I like to "rock out" as much as the next guy. But surely there are other riffs that are appropriate for more "mellow" moods. Let's list them.
1. Baker Street--Gerry Rafferty
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 26 February 2009 02:21 (seventeen years ago)
2. Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl Like You (synth)
― iago g., Thursday, 26 February 2009 02:28 (seventeen years ago)
3. Daisy Jane - America. OMFG, I have to change my pants.
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Thursday, 26 February 2009 02:39 (seventeen years ago)
4. you belong to the city -- glenn frey
― kamerad, Thursday, 26 February 2009 02:41 (seventeen years ago)
5. Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
― iago g., Thursday, 26 February 2009 02:44 (seventeen years ago)
6. the captain of her heart -- double
― kamerad, Thursday, 26 February 2009 02:48 (seventeen years ago)
does the rhodes riff in you make loving fun count?
― juicy sweet are (electricsound), Thursday, 26 February 2009 02:57 (seventeen years ago)
rhodes riffs are basically about as top as it gets.
― burt_stanton, Thursday, 26 February 2009 03:00 (seventeen years ago)
7. Intro to Little River Band's "Man On Your Mind"
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 26 February 2009 03:03 (seventeen years ago)
god, it's amazing how much soft rock my parents liked. fleetwood mac, elton john, steely dan. I grew up in a smoooooooooth household. My dad even did coke before coaching our Little League games.
― burt_stanton, Thursday, 26 February 2009 03:03 (seventeen years ago)
8. Xylophone solo in Starbuck's "Moonlight Feels Right"
9. "Sister Golden Hair", America
― Euler, Thursday, 26 February 2009 03:11 (seventeen years ago)
10. Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (piano)11. Journey - Stone In Love (rock guitar)12. Journey - Lights (blues guitar)
I could go on all night really.
― Matt #2, Thursday, 26 February 2009 03:17 (seventeen years ago)
Unless you count Stone In Love as "hard rock".
13. Toto - Africa (synth)
― Matt #2, Thursday, 26 February 2009 03:18 (seventeen years ago)
14. big log -- robert plant
― kamerad, Thursday, 26 February 2009 03:45 (seventeen years ago)
15. Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes (piano riff)
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:24 (seventeen years ago)
16. Paul Simon - Me & Julio
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:25 (seventeen years ago)
17. Todd Rundgren - I Saw the Light
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:27 (seventeen years ago)
18. Hall & Oates - She's Gone
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:28 (seventeen years ago)
19. Redbone - Come and Get Your Love (electric sitar riffs!)
20. Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:29 (seventeen years ago)
21. Hall & Oates - Sarah Smile
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:30 (seventeen years ago)
22. John Sebastian - Welcome Back, Kotter
23. Paul McCartney & Wings - Listen to What the Man Said
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:31 (seventeen years ago)
24. Queen - You're My Best Friend
25. The Bee Gees - Nights on Broadway
26. Randy Newman - Short People
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:33 (seventeen years ago)
27. John Paul Young - Love is in the Air
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:34 (seventeen years ago)
28. Winner, and still champion, Little River Band - Reminiscing
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:35 (seventeen years ago)
29. er, maybe this is the winner: The Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes
30. if basslines are riffs: Paul Simon - Late in the Evening
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:37 (seventeen years ago)
31. Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
32. Player - Baby Come Back
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:37 (seventeen years ago)
33. Sanford Townsend Band: Smoke From a Distant Fire
34. Glen Campbell: Southern Nights
― that's not my post, Thursday, 26 February 2009 06:12 (seventeen years ago)
35. Here Comes the Sun
― double bird strike (gabbneb), Thursday, 26 February 2009 06:15 (seventeen years ago)
36. Los Bravos - Black is Black
― that's not my post, Thursday, 26 February 2009 06:56 (seventeen years ago)
i'm having trouble recognizing the riffs, exactly, in a lot of these--intros, yes
― iago g., Thursday, 26 February 2009 07:17 (seventeen years ago)
37 . Wonderful tonight - Eric Clapton
― Josh L, Thursday, 26 February 2009 08:43 (seventeen years ago)
38. The Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime
― meisenfek, Thursday, 26 February 2009 08:50 (seventeen years ago)
39. PYG - Flower Sun Rain
― meisenfek, Thursday, 26 February 2009 08:52 (seventeen years ago)
40.
― velko, Thursday, 26 February 2009 09:02 (seventeen years ago)
41. 10cc - Art For Art's Sake
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 26 February 2009 09:06 (seventeen years ago)
42.
― velko, Thursday, 26 February 2009 09:09 (seventeen years ago)
42. Richard Sanderson - Reality
:>
― meisenfek, Thursday, 26 February 2009 09:13 (seventeen years ago)
43. 10cc- I'm not in love
44. Paul Simon - Graceland
― straightola, Thursday, 26 February 2009 10:38 (seventeen years ago)
45. Christopher Cross - Sailing < I love that frigging song
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, 26 February 2009 10:48 (seventeen years ago)
Don Henley - Boys Of Summer
― Chris in Belfast, Thursday, 26 February 2009 11:19 (seventeen years ago)
Sorry, that's 46.
I likes me some pseudo-Baroque in my soft rock
47. Cat Stevens - Morning has Broken48. John Denver - Annie's Song
also, Paul Maurait - Love is Blue. But I don't think that qualifies as rock in any form.
― bendy, Thursday, 26 February 2009 11:25 (seventeen years ago)
> 6. the captain of her heart -- double
^ Best song on Avalon by a mile
― bendy, Thursday, 26 February 2009 11:27 (seventeen years ago)
49. Al Stewart - Time Passages
It doesn't start till you're more than halfway through the song, but it's worth the wait.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 26 February 2009 14:19 (seventeen years ago)
Is Bob Welch's "Ebony Eyes" too hard for this list?
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, 26 February 2009 14:39 (seventeen years ago)
50. Nick Gilder - "Hot Child in teh City"
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, 26 February 2009 14:42 (seventeen years ago)
^^ probably too hard as well, but...
50. STARBUCK - Moonlight Feels Right
synth diddles during the chorus are soft rock crack
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, 26 February 2009 14:45 (seventeen years ago)
51. Dave Mason - "We Just Disagree"
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, 26 February 2009 14:48 (seventeen years ago)
52. Seals and Crofts, "Summer Breeze"
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:12 (seventeen years ago)
53. Another great one from America. So good that Janet Jackson sampled it.
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:14 (seventeen years ago)
Wait, how did we make it all the way to 54 without this?
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:27 (seventeen years ago)
55. Medicine Head - One and One is One (awsome smoothsomeness aah-oy)
― t**t, Thursday, 26 February 2009 18:07 (seventeen years ago)