“Marquee Moon” – Television
“Whole Lotta Love” – Led Zeppelin
“Seven Nation Army” – White Stripes
“Purple Haze” – Jimi Hendrix Experience
“One Way Or Another” – Blondie
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” – Nirvana
“Paranoid Android” – Radiohead

Back in Black by Ac/Dc of course!!!

“Trapped Under Ice” Metallica
“Maggot Brain” Funkadelic
“Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’” Stones
“Know Your Enemy” Rage
“In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” Allmans
“Little Wing” Hendrix
“Eruption” Van Halen
“Money” Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin:

Since I’ve Been Loving You
Stairway To Heaven
Tea For One

Jimi Hendrix:

Machine Gun
All Along The Watchtower

That Lady- Isley Brothers
Space Guitar- Johnny Guitar Watson

Ball and Biscuit – White Stripes
When the Levee Breaks – Led Zeppelin
Where the Streets Have No Name – U2
Eruption – Van Halen
Safe European Home – The Clash
Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones
See Me, Feel Me – The Who
Voodoo Chile – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Unforgiven – Metallica
Estranged – Guns N’Roses
Alive – Pearl Jam
Zero – The Smashing Pumpkins

Paranoid Android-Radiohead
Just-Radioh ead
The Fly-U2
Bullet the Blue Sky-U2
Helter Skelter-The Beatles
What Difference Does it Make?-The Smiths
Search and Destroy-The Stooges
Start Me Up-Rolling Stones
River Euphrates-The Pixies
Mannish Boy-Muddy Waters
Transmission-Joy Division
Run Like Hell-Pink Floyd
Ball and Biscuit-White Stripes
Re-make/Re-model-Roxy Music
Substitute-The Who

Van halen-eruption
Van halen-hot for teacher
van halen-right now
van halen-human beings
Jimi hendrix-all along the watchtower
Jimi hendrix-star spangled banner
Neil Young-keep on rockin in the free world
PEarl jam-alive
led zepelin-stairway to heaven
Led zepelin-ggod times bad times
Lnyrd sknyrd-free bird

any dave navarro guitar work on the first three janes addiction records (self titled live album, Nothing’s shocking, Ritual de lo habitual).

Guns N’ Roses – Entire catalogue through the Chinese Democracy leaks with the exception of “My World”.

White Stripes – “Icky Thump”

Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”

Alice In Chains – entire catalogue

AC/DC – entire catalogue which sounds exactly the same.

Donnie Iris~”Ah Leah”/Andrew Gold on Linda Ronstadt’s “You’re No Good”~”When Will I Be Loved”/Hollies~”The Air That I Breathe”/Eric Clapton~”Let It Rain”/Raspberries~”Ecstacy”/Ed die Cochran~”Summertime Blues”/Buddy Holly~”That’ll Be The Day”/Heart~”Barracuda”/Alex Chilton~”Can’t Seem To Make You Mine”

“Bring It On” Thirty-Eight Special
“After Midnight (slow version)” Clapton
“Pride And Joy” Stevie Ray
“Shoot to Thrill” AC/DC
“Welcome To The Jungle” Guns and Roses
“Damn Right I Got The Blues” Buddy Guy
“Lie To Me” Johnny Lang
“Surfing With The Alien” Joe Satriani

ten years after: id love to change the world
television: marquee moon
tom petty and the HB: runnin down a dream
skynyrd: that smell
allman bros: mountain jam (eat a peach)

“One Armed Scissor”- At the Drive In
“Helter Skelter”- The Beatles
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”- Beatles
“Don’t Fear the Reaper”- Blue Oyster Cult
“Welcome Home”- Coheed and Cambria
“Ziggy Stardust”- David Bowie
“Hotel California”- The Eagles
“Stop”- Jane’s Addiction
“Carry On My Wayward Son”- Kansas
“You Really Got Me”- The Kinks
“Immigrant Song”- Led Zeppelin
“Stairway to Heaven”- Led Zeppelin
“Goliath”- The Mars Volta
“Fuel”- Metallica
“Stockholm Syndrome”- Muse
“Plug In Baby”- Muse
“Off the Record”- My Morning Jacket
“Aneurysm”- Nirvana
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”- Nirvana
“War Pigs”- Black Sabbath
“Even Flow”- Pearl Jam
“Hey You”- Pink Floyd
“Don’t Stop Me Now”- Queen
“No One Knows”- Queens of the Stone Age
“Paranoid Android”- Radiohead
“Just”- Radiohead
“Sleep Now In The Fire”-Rage Against the Machine
“I Wanna Be Sedated”- The Ramones
“Can’t Stop”- Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Paint It Black”- Rolling Stones
“Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”-Rolling Stones
“YYZ”- Rush
“Closer to the Sun”- Slightly Stoopid
“The Passenger”- Iggy Pop
“Reptilia”- The Strokes
“Vicarious”- Tool
“Heroin”- The Velvet Underground
“El Scorcho”- Weezer
“Blue Orchid”- White Stripes
“Icky Thump”- White Stripes

