― the pinefox, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink
― Kevin Enas, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink
http://www.ilxor.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=004Z AA
― Nick, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink
I do still have some hitherto unmentioned bad solos in mind, though.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink
"please don't put your life in the hands/of a rock'n'roll band".
Whatever.
x0x0
― norman fay, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink
― K-reg, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink
In fact, I can imagine (though unsurprisingly I don't know the track you're referring to) that ironic solos might tend to be some of the worst of all, assuming that they do exist as a category.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink
― james e l, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink
― Tom, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink
― the pinefox, Sunday, 10 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Pearl Jam -- Yellow Ledbetter guitar solo
― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 22 August 2008 19:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
Europe: "Final Countdown" (the guitar solo obv. - the synth theme was genius)
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 22 August 2008 19:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
gotta be one of those wanky post-pavement malkmus solos
― will, Friday, 22 August 2008 19:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
as opposed to one of the awesome wanky pavement solos
Norm Fay ^^^^ spot on re Oasis. Some of their lead breaks are almost laughable. Unimaginatively up and down the scale in a ploddingly predictable way .
The only thing that ruins the latest The Steady's greatest is one or two 'licks' in the same vein.
For some reason though, I love the OTT solo in 'Lord, Im Discouraged' . It's so fucking over the top. That's why.
I prefer aggro solos like Greg Ginn's in 'Rise Above'. Anything messy and angry
― Fer Ark, Friday, 22 August 2008 20:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
Reminds me of Bob's anarchy solos on old Replacements records (even if it was Paul who supposedly played them)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 22 August 2008 20:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
wtf with the Digitial Love solo hate?
― I know, right?, Friday, 22 August 2008 20:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
honestly, that is one of the best talk box solos ever
― san frandisco, Friday, 22 August 2008 21:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
not that i know a ton of them
Elvis Telecom - Stinson's efforts are my food!OTFuckingM
― Fer Ark, Friday, 22 August 2008 21:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
David Bowie's solo in "Sweet Thing" (it's charming too).
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 22 August 2008 21:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
trey from phish is an enormously boring soloist for being such a "musical genius"
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 22 August 2008 21:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
Bowie's Sweet Thing solo is so incredible, how successfully he "pretends" to play the guitar mirroring exactly the sweet/lascivious playacting of the song
― iago g., Saturday, 23 August 2008 00:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
am I the only one who finds the solo in My Sharona totally unbearable?
― Marco Damiani, Saturday, 23 August 2008 09:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
steve howe and alan white of yes do these sort of "stadium rock" solos on Release, Release from the dreaded tormato album which are terrible (but maybe that was point)
― velko, Saturday, 23 August 2008 10:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
Lil Wayne to thread
― bear, bear, bear, Saturday, 23 August 2008 10:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
W/Guitar plz
Gah, 'Final Countdown' was also the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. Instead, I'll offer any Red Hot Chili Peppers solo (and that includes *you*, Flea) not by John Frusciante. Proof that keeping it simple and playing for the song is better than virtuosity
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 23 August 2008 10:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
One of my personal least-favourites is AK-47 - The Badge Means You Suck, which is a great song but the guitar solo is just shite, badly played (hey, it's punk!) and goes on for ages. I supposed it bugs me more because otherwise I love the song.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 23 August 2008 11:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
What's that godawful song, it's all bouncy and angular and like "got to get you into got to get you into got to get you into my liii-ii-iife!!" it might be a cover...but whatever version of whatever song it is i HATE IT SOOO MUCH. All the lead guitar in that can go kill itself along with the rest of the song.
― RabiesAngentleman, Saturday, 23 August 2008 11:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
Dylan's solo on "I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind," from Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute, is pretty embarrassing.
― Jazzbo, Saturday, 23 August 2008 12:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
Going by my own fumblings, I'm surprised at how rarely guitarists mess up solos live. I did have a tape of a Suede gig soon after Richard Oakes joined where he gets the 'My Dark Star' solo all wrong - he plays the right notes, but isn't damping the strings. As the rest of the band drop out at that point, the effect ain't pretty
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 23 August 2008 13:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
am I the only one who finds the solo in My Sharona totally unbearable
Jesus I hope so. That's a great solo!
― Pancakes Hackman, Saturday, 23 August 2008 13:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
John Mayer's solo on Fall Out Boy's cover of "Beat It" is absolutely fucking atrocious
― stephen, Saturday, 23 August 2008 13:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
If anyone can find something worse than, I fear for the future:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFllo3i3HFs
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
eesh, that could be posted in the "[famous guitarist] shreds" thread with nary a batted eyelid.
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
WOW @ paul stanley vid
lock thread
― stephen, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
Oasis? You mean Oasis have solos?
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 23 August 2008 18:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
I love the Paul Stanley thread, but it does look like he's spoofing his own lack of shredding ability
― iago g., Saturday, 23 August 2008 18:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
I meant vid, not thread
― iago g., Saturday, 23 August 2008 18:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
I also clicked on the Gene Simmons solo that was linked to that, but had about enough after about one minute.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 23 August 2008 23:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
he plays the right notes, but isn't damping the strings. haha.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 23 August 2008 23:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
Good Christ, that's the death of rock and roll right there.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2009 06:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
half expect him to start playing the guitar with a violin
― an error has occurred (electricsound), Thursday, 3 December 2009 06:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's not that far removed from a StSanders joint.
― there is a ban in a smiling bag (Pillbox), Thursday, 3 December 2009 06:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Which says it all.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
multiple hilariously bad solos in Crying Shame by Frijid Pink
― Snop Snitchin, Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
Spirit in the Sky -- a song I actually kind of love, has a really terrible guitar solo -- specifically the part where the chords change and it goes from A to G to A to C 2x, so weak and thuddy.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
It's like the buildup and the backing tracks say "reverse dunk" but then he just shoots an awkward layup.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
the solo in "I Can See for Miles" seems like it's gonna be awesome, but then it turns out to be one sorry note on repeat. i guess as a contrarian assault on overindulgent guitar wankery it's alright, but the actual solo kind of sucks.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
Madonna's guitar solo in the 2001 live version of "Candy Perfume Girl."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
I really hate Bob Stinson's solo in "Bastards of Young."
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
Uriah Heep - "Gypsy" has the worst organ solo ever recorded, I think
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
You mad
― don't slip in mud (Matt #2), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, September 4, 2012 3:00 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
One of my favorite Townshend solos. And as Miles Davis said, "He knows how not to play. Somebody else would use three chords, but he picks the one, the right one, and uses it. He knows how not to play."
― Sunn? Sunn? It's your cousin, Marvin O))) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 22:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
i agree in the sense that if it were anything else, it might have been worse, but i feel like it should erupt in a way that it doesn't
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 15:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
Electric Wizard's headlining set at Deathfest this summer saw the band stumble into some blues licks and the main dude tried to solo a bit and it was very St. Sanders, just laughably poor. Otherwise they rocked but damn that was awkward.
― the tune was space, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 17:02 (8 months ago) Permalink