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Offline LieLowTheWantedMan

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Great riffs
« on: July 19, 2011, 07:46:27 PM »
Name some. My all-time favourite is likely 8:06 of Blackwater Park by Opeth. But I find you need to hear the entirety before it for it's full effect.

More include:
Verse riff of Siberian Khatru by Yes
Opening riff of The Blind House by Porcupine Tree
Cowboys from Hell by Pantera
Verse-ish parts of Red by King Crimson

Some bass riffs:
Evermore by Transatlantic
Roundabout by Yes
Get Em Out By Friday by Genesis
Hatesong by Porcupine Tree
K.A. I by Magma
Slightly All the Time by Soft Machine (never has 11/4 sounded so natural)
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2011, 07:47:07 PM »
cky - '96 quite bitter beings'
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2011, 07:48:18 PM »
The one riff in Ki by Devin Townsend. If you've heard the song, you know the riff.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2011, 07:55:51 PM »
Quote from: chrisbDTM on July 19, 2011, 07:47:07 PM
cky - '96 quite bitter beings'

YES. This song is awesome.



To throw another one out there: Death - Symbolic.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2011, 07:56:43 PM »
The riff at the end of Desert Urbania will always remain a favorite for me. So METHUL :metal :metal
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2011, 07:59:31 PM »
Love the bass line in Evermore!!!!



Kiss -- War Machine or Detroit Rock City
Rush -- Stick It Out
Derrick and the Dominos -- Layla


I could give you hundreds.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2011, 08:01:46 PM »
Everything Gojira has ever written.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2011, 08:02:22 PM »
Quote from: Sigz on July 19, 2011, 08:01:46 PM
Everything Gojira has ever written.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2011, 08:21:26 PM »
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2011, 08:22:54 PM »
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train

Quote from: Sigz on July 19, 2011, 08:01:46 PM
Everything Tony Iommi has ever written.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2011, 09:53:52 PM »
Periphery - Icarus Lives!
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2011, 10:48:24 PM »
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (lolshield is on)
CKY - 96 Quite Bitter Beings (well the whole song really, shame they could never top it)
DT - This Dying Soul
Devin Townsend Project - The Mighty Masturbator (11:30ish; you'll know when it happens)
Opeth - Master's Apprentices

Probably thousands more, but they are the ones that spring to mind.

And Beardfish, although thats probably more a melodies thing.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2011, 11:12:18 PM »
Eve Of Seduction - Symphony X
Ich tu dir weh - Rammstein
Revolution Is My Name - Pantera
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
Downfall - Exodus
Mock The Cross - Bloodbath
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2011, 11:31:59 PM »
Not sure how I forgot this:

Coheed and Cambria - Godsend Conspirator
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2011, 11:33:29 PM »
Quote from: chrisbDTM on July 19, 2011, 07:47:07 PM
cky - '96 quite bitter beings'

First reply to the thread, and the thread is over. Best riff ever.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #15 on: July 19, 2011, 11:48:00 PM »
Its funny. I don't like 96 Quite Bitter Beings, but I love the riff. The same case goes for Lay Down by Priestess.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2011, 12:50:31 AM »
Oceansize - Catalyst

Radiohead - Airbag

Porcupine Tree - Shallow

Devin Townsend - Deadhead
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2011, 12:51:25 AM »
Quote from: zxlkho on July 19, 2011, 11:31:59 PM
Not sure how I forgot this:

Coheed and Cambria - Godsend Conspirator
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2011, 01:55:37 AM »
Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes

Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife

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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2011, 03:47:25 AM »
7:20 in ANTR. DAT 7/4
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Led Zepellin - The Rover
DT - Beyond This Life: The solo riff. WOW
DT - Glass Prison first riff
DT - UAGM, instrumental break before solo
King Crimson - One More Red Nightmare
Queensryche - Suite Sister Mary: the "Mary my laaaady of pain" part..
Haken - Eternal Rain: That solo riff.

