Within your guitar week, a specialized environment To concede Published his list 70 best guitar riffs of the 21st centuryThe choice that notes the most memorable and influential musical phrases from 2000 to date.
With the fact that each riff can forever determine the personality of the song, the publication recognizes the talent of guitarists who managed to re -invent the language of the instrument at a time when, according to some, “everything has already been invented.”
In the context, where an electric guitar was supposed to share fame with new forms of musical production, these riffs stand out not only for their creativity and magnetism, but also for overcome genres, generations and scenarios.
Next, we will consider the 10 best.
10. Audioslave – “Cochise”
“For many, this explosive riff and blues dyes affected Tom MorelloIt was the first acquaintance with the then new supergroup Audioslav. And what a riff: explosive, memorable and deeply satisfactory. ”
9. Modest Mouse – “Float on”
“Two decades later, Riff, which gave rise to thousands of university radio stations, remains as soft and irresistible as always. Constant guitars Isaac Brock And the company rises and descends, rises and descends, flows like waves that caress the shore. “
8. Ghost – “square hammer”
“This is one of those songs that you first heard and swore that you heard it before. As soon as the riff begins, immediate connection is generated. At the same time, it is hypnotic, melodic and epic, and is the highest point of any concert of any concert of any concert. Ghost“
7. Boris – “Akuma Nota”
“Indisputable style masters, Japanese Boris They deliver one of the fundamental riffs of the genre to “Akuma No Uta”: a simple ascending progression of three notes with a fall in the last bend raised at the glacial pace by guitarists Vata And Takeshi“
6. Sum 41 – “Fat Lip”
“The indisputable anthem of the uprising of adolescents in 2001, the skate, Canadians uniting this explosive riff with hypnotic statements about inconsistencies and conflicts. Powerchords have become a trampoline for youth suffering, complete energy, turning the lyrical situations of small decarters into unnecessary musical memories. ”
5. Franz Ferdinand – “Take me away”
“Tags of style in the style in the verses of an open step to a bizarre break and chords that explode in the religious riff of the chorus, the jewel of Power Pop. And this riff does not stop: with its seducers, tightening and melodic lines holds the pulse from beginning to end. ”
4. System of Pooh – “toxicity”
“Like a dream, almost acoustic tones that open“ toxicity ”in just 13 seconds before the battery is very torn. Throughout the topic, the guitar and shock Daron Malaccian What makes him so unforgettable. “
3. Lines – “reptile”
“If your song has reached a repertoire Guitar heroThis was said about the level of the riff you have achieved. At least it was before. “Reptile” Blows This was the first of several songs of the group that appeared on the platform of the virtual guitar, and, of course, it remained in collective memory. “
2. The Queen of the Stone Age – “Nobody knows”
“The famous topic Songs for the deaf illustrates the approach “Robot Rock”, which Josh Homm contributed Queens of the Stone Age: repeated, sticky and minimalist reefs. As the younger would say, this Riff was stuck strong, and he was very remembered instantly and was out of time, because he continues to adhere to heavily. “
1. White stripes – “Army of the seven nations”
“The first eight seconds of” Seven National Army ” White stripes Not only did they essentially change in 2003, but the entire trajectory of what ultimately became the uprising of the garage cliff. After two well -accepted albums, when Jack White He played his semi-acaculated guitar of Kay Hollowbody through the Digitech Whammy pedal, the eighth, similar to the bass that came out of it, quickly became a record in the book of not only white lanes, but also in the history of Riffa of the 21st century. “
