too many to list.
a vote for a couple classics
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DH11CPDXzr4?si=6C9BARJZkdf8Jezo
https://www.youtube.com/embed/anpjEN9KeJ0?si=_f9wUZ_Lu-mbKSkh
Harrison is playing on that isn't he?
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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Harrison is playing on that isn't he?
ringo has sole writing credit but it was a collaboration with him and george
no doubt george wrote that riff
ringo has sole writing credit but it was a collaboration with him and george
no doubt george wrote that riff
I looked it up didn't see Harrison associated to it, but thought he was playing.
What an amazing amount of talent in a band that came together as kids.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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What are the odds that this thread, much like saying Beetlejuice x3 or Bloody Mary in front of a mirror, will summon TMP to tell us how we are all musical Cretins?
A good friend will bail you out of jail, but your best friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying "that was f***ing awesome"
I'll have to find room for the Hollies (Long Cool Woman). That one deserves to be in there.
The wife also brought up a few that I am going to have to consider strongly:
Heart - Barracuda
Free - All Right Now
The Guess Who - American Woman
Tom Petty - Running Down a Dream
ringo has sole writing credit but it was a collaboration with him and george
no doubt george wrote that riff
I looked it up didn't see Harrison associated to it, but thought he was playing.
What an amazing amount of talent in a band that came together as kids.
"One of the stand-out tracks in the batch was You Don’t Come Easy, which quickly was singled out for a standalone single release. Ringo had written the song with substantial help from his old friend George Harrison. This help was uncredited (with Harrison’s blessing) with Ringo getting the sole writing credit.
Ringo has acknowledged Harrison’s help several times. In an episode of VH1 Storytellers in 1998, right before performing the song, he said: “I wrote this song with the one and only George Harrison” before going on to say that Harrison suggested the last verse be about God. When Starr protested, Harrison suggested Hare Krishna. Starr protested again and Harrison suggested “peace” as a topic, which they finally settled on"
uncle ted
the most overplayed beginner riff....
mick mars
the list goes on forever
Toadies "Rubberneck"...every single song...best opening riffs on any album in the history of music.
Behind the boathouse I’ll show you my dark secret
I'll have to find room for the Hollies (Long Cool Woman). That one deserves to be in there.
Seven Nations Army?
The wife also brought up a few that I am going to have to consider strongly:
Heart - Barracuda
Free - All Right Now
The Guess Who - American Woman
Tom Petty - Running Down a Dream
Seven Nations Army
Updated List:
- Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
- AC/DC - Back in Black
- Tom Petty - Running Down a Dream
- AC/DC - Highway to Hell
- Led Zepplin - Kashmir
- Led Zepplin - Immigrant Song
- Led Zepplin - Whole Lotta Love
- Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
- Poison - Nothing but a Good TIme
- Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
- Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
- Eagles - Hotel California
- Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
- Derek and the Dominos - Layla
- Yes - Roundabout
- Beatles - I Feel Fine
- Black Sabbath - War Pigs
- Black Sabbath - Iron Man
- Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
- The Raspberries - Go All the Way
- The Offspring - The Kids Aren’t All Right
- Van Halen - Aint Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
- Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
- Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman
- Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
- Rolling Stones - Start me Up
- Guns and Roses - Sweet Child of Mine
- Green Day - When I come around
- Lou Reed - Sweet Jane
- Metallica - Enter Sandman
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
- Iron Maiden - The Trooper
- Jethro Tull - Aqualung
- The Beach Boys - Fun Fun Fun
- Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
- The Toadies - Possum Kingdom
- John Mellencamp - I Need a Lover
- John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane
- Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
- Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
- ZZ Top - La Grange
- Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
- The Kinks - You Really Got Me
- The Guess who - American Woman
- The Pretenders - My City was Gone
- The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
- Can’t Stop - The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
- Aerosmith - Walk This Way
- Ozzy Ozborne - Crazy Train
- Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
- Henri Mancini - Peter Gunn
- Grand Funk Railroad - We’re an American Band
- Thin Lizzie - The Boys are Back in Town
- James Gang - Funk #49
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin’ Care of Business
- Free - All Right now
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
- Doobie Brothers - China Grove
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
- Michael Jackson - Beat It
- The Hollies - Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)
- Foo Fighters - Everlong
- Heart - Barracuda
In: Barracuda, Running Down a Dream, American Woman, All Right Now, Long Cool Woman
Out: Final Countdown, Thunderstruck (the weakest of the 3 AC/DC), Power of Love, Hit Me With your Best Shot, Two Princes.
Looking at this list, it's going to be nye impossible to rank them, so considering breaking them into four tiers and then randomizing them 16 best versus 16 worst, 16 level 2 versus 16 level 3.
EDIT: Peter Gunn back in. Upon review, Final Countdown is a synth intro and is therefore disqualified.
EDIT - 2: Substituted La Grange for Sharp Dressed Man
ZZ Top – Sharp Dressed Man
That's not even a top 5 best Billy Gibbons riff.
No Lerxst riffs and now this. What are we doing here?
I'm just messing with you. There's way too much good stuff out there to choose from.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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