Top 5 most iconic riffs

[JakeErayvaugh]

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..."

Zack Wylde? ( in JiM Moras Voice) .... dont talk about zack wylde!
I was going to do the iverson thing but i am too lazy to write that much.
Check out my forum name bro, and promise me you will never speak this name (zack wylde) again...breaks my heart everytime.
Chugga Chugga ping!

[Argos]

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

Definitely not iconic. Successfull, but not iconic. Unlikely any Maiden songs could be considered iconic in the mainstream, either. You're talking huge airplay and extremely wide appeal; you're talking Stairway to Heaven or Hotel California big. As far as rock/metal music goes, it's tough. Enter Sandman, maybe? Cherry Pie? Crazy Train, certainly. Rock You Like a Hurricane, perhaps.

[Hellbat]

[canadian bacon]

Yup. Forgot about Money for Nothin, good one!

And the Still of the Night intro is pretty legendary too.

[Argos]

Surprised Breaking The Law hasn't been mentioned, too.

[Nightbat]

Lessee if I can figure a few more out (whom have been heard by more people then a select group of fans) that are instantly recognized

ZZ Top: Gimme all your Loving
Heart: Baracuda
Brian Adams: Run to you
Kiss: I was Made for loving you
Robert Palmer: Addicted to love
Survivor: Eye of the tiger
-Does Gary Moore's Still got the blues count?
-and I guess Van Halen's Jump is cheating

[dg]

Whole Lotta Love
Black Dog
Layla
Crossroads
Purple Haze

Kashmir
When the Levee Breaks
All Day & All the Night
Stranglehold
LaGrange

Highway to Hell
Foxey Lady
Freebird
Frankenstein
No One Like You

[JakeErayvaugh]

Wow after seeing all these lists, I realized how many songs are overplayed on the radio, good and bad.

[Larz]

When talking iconic riffs, there can be only one.....

Talk Dirty To Me - Poison

[Vass]

In no particular order

Crazy Train
Smoke on the Water
Walk This Way
Layla
Iron Man
You Really Got Me
Beat It
Pretty Woman

[Special-K]

People it says 5, not 20!

[Jayster]

Not really songs I like a lot, but that isn't the point of this thread.... Iconic riffs that bring visions of the guitar to mind are:

Aqualung
Crazy on you
black dog
walk this way
panama

[Animus]

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!

Pantera bread?

I don't know about iconic but possibly they are the most over-rated and hyped metal band ever.

[MartinBarre]

Whole Lotta Love (cant believe no one said that yet!)
Stairway to Heaven
Sweet Child o Mine
Back In Black
Run To The Hills

[Accept2]

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5. Summertime Blues............