Topic: top 10 electric guitar songs

I think this item will be very different from the top 10 acoustic songs. But even there you have to decide between a lot of factors. I don't want a list of songs like "bohemian rhapsody", but songs who are living their own life, by the importance of the electric guitar.

What's important: melody-playing style-speed.Most imortant for me is the combination melody-playstyle. Less important are the 30 minutes guitarsolos.

My top 10:

1/ crossroads - Clapton.

2/ hey joe - jimi hendrix

3/ honky tonk woman - rolling stones

4/ I will return - Springwater

5/ eruption - Van Halen

6/ Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin

7/ Hotel California - Eagles (see acoustic too)

8/ Keep on chooglin' - Creedence Clearwater Revival

9/ Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

10/ Child in Time - Deep Purple

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Re: top 10 electric guitar songs

hey badeye here. mine would be


Tush  - Z.Z.Top


East Coast Blues - Matt Minglewood


Pusher Man - Steppenwolf


Cofident Man - Jeff Healy


Space Ship Superstar - Triumph


Funk 49 - Joe Walsh


Dust My Broom - Elmore James


Crossfire - Steve Ray Vaughn


Hear That Guitar Ring-Powder blues

Band


Damn Right I Got The Blues - Buddy

Guy


The list doesn't end.


...Badeye.

one caper after another

Re: top 10 electric guitar songs

Great topic.  Once I got started it was hard to keep it to ten.  I couldn't rank them once I got down to ten but here they are in no particular order:


Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix

Eruption - Van Halen

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Burning For You - Blue Oyster Cult

Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

Dancing Days - Led Zeppelin

Santa Monica - Everclear

All Because of You - U2

Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam

Tumbling Dice - Rolling Stones

Re: top 10 electric guitar songs

Thanks, I was thinking exactly the same thing, that it should be an endless list if you approach this in a logical way. That's why I didn't ask, who is the best guitarplayer. Is there already a topic about this object, I can create one, but in a topic like that, it would be more logic to make subcategories. People like Steve Vai, Satriani, Malmsteen (he is playing since the age of 5 and classical formed), on the other hand guys like John Fogerty, Neil Young, absolutely not the the best players, technical speaking, but they play with passion and not sterile. A very good example of a sterile song and a song straight from the heart is a song we all know: "without you", original written by the very underestimated popgroup BADFINGER, but very famous thanks to Harry Nilsson, so much emotion in his voice, and even better known in the "STERILE" version of I think Mariah Carey.

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- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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You mention Neil Young, how could I have forgotten Cinnamon Girl?   <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_eek.gif" border=0 alt="Shocked">  Great guitar that sticks in your head for hours after you hear it.

Re: top 10 electric guitar songs

Voodoo Child/Voodoo Chile - Hendrix

Sweet Child O Mine - Guns N Roses

When The Levey Breaks - Zeplin

Lucille - B.B. King

Yer Blues - Beatles

Now Teach Us - Raksasha

White Room - Cream

Lie To Me - Johnny Lang

One - Metallica

Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue


  There are so many others including stuff by The Yardbyrds, Poison, American Chaos Theory, The Stones and others that I don't think any list will ever be complete

"Nobody paints by ear so why would I play guitar by sight?" hmm

Re: top 10 electric guitar songs

Not in particular order:


1.The Outlaws-Green Grass & High Tides

2.Lynyrd Skynyrd-I Know a Little

3.The Allman Brothers-Just about any of there songs

4.Stevie Ray Vaughan-The same as above.

5.Derek & The Dominos-The whole album/cd.

6.Cream-Badge

7.UFO-Rock Bottom or Love to love, live.

8.Kenny Wayne Sheppard-Deja Voodo

9.Led Zepplin-Achillies Last Stand

10.Jimi Hendrix-All Along The Watchtower.


And a whole lot more.

Re: top 10 electric guitar songs

You are even more guitarfreak than I am.

Do you sell guitars, or do you have a store.

If yes, I would be pleased to contact you, I've learned a lot from your answers. I also see in lists, like best electric songs that I still have to look around even more, I just surf to amazon.com and check these groups. There are so many good songs, and even a lot of underestimated groups. You can even find songs plagiarism. Do you know the song stairway to heaven (stupid question) versus taurus & spirit? The zeppelin song is completely Identic to the other.

I think I'm gonna create a topic about plagiarism.

Thanks a lot

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

Re: top 10 electric guitar songs

My Top 10

1.How many more Times? - Led Zeppelin

2.You - Radiohead

3.Know Your Enemy - Rage Against the Machine

4.Cochise - Audioslave

5.Where is my mind? - Pixies

6.Marquee Moon - Television

7.Symphony of Destruction - Megadeth

8.Dead Star - Muse

9.Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Live off the map) - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

10.Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

Re: top 10 electric guitar songs

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You are even more guitarfreak than I am.

Do you sell guitars, or do you have a store.

If yes, I would be pleased to contact you, I've learned a lot from your answers. Thanks a lot
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Editided by Bootlegger 4-13-7


No I don't have a store, but yes I do sell guitars. I am right now I am a hobby builder. I do repairs to fund my hobby. Of late I have been doing alot of refurbs (one man's trash is another's man's treasure). If I knew I could pay my bills every month I would build guitars as my job.  Also yes I am a self proclaimed guitar freak.


PM me and we will talk some more about bands and music. Currently in the house there is about 1600 cd's of all types of music, 40's swing, 50's rock, rythym & blues, 60's hippy, 70's classic rock and disco(ugh!) funk, metal, sothern rock, flaminco, spanish, contemporay christian, alternative, motown, 80's to 90's dance music & a whole lot of blues.


Bootlegger

Bootlegger guitars.

Re: top 10 electric guitar songs

hey not like it matters but..........


Sitting on top of the world-Cream

Red House-Hendrix

Cemetary Gates-Pantera

Pusher Man-SteppenWolf

Stairway to Heaven-Led Zeplin

That Smell-Lynard Skynard

Ramblin' Man-The Allman Brothers Band

Derek and the Dominos-Layla

Thrill is Gone-B.B.King

The Sky is Crying-Stevie Ray Vaughn


Aint no paticular order though <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">

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My Fav is STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN!!!!! <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">

Re: top 10 electric guitar songs

mines
break on through-the doors
little wing-jimi hendrix
magic carpet ride-steppenwolf

cool
danspr

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel
Jimi Hendrix
cool danspr

Re: top 10 electric guitar songs

deffentaly smells like teen spirit and anything green day.