Greatest rock riffs ever?

Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy

 

Hoochie Koo is the foist one I thought of!

 

Can't You Hear Me Knocking
The Rover
Misty Mountain Hop

 

Not my fav but the first one that comes to mind and which I think would be considered the greatest / most well known would be Deep Purple ~ Smoke On The Water .....

 

The Battle Rages On

 

I've always loved the riff to "And Your Bird Can Sing".

 

Shot from the hip:
I Feel Fine
Baba O'Riley
Jumping Jack Flash
All Day And All Of the Night
Remedy
The Hindu Times

 

Dancing The Night Away

 

I tried to pick ones that I hadn't seen posted yet.

Can't You Hear My Knocking is probably my favorite.

I also dig some of these:

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix.

99th Floor - The Moving Sidewalks

Better By You, Better Than Me - Spooky Tooth

Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult

Kick Out The Jams - MC5

Caroline & Down, Down - Status Quo

I Don't Need No Doctor - Humble Pie

Black Betty - Ram Jam

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly

Rock And Roll Queen - Mott The Hoople

 

Day Tripper
Satisfaction
You Really Got Me
Layla

 

I have always loved Surrender by Cheap Trick, never get tired of that rift or their early catalog of material.
Cheers;
John

 

No matter how advanced a guitarist becomes in technique - a lot can be said about how they can lay the index finger down on an A chord and make it sing. Rick Nielsen can chop up the A with Angus Young.

 

The Rover ~ Led Zeppelin

Heartbreaker ~ Led Zeppelin

Satisfaction ~ The Rolling Stones

Rock And A Hard Place ~ The Rolling Stones

Halo of Flies ~ Alice Cooper

Inside Looking Out ~ Grand Funk Railroad

Nobody's Fault ~ Aerosmith

Crazy Train ~ Ozzy

Kissing Willie ~ Jethro Tull

ATBL ~ Van Halen

Barracuda ~ Heart

Oh Well ~ Fleetwood Mac version

London Calling ~ The Clash

To Be Continued ....

 

Surrender is one of the greatest songs ever written but it doesn't really even have a riff. Same goes for September Gurls.

 

"Sweet Emotion" and "Walk This Way", of course.

 

As if there was any question.

I'll add Same old Song and dance. A compliment to the Beatles Day Tripper.

 

Strutter by Kiss, either off S/T or Alive. Great riff and lyrics.
Cheers;
John

 

The Stones sort of were thee 'riff' band, so three more.
Empty Heart
Last Time
Bitch

I mean they didn't call him Keef Riff Hard for nutin'.

 

Over Under Sideways Down
Jean Genie
The Immigrant Song
BRMC "Spread your Love"

 

Cocaine - Eric Clapton
Wild Thing - The Troggs

 

I love the assumptions people have here that every single other person on the planet knows the name of the artist for the songs they enter.

 

If Bob can get the Nobel prize for literature, then Keef deserves the Nobel prize for chemistry!
A joke stolen from Fairport Convention. I apologise to them and to everyone else.

 

Earache My Eye - Cheech & Chong

 

Black Sabbath - Into The Void
but really their whole first four albums could be listed save for a couple tracks

Cream's version of Crossroads

Procol Harum - Whiskey Train