with Motorhead and Overkill as the opening acts at the Masonic Temple in Toronto. I had never seen such a thing before.

@corkycobon1481 2 года назад

@@christophermerlot3366 That had to be a RAGING show. Motorhead and Lemmy are simply BEASTS and Tom Araya is even more imposing live then in the videos.

@christophermerlot3366 2 года назад

@@corkycobon1481 It was 1987 or 1988. My ears are still ringing.

@chamucos Год назад

Seasons in the Abyss was a better choice imo.

@StangBangXO Месяц назад

Honestly their music isn't "The sound of all hell breaking loose" it is more like Hell has come to earth, and we're all along for the ride.

@BarnCat55 2 года назад

The fact that AC/DC’s thunderstruck wasn’t on this and even Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to heaven is unbelievable!

@fslayer1290 2 года назад

Y’all got me head bangin’ with this list.

@brennatotty 2 года назад

I got to see Ozzy a couple years ago and even though he is as old as Methuselah the show was as incredible as you would want it to be. The light show was one of the best I have ever seen! I love almost all of the songs presented here. Great list, I would like to see another! You can probably make another 10 episodes with this content!

@williamsummerson1204 2 года назад

I would have whole lotta love no1. Other guitar riffs I love. Korn. Blind Ratm. Killing in the name Tool. Sober Pearl jam. Even flow Velvet revolver. Fall to pieces Rush. Tom Sawyer Pantera. 5 minutes alone Soundgarden. Black hole sun Nirvana. Smells like teen spirit

@kryptik2602 2 года назад

YES FALL TO PIECES such an underrated song

@williamsummerson1204 2 года назад

Couldn't agree more. I think it's the best I've ever heard Scott's voice.

@rbnh9827 2 года назад

I would have easily put these in top 20 over lot of your choices, take your picks Soundgarden - Outshined (Easily the best riff of the 90s) ACDC - Riff Raff Judas Priest - Breaking the Law Helmet - Meantime Deftones - My own summer Blue Oyster Cult - Cities on flame with Rock and Roll Howlin Wolf - Smokestack Lightning (1969 version) Link Wray - Rumble Jethro Tull - Aqualung The Stooges - Down on the street CCR - Born on the Bayou ZZ Top - Tush The Beatles - Ticket to Ride STP - Wicked Garden Audioslave - Bring 'em back alive I could probably go on for 30 more, these are just off the top of my head !!

@martin2893 2 года назад

would be helpful if you name more

@craighenry2351 2 года назад

Good choice with Breaking the Law, but I think Livin after Midnite and United have riffs just as good.

@GregK9 Год назад

There's so many great riffs!! Hard to pick just 20!

@Dreamyblue101 2 года назад

Awesome

@slsantamarina 2 года назад

any megadeth love, they got a lot of great riffs. tornado of souls, symphony of destruction,ext.

@christophermerlot3366 2 года назад

I made the same comment--Dave's rhythm playing is harder than most players' leads. I love the opening of 'Into the Lungs of Hell' as well as, of course, 'Peace Sells."

@craighenry2351 2 года назад

And they have had a better career than Metallica, not monetarily, but in pure musicianship. Dave may have his problems (although he has worked out most of them), but he is the ultimate frontman and a pure musical genius. There are three this list. Steve Harris, Neil Peart and him. But Dave Mustaine may be the best.

@apetrila1 2 года назад

I would have gone with "the Trooper" over "Wasted Years"

@brentsilvey2288 2 года назад

Yes!

@christophermerlot3366 2 года назад

Or Aces High or Flash of the Blade.

@craighenry2351 2 года назад

I would have gone with Children of the Damned. Simple riff, but it sets up the fastest solo I have ever heard. It, I believe, is Iron Maiden’s best.

@francoisregis2155 Год назад

Many great Maiden songs

@lukas45167 2 года назад

This was a good list

@reillyfitzgerald Год назад

There are so many exceptions from this list, some, like AC/DC at least got honourable mention, but one I think should definitely be there is "American Woman". Iconic, instantaneously recognizable, and a little bit of Canadian content to boot.I'd also add Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" and ZZ Top's "Tush" along with many other iconic guitar riffs.

