Worst guitar solo on a hit single.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:51 pm

Right over home plate, Van. Above the knees and below the tits.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:54 pm

That's easy. Eddie Van Halen on "Jump".

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:58 pm

BSmack wrote:That's easy. Eddie Van Halen on "Jump".

That song has guitars?

:-?

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:03 pm

This one is so obvious and so absolute that there really ought not to be any debate whatsoever...

"You Have To Fight For Your Right To Party" by The Beastie Boys.

Nothing else even comes close, though Vernon Reid's solo on Living Colour's "The Cult Of Personality" is pretty damn awful too. Still, if you can listen to the solo on that Beastie Boys song without cringing, man, you need a colostomy.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:07 pm

Dr. Hook's "Cover of the Rolling Stone." Although it's intentionally bad. Or "beautiful."

Or anything by Bad Co.

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:11 pm

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:15 pm

Van wrote:

jeeezus h christ

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:06 am

Nobody listens to Bruce for his solos anyway, numbnuts.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:08 am

Van wrote:"You Have To Fight For Your Right To Party" by The Beastie Boys.

I always thought the Beastie Boys were one of the most overrated bands ever. Because of those fucks, specifically Mike D getting hurt, I didn't get to see Rage Against the Machine at the Silverdome in 2000. Also would have been my only trip to the Silverdome. God damn you, Beasties!

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:14 am

RACK Van, the Yingee one had me laughing uncontrollably.

Whoever did that = genius.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:20 am

Toddowen wrote:I'll list one standout song for discussion. How about "Thunder Road" by Springsteen?

"Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk"

Yeah.....whatever, Boss.

What the fuck does he do with that solo following that quote. Jeeezeus. A fukken retard could drop a cheap Taiwanese guitar with five broken strings on the floor and produce a better guitard solo than that.

That was Clarence Clemons and Roy Bittan you heard trading sax and piano riffs after that line. There are no guitar solos in Thunder Road you cock snorkeling retard. None. Zero.

Terry in Crapchester · Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:05 pm

I was never a fan, but Poison had a number of hits back in the day. Pick any of those songs.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:21 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:Not that he was ever a great guitarist, but Ralphs did some nice stuff with Mott the Hoople over the years. Never understood the dumbed down approach of Bad Co's music.

That's how I always felt, too. Mick Ralphs was notorious for not wanting to practice, but he still at least tried to pretend he had some chops when he was with Mott. The instrumental version of You Really Got Me that kicks off their debut album is a good example. And the POS solo in Bad Co's Live for the Music exemplifies how shitty a guitar solo can get.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:32 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:
Smackie Chan wrote:Dr. Hook's "Cover of the Rolling Stone." Although it's intentionally bad. Or "beautiful."

1:39 in. CLASSIC!!!!!

Smackie Chan wrote:Or anything by Bad Co.
Not that he was ever a great guitarist, but Ralphs did some nice stuff with Mott the Hoople over the years. Never understood the dumbed down approach of Bad Co's music.

It's quite easy to understand. It was very successfully commercially.

i don't understand why some think that music must be complex. much of the beatles work is pretty damn simple, even if it was very different from what came before.

i'll take BC any day over complex wankery from yngwie.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:45 pm

smackaholic wrote:i don't understand why some think that music must be complex. much of the beatles work is pretty damn simple, even if it was very different from what came before.

i'll take BC any day over complex wankery from yngwie.

It doesn't have to be complex, but rock songs of the 60s-70s typically had the obligatory guitar solos that had at least a little meat on the bones. Bad Co was rock's answer to minimalism - see how little you could include musically, polished up with fairly slick production, and still get people to buy it. Sure, Paul Rodgers had some decent pipes, the songs were somewhat melodic, and Ralphs' guitar tone gave the illusion that one was listening to hard rock. There just wasn't enough there to hold my interest, though. But to each his own, and props to them for selling a buncha records without having to put much effort into it.

LTS TRN 2 · Post by **LTS TRN 2** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:38 pm

Martyred wrote:Right over home plate, Van. Above the knees and below the tits.

B-Juice, baseball isn't fucking curling! One doesn't say "put it over home plate." And the knees are a strike--and at the tits is way too high. It's the belt, dingus.

The worst guitar solo on a legitimate hit record was by Sam Andrews on Janis Joplin's Down On Me....

the torture begins around 1:10
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=-nwTISq ... re=related

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