Your Top 10/20/whatever Favorite Guitar Solos of all time!

[Zoots]

Here's a Top 10 in no particular order:

High Hopes - David Gilmour
Stairway To Heaven - Jimmy Page
Eruption - Eddie Van Halen
November Rain - Slash
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Sultans Of Swing - Mark Knopfler
Paranoid Android - Jonny Greenwood
Alive - Mike McCready
Light My Fire - Robby Krieger
Orion - Kirk Hammett


GO!

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Alive - Pearl Jam

Yes.

My all-time favorite guitar solo. Nothing comes close, really, off the top of my head. Fucking insane.

Edit - It's Mike McCready by the way.

 

[Zoots]

I realized the mistake and edited it.

Oh shit! I wanted to include U2 and completely forgot.

Either The Fly or NYD.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I realized the mistake and edited it.

Nice. I'm listening to it right now. It's just...so...beautiful.

The Yellow Ledbetter solo is awesome, too.

"Make me cry..."

 

[Zoots]

I'm listening to it right now. It's just...so...beautiful.

Excellent! My work here is done.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Sympathy for the Devil. I've always loved that one.

 

[Zoots]

Sympathy for the Devil. I've always loved that one.

Top 10 pls.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Ahhh, but in the title it says Top 10/20/whatever. I'm obviously taking the "whatever" route.

 

[Zoots]

whatever means >20

Now get working, sonny!

 

[impy13]

Gotta be "Squirtigo."

 

[u2popmofo]

NSW's favorite is probably from some RUSH song.

FACT

 

[impy13]

Mine's actually from a Scott Walker song, but I don't think you guys are ready for it yet.

 

[LMP]

Mine's actually from a Scott Walker song, but I don't think you guys are ready for it yet.

I'm afraid you're just too darn loud.

 

[u2popmofo]

We need a KNIFE CRIME picture of me stabbing someone from Rush and/or Scott Walker.

 

[impy13]

I don't see why you could hoist Neil Peart and Scott Walker on one knife. Maybe a cutlass?

 

[lazarus]

Eric Clapton--I Shot the Sheriff (there used to be a video shown on VH-1 of this, from some concert in the 80's. Not sure which version, but the solo was killer)

David Gilmour, Pink Floyd--Comfortably Numb (from Delicate Sound of Thunder)

Stephen Malkmus, Pavement--Fin (from Brighten the Corners)

Stephen Malkmus--1% of 1 (from Pig Lib)

Neil Young--Like A Hurricane (live from Weld)

The Edge, U2--All I Want Is You (R&H studio version)

Peter Visser, Bettie Serveert--White Dogs (from the Log 22 album)

Lou Reed/Sterling Morrison(?), The Velvet Underground--Oh! Sweet Nuthin' (from Loaded)

Tom Verlaine/Richard Lloyd, Television--Marquee Moon (any list that doesn't have this is automatically invalid)

Kirk Hammett, Metallica--Fade to Black (from Ride the Lightning)

Note: I can't possibly pick something out of Hendrix's discography. Maybe the entirety of the Band of Gypsies album?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Now get working, sonny!

For you, Zoots.

1. Alive - Mike McCready (Pearl Jam)
2. Yellow Ledbetter - Mike McCready (Pearl Jam)
3. Breath - Mike McCready (Pearl Jam)
4. The End - George, John, Paul (Beatles)
5. Sympathy For The Devil - Keith Richards (Stones)
6. Black Math - Jack White (White Stripes)
7. Whole Lotta Love - Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
8. I am the Resurrection - John Squire (Stone Roses)
9. The Modern Age - Nick Valensi - (Strokes)
10. Sweet Child O' Mine - Slash (G'N'R)

 

[LemonMelon]

Guitar solos are overrated. Most are just wank, but here are a few that stand out to me, not necessarily because they're great or anything, but just because I think they add something to the song:

Weezer - Tired Of Sex
The Cars - Just What I Needed
Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
Prince - Purple Rain
Pearl Jam - Alive
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Wilco - At Least That's What You Said
Derek And The Dominoes - Layla

 

[Zoots]

David Bowie - Moonage Daydream

 

[LemonMelon]

OK, at least I managed to name ten. Couldn't keep Layla off of there.

I refuse to put down anything from Edge or Neil Young on principle. I barely consider any of Edge's solos to be solos. They're just extensions of the melody, really, and Neil Young...well...he was never much of a soloist. Cortez The Killer is awesome.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Also, it's incredibly cliche but the solo in Freebird actually does kick ass.

 

[impy13]

No "Ball & Biscuit" mentions yet? No "One Big Holiday" mentions yet?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

You just mentioned both of them, I think.

 

[intedomine]

1. Aqualung - Jethro Tull
2. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
3. November Rain - Guns 'n Roses (only Gunners song I really like)

 

[MrPryck2U]

I don't really have a Top 10/20, but one solo in particular comes to mind:

Freebird- Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

[cobl04]

I hate November Rain.

Comfortably Numb's solo is to me the greatest moment in rock history.
The Moonage Daydream solo is astrofuckingnomical.
The Fly, live from Boston.

 

[HeartlandGirl]

It would take me quite a while to come up with a list, but this one immediately comes to mind:

James Dean Bradfield's solo in The Everlasting (by the Manic Street Preachers)

It's very simple, but it fits the song so beautifully.

 

[HeartlandGirl]

Whoa. Double post. Sorry.

 

[cobl04]

Oh, and the solo in Sultans of Swing, by the Dire Straits, more so if it's the Alchemy version.

 

[cobl04]

Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street.