Jerry Cantrell- Spiderbite

Black Sabbath- Under The Sun

evilgenius:

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

Nirvana - In Bloom

Agree with those.....also

Rob Zombie- More human than human

Zeppelin- Heartbreaker

Roadhouse Blues- Doors

Outshined- Soundgarden

Them bones- you know who

Anything by SRV

so many others

Israel´s son - Silverchair

Spoonman - Soundgarden

Aneurysm - Nirvana

Taxman - The Beatles

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

Lust for life - Iggy Pop

Bulls on parade - Rage Against the Machine

I don´t wanna grow up - The Ramones

Budu - Godsmack

Sweet dreams - Marilyn Manson

Nearly lost you - Screaming Trees

Rifugium:

But the award for best riff of all time still indisputably goes to:
Metallica - The Frayed Ends of Sanity (at the 4:00 mark)

I've heard many tunes in my days, but there's still no riff that's quite as great as that one. 

I'm with you on that one!! 

easy peasy no contest:

im broken by pantera!!!!!!!!!!  angry beer laden weed smoking music!!!!!

loads more too many to list most my fave riffs are from bands like pantera, crowar,down, corrosion of conformity simple and heavy

new personal faves is on march the saints and NOD off the new down album.

oh and anything by clutch and high on fire, and metallica, machinehead and alice and soundgarden too many.

"the power of the riff compells me!!" 

What about Kyuss eh?

Sure, if you put their riffs under a microscope there's nothing special but they do have a great fucking sound and tone to them.

I could never get the sound out of my guitar that they get, playing drop C feels like jumping friggin' rope (boing-boing-clang)

EDIT: Since when did "fucking" stop being auto-censored!! that's fucking awesome! 

I forgot to mention Rammstein's Engel, unless I didn't forget, then I'm just emphasizing it's importance.

I'm not big into Rammstein, but they have some killer riffs. "Heirate Mich" gets me riled up.

Deimos:

playing drop C feels like jumping friggin' rope (boing-boing-clang)

"Sweet Home Alabama" - Skynyrd

"Slaves and Bulldozers" - Soundgarden

"Sea of Sorrow" - AIC

"Make Me Bad" - Korn

Crazy Train-Ozzy

Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath(the end especially)

Raining Blood-Slayer

My Iron Lung-Radiohead

We Die Young(it's on right now can't resist putting it on here)

Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror

Pantera - Floods, Im Broken, Cemetery Gates

Alice In Chains - We Die Young 

Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden ....for its simplicity.... it's brilliant.

and Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb.

thenegativecreep:

Was Heart's Barracuda or Crazy on You mentioned yet?

I mean come on, don't you want this thread to be taken seriously?

Deimos:

What about Kyuss eh?

Sure, if you put their riffs under a microscope there's nothing special but they do have a great fucking sound and tone to them.

I could never get the sound out of my guitar that they get, playing drop C feels like jumping friggin' rope (boing-boing-clang)

EDIT: Since when did "fucking" stop being auto-censored!! that's fucking awesome! 

I think Kyuss is in C standard tuning, but I'm not sure since my ears totally suck. Gardenia, Writhe, Thong Song and that huge riff before the solo in Demon Cleaner are all awesome.

Alice in Chains:Them Bones, Rooster 

Black Sabbath: Chorus riff to Killing Yourself to Live

Moterhead: (We are the) Roadcrew 

Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze (my favourite) 

Theres tons more but............................