A lot of great shouts here and many of my favorites have already been mentioned (special shout out to whoever mentioned Morning Glory, an absolute belter of an opening and one often overlooked).
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Frightened Rabbit - both "State Hospital" and "Swim until You Can't See Land" Twilight Sad - "Made to Disappear" Radiohead - "There There" "Let Down" "The Bends" and "I might be wrong" is an absolute belter Counting Crows - "Round Here" BRMC - "Rifles" The National - "Conversation 16"
I've taken a liberal interpretation of the term "riff" here.
A lot of great shouts here and many of my favorites have already been mentioned (special shout out to whoever mentioned Morning Glory, an absolute belter of an opening and one often overlooked).
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Frightened Rabbit - both "State Hospital" and "Swim until You Can't See Land" Twilight Sad - "Made to Disappear" Radiohead - "There There" "Let Down" "The Bends" and "I might be wrong" is an absolute belter Counting Crows - "Round Here" BRMC - "Rifles" The National - "Conversation 16"
I've taken a liberal interpretation of the term "riff" here.
Do drum solos count then. Best start a new thread " best openings to dongs..."
A lot of great shouts here and many of my favorites have already been mentioned (special shout out to whoever mentioned Morning Glory, an absolute belter of an opening and one often overlooked).
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Frightened Rabbit - both "State Hospital" and "Swim until You Can't See Land" Twilight Sad - "Made to Disappear" Radiohead - "There There" "Let Down" "The Bends" and "I might be wrong" is an absolute belter Counting Crows - "Round Here" BRMC - "Rifles" The National - "Conversation 16"
I've taken a liberal interpretation of the term "riff" here.
Do drum solos count then. Best start a new thread " best openings to dongs..."
I thought there was only one opening...
If I'm wrong then the American education system has really, really, really let me down once again.
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Rush - The spirit of radio
Pink Floyd - Run like hell
Johnny B Goode is, of course, the best opening riff. But many of the ones already mentioned are making me itch to plug my guitar in.
AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Frightened Rabbit - both "State Hospital" and "Swim until You Can't See Land"
Twilight Sad - "Made to Disappear"
Radiohead - "There There" "Let Down" "The Bends"
and "I might be wrong" is an absolute belter
Counting Crows - "Round Here"
BRMC - "Rifles"
The National - "Conversation 16"
I've taken a liberal interpretation of the term "riff" here.
If I'm wrong then the American education system has really, really, really let me down once again.
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
and loads more
Blowin' Free - Wishbone Ash
One Soul Survivor - Wild Turkey
Too Rolling Stoned - Robin Trower
Master of Puppets
Battery
Blackened
Damage Inc
Ride The Lightning
Dyer's Eve...
That's a hell of a lot of monstrous opening riffs!
Also Slayer:
South of Heaven
War Ensemble
Raining Blood
Angel of Death
Behind the Crooked Cross
Seasons In The Abyss
Disciple
God Hates Us All...
'I love you more than you'll ever know' by Blood Sweat and Tears.
Ah......
'Cigarettes & Alcohol' - Oasis
Sunflower - Paul Weller
Jumpin Jack Flash - The Stones
The white stripes - Seven nation army (though Its now really overused)
I don't ever want to hear that song again.
That'll be most of the Top 50 sorted then.