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Best (rock) guitar riff - released in 1978 edition?
YellowSnow
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Best (rock) guitar riff - released in 1978 edition? 22 votes
One Way of Another - Blondie
4%
1 vote
Gone Shootin' - AC DC
0%
You Really Got Me - Van Halen
4%
1 vote
Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
13%
3 votes
Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh
0%
Runnin' with the Devil - Van Halen
13%
3 votes
Ain't Talkin' Bout Love - Van Halen
27%
6 votes
Don't Look Back - Boston
13%
3 votes
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straights
22%
5 votes
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off
0%
Comments
My Yella conspiracy theory here is that he intentionally listed multiple VH songs so that they cannibalize one another and none end up the overall winner.
Runnin' with the Devil is one of the all-time first track singles. Guitar hero, God-tier song. Not my favorite song on the album, but I had to vote for it rather than write-in to try and get my beloved VH across the finish line in 1st place.
Otherwise, I would've written in I'm the One.
Such silly plebe.
I left off like 4 riffs that could have made it in here. How do you only have one VH1 riff in 1978?
I almost voted for Gone Shootin' @dflea cause of the Beavis and Butthead angle.
Might be my all time favorite Angus riff.
I hate to go against VH here, but Beast of Burden was a seminal moment in my freshman year of college.
Prior to arriving to UW @AtomicPiss I was pretty big Stones fan my collection and knowledge was still lacking on their best work. I mean I had Steel Wheels (LOI), Tattoo You, Big Hits, High Tide and Green Grass, It's Only Rock and Roll, and Let it Bleed in HS. I didn't discover Some Girls until freshman year in Lander Hall drunk off Schmidt cans. Sticky Fingers, Exile and Beggars followed in short order and The Stones dethroned the Beatles as my favorite group.
Go with 1 VH song, remove Blondie, add these songs and the pole looks better
Dead Flowers is an underrated gem when they tried to go country. I love that song.
Fear not @Bad_MotherDucker I did thorough research for this poll, bud.
VH tied for first with three votes.
@YellowSnow rigging elections out here.
Eddie in a 3 way tie with Keith and Mark Knopfler? Sheesh.
By 1971 the Stones were not just "trying" to good be good a cuntry. By Sticky Fingers they excelled at it and were by far the best UK act at fusing cuntry with rock, soul and the blues. Gram Parsons and Keith were BFF's and Gram gave Keith the cheat code on the cuntry music.
Some of the early cuntry attempts on Beggars was a bit more campy with them trying to get their reads down.
Personal favorite is Gone Shootin
"I stirred my coffee with the same spoon, knew her favorite tune - gone shootin'"
Sin City could have made this list, too. Skrong year.
However, Sultans of Swing is the best guitar work on this list, IMO.