The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos

[Cerpin Taxt]

According to About.com these are the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. I agree with most of them and find About.com and extremely reliable site. Anyway, here they are:

1. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
2. Van Halen - Eruption
3. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
4. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
5. Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower
6. Guns n' Roses - November Rain
7. Metallica - One
8. The Eagles - Hotel California
9. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
10. Cream - Crossroads
11. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
12. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
13. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
14. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
15. Pantera - Floods
16. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
17. Eric Johnson - Clips of Dover
18. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little Wing
19. Deep Purple - Highway Star
20. Queen - Bohemian Rapsody
21. Pink Floyd - Time
22. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
23. Rage Against The Machine - Bulls on Parade
24. Metallica - Fade to Black
25. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
26. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
27. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy
28. Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
29. Steve Vai - For the Love of God
30. Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
31. Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
32. Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun
33. B.B. King - The Thrill is Gone
34. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
35. Pantera - Cemetary Gates
36. Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star
37. Guns n' Roses - Sweet Child o' Mine
38. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
39. Neil Young - Cortez the Killer
40. Steely Dan - Reelin' In the Years
41. Queen - Brighton Rock
42. The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
43. ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
44. Pearl Jam - Alive
45. The Doors - Light My Fire
46. Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
47. The Allman Brothers - Jessica
48. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
49. Santana - Europa
50. Kiss - Shock Me
51. Metallica - Master of Puppets
52. Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner
53. Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Lovin' You
54. Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA
55. Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie
56. Black Sabbath - War Pigs
57. Pantera - Walk
58. Eric Clapton - Cocaine
59. The Kinks - You Really Got Me
60. Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
61. Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
62. Pink Floyd - Money
63. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
64. Prince - Little Red Corvette
65. Nirvana - In Bloom
66. The Allman Brothers - Blue Sky
67. Michael Jackson - Beat It
68. Yes - Starship Trooper
69. The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing
70. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
71. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
72. Aerosmith - Walk This Way
73. Phish - Stash
74. Deep Purple - Lazy
75. The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
76. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Cinnamon Girl
77. Alice in Chains - Man in the Box
78. The Grateful Dead - Truckin'
79. Van Halen - Mean Street
80. AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
81. The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
82. King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
83. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Scuttle Buttin'
84. Subline - Santeria
85. David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
86. The Allman Brothers - Whipping Post
87. Living Color - Cult of Personality
88. Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
89. Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
90. Eric Clapton - Let it Rain
91. CCR - Heard It Thu Grapevine
92. Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
93. The Doors - The End
94. Rush - Working Man
95. Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
96. The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
97. Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
98. Dream Theater - Under a Glass Moon
99. Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended as Lovers
100. Jane's Addiction - Three Days


The actual page gives you links for the tabs etc. for each solo. here it is:

guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatest.htm

[Kanenite]

A few of the top ones are in Guitar Hero, like Crossroads by Cream and Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood.

[Cerpin Taxt]

I'm pleased to see three Pink Floyd songs included. The guitar solo in Comfortable Numb blew me away when I first heard it.

[~Tr1st@Inactive.]

They have obviously forgotten dragonforce, that would be number one TBH.

[V e l o c i t y]

I gotta be honest... I use to think a good guitar solo has to be Petrucci style fast and nothing else. Dragonforce are like that and it does take skill to play that fast but it's just fucking stupid.

But now I think it's about really adding something special to the song. That one thing that makes that song stick in your mind and how everything flows.

I love Pearl Jam-Alive... that really did that thing to me and remains one of my favorites.

[Cerpin Taxt]

admin said:

I gotta be honest... I use to think a good guitar solo has to be Petrucci style fast and nothing else. Dragonforce are like that and it does take skill to play that fast but it's just f**king stupid.

But now I think it's about really adding something special to the song. That one thing that makes that song stick in your mind and how everything flows.

I love Pearl Jam-Alive... that really did that thing to me and remains one of my favorites.

I agree with you there mate totally.

That's probably the reason the Stones are on there, they aren't known as great guitarist, but it's just small touches like in those songs that set them apart from other bands.