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Greatest guitar riff - released in 1970 edition
YellowSnow
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Greatest guitar riff - released in 1970 edition 17 votes
Funk #49 - James Gang
11%
2 votes
All Right Now - Free
5%
1 vote
Ohio - CSNY
0%
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
41%
7 votes
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
11%
2 votes
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
11%
2 votes
No Matter What - Badfinger
0%
Roadhouse Blues - The Doors
11%
2 votes
American Woman - Guess Who
5%
1 vote
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
0%
Comments
Too many riffs to do this exercise by decade. Moving forward will break it down by year.
Barracuda
Layla
Smoke on the Water
Sweet Home Alabama
Walk This Way
Don’t Fear the Reaper
La Grange
Money
None of which were released in the year 1970. They'll all get their shot.
Oops, thought 70’s. Thank goodness you broke this down by year. Way too much good stuff that decade.
I wanted to vote Ohio, All Right Now is just too college football marching bad iconic.
Bad Company really nailed that one.
I don’t know the difference between a solo and a riff and apparently even if I did it wouldn’t matter.
Use our Ai overlords, bud!
A guitar riff is a repeated sequence of notes or chords that is a key part of a song's structure and character:
Mark Knopfler intro to Money for Nothing is one of the greatest RIFFS of all time.
I missed the 1970 part and was confused why it wasn’t included. Fuck me, reading comprehension is harder than understanding guitar terminology.
The single was 71. The album 1970
You got me, boss. And I even own the album. I will be putting it in 1971 with a Roger Maris type asterisk.
I'd still vote for Free though.
Badfinger was really good for a short period, on the way to a very tragic end…
American Woman, as used in Austin Powers 2 (I believe) is a totally badass song with a killer riff. You all are crazy.
I’m lazy and as I look through the list, I’m looking for which songs I like best which even then is difficult.
Roadhouse got my vote here because I heard the riff in my head.
it’s a pretty tasty blues riff.
I agree the results are skewed. I strongly considered American Woman. If I were voting 100 times I'd have picked American Woman 40 of them.
Tough bracket here. American Woman wins a lot of year but it's going up against one of the great Beavis type, iconic riffs of all time that started and entire genre.