Which riffs does /mu/ consider GOAT?

the riff starting at :40 decimates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N5AJxxL8hA

>>68798080
Smoke On The Water

this is full of great riffs but the one that closes it is GOAT

https://youtu.be/J-tvJcTPxHc?t=376

>>68798297
starts at 6:16 if the link doesn't work

>>68798080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe0OfEtP2w

https://youtu.be/QgZjkQE4BNE

>>68798187
wordddddd bruh

>>68798331
>not search and destroy

the riff that starts at 8:42 is everything

https://youtu.be/53F5nY68cBM?t=8m42s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c09qsL-prMI

https://youtu.be/2ownZDWNIRs?t=38s
https://youtu.be/FgxEJOi6GtA?t=49s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XSSjDYJERc
https://youtu.be/8XSSjDYJERc?t=17s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NodXnjUIZ0U

The breakdown riff from Pantera's "Domination" is the greatest breakdown of all time. So simple, so effective. Everyone loses their fucking shit when it kicks in.

The start of this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yBIecdZQdlo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbAbMZEt4Uw

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literally nearly every riff on this is GOAT

>>68798448
i think the riff on walk is more hype broham

>>68798080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPNcDUW9fQM

at around 2:49

>>68798584
I've always liked the riff from Assassins the best personally. My PR song.

https://youtu.be/_bbNmXMLImg

very simple, very dank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUnjMI81vAA

>>68798719
>>68798584
>not the riff that drops at :56 from 2 towers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTPLcst4OL8

>>68798368
>_______ is everything

>>>/tumblr/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQ7qOCDFYQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmy1BzRcZ_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvwOxMU0D4M
16:54 is dank as fuck

Holy shit there is a lot of derp on this thread. I dont think somehow of you people actually know what a riff is.

This is one of the greatest of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuyvT8nFMLY

>>68798907
i love that riff so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz9vXa7yp6I

>>68798907
>derp
>Van Halen
>one of the greatest of all time
like fucking clockwork

>>68798970

So...its agreed. Its one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time. Thanks for playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_fN18rO0dM

>>68799005
It's a boring riff and you have boring taste. You win the consolation prize of knowing you lost.

>>68799153

"boring" - sure thing Skippy.

You, no doubt, fancy yourself an edgy contrarian claiming on of the most iconic riffs from one of the most iconic guitar players ever is "boring"... you're derptastic!

>>68798352
fucking this, seriously the greatest of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNzQ3CXspU

>>68798187
Woah , it does

>>68798448
>implying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiB41sfPIfM

6:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCMAECsOxHE

5 minutes of some of the best riff changes of all time

>>68799354
Man, you literally sound like some 60-year-old conservative geezer trying to shit talk people on BabyMetal's facebook wall or something.

Fact of the matter is, by today's standards, that riff is boring and uninteresting. If you choose not to expand your horizons and keep listening to bland, outdated shit, that's on you.

>>68799354
>derptastic!

regardless whether or not this is ironic, fucking kill yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0

>>68799941

your assumptions expose your level of cluelessness.

The "fact of the matter" is your subjective opinion isn't worth the derp it was written on.

This bass riff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llxvuf_X_us

>>68800142
The fact of that matter is your opinion is behind the times and fails to acknowledge 30 years of progression, evolution and innovation that has lead to almost every current notable rock group surpassing the compositional efforts of Van Halen.

How "iconic" a riff is to its time period means literally nothing and it's about time you open your eyes to the modern age.

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Check 'Dopesmoker' famalama

>>68800287
>>68800287
>How "iconic" a riff is to its time period means literally nothing and it's about time you open your eyes to the modern age.


You are assuming I havent and or dont listen to the "modern age".

...and yet you failed to understand the meaning of "all time" - which, by definition, encompasses all times...The "greatest" being a subjective label that suggest one takes into account many factors including historical context, influence on future generations etc...as well as tonal brilliance and aural effect.

Just because some sperge-lord who thinks a great "riff" is just some autism induced note frenzy and is cluesless about the actual emotional power of a rightly delivered riff...says its "stale" and "boring" doesnt make it so...nor does its diminish its place amongst the Greatest Of All Time.

This opening riff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiaxgHfhQIM

song is GOAT as well.

>>68798080
For me personally, probably I'm Waiting for the Man, I don't really notice riffs in music too often so I'm not even sure if a lot of my music has proper riffs but that riff always gets me going

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jMPI_pUec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ML6axBjhI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uUMaQJSRGQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js6JHwHYFk4

>>68798349
also the bass riff here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwCpw8AQBg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uu4-4xPzik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMXeZWv6AS0

>>68800667
Odd you would regurgitate all those flavor adjectives like that, considering that riff is devoid of any tonal brilliance or "aural effect", and likewise is severely lacking in emotional power. Lazily written, indulgently performed. These words apply to most of Van Halen's discography. I'll not try to knock the guy on his chops, because he certainly has them, but, as is the case with other "greats" like him such as Malmsteen and Blackmore, he can't write an interesting piece to save his life. No matter how fondly you look back on that night you were drunk off your face on warm Bud Light in the middle of a sweat stadium listening to Van Halen and afterwards managed to slip a finger into the pants of a smelly patriot girl in the back of your dad's Impala, Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love's riff is not and will never be one of the greatest of all time.

>>68798297
goddammit. I noticed lars' drumming.

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Dogs.

>>68801033
I would love to hang out with you anon. Good taste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6YF2VJ1elU

this is recent but i like it a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkyp6HCqrs4

>>68798080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfmi0v5vIGo

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNdfPVNOBJk

>>68798080
you guys have terrible taste desu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th3ycKQV_4k

>>68798297
The mechanix is the GOAT kill em all/killing is my bussiness riff

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Best rhythm riff ever

@2:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK0tjSvA17g


1. Jump Left
2. Jump Right
3. Jump Left
4. Jump Right
5. Jump Left
6. Jump Right
7. Jump Left
8. Jump Right

the "may I help you" riff

>>68801207
oMG such a great review writer wHere is your blog ill like to know moar

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Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Rolling Stones Richards Mick Taylor supreme riffage ecstacy

>>68801207
Poor guy. Has never listened to Fair Warning.

The bass in Yo La Tengo - Moby Octopad

NOTHING WILL EVER
EVER TOP THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgrfXuHYWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2sA0vpA-4

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Literally nearly every riff on this is GOAT

>>68798496
This, with little girl being the GOATest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ6B96NyaJ4

>>68798080
Lake of Fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV9lTNtDd5U

>>68803325
Alrighty then mr. Edge

monkey man is keith richards best riff, it's so funky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNY8eYmzdH4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOzs1FehYOA

>>68801207
EVH's biggest strength was his songwriting, though. Not the Mickey Mouse tapping shit that George Lynch did better anyway, but his songwriting and rhythm playing.

>>68803727
evh was a good rhythm player

unchained is a really fucking sick riff. too bad david lee roth ruins it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx86CxKYtg0

>>68803809
That was one DLR-era song that Hagar always actually did better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=185roOKaUuQ

>>68803319
holy shit this

especially when it starts battling with the piano about halfway in

>>68803833
damn, evh's live sounds even better than the studio version for that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzztt2NimXc 1:35/2:40 of this

>>68803853
The sound's way better on this one, I just wish Hagar would put his shirt back on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDHX2WBTQt0

>>68798080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElhAysq3O6c

>>68799006
that's a great one

>>68800097
money for nothing is good, but this one is the best on the record imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVdB-UKfxD4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH4nmmhv-c8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA3VgO3Vz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdtATSsw4HQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effUB0_T1pE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJauxo-4T8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAFsAeI7kPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8VmoqBz9Vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9MDi-Twuw
stoner doom is kind of an overpowered genre when it comes to riffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F21xidkqPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F21xidkqPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2KBIs__91s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjmljShU3JM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-G2Qt7kP6U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9W29CH8WiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYv269-HcqU

every song in the list has the first riff as the hook riff

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IMO (as trite as it sounds) nothing will ever top Luke's Wall from War Pigs, and nobody surpasses Iommi as a riffmaker.

But Washer's my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yEgcb167k4

>>68804920
true

https://youtu.be/9uTn_ixQIIY?t=4m34s

Dat sludge godliness

>>68801207
>devoid of any tonal brilliance or "aural effect", and likewise is severely lacking in emotional power. Lazily written, indulgently performed.

Thats hilarious...your ignorance knows no bounds apparently. Clearly no ability to to discern quality if your life depended on it. Brown sound indeed.

"lazily written"- what kind of shit-tier analysis is that?

Do us all a favor and kill yourself...now.

Motorhead's Ace of Spades is literally the best album ever for this type of music.

Every song is perfect.

>>68805176
please don't tell people to kill themselves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv7Hyz4hqm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAPVcsDOU9U

obvious answer. i, the witchfinder has some amazing ones as well

>>68799006
This shit sounds like something at the beginning of an episode of Justified

>Oh shit Raylan shot another one

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6:57 the scream going into the solo is mint, but everything on this track is.

Might just be my opinion, but the guitar/bass combo in Pink Floyd's "Happiest days of our lives" is absolutely stellar

>>68806774
the best riff they ever came up with is money

>>68806945
I don't disagree but something about that stutter-y delayed guitar sound with the big bass hits over top of it just gets me going

>>68798080
>riffs
A good portion of Black Sabbath songs.

Man, I fucking love jamming Holy Wars... myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Kxg8mOtfs
Whole album is full of fucking ridicilous riffs.

>>68801668
Thank fuck somebody here has some sense.

>>68804725
Man I really need to listen to all of the Dire Straits work.

I mean I love Sultans of Swing but I've never really listened to anything outside of that song by them.

The guitar work is just phenomenal.

>>68798080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fa4HUiFJ6c

>>68798496
>literally nearly every riff on this is GOAT
The absolute epitome imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDuATZCY8I
1:22 is GOAT

youtube.com/watch?v=o2MrbdC38FA

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>>68798187
>>68798350
>>68799378
my sides

>>68801033
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj879fSVbTQ i'd also say the riff starting at 1:04 here is amazing

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https://youtu.be/cbT2g2QtFmY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zFK6hdKRd8

Opening bass.

Bullet For My Valentine - Domination (Pantera Cover)
Starts at 3.10 min and goes for the rest of the song. This is good shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqNP29n1Qfk

Queens of the Stone Age - Mexicola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHsXnLhXBAA

This is my favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axemfr9pEeA

>>68798080
https://youtu.be/1mIRVtwtIUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBaEtnxjYw

Bölzer - Coronal Mass Ejaculation
Starts at 1:15.

https://youtu.be/7Pp44rWLgqA
5:27

Street Spirit (Fade Out)

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Billy Corgan was the master at one point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyZwI2BF8cM