Greatest Riffs Ever

Ummm I dun know if these are the best of all time, but they're the first ones that popped into my head.

Iron Man... simple but God I love it...

System Of A Down - B.Y.O.B. Obviously.

Last Resort... by Papa Roach. Not my favorite band in the world. But the riff is just OMG.

Disturbed. Down With The Sickness. Like it a lot.

There's more I know... but I'm half asleep at the moment so =\
 
All the Small Things by blink 182
Machinehead by Bush
Feel the Pain by Dinosaur Jr.
Green Machine by Kyuss
Pretty Little Ditty by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Know Your Enemy by Rage Against the Machine
Down by 311

And pretty much anything by QotSA or the White Stripes...
 
Who's debating that, son?

Holy ****, something just came on shuffle that I forgot about...
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BEST. QOTSA. RIFF. EVER.
 
Radiohead - Street Spirit
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Can't believe no one's said it yet but...

The Smiths - How Soon is Now
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Black Dog is also a really fucking good riff, and I'm not even a big Zep fan.
 
(In no particular order)
Icky Thump - White Stripes
Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N Roses
Back In Black - AC/DC
You Really Got Me - The Kinks
Day Tripper - The Beatles
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood & Destroyers
 
To me these are all WAY up there:

Layla - Eric Clapton

Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

Enter Sandman - Metallica

Hells Bells - AC/DC

War Pigs - Black Sabbath

But thats just me.
 
43% Burnt by the Dillinger Escape Plan
Raining Blood by Slayer
11th Hour by Larab of God
Becoming by Pantera
Opening riff to Prequel to the Sequel by Between the Buried and Me
Interstellar Overdrive by The Pink Floyd
 
Kool thing-sonic youth
bull in the heather- sonic youth
walk- pantera
46&2- tool
schism- tool
the great plains- Scale the summit

All fairly new LOL
 
i love that riff.

Mugiboogie - Mugison
Song For The Dead - Queens Of The Stone Age
I Just Got Paid - ZZ Top
Breathe - Pink Floyd
Time To Pretend - MGMT
Thurab - Kyuss
I Get Around - Dragonette
Romantic Rights - Death From Above 1979
Love Is A Place o Metric
 
Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses
Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple (most influential riff of all time)
Man in the Box by Alice in Chains
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
More Than a Feeling by Boston
Enter Sandman by Metallica
Raining Blood by Slayer
One by Metallica
Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin
Kashmir by Led Zeppelin
Black Dog by Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
Grind by Alice in Chains
Creep by Radiohead
My Iron Lung by Radiohead (a really cool eerie riff)
Paradise City by Guns N' Roses
Ride the Lightning by Metallica
In Bloom by Nirvana
Breed by Nirvana
Lithium by Nirvana
Woman by Wolfmother
Mother by Danzig
Shine by Collective Soul
Sex Type Thing by Stone Temple Pilots
Rusty Cage by Soundgarden
Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden
Breaking the Law by Judas Priest
You've Got Another Thing Comin' by Judas Priest
Give It Away by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Snow ((Hey Oh)) by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Siva by The Smashing Pumpkins
Zero by The Smashing Pumpkins
Cherub Rock by The Smashing Pumpkins
Today by The Smashing Pumpkins
1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins
Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Before I Forget by Slipknot
Wait and Bleed by Slipknot
Walk by Pantera
Cowboys from Hell by Pantera
Ace of Spades by Mot
 
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