share a hook! whats your favorite riff?
I'm obsessed with catchy riffs. Genre' dosn't matter and neither does instrument I can groove to everything from a banjo to a synthasizer so don't hold back. Share a particulally catchy riff from your own collection. or just give me a top five list.
Here's my top five
5. Metallica : enter sandman
4. atmosphere : shoulda known better
3. underworld: born slippy
2. dropkick murphys; state of mass.
1. Ozzy: crazy train
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This is not easy!
Sophisticated Sissy-The Meters
Red Hot Mama/Vital Juices-Funkadelic
Bra-Cymande
Funky Kingston-Toots and the Maytals
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's
I reserve the right to revise..
yeah I know I'm not really happy with mine either. I keep thinking of other great riffs. oh well maybe somday I'll actually do a top 100 and see where that takes me. (probably a week and sixteen sheets of paper)
I always thought the Symphony of Destruction was built around a pretty kick-ass riff. Ok, fuck it, top five in no particular order:
As you hinted at, this list is only valid fopr the split second it takes to hit the "publish" button.
Not really a 'top' list... more like a 'off the top of the head' list:
Led Zeppelin - Levee Breaks
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
Outkast - Bombs Over Baghdad
Tenpenny Joke - She
Kings of Leon - Knocked Up
I guess miine would be
Tush-- ZZ Topp
Blue Suede Shoes- Elvis Presley
Johnny B Goode- Chuck Berry
OverUnderSidewaysDown- Yardbirds
War Pigs- Black Sabbath
Seven Nation Army- White Stripes
Paint It Black- Rolling Stones
Mostly because my 11yr old seems to be riff driven on his music selections
Off the top of my head:
1.Led Zeppelin-Black Dog
2.AC\DC-Bad Boy Boogie
3.Fu Manchu-Over the Edge
4.Black Sabbath-Neon Knights
5. Iron Maiden-Where Eagles Dare
I'll add a #6
Tool-Stinkfist (greatest riff ever IMO!)
after listening to white stripes today I also must add a track to my list. Hardest button to button.
it's kinda hard to figure out what exactly makes a riff catchy. I mean it's not one thing it's a super special combination of elements that all have to come together to make a really catchy riff. also catchyness is completely a matter of taste and personal like. It's hard to pin down and thus it's hard to write a catchy riff.