Favourite guitar riffs/solos.

[Drakmeire]

the intro to this song.
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in fact, it is my ringtone.

 

[JJMUG]

SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_AdxJWFUh4

 

[xmbts]

They're all intros.

Spoiler: Money for Nothing

It comes in at 35 seconds.

Spoiler: In one ear

Spoiler: Plastic Beach

I have alot more but I can't think of them at the moment.

 

[Levi93]

2 minutes 37 seconds in. I feel like he should be playing on his knees whilst rising up on a giant pedestal out of the stage.

ok dude ive been looking for this band for a looooong time, i just didnt know their name TYVM!!

Let me guess, Dirt 2?

nope, i just heard a song of theirs a while ago, no idea what it was but im damn sure it was these guys cause the singer has a pretty distinguing singing voice.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Solos... Well I'm a big fan of all of Slash's solos, the entirety of the guitar-work on Appetite For Destruction is awesome. Mark Morton from Lamb Of God has an awesome bluesy style for a metal guitarist, like the solo for Walk With Me In Hell.

But there are so many damned solos to choose from... Riffs though, my two favourites are I Am The Law and Caught In A Mosh

Anthrax have to be my favourite band ever...

 

[Jim Grim]

Here's someone doing a cover of this classic Pink Floyd solo:

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Rumble. It is so great, it is the only instrumental to be banned from radio.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Favourite solo? Well off the top of my head, the solo in a farewell to arms is pure epicness:
Starts at 7:11

I couldn't possibly pick a favourite riff though. Way too many...

 

[Aggressor and Usurper]

Ehhhh, not really bothered to go out finding links, but:

Solos:
Electric Wizard by Electric Wizard
Way Out Of Here by Porcupine Tree
Blessed With A Curse by Bring Me The Horizon
High Hopes and Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd
For The Greater Good of God by Iron Maiden

Riff:
43% Burnt and Milk Lizard by Dillinger Escape Plan
The Wicker Man and Fear Of The Dark by Iron Maiden
East Jesus Nowhere by Green Day
Clouds Over California by DevilDriver
Hearts Alive by Mastodon (last one, at around 10 minutes)
Snakes for the Divine by High On Fire

 

[C117]

Best riff: Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot

Best solo: Metallica - One

 

[MrShowerHead]

Time to unleash my inner fanboy!

That intro is just godly

Also: That intro and solo is just...awesome

 

[Snake Plissken]

Bam. You all lose.

 

[meticadpa]

Mr. Big - Green Tinted Sixties Mind (riff)

In fact, anything by Paul Gilbert, pretty much.

 

[PlyrYaKA]

Bam. You all lose.

Fuck. Not beating that.
Solo in "Zero" Smashing Pumpkins, the rage in that song is off the wall

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

HMMMMM..... Trivium's Kirisute Gomen solo is rather amazing starts at 3:40

 

[Ophiuchus]

Favourite solo would have to be this - the second solo, 3:54 onwards:


...all the more impressive because I don't care about anything else Ozzy has ever done, or metal as a whole if I'm completely honest.

And, of course, it'd be rude of me not to add this, which I still consider to be humanity's greatest musical achievement (and no, I don't care to justify that point, thanks):

 

[octafish]

Maggot Brain is my favorite solo of all time. Eddie Hazel is superb.

Favorite riff, probably Evie Part 1.

 

[theseworlds]

oh man, there's so many! Off the top of my head, favourite riff would be:

With a Thousand Words to Say by One, by Darkest Hour


or Zombie Autopilot, by Unearth


And as for a solo, I just can't look beyond Selkies: the Endless Obsession, by Between the Buried and Me (solo starts at about 4:20 or so, and builds up steadily)


Actually, just any riff and solo by Between the Buried and Me is pure awesomeness. I pick all their songs.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Pretty much the whole of "Hysteria" by Muse
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Especially that bass.
Well that's the first one I could think of anyway.