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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Damniel on 25 May 2005, 11:06
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for me its either Free Bird or Too Rolling Stonned by Robin Trower...but definatly NOT APACHE
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Well, what do you mean by Best Guitar Song. Best Solo, best song to play, or Best Overall Guitar piece?
If the latter of the three is the case I would recommend anything with Mark Knopfler as being superior to Free Bird, and I'm sure there are many other artists who have superior pieces in their body of work.
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Every Mike Doughty fan knows It's Rainin' Men is the new Free Bird anyway.
But, I agree with Mnementh on this, it's a bit broad on what youm ean. Could you be more specific?
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Heroes By bowie, Its an awesome guitar song becuase its soooo simple, you can flex your Dio chops all you want sometimes a few chords and some feedback can give you that warm orgasmic shudder that all good music should.
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^ seconded'd'd!
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy Pt 1
The acoustic guitar in this song is so damn awesome. I love it to bits.
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In the acoustic stakes 'Feathers Fell' by Dissection. Simple and totally beautiful.
As for electric...gah. 'Angelclaw' by Arch Enemy is the song that made me pick up a guitar, but then I have so many other favourites with insane/awesome guitar. 'Supersatan' by Cryptic Wintermoon and 'Bad Hobbits Die Hard' by Wuthering Heights would rank high among the alternative choices.
This is taking of course, that you mean your favourite songs from the standpoint of their guitar-work, rather than just 'your favourite songs with guitar in them', as that's about 90% of my favourite songs.
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For acoustic, I'd say "Steamed Juicy Little Bun" or "Night After Sidewalk" by Kaki King.
For electric, I'd say "Cliffs of Dover" by Eric Johnson, "For the Love of God" by Steve Vai, "The Divided Sky" by Phish, or "I Only Said" by My Bloody Valentine.
Within the context of a more traditional song, there are too damn many to choose from.
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I'm gonna have to go with "Surfing With The Alien" by Joe Satriani and, as metnioned above, "For the Love of God" by Vai, at least in the guitar wankery category.
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If we're talking ostentatious guitar solos, then I'm surprised Dinosaur Jr. has rated a mention yet.
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There's different guitar playing for every type of music, so...
Metal Virtuosity and Thrash Skills: Paradigm Shift by Liquid Tension Experiment
Acoustic Folksy Fun: I Like Birds by The Eels (the various rare live cuts of this song are SO good)
Pure Rock: Madman's Dead by Mano Negra
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Taurian Matador by Billy Cobham (Tommy Bolin on guitar, playing decent thrash in 1973)
Jazz: Airegin by Wes Montgomery
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I'll See You In My Dreams by Howard Alden
Blues: Ice Pick by Albert Collins
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East West by Butterfield Blues Band
Funk: Ain't It Funky Now by Grant Green
Indy Goodness: Polly Brown by The Sugarplastic
From the 80's: Little Girls by Oingo Boingo
Misc.: East of Asteroid by 801 (Phil Manzenara is a killer guitarist)
Tyranny Of The Hunt by Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Berny Brains
Spacewalk by Lemon Jelly
Hundred Mile High City by Ocean Colour Scene (Yes, yes, they do suck... but this song... doesn't.)
Crosstown Traffic by HENDRIX (Somehow, this ended up being my favorite Hendrix tune)
and many many many many more. Guitar players ccan never fully decide...
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Last Chance for A Slow Dance-Fugazi
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electric: as sad as I am to admit it, given that this song is so mainstream that I don't even consider it hardcore anymore, Atreyu's Lip Gloss and Black (*oh the shame :(*) ... also, the song has a pretty cool guitar outro... ...
actually, I'm changing my vote... Counterparts And Number Them by Alexisonfire is unbearably hard to play, to the extent that they rarely even play it in concert... actually... most Alexis has super-McKickass guitaring
accoustic: the accoustic part of The Animals' "House Of The Rising Sun"... also, the intro to Drunken Lullabies by Flogging Molly
and I know this wasn't included, but c'mon, there are songs where the bass is super important too! Such songs include (overplayed though it was) The White Stripes' Seven Nation Army, and Feel Good Inc (Gorillaz), and lets not forget, of course, Dazed and Confused (Zeppelin)
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And every thing by Jaco Pastorius ever.
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fucking... european son by the velvet underground!
or the gift!
or sister ray!
any and all things VU.
seeing ANTHRAX by GANG OF FOUR played LIVE this last FRIDAY was also a real treat
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"Hangar 18" manages to kick my ass every time I hear it, but for actual songwriting chops and interweaving and stuff, it's hard to say. I'm going to go with "NARC" by Interpol because I'm a dick and I think the guitar interplay in that song is nothing short of majestic.
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its my post and i'll be vague if i want to...just make up your own mind on the question....don't look to me for direction...okay, the whole point of the vague question is to get as many opinions on as many things as possible...
i reckon on the acoustic front the best guitar song is mr tambourine man by the byrds or possibly stairway to heaven (cringe) for its intro
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midcareer Blur songs come to mind here - because i think graham coxon is the finest guitar player. 'star shaped' is probably my favorite, especially to play along to.
also coming to mind - 'columbia' by oasis, 'evil' by interpol. something by the smiths belongs there too, i just can't decide which song right now.
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iron man by black sabbath.
seriously.
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And here we seem to be conspicuously missing the quite obvious
CRAZY TRAIN
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Pull My Strings by Dead Kennedys
Anything by Bad Brains
Anything by The Toy Dolls.
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Cause We Ended As Lovers by Jeff Beck.
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nobody will metion anything by leo kottke, i guarantee it. just listen to any song of his and guitar will be something entirely new to you.
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The best song with guitar/best guitar playing in a song has to be Paranoid Android. I'm sorry, but it actually is the best song ever.
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i say you listen to leo kottke, you will not regret it, this is the best i could do without my collection at hand. (it is being shipped from school and i'm freaking out cause it's going on a week late, that's my comp plus at least 1500 dollars of music!!)
http://www.emusic.com/album/10592/10592451.html
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I say listen to Radiohead. I bet Johnny Greenwood plays the guitar in a more innovative 'entirely new' way than this Leo Kottke guy.
The point of this post is that I don't think you should say the same thing twice in the space of two posts. We got it the first time.
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blindsuperhero has reminded me...JUST by radiohead is another of my favorite guitar songs.
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yo hero, the second time i included a link, this was the point of the second post.
second, listen to leo before you bash him
third, comparing radiohead to leo kottke makes less sense than...well, i'll think of something later.
fourth, leo kottke isn't "entirely new," my grandfather told me about him. but since you've never heard of him, he will broaden your understanding of the guitar as an instrument.
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You neglected to point out, heretic, that Leo Kottke plays a 12-string, which is a rather different beastie from your standard 6-string guitar making comaprasions between him and a 6-string player a little pointless.
But yes, he is awesome.
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he plays both, his twelve string is the mind blowing stuff but the 6 string is still pretty eye-opening. so basically all his music alters some part of your head. :)
one of his albums is called "6 and 12 string guitars"
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Really? I think I've only heard his 12-string stuff.
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"White Summer/Black Mountain Side" by Jimmy Page and "Always With Me, Always With You" by Joe Satriani are both very fun to play.
Also I like "To Bid You Farwell" by Opeth.
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And here we seem to be conspicuously missing the quite obvious
CRAZY TRAIN
No no no. The best song that Randy Rhoads played guitar on was "Dee," and that is a confirmed fact.