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savethecirclepit says...

Maybe these are the early traces of the a species that will take our place after we are gone. That is of course unless you believe the "old watching and judging invisible man in clouds" story.

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The Top 20 Coolest Guitar Riffs

savethecirclepit says...

Good job you knuckle-heads this is the most I have ever posted on any subject before. I think you struck a ...chord..Ha!. It's actually nice to debate something other than political crap for once. But I am pretty sure that Republicans try to kill all the good riffs on a daily basis.

The Top 20 Coolest Guitar Riffs

savethecirclepit says...

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.

The Top 20 Coolest Guitar Riffs

savethecirclepit says...

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..........................................................



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