Great Guitar Songs (Besides Layla and Sweet Home Alabama)

[BurtWorm]

Here are the top five great guitar songs I have been listening to lately (as opposed to all time great guitar tunes, which some of these might actually be):



Kingdom of Love, The Soft Boys
Sideshow by the Seashore, Luna
Driveway to Driveway, Superchunk
See No Evil, Television
California (All the Way), Luna


Others?

PS: Kingdom of Love is the first song in this set:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S97VeuNhMjg

[MissMillie]

1. Going for the One by Yes

Blue Light by David Gilmore


anything by Stevie Ray Vaughn



Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac

[Joe Fields]

2. anything by Jimi Hendrix

[MnFats]

80. "Voodoo Chile/Slight Return" especially

and it's not often that a cover version of a song turns out to be light years ahead of the original, but Jimi OWNS "All Along the Watchtower.
(no offense to fans of Dylan's original version -- it's a very fine redition of a great song.)
But jimi just owns that damn thing.

[soleft]

3. You can Go your Own Way Fleetwood Mac

[MissMillie]

5. GMTA

:hi:

[jobycom]

60. I nominate the whole Fleetwood Mac "Live" album.

Everything Lindsey Buckingham did on that album was stupendous.

[ohiosmith]

4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Check this out:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1352016870638076087

[MissMillie]

6. GOOD CHOICE!!!

great song!

[ohiosmith]

7. :

:hi:

[Cabcere]

13. Oh hell yes.

:thumbsup: LOVE that song! :headbang:

[Cabcere]

14. "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd

:loveya: I love how David Gilmour can put so much emotion into a guitar solo...the first time I heard it, I felt like I was flying, and the feeling hasn't diminished much over time. :loveya: Amazing stuff, IMO.

Edit: D'oh! :banghead: I got so distracted by the music that I replied to the wrong post... :blush:

[pokerfan]

15. Yep

Written by George but performed by Clapton on the album. You have to pick up Anthology III to hear George playing it.

[OzarkDem]

62. Here Comes the Sun

with his good friend, Pete Ham of Badfinger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABIHB1uJKQY

[BurtWorm]

8. Foxhole, by Television

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iw80nob1MvQ


Lots of great guitar songs from Television...

[mitchum]

17. Here's a cool Richard Lloyd video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ_Vti50YZ8

[BurtWorm]

19. Wicked cool!

Thanks for that, mitchum!

:toast:

[CrownPrinceBandar]

37. "Elevation" since we're talking about Television

Richard Lloyd rips on this one.

[pokerfan]

9. all time great rock guitar songs

My top ten...

Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
One - Metallica
Hotel California - The Eagles
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC

[BurtWorm]

10. Monkey Man, by the Rolling Stones!

Now that's a great guitar song!

:headbang:

[pokerfan]

12. Oh yeah

Love the slide guitar.

[Strawman]

66. And the piano at the beginning is perfect

the sound of that song, the guitar tone, Nicky Hopkins piano is absolutely perfect.

[Twillig]

32. Sultans of Swing. Tasty!

All Along the Watchtower has that brilliant solo, no matter how many times it took to put it in.

Since this is not about solo's I'd prefer Foxy Lady. Heaviest guitar I've ever heard. That CLANG! is just awesome. Bang your head to that, and you're dead!

[pokerfan]

36. How to play Sultans of Swing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur9yrv7IsLw

I like watching these instructional vids.

[redqueen]

35. That's the only dire straits mention in this thread?

:grr:

I better find Hubert Sumlin in here somewhere!

[pokerfan]

39. No one else mentioned Chuck Berry either

Lifetime Achievement Award for Chuck Berry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlSuMW3Md6U

[mitchum]

11. "Marquee Moon", "Cortez The Killer", "Baby's On Fire", "Green Grass and High Tides", "Shake Appeal"

[evlbstrd]

16. Zappa

"Watermelon in Easter Hay"

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

18. I was gonna say "See No Evil."

Good choice!

In lieu of that, I'll weigh in with Reelin' in the Years.

[democracyindanger]

20. Ramblin' Man, the Allman Brothers

Lenny, Stevie Ray Vaughan--although there are probably a dozen SRV tunes that could be listed, too. His cover of Little Wing, for one, which I maintain is better than Hendrix's original.

Classical Gas, Mason Williams, naturally.

