The Riff

[caddyman]

There is an article in today’s Times about the importance of the guitar riff in rock music. They call it the cornerstone of rock. For those as is interested, the article can be found online here.

The online version of the article does not include the top ten riffs of all time as decided by, er… probably the Times. There is a link you can follow to listen and vote for your favourite, but I don’t think there’s a list as such. Here I have included the top ten list as it appears in the printed version (without the commentary), starting with number one and working down to ten:

1 Smoke on the Water: Deep Purple
2 Whole Lotta Love: Led Zeppelin
3 Satisfaction: Rolling Stones
4 There She Goes: The La’s
5 Come On Everybody: Eddie Cochran
6 Smells Like Teen Spirit: Nirvana
7 Seven Nation Army: White Stripes
8 I Love Rock’n’Roll: Joan Jett
9 Sweet Child O’Mine: Guns N’ Roses
10 I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor: Arctic Monkeys

So the question is, what’s on that list that shouldn’t be, and what’s missing that should?

Comments

[littleonionz.livejournal.com]

nOooo to the Arctic Monkeys too soon,too now.
'The Chain' fleetwood Mac off top of mi head, I'm not a big fan or owt, I just think it's fairly iconic as is The Shadows erm 'Apache' is it?
Oh and Iron Maiden says Ghatanothoa not sure which track he thinks though.

[ghatanothoa.livejournal.com]

well every iron maiden guitar riff is the same... so surely you can just have one entry for all of them.