Bottom Of The Barrel

My top guitar solo's (Part 2)

Best Seattle Sound Solo

The Seattle sound brought us many new bands, but none as colorful as the Stone Temple Pilots. On their 3rd studio album came a very short and lyrically confusing song called Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart. To this day I'm still not sure what this song is all about but when you hit the solo your brain won't care what the song is about anymore. Honorable mention has be given to Pearl Jam's Alive which might be the classic grunge era song.

Best Return Of Rock Solo

Post grunge, we got back into more traditional rock music and no band was bigger [and badder] than Gun N' Roses. Slash has lay down some memorable riffs over the years but none are as good and commercial as Sweet Child O' Mine. From the opening riff though the melodic solo, this song is all rock, all guns, all the time.

Best From The Guys Who Started It All

When The Beatles came to America in 1964, it was obvious the music had changed forever. They began what turned out to be an unprecedented and perhaps never to be reproduced attack on the ears and minds of the worlds youth. Of all of their songs, Let It Be may not be the one you think of with regards to solos but the subtle solo Harrison adds to McCartney's piano creates an all time classic.

Best Heavy Metal Solo

While heavy metal is usually not my personal taste, Metallica's One as always been a favorite track of mine. Starts slow and soft and over the next 7 minutes it builds to a driving metal riff and solo that will get your blood pumping and your heart racing.

Best Solo That Crossed Into The Street

Aerosmith has had their ups and downs but with their re-release of Walk This Way featuring Run DMC, they got them selves back into the public ear. Not only did this track get the bad boys from Boston back on track, it also helped hip hop find an audience and is the song many have credited with bringing hip hop from the street and getting it on MTV. There is no doubt if this track had never happened, many of urban artist that followed RUN DMC would never had made it.

Best Only-Solo Solo

For all of the classic songs Queen created over the 14 albums they released while Freddie was with us, the bridge between We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions not only fills the "empty" space between the tracks but totally rocks the basic foot stomp and hand clap music. By the way, these two songs are the classic 1-and-1 rock songs and were made to be played together, never apart.

Best Solo That Is Barely There

The Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing is one of my favorite songs because it is so gentle in tone and tempo but oh so complex in riff and beats. When you get to the long solo, you are treated to one of those solo's that feels like the rest of the song was created to fill around. Note: I know the video doesn't include the full end-of-song solo, so go out and get a copy to enjoy the entire sweet solo.

Best Solo To End A Song

No one rocks the ending of a song like Prince does at the end of Let's Go Crazy. The song itself is a great uptempo pop song but the guitar work it simply outstanding. The mid song solo is tight and the crazy guitar work to bring the song to a close is the kind of sound I wish more artist went for because it wraps up the poppin' song so perfectly [as well as this post].

Labels: Music

posted by TheWino @ 8:50 AM