Crossroads, performed by Clapton

Back In Black, AC/DC. Could probably throw in Rock n Roll (Ain't Noise Pollution) and Shook Me All Night Long

Lola, the live version by the Kinks

Dead, My Chemical Romance

Aguas de Marco, Jobim

Say It Ain't So, Weezer

Long Hot Summer Night, Hendrix

Try, John Mayer Trio

Girlfriend, Matthew Sweet

Higher Ground, Red Hot Chili Peppers

...for starters.

[LynneSin]

21. Anything Jimmy Page does

I don't even know where to begin to narrow it down - I think my favorite would be his stuff on the early albums like "How Many More Times"

[Reciprocity]

22. Most of U2 songs.

[grace0418]

23. "How Soon Is Now?" by the Smiths

My husband would probably pick "Back in Black" by AC/DC

[ghostsofgiants]

61. I loooove the riff from "How Soon Is Now?"

[Bake]

24. Jessica - Allman Brothers!

I'm obsessed with that one lately.

Bake

[MAGICBULLET]

25. I got some

Lenny - Stevie Ray Vaughn

3rd Stone From the Sun - Jimi Hendrix

Let's Go Crazy - Prince

Ride Into the Sun or Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground

Eruption or Spanish Fly - Van Halen

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Down Here On the Ground - Grant Green

Day In the Life - Wes Montgomery

Footin' It - George Benson

[BurtWorm]

26. And Your Bird Can Sing

is probably my favorite Beatles guitar song. Cold Turkey is my favorite Lennon guitar song.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

27. Ten Years Gone - Led Zepplin

Changes fill my time, baby, that's alright with me. . .

[BurtWorm]

29. Ten Years After, "I'm Going Home"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4325628803664817506

[OzarkDem]

63. Excellent!

Alvin Lee was the greatest. I think I lost my virginity just watching him perform that song in Woodstock.

[JeffR]

28. 'Another Girl, Another Planet' - The Only Ones n/t

[MysticalChicken]

30. Everything by Buffalo Tom.

I know there are more bands with good guitar that I have CDs of, or have heard, but I can't think of them right off hand. Oh, wait, I love the guitar that starts at around 4:05 in Modest Mouse's "Trailer Trash." And Aliens' "Setting Sun," which is on their MySpace, which I think is myspace.com/aliens, but if it's not just go there and do a search for them, or just go to my MySpace (http://myspace.com/mysticalchicken) and it's on my profile.

[taterguy]

31. Built to Spill's You Were Right

Seems to fit in with the songs in your OP

[Twillig]

33. The sound Van Halen had in the first album.

even on a simple song like Running With the Devil.

Fucking Brilliant. No drugs can diminish that.

[Ahpook]

46. Eddie came out swinging didn't he?

Still got to go with Mr. Hendrix;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA38TWQ0d-s

[HuskerDU]

34. There are songs without guitars?

Not in my world!

Here is a guitar song I like: Hibernation

:hide:

[bridgit]

38. sure you bet - Stevie Ray Vaughan Cold Shot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L86fonUDIb4

[bridgit]

40. ZZ Top La Grange live...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY1lCmjldGw&mode=related&search=

[bridgit]

42. Eric Johnson - Austin City Limits...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezbLcfB7QvU

[bridgit]

43. Wes Montgomery Quartet - Twisted Blues...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjt06044rtM&mode=related&search=

[redqueen]

41. Just about any song by Howlin Wolf

Hubert Sumlin, goddamnit!

He frickin inspired many of the best guitarists out there.

Dang!

[BurtWorm]

51. Killing Floor!

:toast:

Smokestack Lightning!

[DBoon]

73. moanin' in the morning

is the 1951 version of heavy metal

[Tikki]

44. "Smash It Up, Part 1"....The Damned....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtzbNC4Da0E

"The Have Nots"......X

"Rumble".....Link Wray http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP0aRKnyzpc


Tikki

[BurtWorm]

52. Funny, but I was going to say Neat Neat Neat by the Damned.

Captain Sensible knew his licks!

[Critters2]

45. Anything Santana. nt

[carly denise pt deux]

47. Hard luck woman-kiss- great acoustics

Hair of the Dog-Nazareth
Flirting with disaster-Molly Hatchet

Carly

[driver8]

78. Great choices! I was just telling someone the other night that the

loudest concert I have ever been to was "Molly Hatchet." Man, were those guys loud!!