The list was made with caution, accuracy and careful consideration. It is not biased but taken from various information sources.
——————– ———————
#1: Comfortably Numb – 1979 (Pink Floyd)
#2: Stairway To Heaven – 1971 (Led Zeppelin)
#3: Hotel California – 1977 (Eagles)
#4: Voodoo Chile – 1968 (Jimi Hendrix)
#5: Layla – 1970 (Eric Clapton/Duane Allman)
#6: Sultans of Swing – 1978 (Dire Straits)
#7: Johnny B Goode – 1958 (Chuck Berry)
#8: Sweet Child O’ Mine – 1988 (Guns N’ Roses)
#9: While My Guitar Gently Weeps – 1968 Eric Clapton (The Beatles)
#10: Sunshine Of Your Love – 1968 (Cream)
#11: Texas Flood – 1983 (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
#12: Money – 1973 (Pink Floyd)
#13: Money for Nothing – 1985 (Dire Straits)
#14: Beat It – 1982 Eddie Van Halen (Michael Jackson)
#15: Hummingbird – 1971 (B.B. King)
#16: White Room – 1968 (Cream)
#17: Little Wing – 1967 (Jimi Hendrix)
#18: Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers – (Jeff Beck)
#19: Theme from Come September – 1961 (Chet Atkins)
#20: Smoke On The Water – 1972 (Deep Purple)
#21: One of These Days – 1971 (Pink Floyd)
#22: I Can’t Get No Satisfaction – 1965 (Rolling Stones)
#23: Bo Diddley – 1955 (Bo Diddley)
#24: Are You Gonna Go My Way – 1992 (Lenny Kravitz)
#25: Moby Dick – 1969 (Led Zeppelin)
#26: Walk This Way – 1975 (Aerosmith)
#27: I Can’t Tell You Why – 1980 (Eagles)
#28: Have A Cigar – 1975 (Pink Floyd)
#29: November Rain – 1992 (Guns n’ Roses)
#30: Come as You Are – 1992 (Nirvana)
#31: Smells Like Teen Spirit – 1992 (Nirvana)
#32: Roadhouse Blues – 1969 (The Doors)
#33: Brothers In Arms – 1984 (Dire Straits)
#34: Apache – 1960 (The Shadows)
#35: Surfing with the Alien – 1987 (Joe Satriani)
#36: On An Island – 2006 (David Gilmour)
#37: Fade To Black – 1984 (Metallica)

Still got the Blues (for You)-Gary Moore

Still got the Blues-Gary Moore

Ramble Tamble – CCR

Let’s Go Crazy – Prince
Start Me Up – Rolling Stones
Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
La Grange – ZZTop
Black Dog – Led Zeppelin
What You Need – INXS
Jailbreak – AC/DC
Rock the Casbah – The Clash
I Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
We Will Rock You – Queen
Would I Lie To You? -Eurythmics
Whip It – Devo
Revolution – The Beatles
Jump – Van Halen
Riders on the Storm – The Doors
Joker and the Thief – Wolfmother
That’s Entertainment – The Jam
Suffragette City – David Bowie
Song 2 – Blur
Supermassive Black Hole – Blur
Let’s Go – The Cars
Somebody Told Me – The Killers
Live & Let Die – Paul McCartney / Guns’N'Roses
Are You Gonna Go My Way – Lenny Kravitz
Celebrity Skin – Hole
Friday On My Mind – The Easybeats
My Sharona – The Knack
Power And The Passion – Midnight Oil

“Dani California-RHCP
Paranoid Android-Radiohead
Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana
Teen Age Riot-Sonic Youth
Run Run Run-The Velvet Underground
Serve The Servants-Nirvana
Seven Nation Army-The White Stripes
Ball and Biscuit-The White Stripes
Voodoo Chile(Slight Return)-Jimi Hendrix
Purple Haze-Jimi Hendrix
Little Wing-Jimi Hendrix/SRV
Impossible Germany-Wilco
Statesboro Blues-The Allman Brothers
In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed-The Allman Brothers
Mardy Bum-The Arctic Monkeys
While My Guitar Gently Weeps-The Beatles
And Your Bird Can Sing- The Beatles
Helter Skelter-The Beatles
Marquee Moon-Television
Revolution 1-The Beatles
I Feel Fine-THe Beatles
Piece Of My Heart-Big Brother and the Holding Company
Sunshine of Your Love-Cream
White Room-Cream
Crossroads-Cre am
SW LABR-Cream
Badge-Cream
The Jean Genie-David Bowie
Suffragette City-David Bowie
Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad-Derek and The Dominos
Layla-Derek and the Dominos
Hotel california-The Eagles
Till The Morning Comes-The Grateful Dead
Sugar Magnolia-The Grateful Dead
Search and Destroy-The Stooges
Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell-The Stooges
Fire and Rain-James Taylor
Highway Chile-Jimi Hendrix
Red House-Jimi Hendrix
Castles Made Of Sand-Jimi Hendrix
Bold As Love-Jimi Hendrix
Foxy Lady-Jimi Hendrix
Gravity-John Mayer
Slow Dancing In A Burning Room-John Mayer
Big Yellow Taxi-Joni Mitchell
Sweet Home Chicago-Robert Johnson
Iron Man-Black Sabbath
Smoke On The Water-Deep Purple
People Get Ready-Curtis Mayfield
Maybellene-Chuch Berry
Johnny B. Goode-Chuck Berry
1969-The Stooges
1970-The Stooges
Fun House-The STooges
The Wind Cries Mary-The STooges
Gimme Shelter-THe RS
Brown Sugar- The RS
I Can’t Get No(Satisfaction)-The RS
Come In The Morning-Moby Grape
Marijuana Hemp Blues-Muddy Waters
Hoochie Coochie Man-Muddy Waters
Touch Me I’m Sick-Mudhoney
Alive-Pearl Jam
Even Flow-Pearl Jam
Bodysnatchers-Radiohe ad
Ba ngers N Mash-Radiohead
Under The Bridge-RHCP
Scar Tissue-RHCP
Can’t Stop-RHCP
God Save The Queen-THe Sex Pistols
Sharksfin Blues-The Drones
Say It Ain’t So-Weezer

