I think Black Sabbath's Sweet Leaf probably has the greatest guitar riff ever written. The part of the song after the verse that would normally be chorus is instrumental so it goes A-B-A-B then instead of just ripping into a short but sweet guitar solo or just hanging the song on the hook like they did with Paranoid they throw in this little kind of prog rock sounding bridge to introduce the guitar solo and it's actually really cool it's just that primary hook is so brilliant it actually makes the song a little less intense until they bring the riff back. It doesn't become an issue unless you listen to the song over and over but that riff just never gets old so I tend to put it on repeat when it comes around.
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