Your top 5 solos
 

Could be guitar, keys, drums, bouzouki, shamisen, oboe, whatever. Any kind of lead break on any kind of instrument.

I'll start with my top 5 electric guitar solos, in no order beyond as I think of them:

1. Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb
2. Radiohead: Paranoid Android
3. Sonic Youth: Unmade Bed
4. Pantera: Walk
5. The Vines: Outtathaway

This is going to require some careful thought from me......

Off the top of my head:
Child In Time
Revelations
Communication Breakdown
Powerslave
Every David Gilmour from Saucerful Of Secrets to DSOTM

More thoughts on this important matter to come!!

Genetic Outtatheway? Really? I love the Vines(only their first 2 albums really..). But I don't think that solo would EVER! show up on someones top 5. Nice picks though....

Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb (on a par with Time and Echoes)
Television - Torn curtain
Neil Young - On the beach
David Bowie - Teenage wildlife
Joy Division - New dawn fades

Deep Purple In Rock/Fireball/Machine Head every track Ritchie Blackmore ever played...... perhaps I've changed my answer? They are the greatest band to ever exist!!

"Digital Love"

Simply Saucer -here comes the cyborgs

Queen - A Kind of Magic

Good pick!
action swingers - I don't wanna be this way
vu- i heard her call my name

YES!!

Even though it's got some awfully cheesy lyrics, I love Andromeda's ''Return To Sanity'' because of the guitar parts.

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this x 5

EVOLghost: I love the Outtathaway solo because it's simple and adds so much to the song...it's also one of the only Craig Nicholls solos that isn't just some sort of paraphrasing of the vocal line.

SteveOK: If you're talking about Daft Punk, definitely...

The Vines?? Now thats a daring pick on here

The lead guitar in Go with the Flow by QOTSA sounds brilliant throughout the song, even though it doesnt really have a solo.

Archives Of Pain by the Manics just for the length and the general bleakness - edit: starts around 4.00 in

I'm sure ill chip in with more as they come to me

The Vines, if you ask me, are the most underrated of all the early 2000s "The" bands. Totally never got their due outside of Austraila.

eh? They were very popular in the UK for a while, granted they faded in popularity after their second album, but they sold out alot of good sized venues in the days before EVERYONE would go to see a band of their size. I distinctly remember being crushed by thousands of people trying to fit into the big tent at Reading festival to see them.
I bought their first album, and I do like it, im just saying that theyre the kind of band that give alot of posters on here epileptic seizures (ironically)

I used to be a huge vines fan....I really like their album Winning days, I mean TV Pro, Autumn Shade 2, I dig it. Their 3rd.....not so much.

Yo Watcher, nice to see another Deep Purple fan. Live in Japan is definitely a top 5 live album of mine as for the solos:

Elizabeth Reed - Allman Bros. at the Fillmore 71 version
Tin Pan Alley - SRV Montroveux version
Sampa Ti - Carlos Santana Live in South Africa version
Space Truckin' - Deep Purple Live in Japan
Diamond Sea - who else? any version

The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
Brainiac- I could own you

no time to think of some more entries now, sorry.

Guitar:
1. Jimi Hendrix: Moon, turn the tides...gently gently away
2. Pink Floyd: Time
3. the Who: I can see for miles
4. Sonic Youth: Starpower
5. Stooges: I wanna be your dog

Bass:
1. Pekka Pohjola: Metsonpeliä
2. Rush: La Villa Strangiato
3. Metallica: Orion
4. Canned Heat: Refried Boogie (part 1)
5. Vanilla Fudge: Break Song

Keys:
1. the Nice: Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite (Organ)
2. Wigwam: Groundswell (organ)
3. Colosseum: Valentyne Suite (organ and piano)
4. Yes: South Side Of the sky (Piano)
5. King Crimson: the Mincer (mellotron)

Santana - Song of the Wind
STP - Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart
SY - Unmade Bed
Television - Days

Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag

I still like the Vines a lot. It is a bit frustrating that so many of their post-Winning Days songs follow the trend of starting out good, then getting really good, and then simply ending, but I still like them. I wish Melodia had a tangible Stateside release.

this is mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHNC...eature=related

Yeah, Marc Ribot is really great!

Yesssss.

1. maudlin of the Well - Birth Pains of Astral Projection (2nd guitar solo)
2. Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity (clarinet solo)
3. ...

The Life you preferred by Oneida has a good shred

the ultimate solo to end all solos:

the buzzcocks - boredom

Echo and the Bunnymen - My Kingdom
The House of Love - On The Hill
Elvis Presley - Too Much