Which band has the best riffs? - Vote

this is a joke right?

>>71979349
t. first day on /mu/

>>71979349

i think it is a joke, but black sabbath is the clear superior

Led Zepp and it's not even close

>>71979402
Go back to r/music

>>71979335
>no bolt thrower
get off my board.

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Have you thanked the riff god today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAs8Gp5IJiM

is uncle acid on that list? high on fire? sleep?

>>71979483
no, but the band who's riffs they steal is

>>71979417
I enjoy using both communities to discover and discuss music :^)

>>71979504
emulate, sure. steal?

60% of sabbaths material was weird ass dream pop type music.

I opened the poll after I posted. Zep is without question the best group on there, and they stole their riffs too.

If your answer isn't Black Sabbath you haven't listened to enough Black Sabbath

Zeppelin has way better riffs than Sabbath

prove me wrong

protip: you can't

As far as strictly "riffs" are concerned, Sabbath, but I think Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, and Mick Taylor are all better guitarists than Iommi.

Also take your dadrock shit back to where you came from.

>>71979432
also this

>>71979562

zeppelin's riffs would be better if they were not played with that chicken scratch distortion. not as meaty and satisfying as sabbath.

>>71979636
well. yea.

zep played a tele lipstick pup through a supra amp

while iommi played in c# through a hiwatt

>>71979335
Black Sabbath of course.
Gardenia has the greatest riff of all time though.

>the who
>no electric wizard
kek

God Tier Zeppelin Riffs:
>Black Dog
>No Quarter
>Kashmir
>In The Light
>Communication Breakdown
>Whole Lotta Love
>Immigrant Song
>Bring It On Home
>Moby Dick
>Heartbreaker
>Tangerine
>Rock and Roll
>Stairway to Heaven
>The Rain Song
>Over The Hills and Far Away
>The Ocean

God Tier Sabbath Riffs:
>Black Sabbath
>N.I.B.
>War Pigs (riff around 6:30)
>Paranoid (Communication Breakdwon ripoff)
>Iron Man
>Fairies Wear Boots
>Sweet Leaf
>Into The Void
>Sabbra Caddabra
>Hole In The Sky
>Thrill of It All

how can Sabbath even compete?

>>71979743
Quantity ≠ Quality

>>71979743
>>Hole In The Sky
>>Thrill of It All
>>megalomaniac
>>supertzar

god damned sabotage is a fucking amazing album

>>71979784
>Zeppelin isn't quality

topwew

Animal Collective

>>71979743
>Talks about a Sabbath ''''ripoff''''
>Led Zeppelin

>>71979743
You forgot Sabbath Bloody Sabbath man

Kashmir is alright at best, Coheed And Cambria played that riff better in Welcome Home and it's /still/ Coheed's most over-rated song

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>>71979861
>Coheed And Cambria played that riff better in Welcome Home

please end yourself, jesus you have awful taste

>>71979888
Tell me how I'm wrong. I'll listen.

>>71979956
Kashmir is a perfectly crafted, timeless masterpiece

what you posted is some fucking hamfisted meme music for energy drink autists

>>71979986
I'm sorry, what I meant to say was "Tell me how I'm wrong using a thought-out, evidence-based argument", not petty insults.

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>>71980019
>claims something is better
>doesn't use evidence to explain why
>asks for evidence to explain why it's not better

is this autism?

>>71979743
God Tier Zeppelin Riffs:
>Kashmir
>Communication Breakdown
>Immigrant Song
>Dazed and Confused (rip off)
>Heartbreaker
>Rock and Roll
>Stairway to Heaven (rip off)
>The Rain Song
>The Ocean
>When the Levee Breaks (rip off)

God Tier Sabbath Riffs:
>Black Sabbath
>N.I.B.
>War Pigs
>Paranoid
>Iron Man
>Fairies Wear Boots
>Sweet Leaf
>Into The Void
>Sabbra Caddabra
>Hole In The Sky
>Children of the Grave
>Heaven and Hell
>Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
>Wheels of Confusion
>Snowblind
>Symptom of the Universe
>The Writ

How can Zeppelin even compete?

>>71979335

black sabbath followed by slayer and then megadeth

>>71980063
No, it's just me being lazy, but sure I'll give it a crack. The riff in Kashmir is just the same triplet over and over. For 8 minutes it's the same fucking thing, and though this isn't a compositional criticism the tone sucks, there's no body to it at all. The riff in Welcome Home is the same /basic/ structure but the phrasing towards the end of each riff varies, and then during the verses it undergoes a dynamic shift and starts building in intensity. It's just, in my opinion, way more satisfying to hear.

Motley Crue

>>71980227
mick mar's riffs are why I started playing stringed instruments

Deep Purple

>>71980227
Some riffs in Shout at the Devil are actually pretty good.

>>71980227
>>71980255
Agreed, also Dr. Feelgood has one of the heaviest riffs of any 80's hair band

>>71979618

Led Zeppelin doesn't even have Led Zeppelin riffs. So, Sabbath riffs = a million > LZ riffs = (empty set). Math is easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm5auKDPoSY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNESASrKyQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUtWHPZk7Es

riff kings?

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>>71979335
Megadave is single handedly the greatest metal musician of all time
>lyrics
>leads
>riffs
>vocals
Mastadon is pretty fucking good, but it takes 3 people to do what dave does on his own

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>>71980451
>lyrics
>leads
>riffs
>vocals

>>71980617
Doesn't even come close to dave

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>>71979335

>>71980859
In general, sure I can see that but Claudio is an infinitely more diverse and capable vocalist. Megadeth deserves all the praise it gets for how influential it is and was and holds its place in the Big 4 for a reason, and given they're in different musical contexts it's hard to compare compositionally, but Claudio has at least as much capability as a riff-writer and soloist. Dave has his moments when it comes to clean singing (A Tout Le Monde comes to mind, one of my favorite songs), and yeah, sure, thrash calls for harsher vocals but Dave isn't even a consistently /good/ singer let alone /great./ Claudio's vocal range spans several octaves and when you strip away the shitty pop punk aspects of the first few Coheed albums (they really didn't mature their sound until around No World For Tomorrow imo), you find a /lot/ more vocal diversity and layered arrangements. Claudio's skill in writing not only lead vocal parts but /backup/ vocal parts is huge.

Seems arbitrary to compare the two but if we're talking about musicians who do lyrics, lead and rhythm guitar, and vocals, Dave is awesome in his own context but, imo, far outclassed by Claudio.

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>>71979459
Haven't, but thanks for the reminder. Also, he drinks Rolling Rock. I feel like slightly less of a slob for it being my cheap beer of choice now lol

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>>71979655
Hiwatt nigga, that was a Laney Supergroup. Quite different. And Page mostly played with humbuckers, a la the LP. Tele was the first year or so tops.

Also, throwing Sleep in for an honorable mention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj9IAvv32wE

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>>71979335