guitar solos you know by heart

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you know, ones where you know every note of the solo as much the actual tune, and can perfectly air guitar the whole thing.

Ozzy Osbourne - "Mama I'm Comin' Home"
Matthew Sweet - "Girlfriend"
Television - "Marquee Moon"
and a lot of Guns'n'Roses, but especially "November Rain" (BOTH solos!) and "Welcome To The Jungle"

(apologies if a thread of this sort has been done already; it's a bit hard to search for)

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Shoplifters of the World Unite

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

everything off def leppards hysteria, everything off queen greatest hits one and two, the same two guns n roses songs you mention al, everything off DRFSR by warrant.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i sing along to the "Freebird" solo note for note

also "Don't Fear The Reaper"

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Well if it isn't everyone's favorite jetsetting connoisseur of all thing bling and seafood Alphonse Shrimpli.

Archers Of Loaf - Wrong (the good version where it sounds like wailing animal)
Cuban Linx & Angie Martinez - Freak Out
The end part of ARab Strap - Girls Of Summer (Mad For Sadness version)

― LC, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I only started smelling fish when you got here.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

DAAAAAMMMMN

― LC, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

In Bloom - Nirvana. A very short and sweet solo.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh, good call on "In Bloom". I mean, there's plenty of Nirvana ones etched in my brain but that's the one I actually enjoy remembering. definitely one of my earliest air guitar memories, along with "November Rain".

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

vu - i heard her call my name
santana - the whole of caravanserai

― phil turnbull (philT), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

All of 'em, so long as (a) they're good/interesting, (b) under 3 minutes or so, and (c) they're not completely insane, like "Heard Her Call My Name" or anything by Blue Cheer/Mahavishnu/Slayer.

Never played air guitar in my life - no need, since I've owned/played the real thing for years, however badly. And "Marquee Moon" is indeed one of my favourites to play along to, along with "Looking At You" (MC5), "I Want Candy" (Bow Wow Wow) and anything by Bo Diddley.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Too many to list but one of my favourites is "Cherub Rock".

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Three Days - Jane's Addiction. There's a cracking bum note in there too.

― mzui, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Scary but true...

"Nothing Else Matters", Metallica.

Epic.

― Marx, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Catch by the Cure
You Should All Be Murdered - Another Sunny Day

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Next comic relief evening, someone should hire brentford FC stadium, and we can all go down and air guitar the solo to "Marquee Moon"!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Guns'n'Roses: Sweet Child O'Mine (come on, EVERYBODY knows that one!)
Tom Waits: Jockey Full Of Bourbon (beau-tiful)
Clapton: Cocaine (he's cheating, there'soverdubs in there, you know)
Robben Ford: Talk To Your Daughter (I learned it from my guitar teacher in High School)

and many more ...

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I Am The Resurrection - Stone Roses (the original version)

Although I'm more of a 'air bass' person...

― daarkbee (daarkbee), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

What Do I Get - Buzzcocks

― Jez (Jez), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

On Friday, I had the good fortune to attend what used to be known as an 'indie disco'. Everyone there seemed to know the guitar solo which begins "Another Girl Another Planet" rather well.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Kayleigh by Marillion.
Everything I Do (I Do It For You) by Adams.

Not through choice, obviously.

― 39 Steps + 40 Winks (39 Steps + 40 Winks), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

'Sunshine of Your Love'
'White Room'
'Crossroads'
'Hot For Teacher' - one of the best!
Everything by Jimmy Page

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

All Beatles, I am the Resurrection, and Hotel California. Oh, and anything off The Wall. COmfortbaly Numb still has the best sounding guitar solo evah, as opposed to flashy or inventive.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Ramones- Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
Ramones- I Wanna Be Sedated

― Franco D. Wanko, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

James Brown - Ain't It Funky (live)
most Metallica
a few of the solos on John Scofield's A Go Go
Gn'R - Sweet Child O' Mine

A bunch more I'm sure, I probably could sing a lot more horn solos though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The first (and only) one that leaps to mind is James Honeyman-Scott's tear on the Pretenders' "Tattooed Love Boys."

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and Fripp on Eno's "Baby's on Fire." That bit where he lets the feedback loose for a sec gives me the chills every time.

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry to get all indie on a guitar solo thread but Yo La Tengo- Pablo and Andrea

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Strange, "Something" - G.Harrison's - was the very first to come to mind.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

zappa's solo in inca roads

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, but "Digital Love". Terribly sorry.

