Best Post - 'Nevermind' Guitar Solos?

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There haven't been that many, have there?

Some I like - "Cherub Rock" (Smashing Pumpkins), that RATM one with the clean-harmonized tone and ascending scales, "Faster" (Manic Street Preachers), "Forbidden City" (Electronic), "Lights on the Levee" (Royal Trux), "Some Days are Better Than Others" (U2), "November Rain" (Guns'n'Roses), "Wasted" (Mazzy Star), "The Ol' Boozeroony" (Kyuss), "Voodoo Lady" (Ween)

BTW, I like some of these songs, am indifferent to others, love some, hate some. I'm just talking about the guitar solos.

― dave q, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BTW every single solo by the Brazen Hussies' guitarist is astonishingly great, and the longer they are, the better. They're playing the Firkin in Camden Friday the 18th too!

― dave q, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

buckethead of course

― chaki, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wasn't he pre as well? Or did Satriani just try and beat his ass?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

november rain is pre-nevermind by about two weeks in september 91...sorry...

― geoff, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do you have to be dead to listen only to the guitar solo? ie filter out the Smashing Pumpkins somehow - seems like if you can reduce that to background noise, you've perfected contemporary suicide. 'I like her nose, but the lips need more work.' Sorry I can't answer the question directly, as I don't usually hear the guitar solos. I don't mean to be insulting: what other way is there to approach modern music except flatly.

― maryann, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

with a healthy dose of cloying irony, apparently.

― jess, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've usually found that I like Corgan's solos quite a bit when he's playing slowly and tunefully and not much at all when he's playing fast. One reason why "Hummer" is my favourite of their songs. I guess I can give it a mention. I'll give "Cherub Rock" another listen when I log off though. Do Sonic Youth breakdown sections count as guitar solos? Some of their Geffen stuff definitely sounds like it has a guitar solo in the conventional sense - guitarist playing a melodic lead over an accompaniment, where the effect is achieved by what the guitarist does in the lead line. But I think most of the time they still do the collective breakdown thing where the effect is achieved mostly by changes in the overall harmonies, dynamics, structure, etc. So it's not a guitar solo, right, so it doesn't count. I'll go Scooby Doo and vote for "No Queen Blues" now. Fuck, what else? Weezer's "Say It Ain't So?" This is getting depressing. There are a couple decent ones on Morbid Angel's Gateways to Annihilation. I'm a little undecided on the guitarist on the whole. I just didn't listen to guitar-solo bands from the 90s. I can barely sit through the Magic Hour now. I'll fuck off now and leave this thread to Built to Spill/Yo La Tengo fans.

― sundar , really stoked to play Siamese Dream now, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That "Cherub Rock" solo is good. So is "Quiet" actually. Siamese Dream is great.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Soma" may be the best. "Mayonnaise" is nice too. But, ultimately, that I had to go back and listen says something. These weren't songs I remembered primarily for the guitar solos. The best part of Siamese Dream is probably the part immediately after the "Soma" solo.

The Weezer one might not have even been worth mentioning.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Every single Robert Fripp wannabe solo on the Dillinger Escape Plan's _Calculating Infinity_.

― David Raposa, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Corgan's solo on "Rhinoceros" from 'Gish' is fucking ridiculously sweet... but was that pre-'Nevermind'? Oh well, all the 'Siamese Dream' ones are awesome, too.

― Clarke B., Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe I was going too rough on the Magic Hour. "Heads Down 2" and "Isn't A Way" do deserve some consideration at least. I'll pick "Summoning Redemption" from Gateways to Annihilation for consideration right now.

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All the Dinosaur Jr ones.

― jel, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Entombed - "Rotten Soil", The Hellacopters - "A Cross for Cain". there have been lots of good ones from Japan too. I'm not sure any of these should count though; they're so not post-Nevermind in any sense but chronologically.

― Kris, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, how about that noise at the end of Fugazi's "By You?" Does that count?

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, found one! "Bad Blood" by Ministry, off 'Dark Side of the Spoon'

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten months pass...

Solos in "Soma" and "Geek U.S.A." (both by the Pumpkins) = priceless

― Curtis Stephens, Friday, 29 November 2002 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

All of Euroboy's solos are great. THey're complete blues-licks-sped-up-for-deathpunk, but they sound awesome, just like everything else about Turbonegro.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth, "Rain on Tin"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 November 2002 03:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Also: "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden. Lead guitar played at doublespeed over a rhythm section playing at half-speed = classic

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 30 November 2002 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

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