#1: Comfortably Numb – 1979 (Pink Floyd)
#2: Stairway To Heaven – 1971 (Led Zeppelin)
#3: Hotel California – 1977 (Eagles)
#4: Voodoo Chile – 1968 (Jimi Hendrix)
#5: Layla – 1970 (Eric Clapton/Duane Allman)
#6: Sultans of Swing – 1978 (Dire Straits)
#7: Johnny B Goode – 1958 (Chuck Berry)
#8: Sweet Child O’ Mine – 1988 (Guns N’ Roses)
#9: While My Guitar Gently Weeps – 1968 Eric Clapton (The Beatles)
#10: Sunshine Of Your Love – 1968 (Cream)
#11: Texas Flood – 1983 (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
#12: Money – 1973 (Pink Floyd)
#13: Money for Nothing – 1985 (Dire Straits)
#14: Beat It – 1982 Eddie Van Halen (Michael Jackson)
#15: Hummingbird – 1971 (B.B. King)
#16: White Room – 1968 (Cream)
#17: Little Wing – 1967 (Jimi Hendrix)
#18: Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers – (Jeff Beck)
#19: Theme from Come September – 1961 (Chet Atkins)
#20: Smoke On The Water – 1972 (Deep Purple)

#21: One of These Days – 1971 (Pink Floyd)
#22: I Can’t Get No Satisfaction – 1965 (Rolling Stones)
#23: Bo Diddley – 1955 (Bo Diddley)
#24: Are You Gonna Go My Way – 1992 (Lenny Kravitz)
#25: Moby Dick – 1969 (Led Zeppelin)
#26: Walk This Way – 1975 (Aerosmith)
#27: I Can’t Tell You Why – 1980 (Eagles)
#28: Have A Cigar – 1975 (Pink Floyd)
#29: November Rain – 1992 (Guns n’ Roses)
#30: Come as You Are – 1992 (Nirvana)
#31: Smells Like Teen Spirit – 1992 (Nirvana)
#32: Roadhouse Blues – 1969 (The Doors)
#33: Brothers In Arms – 1984 (Dire Straits)
#34: Apache – 1960 (The Shadows)
#35: Surfing with the Alien – 1987 (Joe Satriani)
#36: On An Island – 2006 (David Gilmour)
#37: Fade To Black – 1984 (Metallica)

#21: One of These Days – 1971 (Pink Floyd)
#22: I Can’t Get No Satisfaction – 1965 (Rolling Stones)
#23: Bo Diddley – 1955 (Bo Diddley)
#24: Are You Gonna Go My Way – 1992 (Lenny Kravitz)
#25: Moby Dick – 1969 (Led Zeppelin)
#26: Walk This Way – 1975 (Aerosmith)
#27: I Can’t Tell You Why – 1980 (Eagles)
#28: Have A Cigar – 1975 (Pink Floyd)
#29: November Rain – 1992 (Guns n’ Roses)
#30: Come as You Are – 1992 (Nirvana)
#31: Smells Like Teen Spirit – 1992 (Nirvana)
#32: Roadhouse Blues – 1969 (The Doors)
#33: Brothers In Arms – 1984 (Dire Straits)

will not bloat things with a long list – though RS does want a list for ALL time (in no particular order):

1) Crossroads – Cream
2) Runnin’ Down a Dream – Tom Petty
3) One – Metallica
4) Pride and Joy (MTV Unplugged) – Stevie Ray Vaughn
5) Rise Above – Black Flag
6) Little Martha – Allman Brothers
7) Sweet Child O Mine – guns and roses
Rusty Cage – Soundgarden
9) Purple Rain – Prince
10) Never Going Back Again – Fleetwood Mac
11) Guerrilla Radio – Rage Against The Machine
12) Paranoid – Black Sabbath
13) Layla – Derek and the Dominoes
14) Handsome Johnny – Richie Havens
15) Stop – Jane’s Addiction
16) Crazy on You – Heart
17) All I Want is You – U2
18) Everlong – Foo Fighters
19) Suite Judy Blue Eyes – CSNY
20) Tuesday’s Gone – Lynyrd Skynyrd

I’m glad I no longer subscribe to the mag. RS only puts the bands in that they like and always miss some classics and put stuff in by Sleater Kinney? Come on. I’m sure I’ll get hung out, but these songs should have been considered as well.

ZZ Top – Tush, Sharp Dressed Man
Van Halen – Runnin with the devil
Metallica – One
Bon Jovi – Living on a prayer
Whitesnake – Still of the night
Dream Theater – Pull me under
Soundgarden – Outshined
KISS – Detroit Rock City (HELLO??)
Pantera – Walk (great metal riff)
Journey – Don’t Stop Believing
Rush – YYZ, Tom Sawyer
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
Megadeth – Symphony of Destruction
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesday’s Gone, Sweet Home and Freebird (i know freebird was on there)
Heart – Barracuda
Scorpions -Rock you like a hurricane

I feel that Cherub Rock has to be in this list somewhere…

MAGGOT BRAIN-FUNKADELIC
The wind cries Mary-Jimi Hendrix
Hey Joe-Jimi Hendrix
Purple rain-Prince
Amazing-Aerosmith
Dream on-Aerosmith
Since I’ve been loving you-Led Zeppelin
A whole lotta love-Led Zeppelin
Wet sand-RHCP
Scar tissue-RHCP
Let there be rock-AC/DC
Back in black-AC/DC
Smoke on the water-Deep purple
Child in time-Deep Purple
Paradise city-Guns n’ roses
Don’t cry-Guns n’ roses
Paranoid-Black Sabbath
War pigs-Black Sabbath
Blue veins-Raconteurs
Seven nation army-White stripes
No one knows-QotSA
Litium-Nirvana
W here did you sleep last night-Nirvana
Eruption-Van Halen
Can I play with madness-Iron Maiden

In no particular order

1.Ball And Biscuit- The WhiStripes

And Quicksilver Messenger Service?

