Greatest Guitar Riffs

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    Harlz

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    Ok, this is a rip off of Pawans' thread, but yeah, it's a little different.

    Mine would be
    AC/DC's Thunderstruck and Highway To Hell
    Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine
    Santana's Smooth (Feat. Rob Thomas)
    Metallica's Nothing Else Matters and Master Of Puppets
    Iron Maidens' Rainmaker

    This will seem weird, but blink-182's All The Small Things
     
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    Jordan

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    Iron Man by Black Sabbath and Scarified by Racer X/Paul Gilbert

    And others worth mentioning that all happen to be on guitar hero/rock band are:

    Disturbed - Stricken
    Tenacious D - The Metal
    Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds

    Those are the catchy ones. And Scarified is a technical one.

    But i could say a billion Explosions In The Sky riffs but there not too catchy.
     
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    Will

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    Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" and "The Number of the Beast"
    Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," "Paranoid," "War Pigs" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
    Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark at the Moon" and "Crazy Train"
    Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and "Master of Puppets"
    Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child o' Mine" and "Paradise City"
    Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive," "You Give Love a Bad Name," "Livin' on a Prayer," "Keep the Faith"
    Aerosmith's "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion" and "Walk This Way"
    White Snake's "Here I Go Again"
    Dio's "Holy Diver"

    And to be contemporary:
    Atreyu's "Right Side of the Bed"
    Avenged Sevenfold's "Unholy Confessions" and "Chapter Four"
    Thrice's "The Artist in the Ambulance" and "All That's Left"
    Yellowcard's "Ocean Avenue"
    Story of the Year's "Until the Day I Die"
    Lostprophets' "Last Train Home"
    Bullet for My Valentine's "Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow"
    Coheed and Cambria's "Welcome Home"

    I find that most contemporary artists don't have riffs nearly as catchy as the riffs of bands from the '70s and '80s.
     
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    Adam

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    Alexisonfire - Pulmonary Archery
    As I Lay Dying - 94 Hours/ The Darkest Nights
    Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions
    Coheed & Cambria - A Favour House Atlantic/ Welcome Home
    In Flames - December Flower/ Trigger
    Scary Kids Scaring Kids - The Only Medicine
     
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    Tim

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    Sepultura - "Arise" and "Roots Bloody Roots"
    Metallica - "One"
    Deftones - "My Own Summer (Shove It)"
    The Smashing Pumpkins - "Zero"
    Killswitch Engage - "Fixation on the Darkness"


    Plus the dozens of classic rock and metal riffs that I've forgotten. This list could go on for days.
     
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    Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache
    Killswitch Engage - My Curse
    Saosin - Voices
    Saosin - Let Go Control
    Blink 182 - Whats' My Age Again?


    Just a few great ones for me.
     
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    Jawsome

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    AILD - The Darkest Nights, Forsaken (post-chorus riff)
    Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver (cover)
    Trivium - Pull Harder, Dying in your arms
    Unearth - So it goes

    Also definitely worth mentioning, a band I've posted a few times about. Their name is Aberrance, and I'm not even sure if they are even around anymore, their myspace hasn't been updated in awhile. But they made one of the most perfect songs ever called "Karma Kills". I suggest you check it out at their myspace and listen to it, I especially love the riff:

    http://www.myspace.com/aberrance
     
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    I love the one in APFMH by LP personally.
     
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    Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions
    As I Lay Dying - Through Struggle (the intro riff)
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction, In My Darkest Hour, Trust, Hangar 18
    My Chemical Romance - Thank You For The Venom
    Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
    Rage Against The Machine - Killing in the Name
    Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
    The Haunted - All Against All



    I'm thinking Megadeth and Dave Mustaine may possibly be good at this kind of thing.
     
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