songs with a lot of riffs in them
 

I was listening to Tool - Pushit and I noticed there is something like 19 different, individual guitar riffs in that song. Lots of metal bands have a good 6 to 10 riffs in their songs, but damn.. 19! Even the most complex and over-the-top bands like Necrophagist or Weakling or whatever don't have that many riffs in any of their songs. It helps that the Tool song in question is like 9 minutes long but still.

So, I'm looking for a songs with a ton of riffs. Not guitar solos, I'm talking individual repeated riffs. I don't care if the music is really complex or not, I don't care if it's fast or not, I just want as many riffs as possible in a song.

Messiaen. Not a rock band, but you need to break away from all that turd.

http://www.myspace.com/itchytasty

Some mates of mine that you might appreciate.

Sweet!

This Itchy Tasty band is fucking amazing.

Reminds me of Breadwinner a bit.

I think that makes you the second fan of Itchy Tasty, after me.

It just blew my mind, I thought that was some of the best stuff I've ever heard. I myspacefriended 'em!

I'll check out that other band now.

i added em for their name alone. i'll listen ot teh music later. :)

tool-aenima was the first song on guitar i learned how to play when i was 9, i was stoked.

umm, songs with lots of crazy riffs:

acid mother's temple-loved and confused
king crimson-2ist century scizoid mam
metallica-batterey
bad brains-i against i (the bad brains were basically a prog rock level of skilled band, but they decided to play ultra fast punk rock, but the thing that is special about them, is it seems like more intense and loud and fast the more tight, controlled, rhythmic, hypnotic, and musical it sounds, there are so many guitar riffs in this song, and fucking darryl man, shit)
brutal truth-kill neglect (still some of the fastest guitar playing ive ever heard)
chrome-the monitors
the wipers-over the edge (sage is a fucking virtuoso of punk, such simple riffs, but so beautiful and fucking perfrect, and the guys a great singer too)
eyehategod-methamphetamine (my favorite opening riff of all time)
hendrix-who knows?
parliament funkadelic-maggot brain
miles davis-john mclaughlin (track off bithces brew, miles tells mclaughlin to go off, to which he does)
melt banana-spathic (agata is the best guitarist in the punk/noise underground right now period, he has a style that is unique and distinct and innovatie as derek bailey's, but he is still a fucking rocker and doesnt act like anything more, listening to him play is amazing and inspring, and watching him live is religious)
mayhem-the freezing moon
the adverts-one chord wonders (this is kinda like my favorite song, and as the title suggests, it is as simple as possible, which only increases its perfection, i love the little surf guitar line that is played throughout the verse, what a band the adverts were, total no wave)
led zeppelin-dazed and confused
husker du-something i learned today
dino jr-sludgefeast
neil young-cortez the killer


so much shit dude. guitar driven rock music takes up at least 50 percent of the music im into. old rock, early punk, hardcore, post punk, proto punk, blues, heavy metal, noise rock, noise punk, thrash, death metal, grindcore, black metal, accoustic folk, psychedelic music. i mean, im sure thats a similar situation for all of us, when it comes down to it, putting all our wierd, avant tastes on the table, were rock fans.

black sabbath - wheels of confusion

Some of this sounds v good, Glice. Wonder if they'll ever grace London?

Anyone like the band Loincloth?...

Slayer - Raining blood

Subhumans "From the Cradle to the Grave"

the album version of this tune is the only 13 minute anarcho-chaos punk song I know of, and it has dozens of change ups, riffs and fills.

yes, in fact, that whole album has an excessive number of riffs..

sweet!

yeah

vol 4 is good for that


except for changes.

hey, everyonce in a while drugs make you crash into a wall and you have to record a depressingly personal tune..

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Technical Ecstasy also have a shitload of riffs, Tony practically made both those albums by himself and he went nuts.

i like changes a lot but it just doesn't go.

Carry Stress in the Jaw by Mr. Bungle
Very fun to play if you can do it right.

Mayhem - Funeral Fog
One of the five or six riffs in there is one of my favourite riffs.
Satyricon - Mother North
The intro riff in this is also one of my favourites.

from what i remember koenjihyakkei stuffs a dumpload of riffs in any given tune

yeah all of 'master of reality' is riff heaven

Mr. Bungle

I don't know. Hassle them about it and maybe they'll get off their arses for it.

You should check out the band Silencio. Some really good instumental stuff.

spruance is ridiculously skilled player/composer, 'disco volante' has some great riffs indeed.

im surprised no one has mentioned anything by octis/ocrillim/orthrelm/crom-tech. mick has more ridiculous riff sequences in a span of five seconds than other lesser guitarists have in their discographies. fucking part II of annwn, theres so many riffs in so little time it all kind of melds together into a tight knit brilliant guitar composition. his style is pretty much the opposite of a lot of noted experimental guitar composers, ala branca and chatham. those dudes use relatively simple riffs, but through repetition, layering, volume, and feedback create these huuuuuuge hypnotic compositions. mick barr on the other hand plays a million riffs ridiculously fast and throws them together and makes a composition. now usually i hate that style of guitar playing, as you have to be a virtuoso to pull it off, but lets face it, mick barr is a fucking virtuoso. and the amazing thing is his style has the same effect as branca and chatham, hypnotic and mesmerizing, but his is through speed and the weaving of guitar lines instead of repetiion.


also, bands that have great fucking guitar riffs that are a little wierd:
dazzling killmen
u.s. maple
polvo
yowie
zeni geva
sightings (i love their heavily distorted riffs, especially their earlier barely audible stuff)

Trey Spruance is by far one of my favorite guitar players.. up there with Seiichi Yamamoto definitely. Trey is just brilliant.

Glad someone mentioned Koenjihyakkei. One of the best bands of all time!

Here's a really obvious one no one's mentioned.. lots of Captain Beefheart songs have a shit ton of great riffs. "Sheriff of Hong Kong"!

Early Sepultura LPs have got songs with 7/8 riffs in them .

and also drums made out of cardboard

songs by Diamond Head

blitzkrieg bop.







just kidding.

Anything off the "Jane Doe" album by Converge. More riffs than you can shake a pimp-cane at, and all killer shit too.