Riff City CLASSIC!
| Riff City CLASSIC! | |
| Created by: | johnny_luddite |
| Tracks: | 19 |
| Length: | 01:17:33 |
| Keywords |
1. riff 2. rock 3. classic |
| Created on | 4/23/07 9:08pm |
| Level | 5 |
| Points | 2383 |
| Total visitors | 47 |
| Unique visitors | 27 |
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There are those old old rock songs, the ones that you recognize instantly from the first couple of clanking chords, the same chords that every fifteen year old would be guitar god tries to master within three minutes of accepting delivery of their first electric guitar. The riffs we know and love, love to hate, hate not to hear, all of the above. Come with me now as we enter a simpler age where the only Air Marshalls were the practice amps onboard Led Zeps private jet. Let us travel to RIFF CITY CLASSIC...
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| 1 | Link Wray : Rumble |
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This was on my first mixtape here, but it has to be included again. This instrumental almost predates everything here. This is the earliest example of loud riffing I know, and has to start us off. Wray got that 'dirty' sound by making a hole in his speaker cab with a pencil. Nice.
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Track 1 from Rumble! The Best Of Link Wray
Length: 00:02:26 Year: 1993 |
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This was on my first mixtape here, but it has to be included again. This instrumental almost predates everything here. This is the earliest example of loud riffing I know, and has to start us off. Wray got that 'dirty' sound by making a hole in his speaker cab with a pencil. Nice. SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Muddy Waters : Mannish Boy |
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Lest we forget, Those boys in Chicago had a way with a riff when the 60s Brit rockers were still playing with their train sets. This will always sound wonderful!
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Track 2 from King of the Electric Blues
Length: 00:05:23 |
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Lest we forget, Those boys in Chicago had a way with a riff when the 60s Brit rockers were still playing with their train sets. This will always sound wonderful! SHOW LESS
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| 3 | The Kingsmen : Louie Louie |
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Most of the songs here have the defining riff played by at least one guitar. This is the exception, the chords pounded out on a cheesy but wonderful sounding organ.
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Track 3 from Hallo Susie
Length: 00:02:46 |
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Most of the songs here have the defining riff played by at least one guitar. This is the exception, the chords pounded out on a cheesy but wonderful sounding organ. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | The Kinks : You Really Got Me |
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There was no other place that I could start this mixtape. The Kinks taking the direct route to immortality.
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Track 4 from The Ultimate Collection (disc 1)
Length: 00:02:14 Year: 2002 |
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There was no other place that I could start this mixtape. The Kinks taking the direct route to immortality. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | The Who : I Can't Explain |
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Townshend could feature on every other song here, but if I had to choose one riff fuelled Who song, I would go for one of the early ones like this.
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Track 5 from Then and Now: 1964-2004
Length: 00:02:07 Year: 2004 |
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Townshend could feature on every other song here, but if I had to choose one riff fuelled Who song, I would go for one of the early ones like this. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | The Rolling Stones : Jumpin' Jack Flash |
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Bar chord heaven from the Stones. I would love to believe that the following story is true. Legend has it that on a flight from somewhere to somewhere else, Jagger found himself sitting next to John Fogarty of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fogarty talked about his early life, and when he mentioned that he was indeed born in a cross-fire hurricane, a legend was born. (Possibly!)
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Track 6 from Singles Collection: The London years (Disc 2)
Length: 00:03:40 |
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Bar chord heaven from the Stones. I would love to believe that the following story is true. Legend has it that on a flight from somewhere to somewhere else, Jagger found himself sitting next to John Fogarty of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fogarty talked about his early life, and when he mentioned that he was indeed born in a cross-fire hurricane, a legend was born. (Possibly!) SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Cream : Sunshine of Your Love |
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This is one of the first riff rock songs I ever tried to play. Listening to the track again, the primal drumming of Ginger Baker sounds exceptional. My friend Pete Brown wrote the lyrics for this. He is no fan of it these days, but I don't think he objects to the royalties.
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Track 7 from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Cream
Length: 00:04:11 Year: 2000 |
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This is one of the first riff rock songs I ever tried to play. Listening to the track again, the primal drumming of Ginger Baker sounds exceptional. My friend Pete Brown wrote the lyrics for this. He is no fan of it these days, but I don't think he objects to the royalties. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Pink Floyd : Interstellar Overdrive |
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The riff is the song, things deliberately fall apart when it is absent. The Mogwai of their day get all psychedelic and angry at the same time, bless them.
