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"Kashmir" is good, but Zeppelin did boatloads-- everything from "Whole Lotta Love" to "Nobody's Fault but Mine." (And that's not even counting the ones where somebody else does the riff-- "Dazed and Confused" starts with the bass.) Conventional wisdom is that Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi was the all time champion of memorable riffs, but I prefer Zeppelin's.

Meegbear is right on all counts, and again, all the bands he cited have more. I've always loved the guitar on "Tired of Waiting," it was one of the first songs I could play along with as a beginner, and it was the prototype for the kind of circular unresolved riff that makes "Don't Fear the Reaper."

Let me also give another prop (like you haven't heard this before from me!) for "Aqualung."