Greatest (rock) guitar riff - released in 1984 edition?
Greatest (rock) guitar riff - released in 1984 edition? 15 votes
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My City Was Gone - The Pretenders
Dittos Rush. Greatest radio bumper song of all time.
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My City Was Gone - The Pretenders
The real winner @BleachedAnusDawg is Drop Dead Legs which is Eddie's finest riff, but I'm trying to not let my confirmation bias steel the show.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
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My City Was Gone - The Pretenders
@Fire_Marshall_Bill 's butt rock is a weak spot in my resume.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
Drop Dead Legs
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1984 was the zenith of 80's music.
Thriller, Madonna, Prince, Hair Metal and the 2nd British Invasion.
And Reagan kicked ass for a second term.
Good tims. Good tims indeed.
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My City Was Gone - The Pretenders
I know, I know. I thought be the only one lobbying for this track, however.
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My City Was Gone - The Pretenders
Great year.
Washington won football and rowing natties.
The Gipper won the last great POTUS landslide, the likes of which we'll never see again.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
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Hot for Teacher - Van Halen
I'm a Hot For Teacher fan. Absolute killer riff. I knew I'd eventually have to vote for a VH song.
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For Whom The Bells Tolls - Metallica
Bless your heart Yella. You tried but your 80s rock and metal gap is YUUUGGGE!
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My City Was Gone - The Pretenders
Nothing BUTT rock is not my wheelhouse. But VH and Metallica crush this shit.
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Fade Into Black - Metallica
No Creeping Death? We are now entering grade A Metallica territory.
You should just skip polls for the Puppets and Justice years, if only to save people from embarrassing themselves on the boards by voting for the incorrect band.
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Hot for Teacher - Van Halen
1984 was a great year for music. It was going to be VH all the way.
But Ratt’s Out of the Cellar album is full of great riffs.
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My City Was Gone - The Pretenders
I fucking hate 2025 America with every ounce of my being, and my life is pretty good all things considered.
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Panama - Van Halen
Creeping Death is the best riff on that album
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
Well this is part of endless debate to me with specific artists and music overall. Am I giving it extra points over say Panama because I've heard one 100 times and the other 10,000 times and a lot of those times when I wasn't specifically seeking it out? Probably. Hard to judge things when you consider that.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
I don't think this is even old man yelling at clouds anymore at this point. I grew up a huge huge rap fan but what seems like the dominant rap type music now I don't think even is that and is literally just someone lazily talking over the same music that kind of sounds like the tracks that come with a karaoke machine slowed down. Like they premiered some Travis Scott song at the halftime of the CFP championship and I'm like this and Bad Bunny shit isn't necessarily bad. It's just nothing. It's worse than like Pitbull or Black Eyed Peas which I thought would never happen because that sucked more but at least was something.
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My City Was Gone - The Pretenders
I think all genres eventually hit a wall and run out of good ideas. Rock was 30 years old by the time of VH 1984, but there were still a few good veins of new ideas left to mine. But by the late 90s it had all been done.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
VH is the easy call, but in 84 Jump was everywhere, and I was tuning out popular (radio / mTv), going backwards (Brit Invasion, Summer of Love, Motown, Stax),and forward (punk, alt country, new wave). I love Van Halen, but at that point I had been constantly listening to them, and AC/DC for about seven years straight…
