Critique this "100 Greatest Guitar Solos Ever" list

[cirrhosis]

Maggot Brain should be much higher. In the 30's at least.

 

[broon]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
It's not a list of the 100 best guitar players, it's 100 best solos. A solo is all about "feel", how it feels in the song, what it does. The best solo is not necessarily done by the best guitarist. They should not be ranked by skill level of the players.

I understand. I'd put Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms in the top 15. I'd put One in the top 30. I'd put Limelight and La Villa in the top 20. A GnR solo might make top 40.

 

Purple Haze should be #1. Nirvana should not be on it because Kurt couldn't solo for anything. Only two Beatles songs on the list and only one with a Beatle soloing. The End and Revolution should be on there. Anyway, these lists are opinion.

 

[FrogDog]

My favorite solo is in Dogs by Pink Floyd. Good to see Floyd is in there with the other songs though.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: dwell
Purple Haze should be #1. Nirvana should not be on it because Kurt couldn't solo for anything. Only two Beatles songs on the list and only one with a Beatle soloing. The End and Revolution should be on there. Anyway, these lists are opinion.

I was thinking Taxman could have made the cut, myself.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: sm8000
#94 should be placed better than 94th.

Certainly, that's why I bolded it.

 

[chuckywang]

Needs more Dire Straits. Listen to Tunnel of Love by Dire Straits and tell me that doesn't belong in the top 100! The live version of Tunnel of Love and Sultans of Swing off the Alchemy CD is amazing!

 

[Megadeth]

I agree with a lot of those but where is teh Megadeth at?

 

[BrianH1]

nice to see Phish up there

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: broon

Originally posted by: Leper Messiah

Originally posted by: broon
Some of those look like afterthoughts. Rush - Working Man? La Villa Strangiato and Limelight are much better and should be in the top 20.

Freebird is too high and Metallica shouldn't be in the top 20.

WTF?! :| You gotta be joking me on that. They have some of the best gituar solos ever.

Serious. Satriani taught Kirk. Satriani > Kirk.

Zep, VH, Rush, Jimi, Randy, Satriani, Johnson, Knopfler, Floyd, Clapton, Vai all deserve multiple spots in the top 20. GnR is too high also. Hoey is nowhere to be seen. He should make the list.

 

[SludgeFactory]

Some of the songs on there are dead giveaways that guitarists put this together. And after looking, apparently the source for this is a Guitar World reader's poll from a couple years ago. All in all, it's a pretty good list.

That's not exactly my favorite guitar magazine, but considering what I think their demographic is now, it could have been a lot worse.

 

[Fritzo]

Whole Lotta Love should probably be in the top 10. Everyone recognizes that solo!

 

[BrokenVisage]

FYI - if you want to grab the torrent of these mp3s just search TorrentSpy with the obvious keywords.

 

[Accipiter22]

wait wait....where's Guns N Roses 'Night Train' that had a great solo, and even the outro was awesome on that song...that's gotta be better than like 20 of the entries on that list

 

[Rudee]

Lot of crap in that list, such as 064 Prince - Little Red Corvette. WTF

I'd also add Joe Satriani Flying in a Blue Dream to that list. That is just a mindblowing solo.

 

[Slvrtg277]

No Black Label Society? Come on.....

But it's still a pretty good list with some great solo's in it. There's just a few that should be in there but aren't and a few that shouldn't be included at all.

 

[Saint Nick]

there's a guitar solo in an avenged sevenfold song that is actually really good. not very long though.

 

[love2skate824]

meeh, stairway to heaven aint that hard to play, but its a great solo nonetheless

 

[Kntx]

026 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Please remove.

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: jndietz
there's a guitar solo in an avenged sevenfold song that is actually really good. not very long though.

chapter four?

 

[GasX]

Not enough renditions of Little Wing on that list...

Clapton...
Hendrix... check
Vaughn...