I'll try think of more.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #20 on: July 20, 2011, 03:49:11 AM »
Every single riff from Catch 33 is cum-inducing.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #21 on: July 20, 2011, 03:52:43 AM »
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner - the riff under the solo after "And then down in falls comes the RAAAAIINNN"

its my favourite riff under a solo :)
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #22 on: July 20, 2011, 05:42:01 AM »
Traditional twelve bar blues.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #23 on: July 20, 2011, 06:29:59 AM »
Smoke on the Water (stolen or not)
Knockin' at Your Backdoor
Crazy Train
Bark at the Moon
Heartbreaker
Livin' Lovin' Maid
Black Dog
Carry On Wayward Son
You Really Got Me
Oh Pretty Woman
Day Tripper
Highway to Hell
Walk This Way
Rainbow in the Dark
All Right Now
Immigrant Song
Cat Scratch Fever
God of Thunder
Rock You Like a Hurricane
Woman From Tokyo
Rockin' in the Free World
Iron Man
Welcome to the Jungle
Funk 49
Unchained

I could keep going, but I think this is plenty.  And to every "greatest riffs" list that was ever compiled by a music magazine?  Fuck "Satisfaction".
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #24 on: July 20, 2011, 07:00:19 AM »
Every riff in Meshuggah's Bleed.

The opening riff in The Funeral Portrait

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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #25 on: July 20, 2011, 08:34:52 AM »
Quote from: Sir GuitarCozmo on July 20, 2011, 06:29:59 AM
Smoke on the Water (stolen or not)
Knockin' at Your Backdoor
Crazy Train
Bark at the Moon
Heartbreaker
Livin' Lovin' Maid
Black Dog
Carry On Wayward Son
You Really Got Me
Oh Pretty Woman
Day Tripper
Highway to Hell
Walk This Way
Rainbow in the Dark
All Right Now
Immigrant Song
Cat Scratch Fever
God of Thunder
Rock You Like a Hurricane
Woman From Tokyo
Rockin' in the Free World
Iron Man
Welcome to the Jungle
Funk 49
Unchained

I could keep going, but I think this is plenty.  And to every "greatest riffs" list that was ever compiled by a music magazine?  Fuck "Satisfaction".

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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #26 on: July 20, 2011, 09:14:57 AM »
I love the riff.

Danger Danger- Monkey Business
Tyketto- Forever Young
DT- About To Crash reprise
Judas Priest- Too many to mention.
Leverage- Dreamworld
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Rainbow- Stargazer, Gates Of Babylon, Lost In Hollywood,
Deep Purple- Pictures of Home, Burn,
Queensryche- NM156, Neue Regel, Needle Lies
Black Sabbath- Falling Off The Edge Of The World (two great ones here but Tony is still the King of riffs), Into The Void
Maiden- Aces High
thin Lizzy- Black Rose, Emerald,
Rush- again too many to list but AFTK (the song) and Cygnus X1, Analog Kid,
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #27 on: July 20, 2011, 09:38:49 AM »
Rush - Fly By Night, Xanadu, 2112 (all riffs in 2112)
Symphony X - Communion and the Oracle, Rediscovery, Odyssey (15:02 - best SX heavy riff imo), The Damnation Game,
Joe Satriani - Crushing Day
Edgar Winter - Frankenstein (all riffs in this song are excellent)
Queensryche - The Whisper, Neue Regel
Diablo Swing Orchestra - A Rancid Romance, Lucy Fears The Morning Star

Ugh. Too many.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #28 on: July 21, 2011, 07:33:19 AM »
The riff that always brings chills for me is Whole Lotta Love. Grabs you right by the short and curly's, and never let's go.
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #29 on: July 21, 2011, 08:05:52 AM »
Meshuggah - Electric Red (outro riff)

Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

Symphony X - Domination (bass intro riff)

Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (all the riffs)

Stratovarius - Infernal Maze

Septicflesh - Therianthropy

Primordial - Empire Falls

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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #30 on: July 21, 2011, 08:19:20 AM »
the verse riff from inferno by symphony x
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #31 on: July 21, 2011, 09:05:04 AM »
Opeth - Deliverance outro riff
DT - UAGM
Oceansize - Catalyst
John Petrucci - Glasgow Kiss
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« Reply #32 on: July 21, 2011, 10:09:24 AM »
Meshuggah - Rational Gaze intro riff :metal
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Re: Great riffs
« Reply #33 on: July 21, 2011, 10:28:06 AM »
The Who- The Real Me(bassline)

Entwistle might as well have beaten the shit out of me with his bass, results would have been the same. Same goes for Squire's bass in Rituals by Yes.
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« Reply #34 on: July 21, 2011, 02:43:45 PM »
Ratt - Lay it Down
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