vote for your favourite guitar riff

my favourite isnt there. not that i thought it would be.

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

runnin down a dream

Surprised Muse - Plug in Baby was omitted. I suppose Highway Star was left out on the grounds that the big guitar bit is more a solo than an actual riff. Tough choice but in the end I plumped for Motorcycle Emptiness.

A simple thing like a vote and the BBC have to have Terms and Conditions.

excellent - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJ5JMiWTbg

Ronnie Wood, Faces, That's all you need. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh_vmRUqtEs
I was there.

The Cult - In the Clouds
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGwME4JZuEU

oops sorry not on the list.

From those on the list probably Red Hot Chilli's "Under The Bridge"

But my fav is Dinosaur Jr's "Yeah, Right"

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppjcnW7G9ZA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ldINetLTaA&feature=kp

Could put up hundreds of guitar riffs,but this intro is a real spine tingle played very loudly..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz1x28DHF08

4.17 onwards.
got everything.

I would have liked to have seen The Last Time by The Stones in there. How could Smoke on the Water not be on there (unless I missed it) - the bane of a generation of teenage learning guitarists' elderly neighbours?

Smoke on the Water was in the list.

fkin hell even after you said it I still couldn't see it, must have a blind spot.

Walk This Way - Aerosmith
Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC
Smokestack Lightning - Howlin Wolf

you really got me-the kinks...the birth of the heavy riff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os4ntgRQm8E

Link Wray - Rumble is the daddy of guitar riffs and always will be.

Alpha its good but..........  http://youtu.be/296wS9ome4M
is better...imo.

Any track on the ac/dc album
"if you want blood"  (you've got it)

Nowhere Fast - The Smiths
Whole Lotta Rosie - ACDC
Sweet Child of Mine - Guns 'N Roses

A helluva lot of good ones on that list. I probably couldn't decide between 10-15 of them.

"Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie a shocking omission though. Not the biggest Bowie fan, but that's a stonker of an opening riff.

Hard to beat Johnny B Goode as a guitar riff, just about every guitarist has copied Chuck Berry licks at sometime or other, even though he stole it from a piano lick in the first place :)

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Tomorrows Dream
Iron Man

loads of favourites in there, might go with blue oyster cult though doubt it will win, assume hendrix will

Owner Of A Lonely Heart by Yes a shocking omission. If it's oldies voting,I would expect Whole Lotta Love or Smoke On The Water to win. If it's younger people voting,Seven Nation Army might win.

I will vote for Ma Ma Ma Belle.

Jet Harris Tribute RIP (Apache - The Shadows)  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f3AbyB8S6I

As with all these lists, some crackers and some awful selections. And some of them aren't even riffs, they're memorable chord progressions or melodies.

Smoke On The Water  is always my first thought in terms of a guitar riff  but .......

where feck is DEBASER .

and
Living After Midnight , Stargazer , Alternative Ulster , Nantucket Sleighride , New Rose , Paranoid Android , All Along The Watchtower , Highway To Hell , Kashmir , Shine On You Crazy Diamond  .................

I'm assuming they could only choose one song by each act on that list so most of those couldn't be included.

The top 10 voted by the listeners was:

10. Money
9. You Really Got Me
8. Money For Nothing
7. Down Down
6. How Soon Is Now
5. Layla
4. Smoke On The Water
3. Back In Black
2. Sweet Child O Mine
1. Whole Lotta Love

That's what you get when a lot of older people don't vote.

Hope the fack can Johnny B Goode not be in the top 10.

In no particlular order:

T.Rex 20th Century Boy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylww2dOW7fg
Cream - Sunshine of Your Life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16h6vLy6n4A
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9irsg1vBmq0
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEq62iQo0eU
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Cild of Mine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7OgIMMRc4
The Kinks - You Really Got Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxIzM0oEtwI&index=1&list=RDIxIzM0oEtwI
Aerosmith - Walk this Way - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6HDsPzdHC0
Lynryd Skynryd - Sweet Home Alabama - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzbdY_rPtjw
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa6bI_95G9I
The Temptations - My Girl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRwmgYEUr8

Excellent news that the top riff was a Led Zep riff, but my particular favourite Led Zep riff is the Black Dog riff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgm7F30EN50

Sweet Child Of Mine is just sublime !

dewey • July 16, 2014 7:21 PM BST
Jet Harris Tribute RIP (Apache - The Shadows)  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f3AbyB8S6I

I shook hands with Jet in Jersey in 1973 when we were introduced by Earle Darren of the Earle Darren Sound.

He didn't say much, he was smashed as was usual for a certain period in his life.

RIP

The Manics at no. 13, not too bad

AC/DC - 'Hells Bells'...

Kenny mann - Yep....regardless - Legend.