# What's Your Favorite Guitar Riff?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-guitar-riff/86780>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 11, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-guitar-riff/86780 "2001-10-11T13:27:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Swagman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Swagman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swagman)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-guitar-riff/86780/101 "2003-08-03T12:51:32Z")

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…and the nominations are  
Whole Lotta Love - Zep and… surprisingly…don’t laugh…  
Pretty Vacant - Sex pistols. (just listen to the opening 20 secs)

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**Author:** ![Cooper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Cooper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cooper)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-guitar-riff/86780/102 "2003-08-03T16:41:51Z")

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No question.

1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be) , Jimi Hendrix. The main riff still gives me chills.

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