And Quicksilver Messenger Service?

In no particular order:

Ball And Biscuit, The White Stripes
You Shook Me, Led Zeppelin
War Pigs, Black Sabbath
Free Bird, Lynard Skynard
Out Of My Mind, John Mayer Trio
Love Like A Man(Live), 10 Years After
Train Kept Rolling, Aerosmith
Joker And The Thief, Wolfmother
Bat Country- Avenged Sevenfold
Sweet Child Of Mine, Guns ‘N’ Roses

“Day Tripper” by The Beatles

an oft-forgotten incredible guitar song:

The Cure – “The Kiss”

I scanned the list in vain hoping to see one of my favorites… probably because it’s a rap song, but it’s a beauty:

‘Rock Box’ by Run DMC

These 10 songs have to be in any greatest guitar song list:
Revolution – The Beatles
Hocus Pocus – Focus
Reelin’ in the Years – Steely Dan
Hotel California – The Eagles
Pinball Wizard – The Who
Sandman – Metallica
Going Home – Ten Years After
American Woman – The Guess Who
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynard Skynard
Roadhouse Blues – The Doors
‘Nuff Said

“Lights Out” UFO
“Love Is A Lie” Great White (seriously, check it out)
“Slow Ride” Foghat
“Forever” Y&T
“Bridge Of Sighs” Robin Trower
“Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers” ZZ Top
“Easy Livin’ ” Uriah Heep
“I Can See For Miles” The Who

Schools Out-Alice Cooper and the Billion Dallar Babies

Any RUSH!!!

Rock Bottom-UFO

Worst “best of” list EVER. They missed the best classics and put in some really stupid ones. I won’t bother listing those, but since this is the greatest guitar songs list of ALL TIME, what about some real modern guitar!

ANYTHING by Alter Bridge should have been on here. Mark Tremonti is the most talented guitarist of all time. There isn’t really one in particular that would be best, except that Ahavo Rabo Taco Salad (an instrumental) is some of the greatest guitar work ever.

RE: Anonymous | 6/1/2008, 6:00

“ANYTHING by Alter Bridge should have been on here. Mark Tremonti is the most talented guitarist of all time.”

Are you serious, man? This is a list of talented guitarists not some hack from a crappy band that makes generic sounding rock.

“Hey Hey MY MY” NYCH
“Back in Black” AC/DC
“Seven Nation Army” White Stripes
“Crazy Train” Ozzy and Randy Rhodes
“Panama and Hot for Teacher” Van Halen
“Chalkdust Torture” Phish

Paranoid Android
My Iron Lung
Marquee Moon

Prince-Purple Rain, Computer Blue

Holy Wars-Megadeth
Vigil-Lamb of God
Dragonfly-Sasquatch
Rock You like a Hurricane-Scorpions
Addicted- Saving Abel
Pride and Joy-Stevie Ray Vaughn
Buddy Holly-Weezer
Say it Ain’t So-Weezer
Behind Blue Eyes-The Who
Killing in the Name-Rage Against the Machine
Crooked Teeth-Death Cab for Cutie

Glaring ommisions abound.

“Wipeout” – Safaris
“Rebel Rouser” – Duane Eddy

“ANYTHING by Alter Bridge should have been on here. Mark Tremonti is the most talented guitarist of all time.”

Wow, thats gotta be the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Congratulations! You win a blue ribbon!

wow at least one of you mentioned the mars volta.. you should all look into them, i think you would have some more songs to add onto your lists

“Hall of the Mountain King” – Savatage
“Prowler” – Iron Maiden
“Working Man” – Rush

Ratt- LAY IT DOWN, Idiots.

War Pigs – Black Sabbath
One – Metallica
Cult of Personality – Living Colour
Working Man – Rush
Patterns in the Ivy – Opeth
Ain’t Talkin ‘Bout Love – Van Halen
Ahavo Rabo Taco Salad – Alter Bridge
Where the Streets Have No Name – U2
Even Flow – Pearl Jam
Over the Hills and Far Away – Led Zeppelin
Walk – Pantera
Them Bones – Alice in Chains
Prodigal Son – Sevendust
Number of the Beast – Iron Maiden
Rock’N Me – Steve Miller Band
Back in Black – AC/DC
Cherub Rock – Smashing Pumpkins
Toxicity – System of a Down
Killing in the Name – RATM
The Sky is Crying – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Homebrew – 311
Black Magic Woman – Santana
Bad to the Bone – George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Freebird – Skynyrd
Sharp Dressed Man – ZZ Top
I Alone – Live
Californication – Chili Peppers
London Calling – The Clash
Anarchy in the UK – Sex Pistols
I Wanna Be Sedated – The Ramones
My Own Summer – Deftones

I could go on forever…

i also forgot…

Smells like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden
Creep – Radiohead
Purple Haze – Jimmy Hendrix
One Love – Marley

oh and my bad for the double post
my computer freaked out

Personally, I think certain additions could certainly include: Elvis’ “Mystery Train”; Chuck Berry’s “Maybelline”; Bill Haley’s “Razzle Dazzle” and “Goofin’ Around” which was played by Frannie Beecher, when he was a Comet; and in the NON Rock & Roll category: Merle Travis-”Cannonball Rag”; Chet Atkins-”Dizzy Fingers”; Les Paul-”How High, The Moon”; Doc Watson-”Nothing To It”; Los Indios Tabajaras-”Pajaro Campana”; and Jerry Reed-”Jerry’s Breakdown”

Funny… for every song you have on that belongs there on your dumb personal list, you have two or three that don’t.your lists are dreck.Teen spirit? Please.Whoever mentioned Lay It Down by Ratt was right on the money.That no one else mentioned it is laughable.Also not mentioned: Jane’s Addiction Mountain song.

