Iron Maiden - Two Minutes to Midnight
Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid
Kittie - Raven
Sevendust - Enemy
Enya - Boadicea
Otep - God is a Gun
Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth
Woody Guthrie - Vigilante Man
The Left Rights - Darth Vader (Who Gives a Sith)
TOOL - Schism

1. Alanis Morissette - Wake Up
2. Nobou Uematsu - Symphonic Suite FFI (Final Fantasy S Generation soundtrack)
3. Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow
4. Linkin Park - Hit the Floor
5. System of a Down - Prison Song
6. Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
7. Live - The Dam at Otter Creek
8. Smashing Pumpkins - 17
9. Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight
10. Foo Fighters - Walking After You

Iron Maiden have their own tour plane, flown by Dickinson, Ed Force One.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Iron-Maidens-lead-singer-flies-the-Airbus-A320

One of the most overrated Speed/Power metal band in history.
I have much more fun jamming over anything Iron Maiden has done.

The song is "The Flight of Icarus" by Iron Maiden

My non technical definition of a "riff" would be anything piece or part of a song that digs into your skull and will not go away. It's the part of the song that when you hear it makes you say Hell Yea! and go scrambling for the volume knob.
The riffs haven't disappeared over the last 10 years they just don't reside on the radio dial anymore. It's not hip hop(that was 20 years ago) that drove them into hiding it's "core" music. You know metalcore, mallcore, emocore, breakdowncore, whatever you want to call it. That coupled with corporate run radio have driving anything with heart deep down into the underground. So you have to look a little harder for it. It's there. Examples? Ok
From the last 10 years:
High On Fire-Hung,Drawn and Quarter(they also just put out a new album that is so rifftastic it's scarey)
Kylesa-Time will Fuse It's Worth(whole album)
Tragedy-The Point Of No Return(The acoustic part give way to the brutality)
Hellshock-Your World(awesome!)
Grand Magus, Fu Manchu, Down, Nebula all have a Sabbath like vibe to them and they are all current along with a literal ton of others in that vein. And they all have no shortage of riffs.
Not to mention the myriads of old bands still in service, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Morbid Angel, Entombed(total riff band), the new Voivod rules, ect.
It's there I promise you just have to accept the riffs they offer as your personal savior and all will be right. Now go in peace and don't forget to feel it when you listen because if you don't feel it then you are just wasting your time.

Yes, Iron Butterfly and I have though of a few more since I posted and I will probably think of many more. I think a best of list is very subjective to the list makers personal taste. I mean if you hate Nirvana, for example, you will not put Teen Spirit on a best of list. It doesn't make it any less of a good riff you just personally don't like Nirvana. Like choosing a favorite song. I would be hard pressed to pick one favorite song or one favorite band even because my moods change from week to week. This week it's death metal(Morbid Angel, Deicide, Suffocation ect.). Last week it was black metal(Venom, Mayhem, Darkthrone ect.). And next week it may be something else. Depending on which week you ask you may get an entirely different answer. I wrote about this condition one time and I coined the term "multiple music personality disorder" or m.m.p.d. for short. This is an affliction that render the person broke from trying to keep up with and collect so many different genres of music. I blame the internet for making all these obscure band readily available. Thanks for the background on the Black Sabbath riff. Oh that reminds me that riff in the middle of Chapel Of Ghouls(Morbid Angel) and Crazy Train(Ozzy) and Whiplash-Metallica,now thats a huge riff and Holy Diver(Dio) and The Trooper(Iron Maiden) and..........................................................

Well if you bothered looking at the comments you probably want to know what they're on about:

The men are selling Western music on the black market: Stevie Wonder, Julio Iglesias, Pink Floyd, Jichael Mackson (!) but she barters for Iron Maiden. Then she meets two female Revolution Guardians (women who ensure everyone dresses modestly, amongst other things). They ask her "What are these punk shoes", then see her Michael Jackson badge and scream "This symbol of Western decadence!", but the girl protests and says "Not at all, it's Malcolm X!". :-)

This is surprisingly good. Can anyone name the song this came from? It has echoes of Iron Maiden to it.

Crap now I have to put away the iron maiden and rack. Hmmm, suppose I could still put you in the stocks though and the townspeople could throw food at you. Ah what the heck! No harm done, the apology was thoughtful. Thanks for being a good VS citizen.

Well, yea . . . that's why it's funny. Metallica loses to Tull in the Grammy's in 1989. Someone decides to make a video of Metallica doing a cover of a Tull song. Only problem is, Metallica hasn't ever covered a Tull song (and probably never would - a pride thing). So, you get an Iron Maiden cover of a Tull song, dub it into a Metallica concert and make it look like Metallica are honoring Tull.

Now, the real problem is this: Iron Maiden covered the Tull song better than Metallica ever could and it gives the whole illusion away.

So, it was funnier than when I first posted it.

And it was funnier when I didn't have to explain it.

Um, that is NOT James Hetfield of Metallica singing. That's James Dickinson of Iron Maiden, placed over the top of some random Metallica concert footage. Downvote.

In no particular order:
Metallica
Iron Maiden
Queen
Rolling Stones
Smashing Pumpkins
Bue Oyster Cult
Godsmack
The Doors
U2
Breaking Benjamin

p.s John DENVER?!!

I knew you were going to have to say something about this sift

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“I had the coveted leather Members Only - with extra big epelauts. My friends had the nylon ones, with mandatory Iron Maiden badges. DeathCow had a red one.”