@jaylene.turner6524 2 года назад

Brian May’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” riff deserves to be number one!

@ripleyfry2107 2 года назад

Literally anything by him tbh, wether Queen or solo

@rager1860 2 года назад

this is not a riff

@shivanshgilhotra701 2 года назад

@@rager1860 there is i think at end of song though when they shift opera music to rock and roll

@rager1860 2 года назад

@@shivanshgilhotra701 Yes but still... this is not a riff

@zombified3362 2 года назад

Is that the only one you know?

@gourabbanerjee7727 Год назад

Would like to add some more names.... 1. Slip it in - BLACK FLAG 2. Ace of spades - MOTORHEAD 3. Freezing moon - MAYHEM 4. Blitzkrieg bop - RAMONES 5. American idiot - GREEN DAY 6. Basket case - GREEN DAY I love most of the songs in the list, just wanted to mention these songs as they are iconic as well, may not be as much as the ones in the mojo list, but you know... some personal choices. Thank you, have a good day.

@prashantsarkar821 2 года назад

Holy shit! You guys actually nailed this list.

@theresacarmen9847 2 года назад

Love me some Led Zeppelin, always #1 .

@frazermc13 2 года назад

I love Watchmojo lists - usually. Anything to do with guitars or guitar music just grinds my gears. Hell yeah Led Zep at number 1, but for Whole Lotta Love. And for a lot of this list I wasn't convinced Watchmojo knew what a riff was.

@4ytcomment 2 года назад

100%! Thank you for reading my mind!

@Magic_Benzi_9 2 года назад

Paranoid is definitely in the top 10 with thunderstruck, back in black and sweet child also ( i was made for lovin you, the final countdown, sweet home Alabama ) and many others had to be on the list

@Caffeine_Club 2 года назад

Thunderstruck's absence is criminal.

@arielle8010 9 месяцев назад

@Caffeine_Club so true!!! 😢😢😢😢😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬

@pinkled4429 Год назад

Bands with the most best riffs- Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix experience, Black Sabbath, Rush

@MistaP13 2 года назад

Don’t forget Jimmy H’s Purple Haze, Winger’s Seventeen, and Bullet Boys Smooth up in Ya!

@Rekko82 2 года назад

Purple Haze? I hate that song! The riff is fuzzy.

@francoisregis2155 Год назад

Winger battle station

@franciscocobosrodriguez7395 2 года назад

As soon as y’all reminded me, I went to listen to raining blood again, just for nostalgia.

@jesterjosie3281 2 года назад

Ever since I saw Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle it has been my favorite guitar riff

@tatendachilisa7046 2 года назад

This list actually left out so many iconic riffs it makes me wanna cry 😩

@kevzguaygua 2 года назад

Ahh man I would’ve added The Cult of Personality by Living Colour And also Cocaine by Eric Clapton

@kwow3641 2 года назад

So glad someone else mentioned this - Cult of Personality is bloody awesome!

@LageYouTube 2 года назад

Cocaine isn't Clapton's

@MrMaynardWR 2 года назад

My list 1. Eternity's Breath. Mahavishnu Orchestra 2. Highway to Hell. AC/DC 3. Hocus Pocus. Focus 4. Sweet Jane (live). Lou Reed 5. Satisfaction. Rolling Stones 6. Iron Man. Black Sabbath 7. Since You've Been Gone. Rainbow(originally Russ Ballard) 8. Smoke on the Water. Deep Purple 9. In a Gadda da Vida. Iron Butterfly 10. Sunshine of your Love. Cream

@Reaperguy67 2 года назад

I think my favorite song with a great guitar riff has to be iron maidens aces high. It's a great song to see live as well. 🤘

@francoisregis2155 Год назад

Indeed such a great song

@freddiemolinajr.8397 2 года назад

Good video

@melgreier1630 2 года назад

New Orleans is Sinking ... better riff than many on this list... soulful and evocative, blending with the lyrics perfectly. Doesn’t get much attention because the Tragically Hip never sought recognition... they played because they wanted to play and they appreciated their fans more than any group or soloist before or since *mic drop*

@chadjackson9516 Год назад

This^

@billparker8954 Год назад

@@chadjackson9516 *American Woman* The Guess Who, *Could Have Been a Lady* April Wine.