Anything but Nirvana. Especially Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen is a god wen it comes to guitar playing.

Hey now dammit. I’m tired of people giving Mark Tremonti hell. He was the only listenable part of Creed, and continues to be the standout member in Alter Bridge as well. The man is like a friggin salad shooter with the shredding

Songs that should’ve made the list:

One-Metallica
Cowboy s From Hell-Pantera
Hangar 18-Megadeth
Number of the Beast-Iron Maiden
Holy Wars-Megadeth
Walk-Pantera
R aining Blood-Slayer
TNT-AC/DC
Dirty Deeds-AC/DC
Run to the Hills-Iron Maiden
Peace Sells-Megadeth
Paradise City-Guns n’ Roses
Welcome to the Jungle-Guns n’ Roses
Fade to Black-Metallica
Highway to Hell- AC/DC
Seek and Destroy-Metallica
The Trooper-Iron Maiden
2 Minutes to Midnight-Iron Maiden
Cemetery Gates-Pantera
Communication Breakdown-Zeppelin
Symphony of Destruction-Megadeth
Children of the Damned-Iron Maiden
You Shook Me All Night Long-AC/DC
You Really Got Me-Van Halen
Hot For Teacher-Van Halen
5 Minutes Alone-Pantera
Kashmir-Zeppeli n
Creeping Death-Metallica
Bulls on Parade-Rage
Freedom-Rage
Rid e the Lightning-Metallica
Stricken- Disturbed
Beast and the Harlot-Avenged Sevenfold
YYZ-Rush
Bark at the Moon-Ozzy Osbourne
Carry me Home-The Living End
Thunderstruck-AC/DC
Shoo t to Thrill-AC/DC
Rime of the Ancient Mariner-Maiden
Hallowed By Thy Name-Maiden
Floods-Pantera
K now Your Enemy-Rage
Suicide Note Pt.1/Pt.2-Pantera
Down With the Sickness-Disturbed
Good Times Bad Times-Zeppelin
Harvester of Sorrow-Metallica
Wherever I May Roam-Metallica
Wrathchild-Mai den
Fucking Hostile-Pantera
Domination-Pa ntera
The Four Horsemen-Metallica
Cliffs of Dover-Eric Johnson
Sandman-Metallica
Ca rry on Wayward Son-Kansas
Tom Sawyer-Rush

voodoo chile should be no1 and a decent funkadelic song should be in the top 50

1.Day Tripper (The Beatles)
——————– ————
2.Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)
——————– ————
3.Sunshine Of Your Love (Cream)
——————— ——–
4.Purple Haze(Jimi Hendrix Experience)
—————– ————-
5.Johnny B.Goode (Chuck Berry)
———————- ——–
6.Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)
——————— ————-
7.Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
——————- —————-
8.Layla (Derek And The Dominos)
——————– ————-
9.While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles)
——————– ————–
10.American Girl (Tom Petty)
———————- ———–
11.Over The Hills And Far Away (Led Zeppelin)
——————- ———–
12.My Generation (The Who)
———————— ——–
13.Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
(Rolling Stones)
——————— ———
14.Cocaine (Eric Clapton)
——————– ———
15.London Calling (The Clash)
———————- ———–
16.Sweet Child O’ Mine (Guns N’ Roses)
———————- ———–
17.Love Me Two Times (Doors)
——————— ———–
18.Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
——————— ———–
19.Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
—————– —————-
20.Helter Skelter (The Beatles)
——————– ————
21.Think (Rolling Stones)
——————— ———–
22.Good Times Bad Times (Led Zeppelin)
——————- ————-
23.Money (Pink Floyd)
———————- ———-
24.Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Rolling Stones)
——————— ———–

one tool song? one f*cking tool song? and no helmet OR fugazi. no slayer or pantera or down? no hangar 18? barely any sabbath. seems to me that the heavy end got ripped. im all for classic rock (they left out zeppelins travelin riverside blues which just flat out shreds a headbob) but dont forget the heavy end. maybe its just me but when songs like sabbath bloody sabbath kick in and i get that metal sh*t eatin grin on my face like i wanna stick my head through a cinder block or when dime drops the two solos in floods and you can actually HEAR the sweat and blood and tears eminating through the speakers..its pretty goddamn moving.

No Alice Cooper or Pantera?

How can they omit any song off of Metallica’s black album?

No Judas Priest or Iron Maiden?

Granted I’m leaning towards the heavier side of things, but Cooper, Maiden and Priest are idols of many of “today’s” artists on that list!

in no particular order….

“Me and the Devil Blues”
-Robert Johnson
“Kashmir”
-Led Zepplin
“Truth Doesn’t Make a Noise”
-The White Stripes
“Minor Swing”
-Django Reinhardt
“Sting Me”
-The Black Crowes
“Know Your Rights”
-The Clash
“Texas Flood”
-Stevie Ray Vaughn
“Shine on You Crazy Diamond”
-Pink Floyd
“Wish”
-Nine Inch Nails
“Across the Universe”
-The Beatles
“Big Sky”
-Reverend Horton Heat
“Runaway Boys”
-Stray Cats
….just to name a few

“The Blood” – The Cure

“Pinetree Boogie” – Th’ Legendary Shack*Shakers

“Beyond and Back” – X

“Street Spirit” – Radiohead

“Voodoo Cadillac” – SKOTS

“Train in Vain” – The Clash

“Race with the Devil” – Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps

“Know Your Enemy” – Rage Against the Machine

“Sorrow” – Bad Religion

“Malaguena” – (I prefer the Brian Setzer arrangement, but any performer’s take on the song will do.)

