The next time you're cruisin' through town with your windows rolled down, crank up the volume with one of these awesome guitar solos!
1) Quiet Riot - “Cum on Feel the Noize” – A solo that people recognize when you drive by. And, whenever I have a chance to put this song on a Top 5 list, I DO IT! (Also featured on Top 5 lists such as Best Drum Intro, Best Mid-Song Scream by a Lead Singer, Songs I’d Like as My Plate Approach Theme If I Were a Baseball Player, and Favorite Songs That Passively-Aggressively Urge People to ‘Feel the Noize’.)
1) Quiet Riot - “Cum on Feel the Noize” – A solo that people recognize when you drive by. And, whenever I have a chance to put this song on a Top 5 list, I DO IT! (Also featured on Top 5 lists such as Best Drum Intro, Best Mid-Song Scream by a Lead Singer, Songs I’d Like as My Plate Approach Theme If I Were a Baseball Player, and Favorite Songs That Passively-Aggressively Urge People to ‘Feel the Noize’.)
2) Dio – “Rainbow in the Dark” – People don’t know what the hell is happening when they hear this cranked up to 11 on the street! Lots of speed-picking and other good heavy metal shit going on, it sounds like Satan in a speaker! I had a frail old woman look on with fear as I drove by one time. Just give her the Devil Horns and tell ol’ blue-hair to drop dead, I say!
3) Metallica – “Enter Sandman” – I find this one to be a crowd-pleaser, which means people on the street hear it and don’t tell me to ‘Turn it the fuck down!’
4) Scorpions – “Rock You Like a Hurricane” – People might not know what the song is when they hear the solo full blast; But they WILL know they just got hit square in the face with a heavy-metal bomb filled with pick scrapes, leather pants, and whammy bars! Suck on that, innocent bystanders!
5) Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Freebird” – Make sure you crank this to full volume if you ever drive through the Deep South, where you’re likely to otherwise get your face caved in by a tire iron just because those drunk hillbillies don’t recognize you, therefore hate you.
No Nazareth "Hair of the Dog"?! That is a great song to blast while driving past a family walking out of a small-town supper club and pointing at them while singing the chorus!!
ReplyDeleteHaha! Good call, Otis! "Hair of the Dog" has that rockin' talk-box solo and could easily have made the list.
ReplyDeleteI remember that cruise past the supper club like it was yesterday. If that nice-looking family thought they could enter the diner without getting an earful of cowbell and someone shouting "Now you're messin' with a SON OF A BIIIITCH!" at them... well, they were wrong. :)
I'm surprised the solo from Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name" or "Living On A Prayer" didn't make the cut. Maybe if they were longer. (That's what she said.)
ReplyDeleteHaha, you're right Tone! It's rare that Bon Jovi doesn't make a guitar solo list for me, since I do love Richie Sambora.
ReplyDeleteOf all their solos, I think "You Give Love A Bad Name" would be the best one to blast with your windows down. It's got whammy bar dive bombs, some pick-tapping, and the solo ends with a Jon Bon Jovi "Ohhhhhhh!" scream... all of which sound awesome at high-volume.