Top 20 guitar riffs ever: Slash in the “Sweet” #1 spot |
Readers of UK magazine Total Guitar have selected the Guns N’ Roses riff: Sweet Child O’ Mine as the best of all time. Here’s the top 20:
The top 20
1. Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
2. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
3. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
4. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
5. Enter Sandman - Metallica
6. Layla - Derek & The Dominoes/Eric Clapton
7. Master Of Puppets - Metallica
8. Back In Black - AC/DC
9. Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
10. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
11. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
12. All Right Now - Free
13. Plug In Baby - Muse
14. Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
15. Aint Talkin’ ‘Bout Love - Van Halen
16. Walk This Way - Aerosmith
17. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream
18. No-One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age
19. Paradise City - Guns N` Roses
20. Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine.
Paradise City is a good song, but one of the top 20 for all time? No way! Back in Black? Please. There are better AC DC riffs than that. What about Problem Child, Highway to Hell, Dirty Deeds … Back In Black?
The list is all about six-string magic, though, and while Slash’s ability to play under a top hat through a haze of hair and cigarette smoke proved top of the pops, there was still room for guitar gods like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Paige, Richie Blackmore, Angus Young and Eddie Van Halen.
Here you go, have at it. There is plenty to pontificate on here.
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Comment by Anonymous — December 31, 1969 @ 4:00 pm PST
did someone sneeze? how the hell did “Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana” even get on that list?
Comment by Drew — June 8, 2004 @ 2:44 am PST
thats an insult. seriously.
Comment by Drew — June 8, 2004 @ 2:45 am PST
the only thing fucked up with that list is smoke on the water, aaand guns n roses ROCK, right on
Comment by Emma — June 27, 2004 @ 10:51 pm PST
Hey Fuckers suck on Guns N’ fuckin Roses!!!!!!!!!!! GN’R fucking rocks, they definitely should have more than two songs in the top 20 riffs. Now i know that everyone in this world wants the greatest rock band to rejoin. No band will ever be the same. Axl, Slash, Duff, Izzy, and Steven…thank you for creating the greatest fucking thing ever!
Comment by BC — July 8, 2004 @ 12:06 am PST
I guess they really meant it when they said “Nothin’ lasts forever, even cold November rain”. GN’R…you will always be my favorite band!
Comment by BC — July 8, 2004 @ 12:14 am PST
Ohhh Please, suck it!!, You’re just old people who likes just the guitar-parts on the songs..
Axl is a shit as a snger.. and I think any NORMAL person shouldn’t say they’re the greatest band ever..
I’ve got nothing to u people but if you wants to get some years off, just hear LinkinPark [I’ve never said this is the greatest band ever, people who say a band is “the best” are just bastards, and don’t even know to use their ears!..]
But seriously, just listen “Crawling”, “In The End”, “Forgotten”, “Numb”, “Pushing Me Away”, “No More Sorrow”, “What I’ve Done”, “Somewhere I Belong”, and “Faint”, if u don’t like them [any of..] then, [and just then..] you can’t send me to eat some cute shit!..
Comment by amwp — April 22, 2008 @ 4:29 pm PST
Look, im not old and guns n’ roses is my favorite band. And I think you would have to have brain damage to think Axl is a bad singer. Also, according to you, everybody who voted for the best riff must be old people who only like the guitar parts of songs.
Comment by cb — May 11, 2008 @ 4:39 pm PST
Man November rain, I haven’t heard that in probably 10-15 years! Thanks for reminding me of the memories!
Comment by Eric — October 21, 2008 @ 10:13 am PST