@JDPwatching Год назад

Keep in mind that I'm writing this comment at the halfway mark, but I seriously feel that if "Beat It" and "Sultans of Swing" are on this list, then "Hazy Shade of Winter" should be here also. It's a driving riff with heart, angst, and balls, and is as good as pretty much anything else on this list. And btw, "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" is my favorite Van Halen song, which, oddly enough, became my favorite song of theirs after I heard Sammy Hagar sing it on the "5150" tour. He blew that song off the face of the planet and glued my brain to the back of my skull with his incredible performance. Sorry, Diamond Dave! Sammy just rocked that song to death and made it look easy. ❤️😁🤟

@ironsidemajor 2 года назад

How can you have top 20 guitar riffs list with no AC/DC? so many of their riffs are legendary and better than most others on this list.

@guitarball 2 года назад

Seriously. These are all great riffs, but no way AC/DC shouldn't be on the list.

@huntermyers3551 Год назад

I think all of the iconic guitar riffs rock my world

@potatomatop9326 2 года назад

No Cream - Sunshine of your love?

@yaywoohoohooray 2 года назад

Led Zeppelin literally could’ve filled this list.

@imnotsuperstitiousbutiamal4186 2 года назад

CAZINATOR-By what? ripping off other lesser known blues artists and not payin' em or even giving them ANY credit? F**K Led Zeppelin.

@williamsummerson1204 2 года назад

Facts

@williamsummerson1204 2 года назад

Don't disrespect the goats. What the fuck.

@failedabortion7726 2 года назад

@@imnotsuperstitiousbutiamal4186 u crazy. Some songs from led zeppelin may sound like some other songs. But im sure your band has some songs to that sound like other songs.

@alexsuperpower1 2 года назад

@@failedabortion7726 He isn't wrong though, they ripped many songs.

@juliestrahl688 Год назад

Long Cool Woman entro rift is my all time favorite 4:46

@corbz273 2 года назад

I didnt think this was gonna be a good list, but my mind was immediately changed when I saw that they put Check My Brain on here!

@Davier9999 2 года назад

Steve Lukather wrote one of the best riffs ever for 'Beat it' and barely is acknowledged. Show some respect WatchMojo!

@mr.alcoholic6913 2 года назад

I agree Van Halen only do the solo but the riff is Steve

@recrdholdr 2 года назад

It was going so well and then they shit the bed. Not having Smoke on the Water at #1 is just insanity. Heartbreaker should be in the teens at best.

@BunnEFartz 2 года назад

Steve Polhill There are tribes deep in the Amazon rainforest that recognize the riff to Smoke On The Water. My blue hared grandmother who only listens to polka music can name the riff to Smoke On The Water. It's the most recognized riff on the planet.

@christophermerlot3366 2 года назад

Deep Purple's best riff ever was 'Burn.' Full stop.

@Theprophet3928 Год назад

THANK YOU

@ITcanB 2 года назад

"Pictures of Matchstick Men" by Status Quo has a iconic riff that should have been mentioned

@jonstreng7850 2 года назад

OMG - they really cruised through this list and man what an amazing list. Also - wise switch to the male host narrating this. I feel "Creeping Death" or Fade to Black could have been included here. And OBTW - Where is Thunderstruck by AC/DC or Back in the Saddle by Aerosmith?

@williamwhite1001 2 года назад

The Cure "Lullaby"! Iconic sound!

@rickysalinas23777 2 года назад

Man in the Box over Check My Brain and The Trooper over Wasted Years in my own opinion. The psychedelic nature of Man in the Box leaves more of an impression on me and The Trooper gives that galloping punch to the chest like Barracuda. Both other songs are great though especially Maiden. Up the irons!!!🤘

@jerrumite4425 2 года назад

Up the Irons, I do still debate which is my favorite maiden song

@rickysalinas23777 2 года назад

@@jerrumite4425 Phantom, Maiden, Killers, Number of the Beast, Rime, Powerslave, Aces High...its hard to pick for sure...I would say as far as riffs an underrated song is Tailgunner and Paschendale as well is just haunting

@Hammerhead547 2 года назад

Skid Row's Monkey Business should be on here, the bluesy intro riff overlayed with sebastian bach's smooth vocals which then crash down into one of the heaviest dirtiest metal groves of the 90's complete with a signature scream by seb is still amazing 30 years later. Now that I think about it Alien Nation by Scorpions should be on here too, the beginning 45 seconds of that track is fucking amazing and it builds into one of the heaviest tracks that klaus @ co ever created.