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god I love you all, I'm sitting in my silent office and half of the songs mentioned above are popping into my head and I'm just mentally running through all the solos, only the solos, and it's beautiful.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Most all Van Halen solos, except for those on the Gary Cherone album ('cos I haven't heard it in 6 years).
Everything on Appetite for Destruction.
Select Dokken and Ratt tunes, because I worshipped George Lynch and Warren DiMartini in my youth.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

superchunk - detroit has a skyline
blur - you're so great

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Cracker - "Euro-Trash Girl"
Hurricane #1 - "Step Into My World" (Andy Bell is criminally underused as a bassist now)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Sweet Child O'Mine

At some point, the Luna version usurped G'n'R as the one that comes into my mind first when I think of this solo...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Living Colour - "Cult of Personality"
Eno - "Golden Hours"
Springsteen - "Born to Run" (surfarific!)
Crowded House - "Sister Madly" (Richard Thompson!)

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Tears for Fears -- Shout. It came on the radio yesterday and I realized I still remembered all the solos.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Cars - Just What I Needed
all of Pinkerton by Weezer

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, everything on The Bends, too.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Cars - Just What I Needed
Metallica - Fade to Black (opening, except I play the really fast phrase in the middle v..e..r..y slowly)
Led Zepellin - Whole Lotta Love
Pavement - Stop Breathin (does this count?)
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb & Time(my favorite!)
Sublime - Date Rape (not really correct, but I wing it)

― kickitcricket, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah...

Led Zep - Heartbreaker
Sabbath - Iron Man & War Pigs
Maiden - The Trooper, a lot of stuff on Powerslave
etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd-Comfortably Numb
Buzzcocks-Boredom

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

YYZ - Rush; Air Guitar, Air Bass, Air Keys & Air Drums!!!!

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty much all of Prince's up until "Batman"

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

all solos by the smashing pumpkins (pre-machina), radiohead, weezer (just blue album and pinkerton), and nirvana
i know "digital love" as well, and i've got the first have of "sweet child of mine" but i always go blank for the second half.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

neil young - "cinnamon girl"

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, but "Digital Love". Terribly sorry.

Yeah, this too! "Digital Love" 's has to be THE last great (i.e. memorable) guitar solo on record I've heard.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The live half of Still by Joy Division.

― The Rebukes of Hazard (mjt), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The simple ones off the top of my head that I can actually play:

Galaxie 500 "Tugboat"
Jesus & Mary Chain - "April Skies"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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Shoplifters of the World Unite

Oh my god. That solo makes me LAUGH. It's, like, the most ridiculous Tom Scholz-sounding hamfisted wankery. Was it intended as a joke?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

velvet underground - "sister ray" (just kidding?)

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't belive nobody's mentioned AC/DC yet!

AC/DC: Back in Black, You Shook Me, Whole Lotta Rosie
Kiss: Christine Sixteen
The Cult: Love Removal Machine

― Ben St. Jacques (Ben St. Jacques), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Boston - "More Than A Feeling", both harmony parts.
Slayer - "Angel Of Death", King and Hanneman lead swaps.
Wipers - "Over The Edge"
Rush - you name it.

I'll stop there I think.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"bloodstains" by agent orange

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronson's proto-May singsong on "Time"
Johnny's note on "I Wanna Be Sedated"
Sparhawk cleartone run in "Violence", Low

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Allman Bros - "Blue Sky"

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

(both Dicky and Duane -- two solos)

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Poison, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"

― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sympathy for the Devil," "Just"- and just about everything else on the Bends. Much of Doug Martsch's stuff- so underrated.

― mat hall, Thursday, 25 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Steely Dan - "Reelin In the Years"

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

"shadowplay"

― kclu, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 01:51 (fifteen years ago)

Little Red Corvette

― corey, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 01:52 (fifteen years ago)

see no evil - television

― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 01:53 (fifteen years ago)

oh yeah, like all of marquee moon

― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:04 (fifteen years ago)

Hundreds, all of which I now hate. Thx job.

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:05 (fifteen years ago)

"We are 138"

― deej snider (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:06 (fifteen years ago)

homosexuals soft south africans

― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:09 (fifteen years ago)

Pixies - I Bleed

― only! assholes! write on doors! (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:09 (fifteen years ago)

I think I can "sing" all the guitar parts in "Cowgirl in the Sand."

― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:11 (fifteen years ago)

The 3-part solo in Pink Floyd "Money." Listening in the car one day, the solo was just starting as I entered the Lincoln Tunnel, so I sang the entire solo out loud in the silent car. When I came out of the tunnel and the radio faded back in, my timing was only off by one note.

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:11 (fifteen years ago)

Pretenders - Kid
Roxy Music - Out of the Blue
Brad Paisley - Alcohol

― sandra lee, gimme your alcohol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:18 (fifteen years ago)

I totally forgot I started this thread and saw it on New Answers and was like "that's a good idea." go me!