"Hard Luck Woman"...I haven't heard that song in years! I was a huge Kiss fan; I'll have to dig this one out.

[Ava]

48. anything by jimi hendrix

red house probably being my favorite

:hi:

[opiate69]

49. Steve Vai - "Touching Tongues"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gf8Dn7QbMPs

[Joe Fields]

50. "How Many More Times," by Led Zeppelin

[AnotherGreenWorld]

53. Baby's on Fire - Brian Eno with Robert Fripp playing guitar

[Zomby Woof]

54. Live "Whippin' Post"

From the "Allman Brothers At Fillmore East" album. (Duane Allman and Dickey Betts)

4 more:

"Son of Mr. Green Genes" - Frank Zappa (Frank Zappa)
"When Push Comes To Shove" - Van Halen (Edward Van Halen)
"When A Guitar Plays The Blues" - Roy Buchanan (Roy Buchanan)
"That Smell" - Lynyrd Skynyrd (Allen Collins, Gary Rossington, and Steve Gaines)

[Kat45]

55. "Cause We Ended As Lovers" - Jeff Beck

:thumbsup:

[idgiehkt]

56. 50 foot Queenie by PJ Harvey

definitive answer to cock rock, no grandstanding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qI8KMemjhA

[Joe Fields]

57. 'Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?' by Derek and the Dominoes

the live Fillmore East version...

[enigmatic]

58. 5

Little Johnny Jewel"- Television (Live, from "The Blow-Up" Cassette)
Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd's best guitar playing on record/tape; it's guitar nirvana...

"I Heard Her Call My Name"- The Velvet Underground
Lou Reed's atonal, Ornette Coleman freakout on the breaks of this track from "White Light/White Heat" shreds speakers; when you turn it up, it doesn't get louder, it gets thicker...

"Maggot Brain"- Funkedelic
Eddie Hazel was better than Hendrix, and I'll say that to my dying day...

"We're An American Band"- Yo La Tengo
Ira has done some very emotional, expressive guitar solos, but this one is my favorite...

"The Days Of Wine And Roses"- The Dream Syndicate
Steve Wynn's slashing E chords at the beginning raises the hair on the back of my head everytime, and when Karl Precoda's 57 varieties of guitar feedback screech follow, it always, always puts me into a wonderful place...

[Bennyboy]

59. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.

Duane and Dickey Betts. Still gets me off all these year later. And with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks it is still pretty amazing.

[retread]

64. Virtuoso - Joe Pass, Manzanita - Tony Rice n/t

[blue neen]

65. "Tangerine"

by Led Zeppelin :)

[ghostsofgiants]

67. "Horse Girl" by These Arms Are Snakes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gc3ZjkrTZk

[Uncle Joe]

68. "Melissa" by the Allman Brothers,

it's not really a jamming guitar type song, but it's pretty.

[Taverner]

69. Demand by Phish

Eyes of the World by the Grateful Dead
One of these days by Pink Floyd
Thela Hun Jingeet by King Crimson

[DBoon]

70. Misirlou by Dick Dale

nt

[MysticalChicken]

76. Isn't that the one from Pulp Fiction?

I like that song. I love that movie, too.

[DBoon]

77. Yes

old surf guitar rocks

[PeaceNikki]

71. This is a good watch.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_i1_TN8whrc

And my contribution to your thread is: Prince - Let's Go Crazy

[jgraz]

72. Kid Charlemagne / Steely Dan

Larry Carlton absolutely RIPS one of the best guitar solos in the history of rock.

[jgraz]

74. Oh and of course, Couldn't Stand the Weather

Damn, I miss this guy

[FredScuttle]

75. Gotta be "Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic

God bless Eddie Hazel

[driver8]

79. "Run Like Hell" -- Pink Floyd. The guitar tones on this song are

absolutely amazing!!

[Strawman]

81. I'm listening to "Rock and Roll Toilet" right now

Seemed appropriate to queue up with the Larry Craig stuff and all. Love the Soft Boys. They have a similar guitar sound to Television on alot of songs. The Rat's Prayer is a good one like that.

Good stuff on that Penthouse album too by Luna. 23 Minutes in Brussels is another good one for guitar.

[sakabatou]

82. One Winged Angel - Metal ver.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DRgN8EC4EjE - AMV using Advent Children
http://youtube.com/watch?v=q5st0b3ln5U - Live performance