Greatest Guitar Riff - Released in 1991 Edition
Greatest Guitar Riff - Released in 1991 Edition 22 votes
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Enter Sandman - Metallica (shout out to Mike Damone RIP)
Hard choice. Both Come as You are and Enter Sandman have allegations of plagiarism fuckos
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Come as You Are - Nirvana
What song doesn’t?
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Alive - Pearl Jam
An old friend once said during a discussion of popular music, “Every rock song since 1955 is a direct rip off of Chuck Berry”…
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Enter Sandman - Metallica (shout out to Mike Damone RIP)
some aren’t as blatant as others but you’re right
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
Nirvana - All Apologies
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Come as You Are - Nirvana
Wrong year, pal.
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Come as You Are - Nirvana
And @chuck Berry was ripping off Bob wills and the Texas Playboys.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
I'm not your pal, buddy.
Ah christ I always forget that. In my mind that song is on Nevermind.
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Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
it’s teen spirit rather easily you fuckin hipsters
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
Uh if Rusty Cage is in, isn’t Outshined?
If that riff doesn’t make your balls wiggle I’m not sure you’re alive? -
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Damn this was a tough vote.
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God, that was a shitty year for tunes
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Alive - Pearl Jam
Nirvana hit at the end of the year if I recall. The joke was that kids were getting the new Michael Jackson album for Christmas and were asking their parents to exchange it for Nirvana. Pearl Jam would get a bump shortly afterwards.
I debated between Smells and Alive but sided with Alive.
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Come as You Are - Nirvana
Shitty metric by 1991 for determining if there was great music happening.
None of the classic rock albums of 1991 - of which there were many - had Top 100 type singles.
The was an album oriented rock era as it gets.
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Singles died with the 60s
Tell someone under 50 that you had a collection of 45s and see if they know what you're talking about
My dad had 78s when we were growing up. Big band stuff
33s reigned for over a decade before CDs
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I was just looking back to see if there were any annoying guitar riffs that could have been used for Write Ins. I almost pulled "Losing My Religion" as a Mandolin riff.
Some years the Billboard Hot 100 would be IT for great music — specifically mid 80s stuff. Some years, not so much.
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Come as You Are - Nirvana
Look back to 1981….
Great stuff.
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The dawn of MTV
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
The Black Album has 5 better riffs than "Enter Sandman". I could almost say the same for Nirvana, but both of those are more "iconic" than "best" i.e. everyone knows them in 3 notes.
Listing the Chili Peppers in any guitar "riff list" is super gay/criminal. Voting for them is grounds for removal forever.
The admins also need to remove access for anyone who votes "Shiny Happy People".
"Rusty Cage" and "Alive" are legit entries.
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Come as You Are - Nirvana
I’m running high end Rega and Naim made in the UK gear. Stay in your lane, guv-nah !
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
My (then) 14-year-old son took this with his phone in Hamburg a couple years ago. We won Snake Pit tix at the T-Shirt shop that morning. They finished with Sandman that night. I did think I never wanted to hear that song again, but I was wrong.
Metallica is the best band. Oregon sucks all the cocks. Death. Taxes.
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Come as You Are - Nirvana
I like the bit where he smokes a cigar during warm ups.
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Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
My level of RHCP appreciation my teenage years is embarrassing I'll still stand up for Frusciante's playing though. Testament here in my opinion is a massive radio/MTV/timeless hit where the first 30 seconds are straight up guitar. Sweet Child O Mine is similar. Imagine something like that now? We paved paradise and put up a porking lot.
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Come as You Are - Nirvana
Joni Mitchell references are not Sedro Woolley tuff !
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Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Neither is the RHCP logo tattoo I wanted when I was 19, but here we are.
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Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
RHCP has become a band I can’t listen to. Any thing that came after Under the Bridge grinds on my nerves.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
My roommate bought Blood Sugar Sex Magic and seemed to play it on repeat for months on end. I still like a few songs from it to this day, Righteous and the Wicked being my favorite.
I hate that song Under the Bridge with a passion though. Soft, overplayed RHCP = worst RHCP IMO.
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Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
I have a good friend who loves RHCP up until Under the Bridge.
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Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Your friend might like nonsense music. Uplift Mofo Party Plan has its place and time though.
