Kerrang - 50 Most Awesome Riffs in Rock

[Neversoft]

Kerrang is counting down the 50 most awesome riffs ever in rock, its on right now and finishes at 5:00pm.

What do you think will be number 1?

These are the top 20 riffs according to the BBC:

1. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
2. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
3. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
4. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
5. Enter Sandman - Metallica
6. Layla - Derek & The Dominoes/Eric Clapton
7. Master Of Puppets - Metallica
8. Back In Black - AC/DC
9. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
10. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
11. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
12. All Right Now - Free
13. Plug In Baby - Muse
14. Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
15. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - Van Halen
16. Walk This Way - Aerosmith w Run DMC
17. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream
18. No-One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age
19. Paradise City - Guns N' Roses
20. Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3677965.stm

[RedStratocas]

Killing In The Name Of is great, same with No One Knows. But Kurt admitted that he stole the riffs to Smells Like Teen Spirit from 'More Than A Feeling' by Boston.

Paranoid Android by Radiohead should be on it somewhere. The middle riff is amazing.

[Neversoft]

I only saw the top four and they were:

1. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
2. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
3. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
4. Metallica - Enter Sandman

I saw a few odd ones when I was flicking through.

Guns N' Roses were also 8th with Paradise City and Aerosmith & Run DMC were 7th with Walk This Way. Muse were 5th, can't remember the name of the song. Aerosmith were also 44th with Love in an Elevator and Kiss were 40th.

[PaintYourTarget]

Stockholm Syndrome by Muse really should of been in teh top 10. Absolutely stunning song.

[Vulnerable]

Have to agree with those top few, particularly Sweet Child O' Mine and Smoke On The Water.