The Worst Solos

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I do still have some hitherto unmentioned bad solos in mind, though.

"please don't put your life in the hands/of a rock'n'roll band".

Whatever.

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In fact, I can imagine (though unsurprisingly I don't know the track you're referring to) that ironic solos might tend to be some of the worst of all, assuming that they do exist as a category.

Pearl Jam -- Yellow Ledbetter guitar solo

Europe: "Final Countdown"
(the guitar solo obv. - the synth theme was genius)

gotta be one of those wanky post-pavement malkmus solos

as opposed to one of the awesome wanky pavement solos

Norm Fay ^^^^ spot on re Oasis. Some of their lead breaks are almost laughable. Unimaginatively up and down the scale in a ploddingly predictable way .

The only thing that ruins the latest The Steady's greatest is one or two 'licks' in the same vein.

For some reason though, I love the OTT solo in 'Lord, Im Discouraged' . It's so fucking over the top. That's why.

I prefer aggro solos like Greg Ginn's in 'Rise Above'. Anything messy and angry

I prefer aggro solos like Greg Ginn's in 'Rise Above'. Anything messy and angry

Reminds me of Bob's anarchy solos on old Replacements records (even if it was Paul who supposedly played them)

wtf with the Digitial Love solo hate?

honestly, that is one of the best talk box solos ever

not that i know a ton of them

Elvis Telecom - Stinson's efforts are my food!OTFuckingM

David Bowie's solo in "Sweet Thing" (it's charming too).

trey from phish is an enormously boring soloist for being such a "musical genius"

Bowie's Sweet Thing solo is so incredible, how successfully he "pretends" to play the guitar mirroring exactly the sweet/lascivious playacting of the song

am I the only one who finds the solo in My Sharona totally unbearable?

steve howe and alan white of yes do these sort of "stadium rock" solos on Release, Release from the dreaded tormato album which are terrible (but maybe that was point)

Lil Wayne to thread

W/Guitar plz

Gah, 'Final Countdown' was also the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. Instead, I'll offer any Red Hot Chili Peppers solo (and that includes *you*, Flea) not by John Frusciante. Proof that keeping it simple and playing for the song is better than virtuosity

One of my personal least-favourites is AK-47 - The Badge Means You Suck, which is a great song but the guitar solo is just shite, badly played (hey, it's punk!) and goes on for ages. I supposed it bugs me more because otherwise I love the song.

What's that godawful song, it's all bouncy and angular and like "got to get you into got to get you into got to get you into my liii-ii-iife!!" it might be a cover...but whatever version of whatever song it is i HATE IT SOOO MUCH. All the lead guitar in that can go kill itself along with the rest of the song.

Dylan's solo on "I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind," from Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute, is pretty embarrassing.

Going by my own fumblings, I'm surprised at how rarely guitarists mess up solos live. I did have a tape of a Suede gig soon after Richard Oakes joined where he gets the 'My Dark Star' solo all wrong - he plays the right notes, but isn't damping the strings. As the rest of the band drop out at that point, the effect ain't pretty

am I the only one who finds the solo in My Sharona totally unbearable

Jesus I hope so. That's a great solo!

John Mayer's solo on Fall Out Boy's cover of "Beat It" is absolutely fucking atrocious

If anyone can find something worse than, I fear for the future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFllo3i3HFs

eesh, that could be posted in the "[famous guitarist] shreds" thread with nary a batted eyelid.

WOW @ paul stanley vid

lock thread

Oasis? You mean Oasis have solos?

I love the Paul Stanley thread, but it does look like he's spoofing his own lack of shredding ability

I meant vid, not thread

I also clicked on the Gene Simmons solo that was linked to that, but had about enough after about one minute.

he plays the right notes, but isn't damping the strings.
haha.

If anyone can find something worse than, I fear for the future:

Good Christ, that's the death of rock and roll right there.

half expect him to start playing the guitar with a violin

it's not that far removed from a StSanders joint.

Which says it all.

multiple hilariously bad solos in Crying Shame by Frijid Pink

Spirit in the Sky -- a song I actually kind of love, has a really terrible guitar solo -- specifically the part where the chords change and it goes from A to G to A to C 2x, so weak and thuddy.

It's like the buildup and the backing tracks say "reverse dunk" but then he just shoots an awkward layup.

the solo in "I Can See for Miles" seems like it's gonna be awesome, but then it turns out to be one sorry note on repeat. i guess as a contrarian assault on overindulgent guitar wankery it's alright, but the actual solo kind of sucks.

Madonna's guitar solo in the 2001 live version of "Candy Perfume Girl."

I really hate Bob Stinson's solo in "Bastards of Young."

Uriah Heep - "Gypsy" has the worst organ solo ever recorded, I think

You mad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28kudqwENs

the solo in "I Can See for Miles" seems like it's gonna be awesome, but then it turns out to be one sorry note on repeat. i guess as a contrarian assault on overindulgent guitar wankery it's alright, but the actual solo kind of sucks.

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, September 4, 2012 3:00 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One of my favorite Townshend solos. And as Miles Davis said, "He knows how not to play. Somebody else would use three chords, but he picks the one, the right one, and uses it. He knows how not to play."

i agree in the sense that if it were anything else, it might have been worse, but i feel like it should erupt in a way that it doesn't

Electric Wizard's headlining set at Deathfest this summer saw the band stumble into some blues licks and the main dude tried to solo a bit and it was very St. Sanders, just laughably poor. Otherwise they rocked but damn that was awkward.