― dorkslovesudoku (some dude), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:21 (fifteen years ago)

i think i can anticipate/could mouth along with most of high rise "live", like while i'm listening to it, but i hit blanks when i try to string it together otherwise--but i mean that album's like 75% solos or something. and as for actually playing them ahahahahahhaah no.

― arby's, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:27 (fifteen years ago)

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (the first record I bought, I think)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (the non-ring-modulated part in the left channel, anyhow)
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (weirdly constipated/rigid solo, actually less dynamic than the riff it's over)
Michael Jackson - Beat It (me and another few million people, right?)

― superflyguy, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 18:07 (fifteen years ago)

all of YOURE LIVING ALL OVER ME

― 69, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)

among others:
xtc "that's really super, supergirl"
weezer "say it ain't so"

― V79, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

oh, and neon indian "terminally chill" solo, it's fun to whistle

― V79, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 19:41 (fifteen years ago)

Neil Young - Down By The River

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 19:46 (fifteen years ago)

all Who

Roxy Music, "Serenade"

Funkadelic, "Maggot Brain"

― Son of Sisyphus of Reaganing (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

Motley Crue - Without You (fuckit, the whole Dr Feelgood album)
Prince - all of Purple Rain
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird, love singing the solo when I'm driving

― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 19:53 (fifteen years ago)

Dinosaur Jr. "Start Choppin"

― Moreno, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 19:59 (fifteen years ago)

oh yeah def MAGGOT BRAIN

― 69, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 20:01 (fifteen years ago)

I've led a brainwashed life so Eagles' "Hotel California" and "Dogs" by Pink Floyd.

― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 20:04 (fifteen years ago)

MY SHARONA

― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 20:10 (fifteen years ago)

Every Metallica solo up to The Black Album.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

most of the band of gypsies album

all of "Cortez" as covered by BtS on their live album

man I wish I had that on heavy vinyl

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 21:44 (fifteen years ago)

oh, you reminded me - solos/solo-like leads from There's Nothing Wrong With Love, especially "Distopian Dream Girl"

― V79, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 21:49 (fifteen years ago)

Cramps "TV Set"

― the tune is space, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 22:28 (fifteen years ago)

VU "I'm Set Free" (makes me get all weepy too)

― the tune is space, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 22:30 (fifteen years ago)

bachmann-turner overdrive, "takin' care of business"
steely dan, "hey nineteen"
steely dan, "reeling in the years"

― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 22:49 (fifteen years ago)

also steely dan "i got the news" & "peg"

probably lots of other sd/larry carlton stuff too

― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 22:50 (fifteen years ago)

steely dan - rikki don't lose that number
u2 - the fly

― omar little, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 23:06 (fifteen years ago)

there's probably a bunch of new order & stockholm monsters stuff that I could include here too but really that'd be cheating. like, "disorder" by joy division - I could not only hum that solo, I could probably play it, but who couldn't?

― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 23:11 (fifteen years ago)

vu-begining to see the light
king crimson-starless and bible black,red,21st..,exiles
beatles-something,and your bird can sing&many more
genesis-dancing with the moonlit knight,firth of fifth
hendrix-are you experienced,purple haze,little wing ,voodoo chile etc..
the cars-my best friend's girl
the stranglers-golden brown
frank zappa-black napkins
neil young-powderfinger
eagles-hotel california
led zeppeline-too many to count..
a flock of seagulls-i ran
boston-more then a feeling,peace of mind
dire straits-sultans of swing,private investigations
queen-killer queen,bohemian raphsody
gerry rafferty-baker st.
c.c.r--i'll put a spell on you
michael jackson-beat it
q.o.t.s.a-no one knows
nirvana-in bloom
focus-hocus focus,sylvia
and some more

― nakamura, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 00:32 (fifteen years ago)

"A Forest" is the first that came to mind, but many other Cure ones too.

― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 00:45 (fifteen years ago)

Black Flag - Rise Above
Undertones - Here Comes The Summer
Neil young - Cinnamon Girl
Wipers - Don't Know what I am

― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

Pixies - Hey

― spastic heritage, Thursday, 4 November 2010 00:14 (fifteen years ago)

the tearjerking one that comes flying in out of left field near the end of the replacements' "sixteen blue".

― willem, Thursday, 4 November 2010 15:40 (fifteen years ago)

Deebank - Lawrence - Deebank in Felt's "The Stagnant Pool".

― Bill A, Thursday, 4 November 2010 15:52 (fifteen years ago)

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