Greatest Guitar Solos Ever Vol 1.

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No particular order. First of a series of 8,000.

"Track 8", PiL (Keith Levene). Five strings go into the control booth, four come out. Keith in the studio with a hammer dunnit!

"Living Dead", Plasmatics (Richie Stotts). As minimalism goes, makes Lamonte Young sound like John Zorn after Ritalin-laced espresso. Tony Iommi and Django Reinhardt might've lost fingers prior to starting to play, but here it sounds like they're falling off during the song.

"I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight", Cutting Crew (Kevin Scott MacMichael) A Canadian with three names is usually trouble but he 'now plays in Pete Best's Beatle tribute band'! This starts off like one of those metal solos bolted onto soft-rock stuff of the era (cf Chicago "Stay the Night"), but just goes all twangy, like he's forgotten the rest of the notes in the scale, and then just kind of dies, perfectly encapsulating the stunted, diminished-expectations feel of Mr Mister-era pop. (Music for people who would be yuppies but didn't have any actual MONEY! ha ha) The sound is really nice but maybe that's the producer Terry Brown so maybe it's really Alex Lifeson. Is it? I'm sure I would've seen something somewhere if it were really he, but if it is and everybody knew this except me then it's humiliation city!

"Baby I Don't Care", Bryan Ferry (John Porter) Invents the Fall.

"Soke Soke", Afra Sound Star. Some Angolan pop group that beat Daft Punk to "Aerodynamic" by about 8 years and 8 light-years. Great simulation of the 'brown tone', except with more squeals and dive-bombs, over some really hard Afro-pop. Angolan pop music swings harder than Cuban and they have this device where the whole mood/tone center/etc(pick one) changes halfway through the song but the beat still goes on! Great stuff. The guitar solo is the equal to if not better than the ones on Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" or Kiss' "Thrills in the Night".

"Shit My Pants", Brazen Hussies. It wasn't done with a whammy bar either, now are you impressed? No? OK

― dave q, Saturday, 19 October 2002 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"Mountain Jam," Allman Bros, Duane Allman.

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Suck my Popist dizzick.

― SeanF, Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

The Kinks: You Really Got Me

― mt, Saturday, 19 October 2002 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 19 October 2002 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

FIREPOWER-SYLVIAN/FRIPP

― bri bri, Saturday, 19 October 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I really hope there are 7,999 more of these to come.

― Kris (aqueduct), Saturday, 19 October 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Tin Machine (Reeves Gabrels) - "Heaven's in Here"
Mahavishnu Orchestra (John McLaughlin) - too many to name, but for starters: "On the Way Home to Earth", "All in the Family" and "Miles Out" - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Derek and the Dominoes (Eric Clapton and Duane Allman) - "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?"
David Bowie (Adrian Belew) - "Boys Keep Swinging"
Gong (Steve Hillage) - "A Sprinkle of Clouds" and (Allan Holdsworth) - "Expresso"
Camel (Andy Latimer) - "Lunar Sea"
Happy the Man (Stan Whitaker) - "Knee Bitten Nymphs in Limbo"

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 19 October 2002 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

rainy to thread!!!!

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 October 2002 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

my personal pick would be mr van halen on "beat it" by mj.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 October 2002 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

My pick would be "8 Miles High" - I love solo's in tunefull songs with no tune or structure whatsoever, and this seems to be the archtypical example of this.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 21 October 2002 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The Hüsker Dü version, correct?

keith

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 21 October 2002 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

[insert random 1969-1973 Funkadelic song here]

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 21 October 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Daft Punk - "Digital Love" edges out, Daft Punk - "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". Robots shred, dude.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Blank Generation.

― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Television - "Marquee moon".

― XBP, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

boredom - buzzcocks
i heard her call my name - velvet underground
canyons of your mind - bonzo dog band

― Yes/No Interlude (Yes/No Interlude), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

What goes on - velvets ... what's going on there, then ... did Lou forget there was a delay on the guitar? who cares? it's bloody wonderful.

― Monsieur Du Pont (Monsieur Du Pont), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

My Sharona - The Knack.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 05:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"digital love", yeah.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 07:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably a piss take this thread but Im grinning like a cunt as Mike McCready launches into his solo to finish off i am mine, far too short, I could listen to it all day. Turns an irsh drinking song into something fairly special.

― self absorbed twat, Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"One Red Rose that I Mean", Zoot Horn Rollo.

Well, you weren't specific!

― J (Jay), Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Guitar solos are horrible things.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey now, Callum, Adam Jones' solo parts in "Reflection" alone justify their existence. They don't stand out from the song as solos, of course, but they are there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 October 2002 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

They don't stand out, so it's okay. Tool don't do horrible, boarish solos. Oh, and The Pixies are allowed to do solos, because a) it's ironic, and b) they're so bad it's quite entertaining.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 27 October 2002 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

there are not many solos in the pixies or whatever solos are there sound so simple and brief.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 28 October 2002 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Exactly. That's what makes their solos cool.

― Callum (Callum), Monday, 28 October 2002 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

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