Mote-Sonic Youth
Freak Scene-Dinosaur Jr

should atleast be on there

Mote-Sonic Youth
Freak Scene-Dinosaur Jr

should atleast be on there

“Travis Walk” SR Vaughn
“Blue Sky” (Warren Haynes, A.Bros. early 90s live album)
“Bodhisattva” (Skunk Baxter, Steely Dan)
“Ten Years Gone” (Page,Zeppelin)
“Motherless Children” (Clapton)
“Still Raining Still Dreaming” (Hendrix)
“In The Gallery” Knopfler,Dire Straits
“She Said, She Said” Harrison, Beatles
“Have a Cigar” Gilmour, Floyd
“Stay” (Earl Slick, David Bowie)
“Europa” (Carlos Santana)
“The Kiss” (Porl Thompson, The Cure)

And ten zillion others…

this is my top 100 its btter than yours!!!!!!!!! 1.stairway to heaven
2.smoke on the water
3.you really got me(van halen)
4.sweet child o mine
5.walk this waY
6.Master of puppets
7.eruption
8.smells like teen spirit
9.thunderstruck
10.ir on man
11.comfortably numb
12.sharp dressed man
13.highway to hell
14.war pigs
15.through the fire and flames
16.whole lotta love
17.cult of personality
18.i wanna be sedated
19.voodoo child
20.layla
21.bohemian rhapsody
22.back in black
23.enter sandman
24.black dog
25.inside the fire
26.cant you hear me knocking
27.baracuda
28.high way star
29.free bird
30.sultans of swing
31.american idiot
32.one
33. you’ve got another thing coming
34.crossroads
35.man in the box
36.dani california
37.spirit of the radio
38.sunshine of your love
39.paranoid
40.wont get fooled again
41.crazy on you
42.trippin on a hole in a paper heart
43.ace of spades
44.slither
45.miserlo u
46.down with the sickness
47.november rain
48.cat scratch fever
49.foreplay/long time
50.crazy train
51.godzilla
52.fury of the storm
53.dont stop believin’
54.green grass and high tides
55.train kept rollin’(aerosmith)
56.hangar 18
57.working man
58.spoonman
59.holiday
60.carry me home
61.breaking the law
62.madhouse
63.them bones
64.woman
65.bad reputation
66.frankenstein
6 7.stop
68.anyway you want it
69.smooth criminal
70.schism
71.vasoli ne
72.money for nothing
73.no one knows
74.texas flood
75.start me up
76.jessica
77.sweet home alabama
78.even flow
79.yyz
80.killer queen
81.panama
82.blitzreig bop
83.number of the beast
84.i love rock n roll
85.dont fear the reaper
86.message in a bottle
87.black hole sun
88.carry on wayward son
89.under the bridge
90.beat it
91.come out and play
92.reptilia
93.black sunshine
94.rock this town
95.bad to the bone
96.london calling
97.slow ride
98.institutionalized
99 .flitrn’ with disaster
100.should i stay or should i go

i felt the rolling stones list lacked too many essential guitar songs such as smoke on the water and comfortably numb. also, some of the songs were either to low or a bit too high on list. for instance stairway should be #1, not 8. also songs such as crossroads, message in a bottle, and texas flood were a little too high up on the list. hopefully someone will look at my 100 list with interest and consederation.

make sure you put stairway in at least the top five this time

no RATM plzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1.(should be) Stairway to Heaven/Led Zeppelin

Machine Gun and Voodoo Child/Hendrix (in better spots on the list, like top 20!)
Welcome to the Jungle/GNR
Bohemian Rhapsody/Queen PUT IT ON THE LIST!
Ten Years Gone/Led Zeppelin
Comfortably Numb/Pink Floyd
Shine on you Crazy Diamond/Pink Floyd
Cortez the Killer/Neil Young
Achilles Last Stand/Led Zeppelin
In My Time of Dying/Led Zeppelin
Working Man/Rush
Spirit of Radio/Rush
Steve Howe should be somewhere on this list with some song
Paradise City/GNR
I’d Love to Change the World/Ten Years After
Over the Hills and Far Away/Led Zeppelin
Keep Chuck Berry in the top ten, maybe #10
November Rain/GNR
Time/Pink Floyd
Take the Gilmore picture off the Interstellar Overdrive entry… he wasn’t on that!
Europa and maybe Samba Pa Ti/Santana
War Pigs/ Black Sabbath
Sweet Emotion/Aerosmith
Hotel California/The Eagles

I actually agree with about half the list, as published. Glaring omissions must be addressed. I don’t disagree with “Johnny B. Goode” but there would be no list without my…

