10 favorite RIFFS

[trace]

Melvins - Honey Bucket
Ween - Johnny on the spot
Hum - Little Dipper
Butthole Surfers - Dust Devil
Primus - Mr. knowitall
Nine Inch Nails - Big Come Down
Torche - anything off In Return
Incubus - Certain Shade Of Green
Nirvana - Negative Creep
Jesu - friends are evil

This is a hard question I already want to change my list

Edit: shoulda put tool - "hooker with a penis" in there somewhere. Also keep thinking of skinny puppy songs and shit. So synth riffs count?

[Blackened Soul]

Sunn O))) ~ It Took The Night To Believe, Immortal ~ Mount North, Violent Femmes ~ Blister in the Sun, Devo ~ Jocko Homo, Thorr's Hammer ~ Norge, Brian Eno ~ Menace, Ea ~ Nia Saeli A Taitalae, T.S.O.L ~ BLACK MAGIC, Joy Division ~ She's Lost Control, Pink Floyd ~ Interstellar Overdrive

[Big Mon]

In no particular order:
Black Sabbath-A National Acrobat
Blue Cheer- Sun Cycle
Mudhoney-In and Out of Grace
Sonic Youth- Saucerlike
Dinosaur Jr-Sludgefeast
Husker Du-First of the Last Calls
Muddy Waters-She's Alright
Darkthrone-Transylvanian Hunger
Mountain Witch-Wrath
Superchunk-Seed Toss

Make no mistake about it, I'll be posting again

[OddKnowledge]

this is SO tough. in no particular order.

The Party Of Helicopters - The Good Punk
The Party Of Helicopters - Cover Me
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start - Muscle, When Will I See It? [the rocking part of the song]
Frodus - The Earth Isn't Humming
KillSadie - Erf (The Place You Live)
Pianos Become The Teeth - Fillial [riff in the middle and end of the song]
Q And Not U - Hooray For Humans
Q And Not U - Nine Things Everybody Knows
Fugazi - Place Position
Fugazi - Arpeggiator

[dase]

Superchunk - the first part
Godspeed - broken windows/locks of love (I think that's what it's called? About 13 minutes into 'sleep', with the shuffle beat)
Shotmaker - failure
Hoover - elctrolux
Chokehold - underneath
Policy of 3 - improv culture kill
Slowdive - souvlaki space station
Integrity - vocal test
Unwound - October all over
Kissitgoodbye - sick day (still the toughest, angriest riff ever written)

[bigchiefbc]

Not my definite top 10, just the first 10 that came to me:

Isis - Threshold of Transformation (especially the 2nd riff that comes in a minute in)
Black Sabbath - Hole in the Sky (underrated Sabbath tune)
Sleep - Dragonaut (obvs)
Tool - Reflection (bass riff)
Pelican - Last Day of Winter (epicness)
Red Sparowes - Alone and Unaware ... (ditto)
Motorhead - Ace of Spades (I don't care how cliche'd it is, that riff still makes me want to fucking jump around)
Jakob - Malachite (light and clean, but kicks my ass)
Shadows Fall - Idle Hands (this is about as far into metal as I go, but it kicks ass)
Refused - New Noise

Jesus, 7 of the 10 are album openers. That's weird.

[Ugly Nora]

This thread really loses credibility since no one has mentioned Velvet Underground - Sister Ray. Also, The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner. Seriously guys, what's going on? I wasn't going to say anything, but I felt I had to.

[Big Mon]

Black Sabbath - Hole in the Sky (underrated Sabbath tune)

from an often underrated album

[jrmy]

I hate top ten lists, yet feel oddly compelled to participate in them.

Therefore, I present unto you, the top 10 riffs of the moment (subject to immediate & arbitrary change):

1) Fugazi - Reprovisional
2) White Zombie - Welcome To Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag
3) Jawbox - Bullet Park
4) Superdrag - True Believer
5) Baroness - A Horse Called Golgotha
6) Them Crooked Vultures - Scumbag Blues
7) Luna - Sideshow By The Seashore
8) The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
9) Ride - Leave Them All Behind
10) Red Fang - Prehistoric Dog

[muttlegs]

No order but here goes:

Dirt - Alice In Chains
Jizzlobber - Faith No More
In the meantime - Helmet
Wish Fulfillment - Sonic Youth
Suck You Dry - Mudhoney
Monster - L7
Mayonaise - Smashing Pumpkins
You walk away - Filter
Mr Brownstone - GNR
Lithium - Nirvana

[Fuzz_Pi]

Fuck 10 thats too hard.

The Dream - Thee Oh Sees
Wave Goodbye - Ty Segall
Dopesmoker - Sleep
Mind Mischief - Tame Impala
I Want You - The Beatles
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Little Girl - Death From Above 1979
Mladic - GY!BE
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - Hendrix
She's Lost Control- Joy Division
Intersteller Overdriver - Pink Floyd
All I Want - LCD Soundsystem
Dracula Mountain - Lightning Bolt
Night of the Thumpasorus People - Parliament (Bassline)
Electioneering - Radiohead
Dirt - The Stooges (Bassline)
TV Eye - The Stooges
Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground
I'm the Man Who Loves You - Wilco
Woman on the Screen - Boris
Funeralopolis - Electric Wizard
Long Division - Fugazi

And now, tons of Sonic Youth Riffs:
Total Trash
All of Trilogy
Disappearer
Titanium Exposé
Stones
Stereo Sanctity
Kotton Krown
Sunday
Junkie's Promise

[jfrey]

(Like everything by every band in this list, but here's a couple by each)

Between the Buried and Me - Prequel to the Sequel / Astral Body
Opeth - The Leper Affinity / Bleak
Gojira - Esoteric Surgery / The Heaviest Matter in the Universe
Thou - Fucking Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean / Voices in the Wilderness
Ihsahn - Monolith / Malediction

[Helter]

Fuck 10 thats too hard.

The Dream - Thee Oh Sees
Wave Goodbye - Ty Segall
Dopesmoker - Sleep
Mind Mischief - Tame Impala
I Want You - The Beatles
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Little Girl - Death From Above 1979
Mladic - GY!BE
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - Hendrix
She's Lost Control- Joy Division
Intersteller Overdriver - Pink Floyd
All I Want - LCD Soundsystem
Dracula Mountain - Lightning Bolt
Night of the Thumpasorus People - Parliament (Bassline)
Electioneering - Radiohead
Dirt - The Stooges (Bassline)
TV Eye - The Stooges
Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground
I'm the Man Who Loves You - Wilco
Woman on the Screen - Boris
Funeralopolis - Electric Wizard
Long Division - Fugazi

And now, tons of Sonic Youth Riffs:
Total Trash
All of Trilogy
Disappearer
Titanium Exposé
Stones
Stereo Sanctity
Kotton Krown
Sunday
Junkie's Promise

Wow this is practically what I was going to say

[D.o.S.]

Fuck 10 thats too hard.

Yup.

[D.o.S.]

Just gonna +1 everything that isn't Wilco.