Pitchfork Media lists top 50 worst guitar solos

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

43. "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd

Soloist: David Gilmour

Album: The Wall

Year: 1979

Right here is the real reason that this list is a fucking JOKE. "Comfortably Numb" is one of the finest solos of all-time, and is probably David gilmour's most well-know guitar work. It's not my favourite solo of his, but it's an outstanding solo none the less.

What redbaron didn't post was their reasons for choosing the list.

 

The Comfortably Numb solo was apparently pieced together from several different takes because Gilmour couldn't get it right, hence its inclusion.

 

For the record it's my favourite PF solo. Pitchfork have no idea with this list.

Of course, they don't even have their facts right.

 

Gilmour pieced solos together because he wanted to make something that would be "impossible to perfectly replicate live", not because all his material was flawed.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Then it's fitting, and can't really be a truly bad solo because it fits the BAD music. Case in point: any of the solo's on Nevermind The Bollocks. The solo's are crap, but they fit perfectly with the music.

So I take it by crap you mean "simple".

 

If so, I agree, because I'd rather listen to the "solo" (lead guitar/whatever) from Teen Spirit than a bunch of that awful Wanking Phish or Grateful Dead crap.

[Guest GreatOne]

I think we can say that this list brings the ghey and plenty of it.

[snuffbox 0]

Then it's fitting, and can't really be a truly bad solo because it fits the BAD music. Case in point: any of the solo's on Nevermind The Bollocks. The solo's are crap, but they fit perfectly with the music.

So I take it by crap you mean "simple".

 

If so, I agree, because I'd rather listen to the "solo" (lead guitar/whatever) from Teen Spirit than a bunch of that awful Wanking Phish or Grateful Dead crap.

Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia are/were both extremely good guitarists...

[KanadianKrusty 0]

I swear if I see Motörhead on another worst-of list, heads are gonna fucking roll.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

That's rather severe.

 

Top five worst looking musicians ever:

 

1. Lemmy Kilmister

2. Aaron Neville

3. Ohgr, post-performance

4. Joe Cocker

5. Alex Lifeson

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

You need Joey Ramone, Dee Snider and Rick Ocasek on that list.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Then it's fitting, and can't really be a truly bad solo because it fits the BAD music. Case in point: any of the solo's on Nevermind The Bollocks. The solo's are crap, but they fit perfectly with the music.

So I take it by crap you mean "simple".

 

If so, I agree, because I'd rather listen to the "solo" (lead guitar/whatever) from Teen Spirit than a bunch of that awful Wanking Phish or Grateful Dead crap.

Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia are/were both extremely good guitarists...

I never said that they weren't talented.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Then it's fitting, and can't really be a truly bad solo because it fits the BAD music. Case in point: any of the solo's on Nevermind The Bollocks. The solo's are crap, but they fit perfectly with the music.

So I take it by crap you mean "simple".

 

If so, I agree, because I'd rather listen to the "solo" (lead guitar/whatever) from Teen Spirit than a bunch of that awful Wanking Phish or Grateful Dead crap.

Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia are/were both extremely good guitarists...

I never said that they weren't talented.

[Red Baron 0]

5. Alex Lifeson

He's Canadian.

 

Canadians aren't suppose to look good in the first place.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

I'd put Geddy Lee on there instead of Lifeson though.

[Vanhalen 0]

39. "Dazed and Confused" by Led Zeppelin

Soloist: Jimmy Page

Album: Led Zeppelin

Year: 1969

 

27. "Sucker in a 3-Piece" by Van Halen

Soloist: Eddie Van Halen

Album: OU812

Year: 1988

 

2. "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Soloist: Gary Rossington, Ed King, Allen Collins

Album: Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd

Year: 1973

What a fucking load of bollocks, these had good solos, especially Pages use of the violin string

[cabbageboy 0]

Teen Spirit doesn't really have an extended solo in it per se, but just a little section of the song where the guitar does some licks while the drums and bass still essentially go forth. To me, a really BAD solo is one that just stops a song dead in its tracks.

 

I was surprised that some of the stuff Tony Iommi did on the first Sabbath album wasn't listed. Thing is, there's so much mindless soloing on that album that it's hard to narrow it to one song. I love old school Sabbath but there are parts of that 1st album that drive me crazy.

 

And since no one has the balls to do it, I will stand up for the Scorpions. No One Like You is a cool song.

[Red Baron 0]

Yes it is.

 

Sucker in a 3-Piece isn't that great anyways, but I mean, for the worst Van Halen lick/riff, Human Beings is the worst.

[Rendclaw 0]

My whole point is why get all that fired up over a list produced by an anti-guitarist site? Too elite for elitists, indeed.

 

Its more comical than anything else.

 

And yes, guitar solos should fit the song, not interfere with the message that the song is trying to convey. But then again, I just might still be on a high from meeting Joe Satriani Wednesday night, so don't mind me.

 

Edit: By the way, the "solo" in Teen Spirit was more of a harmony than anything else, as it was replicating the vocal line in the pre-chorus. I like it because its just a minimalist approach to a guitar solo. If the really wanted to put a "bad" solo on there, they should have put In Bloom in there. That was a rambling, disjointed solo if there ever was one. But then again, perhaps that was the point.

 

Not like you can ask Kurt about it, considering he's dead and all.

[Guest GreatOne]

I always thought when when Metallica would do Harvester Of Sorrow live and Kirk went off and did his own thing instead of the regular solo was a WTF moment.