#1. Kind hearted woman
-Robert Johnson (Dust my broom, Crossroads, Sweet home Chicago. Pick one!)
2. Johnny B. Goode
-Chuck Berry
3. All along the watchtower
– Jimi (Best covered song in history)
4. Stairway to Heaven
-Led Zeppelin
5. Layla
-Derrick and the Dominos
6. Smoke on the water
-Deep Purple (This is the GREATEST guitar songs, right?)
7. Stranglehold
-Ted Nugent (Manly-ist song, ever)
8. You really got me
-The Kinks
9. Eruption
-Van Wailin’
10. Crossroads
-Cream
11. Barracuda
-Heart (In your face!)
12. Green grass and high tides
-The Outlaws (Skynard, pleeze!)
13. Do you feel like we do?
-Peter Frampton
14. Statesboro blues
-Allman brothers
15. Voodoo Child (a slight return)
-Jimi
16. While my guitar gently weeps
-Beatles
17. Hotel California
-Eagles (How’d this get left off?)
18. Working man
-Rush (Alex Lifeson is most underrated guitarist, ever)
19. Rock Bottom
-U.F.O. (feel it!)
20. Bad motor scooter
-Montrose
21. The sky is cryin’
– Elmore James (heinous omission! S.R.V. ripped it too!)
22. Since I’ve been loving you
-Led Zep
23. Young Man’s Blues
-The Who (Live at Leeds!)
24. Born to run
-Bruce
25. Down by the river
-Neil Young
26. Lonely is the word
-Black Sabbath (Warpigs is greater, this is better!)
27. Smells like teen spirit
-Nirvana (Doesn’t suck)
28. Kick out the jams
-The MC5 (No MC5, No punk rock)
29. I want to be sedated
-Ramones (Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba!)
30. Sultans of swing
-Dire straits
31. Can’t you hear me knocking
-The Stones
32.Where the streets have no name
-U2
33. Master of puppets
-Metallica
34. Mama Kin
-Aerosmith
35. Fat bottomed girls
-Queen
36. 1969
-The Stooges (See- The MC5)
37. Time
-Pink Floyd (The Solo!)
38. Stay with me
-The Faces (Woody!)
39. Europa
-Carlos Santana (The definitive)
40. House rent blues/One Bourbon, one scotch, one beer
-George Thurogood (Props to Johnny Lee Hooker)
41. Mississippi Queen
-Mountain
42. Satch boogie
-Joe Satriani
43. Ziggy Stardust
-David Bowie
44. Your’s is no disgrace
-Yes (Steve Howe is magical!)
45. Underwater world
-Hanoi Rocks (No Hanoi, No Hair-bands)
46. Ryme of the ancient mariner
-Iron Maiden (Bass is guitar too)
47. Crazy Train
-Randy Rhoads (one better than…)
48. Panama
-Van Halen
49. Train, in vain
-The Clash
50. Purple Haze
-Jimi
51. Spirit of the Radio
-Rush
52. Debaser
-Pixies
53. Born on the Bayou
-C.C.R.
54. Little Wing
-S.R.V. (props to Jimi)
55. White room
-Cream
56. Hitch a ride
-Boston (Sholtz & Goodreau-Tasty!)
57. Crazy on you
-Heart (With acoustic intro!)
58. The Cowboy Song
-Thin Lizzie
59. Freeway Jam
-Jeff Beck
60. Three days
-Jane’s Addiction (Just when you think it can’t get any better, It does!)
61. Maggot Brain
-Funkadelic (Nice!)
62. Born under a bad sign
-Albert King
63. Sweet child O’ mine
-G.N.R. (What? No cred to Lifeson for Xanadu intro influence?)
64. Freebird
-Lynyrd Skynyrd
65. Dreams
– Molly Hatchet (Cover song belongs up there with the best!)
66. Texas Flood
-S.R.V.
67. Message in a bottle
-The Police
68. The thrill is gone
-B.B. King
69. Searching for a friend (with my good eye closed)
-Soungarden
70. Fight the good fight
-Triumph (Power trio!)
71. 2112 (yes, all of side 1)
-Rush (Original power trio!)
72. Take it or leave it
-The Strokes
73. Machinehead
-Bush (…Better than the rest)
74. LaGrange
-ZZ Top (Props to J.L. Hooker)
75. Willie the Pimp
-Frank Zappa
76. American Girl
– Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
77. Even Flow
-Pearl Jam
78. Stone crazy
-Buddy Guy
79. Silver Rocket
-Sonic Youth
80. Treetop Flyer
-Steven Stills
81. Saving grace
-Steve Miller
82. Walk- Don’t run
-The Ventures
83. Interstate love song
-Stone temple Pilots
84. Blurry
-Puddle of Mudd (Harmonics elevated to new level. O.M.G.!!!)
85. You enjoy myself
-Phish
86. I choose
-The Offspring
87. Red
-King Crimson
88. Yellow Ledbetter
-Pearl Jam (Sweet!)
89. I love Rock ‘N’ Roll
-Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
90. Ocean size
-Jane’s addiction
91. Possum Kingdom
-Toadies (I listened to The Mars Volta, They Suck!)
92. Bridge of sighs
-Robin Trower (props to Jimi)
93. Jet city woman
-Queensryche
94. Big dumb sex
-Soundgarden (Oh, yes!)
95. Omaha
-Moby Grape
96. New day rising
-Husker Du (Sorry, no umlauts)
97. Ten Years Gone
-Led Zeppelin
98. Under the Bridge
-R.H.C.P
99. Run thru
-My Morning Jacket
100. Sober
-Tool (Jesus blows his fuckin’ whistle)

*Gilmour, not Gilmore.

The Cult ought to be one there somewhere. They heavily influenced Guns’N'Roses. Billy Duffy is an amazing guitarist, although he lacks stage presence. Check out “Fire Woman,” “Love Removal Machine,” or “She Sells Sanctuary.” One of those should have been at least #100 on the list.

Also, I think “Blue Orchid” by the White Stripes is equally as good a song as “Seven Nation Army.”

I agrred with much on the list. I have collected music since 1964 starting with Meet the Beatles to most recently Josh Ritter and much in between. I’ll say I was somewhat dissapointed that the Allman Brothers Blue Sky wasn’t on the list as a guitar player and fan to me it is one of the greates two guitar symphonies I have ever heard and still feel great any time I hear it. Second moving foward I think the Impossible Germany by Wilco is an amazing piece of guitar beauty for its time. Nels Kline is a monster player.

Well thanks for listening.

