Guitar World names 100 worst riffs 'n' solos

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://launch.yahoo.com/read/news.asp?contentID=219838

The magazine selected the "100 Worst Riffs, Licks & Solos of All Time," identifying ones that are "lazy," "boring," "just plain stoopid," or "involve C.C. Deville."

The list includes songs by David Bowie , Def Leppard, Metallica , Green Day, B.B. King, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Aerosmith and The Strokes, among others. Many are guitar legends who simply had a bad night or bum note.

Rounding out the top 10: "Summertime Blues," Blue Cheer; "The Game of Love," Carlos Santana; Falstaff beer 1967 radio spot, Cream; "All You Need is Love," The Beatles; "Thirsty and Miserable," Black Flag; "Wango Tango," Ted Nugent ; "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," Rolling Stones; "Sting of the Bumblebee," Manowar; and "American Woman," Lenny Kravitz .

[Richardo]

1. How can the one-note solo from "Cinnamon Girl" not be in the top 10?

I mean, the song rocks but c'mon!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. Critics have always loved Young for having cojones on that one

Really, that's the reason. He took what most people would consider to be a really boneheaded risk and he made it ROCK. I've never seen any critic anywhere knock that solo. Some consider it genius. Maybe it is...I can't tell you how many times I've played it on my own Les Paul and I make the whole "guitar face" and everything...and it's still just one note.

:evilgrin:

[Fenris]

3. I'd like to see any other artist get away with a one note solo.

They can't. Only Neil can.:D

[Squeech]

10. Wrong

Pete Townshend in "I Can See For Miles."

For extra credit, Antonio Carlos Jobim's "One Note Samba."

[Squeech]

7. I appreciate that solo

I used to do it as the guitarist in a power trio, and I appreciated the fact that you could play alternate voicings of the chords with that one note on top (on the B string, and mute the high E) so you could clearly evoke the solo without creating a rhythm gap.

And in an age where Philip Glass is feted as an important and original composer, I think Young's minimalist purity speaks for itself.

The worst guitar solo I know is on the Bonzo Dog Band's "Canyons of your Mind," but it's intentionally bad, part of a cutthroat parody of pop music.

The riff I'd really most like never to hear again is "Smoke on the Water."

[mac56]

11. "Canyons of Your Mind"!

God, I forgot all about that.

"In the wardrobe of my soul
In the section labeled 'shirts'."

[bif]

9. Neil Youn=King of the one note solos

Man does he suck. I love the parody they did on the National Lampoon "Lemmings" album.

[no name no slogan]

15. Which is why Neal Young rules, and Jimmy Page sucks

Actually the solo in Cinnamon Girl is NOT one note, if you listen to it he starts on the root (D), and moves up and down around it for a couple bars. Sure, it's not fancy, but it doesn't need to be. It's a song, after all, not a 1/2 hour wank-session masquerading as "art".

[mac56]

4. A Falstaff beer 1967 radio spot by Cream?

Sorry I missed that one.

[Fenris]

5. Seems like they were reaching a little.

[Phillycat]

8. yeah, I must not have been paying attention.

Could they get any more random? :eyes:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

12. It's on the "Those Were The Days" Box Set

Last track on disc 2, "Falstaff Beer Commercial."

Jack Bruce croons in that wounded Viking voice "Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllsssssstaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaffffffffffffffffffffff, Malt Liquor"...

Don't see how the riff qualifies for the list though...the CONCEPT, yes.

:evilgrin:

[disgruntled_goat]

6. faaaalll..stafff!

the thirrst-SLAKER

i still have an audio copy of that old Cream Falstaff Beer ad somewhere. never fails to make me smile in its silliness.

good times, good times.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

13. Ooops, you're right...it's "thirst slaker," not "malt liquor"...

...but it's still pretty bad.

:evilgrin:

[arcane1]

14. weird, Lenny gets dissed for a riff he didn't even write

:wtf: