great guitar solos of the '00s

I feel like we may have done something along these lines but not exactly before, but it feels like a good time to do this off the back of Guitar bands who don't really do guitar solos, and the how and why of not doing guitar solos

Apollo Sunshine - "Ghost"

Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle"

^^ actually my least favorite single from that album but a pretty good solo, really one of the only memorable solos I can think of from a big hit song in the past 10 years

Wilco - "Impossible Germany"

^^ what up kshighway

yeah yeah yeahs - "turn into"

Silkworm - (I Hope U) Don't Survive

Say Anything - "People Like You Are Why People Like Me Exist"

the hunches - when i became you
white stripes - death letter

^^ what up kshighway

And me and Daniel, Esq., iirc.

well yeah lots of people like that song but i wanted to say what up to my kshighway and dem

Faraquet - "Study In Complacency"

Sam Prekop, "Dot Eye" (solo by Archer Prewitt)

Silversun Pickups' "Lazy Eye" has several very nice solos; not sure if I'd call them great but I might.

By the way, I think this is the thread you're thinking of; "Lazy Eye" is the first song mentioned there.

Another Wilco song I'd pick is "At Least That's What You Said"; that solo is really great.

Luna's "Black Champagne" has a gorgeous solo that finishes off the song ...

Also, Malkmus: "Church On White"

Ted Leo - "Biomusicology"

The live "High Water" on Dylan's Bootleg Series 8 has a great solo.

Sonic Youth - "Rain On Tin"

^^ hard to really call an instrumental section of any SY song a "solo," especially on one of the albums w/ 3 people playing guitar, but this is definitely kind of a Thurston showcase

i was waiting for you to post that one

i would totally call that a solo (and an awesome one, too)

At Least That's What You Said seconded. I love that solo - the rest of the l.p is pretty dull.

Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed

My Chemical Romance - "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)"

^^ finally thought of some competition for "The Middle" as far as hit singles

Faraquet - "Study In Complacency"

they're still around?

the one album they made came out in 2000 (although they released an odds'n'sodds comp and played a few reunion shows last year)

The Darkness - "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"

My Morning Jacket - Lay Low

A truly great Southern rock guitar solo.

some friends of mine did a split with them in '99

Queens Of The Stone Age - "No One Knows"

Foo Fighters - "Long Road To Ruin"

Jace Everett - Bad Things

Wilco - "Impossible Germany"

^^ what up kshighway

― crazypoxyfule (some dude)

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^^ what up kshighway

And me and Daniel, Esq., iirc.

― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Best solo I've heard this decade.

pretty sure this is my favourite guitar solo ever, also best solo-in-context-of-the-song-it's-a-part-of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1z0FGxWi7Q

I was just scrolling down to post that very track samosa. It seems like it shouldn't work but it does

;)

Ronnie Earl to thread.

Didn't we do this some months ago?

Wait, no it was for memorable riffs of the 00's, not solos. My bad.

RATATAT!

Also johnny greenwood's solo on "go to sleep" is the only redeeming feature on that song.

Queens Of The Stone Age "Little Sister"
Silversun Pickups "Little Lover's So Polite"

Bitte Orca has a few tight solos, especially "Useful Chamber"

Someone needs to nominate some Meshuggah.

But I'm going to say "Grasping Air" by YOB.

Tom Waits "Hoist That Rag"

Oh yeah, Daft Punk - "Digital Love"

yeah, marc ribot has had some great solos for sure

Dammit i thought that was one of the bits they didn't rip off.

White Stripes "Ball And Biscuit"
Six Organs Of Admittance "A Thousand Birds" etc.
whoever plays the solo in Grinderman's 'No Pussy Blues"

The entire two sides of neil michael hagerty's first solo record. also "louisa la ray" from plays that good old rock n roll.

David Rawlings (plays with Gillian Welch) deserves to be mentioned -- he pretty much kills on acoustic throughout the Time the Revelator album ....

Oh yeah for sure! Also on the record they backed Robyn Hitchcock on, Spooked. Check 'If You Know Time'.

the strokes "whatever happened" is my fav solo of the decade

also my chem "i don't love you"

Rawlings plays a bit of electric on the other Gillian Welch album from this decade, Soul Journey, but I'd be curious to hear him just completely shred non-unplugged-style. He's got something called the David Rawlings Machine, with an album coming out next month I think? Dunno what that'll be like.

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well yeah lots of people like that song but i wanted to say what up to my kshighway and dem

― crazypoxyfule (some dude), Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

hey yoooo

Boris with Michio - Rainbow might be my favourite solo ever as well

the 'digital love' solo sounds like a synth trying to emulate a guitar to me? not that it matters, it's fantastic

Digital Love is a synth guitar surely? Fantastic solo, and as far as I can tell, played by one of DP, not a session muso.

Second Impossible Germany (which is Nels Cline) and At Least That's What You Said, which is Tweedy.

Rawlings sure does shred it on an acoustic live.

How about Steven Drodz on Powerless from the new Flaming Lips? It's really fucked up, a kind of splattery, dissonant anti-solo with piercing Pete Cosey style high register fuzz and delay shrieks.

Rawlings sure does shred it on an acoustic live.

aw fuck you, tube!

ween - woman and man

There was a Drive By Truckers song from Southern Rock Opera that had a memorable solo. I think it was "Shut Up and Get on the Plane" or "Greenville to Baton Rouge".

^^^ the last two minutes of "Decoration Day" w/ all three guitarist shredding is one of my fave

"Say Please" from the Monsters of Folk album. Only reason I bought a copy. (And no, it wasn't worth it.)

Digital Love is a synth guitar surely?

definitely sounds like a synth emulating a guitar, and not someone physically paying a guitar or guitar-like synth.

playing*

Ghost - Hazy Paradise
Wilco - Impossible Germany

yo la tengo - cherry chapstick

Not sure if this counts as a guitar solo, since it probably wasn't extemporaneous, but the last minute of Liz Phair's "Red Light Fever" is very memorable.

Blake Sennett's outro solo on RK's "I Never" is beautifully melodic.

How about Steven Drodz on Powerless from the new Flaming Lips? It's really fucked up, a kind of splattery, dissonant anti-solo with piercing Pete Cosey style high register fuzz and delay shrieks.

― Stew, Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:17 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

YES

The solo at the very beginning of The Wolf by Andrew WK makes me think of Brian May or something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgiG1qWW_Jo

New Pornographers - "Twin Cinema"

Meshuggah - Straws Pulled At Random

the digital love solo was programmed rather than live played i think - i remember one interview when the daft punk guys pretended to not understand why anyone would think the difference mattered, which was endearing

The Darkness "Love Is Only A Feeling"

I feel like we may have done something along these lines but not exactly before, but it feels like a good time to do this off the back of Guitar bands who don't really do guitar solos, and the how and why of not doing guitar solos

Apollo Sunshine - "Ghost"

― crazypoxyfule (some dude), Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:56 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Hey man, I dl'd this tune and really liked it and then went to search ilx for other Apollo Sunshine references and it's pretty much just you reppin' hard for them. So I just wanted to let you know that I'll probably buy the whole album sometime later on if I have $10 to spare.

fuckin' sweet, dude. that album's in my top 10 of the decade, great stuff.

the strokes "whatever happened" is my fav solo of the decade

― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:10 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

was about to say the same thing.

Can't believe this thread is 5 years old! I found quite a few good records from here. It's weird though, I could have sworn that someone mentioned Nowhere to Go by Friends of Dean Martinez on here.

Anyway, how about great guitar solos of the '10s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb9dg1R1oPA

sufjan stevens - djohariah

Charalambides (Tom Carter) "Into The Earth"

Wow, that sufjan track is no joke! Where did THAT come from?