Topo JBG

NH

Late for the final tally, but here are some personal favorites that didn’t make the list (in no particular order):
“All Along The Watchtower” – Jimi Hendrix Experience
“Like a Hurricane” – Neil Young
“The Supernatural” – John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
“Rebel Rouser” – Duane Eddy
“Secret Agent Man” – Johnny Rivers
“Still Got the Blues” – Gary Moore
“Turn! Turn! Turn!” – The Byrds
“Feel a Whole Lot Better” – The Byrds
“Stood Up” – Ricky Nelson
“Funky Mama” – Danny Gatton
“Jessica” – The Allman Brothers
“No Other Baby” – Paul McCartney
“Roll On Down the Highway” – Bachman-Turner Overdrive

These aren’t necessarily “The Greatest,” but I’d like to mention them anyway since apparently no one else has. Two of these never had a chance cause virtually nobody has heard them, but they’re just as worthy as anything else as far as I’m concerned.

“My Love Explodes” – The Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC goes gonzo!!)

“Love Comes in Spurts” – Richard Hell and the Voidoids (Begins and ends with the unmistakable rush.)

“Shoot Out the Lights” – Richard Thompson (I can’t believe Thompson didn’t make the list! Besides being a legendary guitarist, he’s a damn good songwriter as well.)

“What Goes On” – The Velvet Underground (Fairly simple solo, but it’s nirvana nonetheless, and a nice funky rhythm throughout.)

“Cardboard Suit” – Baby Carrot (Okay, BC is my brother’s band, but I’d be mesmerised by this even it were by somebody else’s brother’s band.)

“Leinaala” – Daisy Spot (Mike Farrell goes nuts on the solo for this when he performs it live, which is pretty remarkable when you consider it’s such a supremely mellow tune. Somehow he’s able to make it all seem seamless.)

some more artists that should have made it or should have more of :
ac/dc, black sabbath, metallica, gnr, aerosmith, queen,soundgarden, the ramones, rush, rhcp, zz top, pink floyd, deep purple, dragonforce, living colour, heart, judas priest, disturbed, stp, alice in chains, motorhead, ted nugent, velvet revolver, boston, blue oyster cult, journey, outlaws, megadeth, wolfmother, anthraqx, the living end,e.w.g, thin lizzy, janes addiction, alien ant farm, tool, q.o.t.s.a., iron maiden, kansas, the offspring, white zombie, the strokes, stray cats, suicidal tendencies, foghat, molley hatchet, and george thorogood.
well, there u have it rolling stones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with most of these, and it’s hard to keep some people who are very deserving. I’d switch Jeff Beck’s “Freeway Jam” with his own “‘Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers”, a song that doesn’t need a title (or lyrics) to understand what’s going on. You could have dropped any of those in the 70-100 range to make room for Elvin Bishop’s “Fooled Around and Fell in Love”. Both of these guitar leads reflect pain without being overtly bluesy. I would have liked to have seen “Trouble No More” with Duane and Dicky’s twin leads somewhere in the top 20.

its hard to say definiively but here’s my best attempt

#1:Johnny B. Goode-Chuck Berry
#2:Achilles last stand-Led Zeppelin
#3:Hot’lanta-Allman Brothers Band
#4:All Along the Watchtower-Jimi Hendrix(Bob Dylan cover)
#5:Dazed and Confused-Led Zeppelin(as heard on “The Song Remains the Same”)
#6:Variations on the Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression-Frank Zappa
#7:Black Magic Woman-Santana
#8:Revolut ion-T he Beatles
#9:Fire-Jimi Hendrix
#10:Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel-Frank Zappa
#11:Pegasus-Allman Brothers Band
#12:Diary of a Madman-Ozzy osbourne
(Randy Rhoads)
#13:Fire it up-Black Label Society
#14:Them Bones-Alice In Chains
#15:Rhiannon-Fleetwood Mac
#16:Once-Pearl Jam

1 Sultans of Swing
Dire Straits

2Nothing Else Matters
Metallica

3One
U2

4Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry

5Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin

6Eruption
Van Halen

7Satisfaction
The Rolling Stones

8Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana

9Miedo
Cai fanes

10Europa
Santana

11En el Muelle de San Blas
Maná

12Money
Pink Floyd

13Tears in Heaven
Eric Clapton

14Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits

15Sweet Child O’Mine
Guns n’ Roses

16Where The Streets Have No Name
U2

17Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen

18London Calling
The Clash

19Radio Free Europe
R.E.M.

21Scar Tissue
Red Hot Chili Peppers

22Love Over Gold
Dire Straits

23My Iron Lung
Radiohead

24This Charming Man
The Smiths

25Just
Radiohead

26Fascination Street
The Cure

Muse- Stockholm Syndrome
Muse- Plug in Baby
Muse- Citizen Erased.

1)Guns.N.Roses-sweet Child O’Mine
2)jimi Hendrix – along the watch tower
3)thin lizzy – whiskey in the jar
4)velvet revolver – slither
5)Metallica – Enter The Sandman
6)sex pistols – Anarchy In The U.K.
7)Black sabbath – Paranoid
8)David Bowie – Life on Mars
9)Van Helen – Jump
10)L.A Guns – Electric Gypsy
11)Nirvana – smells like teen sprit
12)The Clash – London Calling
13)Guns.n.Roses- November rain
14)Guns.n.roses – welcome to the jungle
15)Sid vicious – my way

riders on the storm
smoke in the water
comfortably numb
under the same sun
american pie
barracuda

1# green grass and high tides
2# stairway to heaven
3# rock n roll
4# pleasure (pleasure)
5# master of puppetts
6# sweet home alabama
7# nothing else matters
9# highway star
10#all nightmare long
11#purple haze
12#beat it
13#overkill
14#crazy train
15#one
16#amour
17#we isses fleisch
19#amour
20#hold the line
21#jump
22#say ain´t so
23#hot for teacher
24#riot
24#gimmie shelter
25#bohemian rapsody
26#hotel california
27#out ta get me
28#back in black
29#black hole sun
30#Flirtin’ with Disaster