Am I Evil - Diamondhead

Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath

Dance Of Death - Iron Maiden

Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin

Rock Bottom - UFO

At Least some of my favorite anyway...

There's a band called paragon that has some good guitar work, one solo in particular that stands out in my mind is one off their song "Impaler".

Oficina G3's first album indeferencia has a sick solo on almost every song- I don't know bout their newer stuff. Guitarist is Juninho Afram- really talented guy.

Anyways, some random obscure stuff thrown in there.

I know it's probably trite to say this, but the guitar solo on Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb seems to be perfect in every way, and I don't even really like the song... just the guitar solo.

I think I posted this in this thread when I first joined the forum, but here's a vid.


My personal favorite of all time, the work with the picking hand alone is enough to make it great.

It's just a darn fine guitar solo, that seems to echo throughout the decades... there's nothing trite about that!

Lines In The Sand by Dream Theater. The little solo partway through the song gives me craaaazy shivers everytime. It's not super fast and may not even be all that technical.. but damn, is it ever good.

I still LOVE the guitar solo in the middle of the Genesis song "Firth of Fifth", it may not be an all balls out guitar wankfest, but its a subtle, moving, that takes that particular track to all new heavenly heights... Steve Hackett's guitar playing is both subtlely beautiful and creative all at once...

Cosigned. But I prefer the work towards the end just a bit more.

Shotgun Alley do some amazing solos.

Gordian Knot - Rivers Dancing.

Not to take away from your picks KMS and Carl M but if you posed a video or something else myself and others would actually listen to it.

This one's got a great beginning, and immense build.
UFO - This Kid's (Including Between The Walls)

YouTube - UFO-THIS KID'S, LIVE.

My favourite is probably:

I've heard some good Fripp solos over the year. Check out his little known albums with The Police guitarist Andy Summers. And then there are Fripp's contributions to David Sylvian's albums.

Antoher Sylvian contributor on guitar is David Torn - as good as Fripp, maybe better, and cetainly more varied in what he can play.

To those who llike Hendrix solos, checkout German guitarist Ulrich Roth , or Uli Jon Roth. He started out as axeman for Scorpions (c.1973-77) but then split and had a less successful career as a soloist. But certainly a virtuoso in the vein of Hendrix.

Ah, I've heard about him - I shall do :)

He features on four out of the first five Scorpions albums.

You really can't go wrong with anything from Roy Buchanan.

I imagine, the "Clapton is God", graffitti started appearing in London alley ways around the time this cut was released.

Eric Clapton - Bluesbreakers - Have You Heard

Robert Fripp delivers possibly the best solo of his career in Brian Eno's classic, "Baby's On Fire." And considering how good Robert Fripp is, that's saying a lot.

YouTube - brian eno. baby's on fire

van halen's spanish fly
from first to last's minute
and (even though its not metal) the solo in daft punk's areodynamic

This guy doesn't get a lot of recognition, but he could be the best guitarist nobody's heard of.

Les Dudek - Central Park

sweet child of mine by Guns n Roses. (Slash)
seize the day by Avenged Sevenfold (Sinister Gates)
As my Guitar Gently weeps by The Beatles (Eric Clapton solo)

that. THAT.

Since I've Been Loving You - Jimmy Page
Floods - Dimebag Darrell
Jessica - ****ey Betts
Time - David Gilmour
Crossroads - God
Heartbreaker - Jimmy Page
Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour
Mechanix - Dave Mustaine
Holy Wars - Dave Mustaine

I don't agree that it's Pink Floyd's best solo, but I do believe that Coming Back To Life is one of their best. It tends to give me goosebumps more often than Comfortably Numb does.

I'm torn between Comfortably Numb and Since I've Been Loving You and for a lesser known gem, anything by the late Roy Buchanan.

This thread should be renamed "Guitar Solos"

My 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
 

A few months ago, I got really addicted to guitar solos. So I went on an internet hunt trying to get other websites' opinions on which ones are the greatest. Websites like digitaldreamdoor.com and the Guitar World website really helped a lot, but in the end, it was my own opinion that sealed the deal. Now of course, this isn't a "definitive" list, just my opinion, and I felt that I should post this somewhere to get exposure. It's a good list that includes solos that are great (duh), but also popular. The songs themselves are popular, I'm sure. I mean yeah, I could've put a bunch of 10 minutes solos up here that nobody's ever heard of, but what's the point in that?

Anyways, without further ado:

Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Maggot Brain – Funkadelic
Eruption – Van Halen
Crossroads – Cream
All Along the Watchtower – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Hotel California – Eagles
Texas Flood – Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
November Rain – Guns N’ Roses
Highway Star – Deep Purple
Layla – Derek & the Dominos
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
One – Metallica
Cliffs of Dover – Eric Johnson
Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne
Time – Pink Floyd
For the Love of God – Steve Vai
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers – Jeff Beck
Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
Mr. Crowley – Ozzy Osbourne
Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits
Heartbreaker – Led Zeppelin
Surfing With the Alien – Joe Satriani
Beat It – Michael Jackson
Since I’ve Been Loving You – Led Zeppelin
Aqualung – Jethro Tull
Alive – Pearl Jam
Blue Sky – The Allman Brothers Band
Satch Boogie – Joe Satriani
No More Tears – Ozzy Osbourne
Lazy – Deep Purple
Pride and Joy – Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Fade to Black – Metallica
Stranglehold – Ted Nugent
Money – Pink Floyd
Let’s Go Crazy – Prince
Brighton Rock – Queen
Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin
Master of Puppets – Metallica
Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
War Pigs – Black Sabbath
Tornado of Souls – Megadeth
The Star Spangled Banner – Jimi Hendrix
Black Star – Yngwie Malmsteen
Jessica – The Allman Brothers Band
Mean Street – Van Halen
Purple Rain – Prince
While My Guitar Gently Weeps – The Beatles
Working Man – Rush
Green Grass and High Tides – Outlaws
Europa (Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile) – Santana
Walk This Way – Aerosmith
Machine Gun – Jimi Hendrix
Man in the Box – Alice in Chains
Killer Queen – Queen
Paranoid – Black Sabbath
Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones
Hot for Teacher – Van Halen
2 Minutes to Midnight – Iron Maiden
Sharp Dressed Man – ZZ Top
Cult of Personality – Living Colour
Dazed and Confused – Led Zeppelin
Whipping Post – The Allman Brothers Band
Love Removal Machine – The Cult
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) – Metallica
Reelin’ in the Years – Steely Dan
Cocaine – Eric Clapton
Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden
Enter Sandman – Metallica
Ramblin’ Man – The Allman Brothers Band
Love in an Elevator – Aerosmith
White Room – Cream
25 or 6 to 4 – Chicago
(Don’t Fear) the Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
Hangar 18 – Megadeth
Rock You Like a Hurricane – Scorpions
Cherub Rock – Smashing Pumpkins
All Right Now – Free
Painkiller – Judas Priest
Black Magic Woman – Santana
Sunshine of Your Love – Cream
Round and Round – Ratt
Any Way You Want It – Journey
Carry On Wayward Son – Kansas
Achilles Last Stand – Led Zeppelin
Let It Rain – Eric Clapton
YYZ – Rush
Heartbreaker – Pat Benatar
Paradise City – Guns N’ Roses
The Final Countdown – Europe
21st Century Schizoid Man – King Crimson
Shock Me – KISS
Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who
Light My Fire – The Doors
Talk Dirty to Me – Poison
Play With Me – Extreme
We Will Rock You – Queen
Scuttle Buttin’ – Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Please let me know what you think!

'Sup guys. I'm kinda new here, but I joined so I could get a list that I compiled myself exposed up here. It actually deals with (in my opinion) the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. So if you guys would be kind enough to offer your input on it, by all means, please do.

As for my input on this thread, the best to me is Stairway. Not only is the solo, by itself, really good, but the song is so good that it can build perfectly INTO the solo, which makes the solo even better.

Absolutly not!!! Did you simply copy & paste the ****ing Guitar Hero songs?
I admit there are fantastic solos in that list, but none by far the best.
Time, Play With Me, Light My Fire, Black Hole Sun, The Final Countdown, and others, they are decent, but nothing special. These days you play any metal or rock song, and you get a cool sounding guitar solo. I can sit here listing thousands of songs with guitar solos. Just because they are fast and melt your face off, doesn't mean they are the greatest. Rock You Like A Hurricane? REALLY?

I think that any list with "best" in the title if listed by individuals is naturally going to be completely subjective. Everyone has different taste in music, and what might be a splendid, technically sound solo in most respects may still not sound all that great to everyone. Likewise, some solos may not be the most dynamic, but they may evoke a stronger emotional response from some people than others. Ah, music.

Here is my entirely subjective list of guitar solos:

(In no particular order)
Phish - Run Like an Antelope
Richard Thompson - Gethsemane
Queen - Innuendo
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Manic Depression
Trey Anastasio - 18 Steps
Gov't Mule - Thorazine Shuffle
The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
The Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station, Pt. 1

It might be because I heard Time on mushrooms but that solo evoked a huge emotional response from me, Gilmour really did a great job on that one. Oh and I think that dude Niglett copied the Rolling Stone top 100 solos, and you can't really count on that magazine to compile a good list of anything.

Poison? Poison? on a best guitar solo list? Doesn't anybody at least try and step out of their comfort zone and listen to something less known once in a while. That list is atrocious.

My point exactly. I wouldn't be close to listing The best guitar solos, I could list my favorite, but not the best because I simply haven't listened to them yet. You can tell when a guitar solo is truly amazing, not just cause it's hard to play, but it was perfectly written, and performed by a true player, and not Matt Smith.

@fooruky

Same here, except I heard Comfortably Numb, which I had heard before, but when on mushrooms it became one of MY all time favorites.

A lot of those are good, but a lot of those have me scratching my head. ("We Will Rock You", one of the greatest guitar solos of all time? WHAT?)

Stairway to Heaven, November Rain, One, Layla, Fade to Black, Paradise City... I'm totally with you there. But, out of the one's I've heard, at least a third of them... sometimes I wonder about you...

Hahahaha Sure the list has some very well known classic solos, but any list that includes stuff by Europe, Kiss and Poison is not going to be taken seriously. As said above it looks like a cut and paste job from something like Guitar Hero.

Ehmm... to know more music and enjoy it, perhaps? :D For instance, it wouldn't be a bad idea to take a look outside the Anglosphere. I haven't heard enough Swedish, German, Japanese or French rock music, so maybe I'm wrong about this, but I think many of the best bands and guitarists outside the Anglosphere are from Argentina and Spain. Have you listened to the two amazing Argies I mentioned here? And also, for example, Obús, Leño or Ilegales (Spain):