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Track 8 from The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn
Length: 00:09:41 Year: 1967 |
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The riff is the song, things deliberately fall apart when it is absent. The Mogwai of their day get all psychedelic and angry at the same time, bless them. SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Steppenwolf : Born To Be Wild |
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A cliche in a mixtape of cliches, but without this song we would have nothing to sing everytime we see a little old lady doing 35mph in her VW beetle on the Expressway.
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Track 9 from Steppenwolf
Length: 00:03:40 Year: 1968 |
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A cliche in a mixtape of cliches, but without this song we would have nothing to sing everytime we see a little old lady doing 35mph in her VW beetle on the Expressway. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Led Zeppelin : Whole Lotta Love |
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Great riff, heard for many years at the start of Britain's TOTP tv show. The lead guitar solo after all the odd noises is one of the great tension relievers in musical history.
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Track 10 from Led Zeppelin II
Length: 00:05:34 Year: 1969 |
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Great riff, heard for many years at the start of Britain's TOTP tv show. The lead guitar solo after all the odd noises is one of the great tension relievers in musical history. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Black Sabbath : Paranoid |
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People do think I am insane because I am NOT frowning all the time actually. Tony Iommi has one finger missing. (Well, half of one finger.) You would never know it.
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Track 11 from Paranoid
Length: 00:02:49 Year: 1970 |
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People do think I am insane because I am NOT frowning all the time actually. Tony Iommi has one finger missing. (Well, half of one finger.) You would never know it. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | jj cale : cocaine |
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Don't judge JJ Cale by the recent very horrid Cd with Eric Clapton, but rather on this original of laid back riff rock.
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Track 12 from troubadour
Length: 00:02:48 Year: 1976 |
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Don't judge JJ Cale by the recent very horrid Cd with Eric Clapton, but rather on this original of laid back riff rock. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | The Velvet Underground : Sweet Jane (full-length version) |
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Acoustic guitars work for rock riffs as well as Lou Reed demonstrates on another classic I muredered in early attempts to master the guitar.
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Track 13 from Loaded: Fully Loaded Edition (disc 1)
Length: 00:04:09 Year: 1970 |
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Acoustic guitars work for rock riffs as well as Lou Reed demonstrates on another classic I muredered in early attempts to master the guitar. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Jethro Tull : Aqualung |
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Another defining bit of guitar, from a band that thankfully it is no longer fashionable to hate.
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Track 14 from Aqualung
Length: 00:06:35 |
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Another defining bit of guitar, from a band that thankfully it is no longer fashionable to hate. SHOW LESS
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| 15 | David Bowie : Rebel Rebel |
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I was going to follow Sweet Jane with Bowie's homage to Reed, 'Queen Bitch', but although this is played with notes, not chords, it is one of the most unique riffs in rock, from possibly it's most unique artist.
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Track 15 from Diamond Dogs
Length: 00:04:33 Year: 1974 |
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I was going to follow Sweet Jane with Bowie's homage to Reed, 'Queen Bitch', but although this is played with notes, not chords, it is one of the most unique riffs in rock, from possibly it's most unique artist. SHOW LESS
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| 16 | Deep Purple : Smoke On The Water |
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It's damned if I do, damned if I don't time. Yes, the number one lump of guitar unpleasantness that young persons attempt when they first get their sweaty hands on their Squier Strat for the first time. I can't help it, playing them all today has reminded me, I still ove this stuff.
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Track 16 from Machine Head
Length: 00:05:42 Year: 1972 |
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It's damned if I do, damned if I don't time. Yes, the number one lump of guitar unpleasantness that young persons attempt when they first get their sweaty hands on their Squier Strat for the first time. I can't help it, playing them all today has reminded me, I still ove this stuff. SHOW LESS
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| 17 | The Sex Pistols : Pretty Vacant |
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Things got simple again. For a while there, the Pistols were everything they purported to hate, the best rock and roll band in the world.
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Track 17 from Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Length: 00:03:17 Year: 1990 |
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Things got simple again. For a while there, the Pistols were everything they purported to hate, the best rock and roll band in the world. SHOW LESS
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| 18 | The Clash : Should I Stay or Should I Go |
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Things also got classic again. Mick Jones finest moment, and another riff worth getting sore fingertips for!
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Track 18 from Combat Rock
Length: 00:03:09 Year: 1982 |
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Things also got classic again. Mick Jones finest moment, and another riff worth getting sore fingertips for! SHOW LESS
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| 19 | motorhead : ace of spades |
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I once spent a whole gig standing by Lemmy's bass bin. Sorry what did you say? Get those chord charts out and rawk the house!
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Track 19 from ace of spades
Length: 00:02:49 Year: 1980 |
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I once spent a whole gig standing by Lemmy's bass bin. Sorry what did you say? Get those chord charts out and rawk the house! SHOW LESS
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