@ayyubi1235 2 года назад

Oh nice

@RFGfotografie Год назад

I love me some good guitar music :P Certainly with good riffs.

@AyrenJagar 2 года назад

While I agree with no 1, The Who had some great Riffs, Queen too. And Red Hot Chilli Peppers

@ThePlayer176 Год назад

I would've been mad if I would've seen some red hot chili peppers on here. With all due respect were talking about the greatest in rock and those are only found in classic rock which paved the way for the new bands that came after.

@villainousappetite8841 Год назад

'Queen had some great riffs'.. Like what?

@wabuckles 2 года назад

I like just about every song on this list in its own right, but this list is an absolute MESS.

@Ytinasniiable 2 года назад

I'm surprised they even bothered trying with the sheer number of iconic riffs in rock and metal

@ARIXANDRE 2 года назад

These are actually really great choices!

@devinfaucette 2 года назад

Black Sabbath is the first metal band? Didn't their first album come out in 1970, while Zeppelin and Deep Purple were 69?

@DoubleM-hf6ih Год назад

Enter Sandman has some badass guitar riffs and solos.

@mlggamer5296 2 года назад

I would have picked Immigrant Song cuz its highly memorable not to mention now we can associate it with Thor

@taylordw 3 месяца назад

Really enjoyed your choices.I haven’t seen the other videos, but must mention Alvin Lee, frontman and guitarist for Ten Years After. I always thought after Woodstock he should have become a household name. Saw him live at Winterland in SF, early 70’s: breath taking blues based solos. Also Steve Stevens of Billy Idol band. Solid rock guitar.

@th1agu 2 года назад

This charming man

@grimgamertv 2 года назад

I'm actually mad they didn't even mention riffs like in Thunderstruck, Comfortably Numb, Black Hole Sun and basically every Santana riff...

@pamelaflanigan5935 Год назад

one of the icon riffs that wasn't mentioned is the opening riffs of Enter Sandman by Metallicca

@Rekko82 2 года назад

WOW! Another BRAND NEW IDEA!

@liraizh7015 2 года назад

This needs a top 1000

@robk.6591 2 года назад

Alice in Chains! It's good to see Jerry Cantrell recognized here!

@martim7605 2 года назад

Jerry "Riff lord' Cantrell

@akarbit3r111 2 года назад

Personally think the riffs for Iron Man are a bit more iconic for Black Sabbath, but that's just me

@littleharleythedobermann4224 2 года назад

Super

@romanfedotov1152 2 года назад

Great riffs yes Greatest of all time no way

@jaredoverton7992 Год назад

I'm glad "Wasted Years" by Iron Maiden was on this list. It's the most haunting and evil sounding riff ever. It sounds like something you would hear while descending down to Into Hell

@alfioinsaudo4179 Год назад

Grandissimo Jimmy Page i suoi riff sono unici e inarrivabili un vero genio assoluto della chitarra classifica azzeccata in pieno il migliore

@dnice9168 Год назад

Honorable mention...guitar on Inside the Fire, Disturbed. Amazing. Or how about Sweating Bullits, Megadeath.

@Grandizer8989 2 года назад

Smashing Pumpkins ‘Cherub Rock’ should be on here somewhere. That was my favorite post Hair Metal riff ever.

@craighenry2351 2 года назад

That’s not a bad choice. James Iha is a very underrated guitarist.

@DryBones271 2 года назад

George Harrison's guitar solo in Let It Be.

@victorevans2867 2 года назад

"Slayer is literally the sound of all hell breaking loose" in beautiful cacophonous insanity.

@yannickvaz694 2 года назад

*Step by step guide on how to start a fight:* 1) Get a room full of guitarists 2) Ask them to rank the best guitarists, solos, riffs, etc. 3) Sit back, waaaay back.

@CptnWolfe 2 года назад

Unless they say Layla by Eric Clapton