Top 5 most iconic riffs

[Richard W]

What do you guys think are the 5 most iconic riffs of all time? My list:
1. Smoke on the Water (kinda obvious)
2. Crazy Train
3. Sweet Child O' Mine
4. Cat Scratch Fever
5. Walk (long live Pantera) Dimebag R.I.P.

[CowboyFromHell]

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Black Label Society - Suicide Messiah
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Texas Hippie Coalition - Texas Tags
Living Colour - Cult Of Personality

[Codex]

Id add Iron Man to the list. Maybe Back In Black too.

[len]

Great topic but Iconic is different than favorite.

Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
Miserlou - Dick Dale
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
You Really Got Me- The Kinks
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf

[Special-K]

Randy Rhoads - Crazy Train
Tony Iommi - Black Sabbath
Tony Iommi - Paranoid
Dimebag Darrell - Cowboys From Hell
Dimebag Darrell - Walk
(Smoke on the water.. although annoying as fuck)

[mjtripper]

Smoke on the water
We will rock you
Born to be wild
Another one bites the dust
Stairway to heaven

[dvscool]

Iconic? NOT my fav.....

Stairway to Heaven
Born to be wild
Ironman
Smoke on the water
Crazy Train

[JakeErayvaugh]

Great topic but Iconic is different than favorite.

Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
Miserlou - Dick Dale
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
You Really Got Me- The Kinks
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf

Agreed, I cant put pantera anywhere near the top 100 iconic riffs, the majority of people dont even know who they are.

1. Wild thing
2. Born to be wild
3. You really got me
4. Iron Man/Crazy train (the annoying kid at GC always plays a medly)
5. Smoke on water

All of which I once thought were good songs but now when i hear them I want to stab someone in the eye with a spork.

6. Stairway to heaven....... for good measure

[CowboyFromHell]

Agreed, I cant put pantera anywhere near the top 100 iconic riffs, the majority of people dont even know who they are.

Don't know where you live, but damn near everyone I've ever known knows who Pantera is.

[dvscool]

Don't know where you live, but damn near everyone I've ever known knows who Pantera is.

I agree - but I'm not sure they would be considered Iconic....YET

[CowboyFromHell]

I'm pretty damn sure you've reached ICONIC status when Zakk Wylde tells ya "you're the best guitarist in the world, go do what you do..."

[dvscool]

Sounds like the begining of a new post: "Is Pantera Iconic? What makes a band Iconic? When is a band considered Iconic?

I love Pantera. But I still wouldn't consider them Iconic. I'm sure there would be lots of opinions.....

[Hellbat]

I've learned two things so far in this thread... I live in a wierd place because 90% or more people wouldn't have the first clue what a Pantera is. More people would be more likely to think "Italian car with an American V8" than a band. Also, Zakk Wylde is the arbiter of icon status. I never knew that about him, I thought he was just the lord of pinch harmonic abuse.

Chugga Chugga *Ping* I dub thee an icon! Chugga Chugga *Ping* You're an icon too, buddy! Chugga Chugga *Ping* Thou art an icon!

[dvscool]

Bahahahhaha!....like being knighted....

[canadian bacon]

Pantera - cool car, indeed.

Iconic to me - songs that everyone and thier sister covers (or butchers). Doesn't make them influential, or even good. For the record, I don't like any of these:


1. Johnny B Goode
2. Sweet Home Alabama
3. Sweet Child O Mine
4. Walk this way
5. Satisfaction

...and that Duelling Banjos riff, does that count?