Greatest Rock Guitar Riffs

Pink Floyd - Time

Steely Dan- Reeling in the Years

T. Rex - Get it On
Foghat - Slow Ride
Rick Derringer - Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo
Neil Young - Ohio
Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Rush - Limelight
Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane
George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone
Steve Miller - The Joker
Aerosmith - Last Child
Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin''Bout Love
Bob Seger - Her Strut
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Boston - Smokin'

Here are some repetitive ones of the simpler variety that you can never get out of your head (once you've heard the song). Some are mind numbingly simple but like Beethovens 5th - the simple ones stick.

Queen - Another one bites the dust
Queen - We Will Rock You
Queen - I want to Break free
Queen/Bowie - Under Pressure
Paul Mccartney - too many great bass riffs to mention "Come Together" is memorable
The Who - My Generation
Pink Floyd - Money
Lynrd Skynrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Eagles - Life in the fast lane
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
ACDC - TNT
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
Doors - Riders of the Storm
Tom Petty - I won't back down
Clash - Should I stay or Should I go

Nice thread

lots of great ones already listed....ad the yardbirds-little games, t rex-hot love,shoes-too late, raspberries-go all the way