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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
No. I don’t joke about music.
The way there’s nothing but percussion and voice there’s essentially no guidelines for him to start from plus it’s such an incredibly unique and addictive tune up to that point - I don’t care what anybody says there was nothing like it before or after and until hip hop came along it was the greatest chant in the English language. So much was hinging on that solo. He doesn’t go prog. He doesn’t upset the tempo. It’s not a corny mimic of the chorus. It’s perfect. The song is unimaginable without it but it still seems like he pulled perfection out of nothing. It’s such a triumphant moment. There’s so much power from that unforgettable beat and chant - something that is immortalized in our consciousness- everyone knows it - but the guitar solo still rises above again - even above all that greatness that was already there - it’s perfectly powerful and masculine and astonishingly raises the song to even greater heights.
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I just thought that cause you said:
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I’m surprised the universe didn’t collapse the first time he played it.
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So you like We Will Rock You, but you don't like Queen?
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Hawk's always waiting/hoping for the universe to collapse.
The thing about solos is, how do you define "best" or "greatest"? It's not going to be just shredding. There are so many. You can have introspective acoustic or classical ones that just drop your jaw
Shredders
(from 3:35)
(from 5:17)
Bluesy ones
(from 3:51)
Emotional ones
(from 6:40)
All of which kick May's solo into Slash's cocked top hat.
I don't think most people even consider Bo-Rhap as a guitar solo song anyway. I certainly don't. This is just, as already pointed out, guitar players licking each other's arses.
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The guitar solo with more feeling is Firth Of Fifth obviously.