( 1992 ) all have the duet characteristic of Eurodance, and " Everybody's Free ( To Feel Good )" by Rozalla ( 1991 ) has the characteristic synthesizer riff.

" I always liked that record ," Richard recalled, " and I used to use the riff in my act, so when we were looking for a lead-in to ' Good Golly, Miss Molly ', I did that and it fit.

Alessandroni's twangy guitar riff is central to the main theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

The song borrows from American blues tradition liberally: the recurring riff resembles that of Memphis Minnie's " Me and My Chauffer Blues ", Chuck Berry's " I Want to Be Your Driver " and the standard " Good Morning Little Schoolgirl ".

His 1976 single " Hot ( I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved )" ( R & B # 31 ) used the main riff from " Fame " by David Bowie, not the other way around as was often believed.

Although he initially offered the song to other bands – The Human Expression, for one – Born to Be Wild was first recorded in 1967 by Steppenwolf in a sped-up and rearranged version, that the All Music Guide's Hal Horowitz described as " a roaring anthem of turbo-charged riff rock " and " a timeless radio classic as well as a slice of ' 60s revolt that at once defines Steppenwolf's sound and provided them with their shot at AM immortality.

*" Could You Be Loved " by Bob Marley and the Wailers ( guitar riff )

The track contains a sample from Diana Ross & the Supremes ' 1969 song " Someday We'll Be Together ", and is built on a heavy metal guitar riff heard throughout the song.

Record producer Rick Rubin has remarked, " The descending riff " What Is and What Should Never Be " is amazing: It's like a bow is being drawn back, and then it releases.

The review praised " Keep Yourself Alive "' s drum solo, as well as its " attractively stilted, vaguely Hendrix-y lead riff ".

Their successful and critically acclaimed albums White Blood Cells and Elephant drew them attention from a large variety of media outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom, with the single " Seven Nation Army " and its now-iconic guitar riff becoming a huge hit.

The album, featuring Jourgensen's electric guitar work on several tracks, drew mixed reviews, although the singles " Tin Omen " and " Worlock ", the latter of which paired a riff sampled from The Beatles ' " Helter Skelter " with a clip of Charles Manson singing the song, became enduring favorites among many fans.

It is notable for its sparse combination of guitar and bass notes in the main riff ; guitarist John Frusciante drew inspiration from The Cure song " Carnage Visors ".

While this comparison might initially seem unlikely, there are in fact some similarities worth noting — the music of early Swans was often based on a single riff, played repeatedly to hypnotic effect.

" Moovin ' n ' Groovin '" reached # 72 on the Hot 100 in early 1958 ; the opening riff, borrowed from Chuck Berry's " Brown Eyed Handsome Man ," was itself copied a few years later by The Beach Boys on " Surfin ' U. S. A .".

In 1991, thrash metal band Anthrax collaborated with political hip hop outfit Public Enemy on a version of the latter's " Bring the Noise ", which saw rapped vocals shared between the Anthrax's Scott Ian and Public Enemy's Chuck D over a heavy electric guitar and electric bass riff.

McCartney later described in Beat Instrumental how he went about the song's composition: " Here ’ s one example of a bit I pinched from someone: I used the bass riff from ' Talkin ’ About You ' by Chuck Berry in ' I Saw Her Standing There '.

Richards came up with the classic guitar riff while playing around with his brand new Gibson " Fuzz box ".

Developed by DJ Spinbad, DJ Cash Money and DJ Jazzy Jeff, transforming was basically clicking the fader on and off while moving a block of sound ( a riff or a short verbal phrase ) across the stylus.

The song was based on a guitar riff that Slovak wrote while " jamming " with Irons, and was not meant to become a real song until Kiedis decided to rap over the music.

The song was based on a guitar riff that Slovak wrote while " jamming " with Irons, and was not meant to become a real song until Kiedis decided to rap over the music.

Part VIII ( Gilmour, Wright, Waters ; from 6: 05 – 8: 59 ) brings in Waters to play a second electric guitar for a high-noted sound riff while Gilmour plays the arpeggio riff that bridges Parts VII and VIII.

Santiago recalls that the original guitar riff was written while they were still enrolled.

The song's familiar guitar riff is featured on a series of TV adverts for Vauxhall / Opel cars, while the extended piano coda was featured prominently in Martin Scorsese's film Goodfellas.

guitarist Peter Buck wrote the main riff and chorus to the song on a mandolin while watching television one day.

album in 1996, while Smash Mouth ( who didn't ask for permission ) borrowed the opening riff from " Swan's Splashdown " for their 1997 hit, " Walkin ' On the Sun ".

There is often a short, repetitive riff, while other times there is a whole tour de force of synthesizers ( e. g., Close To You by Fun Factory ).

He composed the riff on a Spanish guitar, and woke up early one morning and played it while singing " tie your mother down ," a line he considered a joke.

a true intellectual, who can, before finishing his lunch, discuss how “ The Great Gatsby ” might be written today, switch to a riff on free-market reasons for supporting a value-added tax, reference economic studies that detail the “ self-correcting ” tax distribution in European countries that have applied a VAT, chart from memory the nation ’ s deficit spending patterns since the Great Depression, and all while handling a pretend-I ’ m-interested discussion with a political candidate whose conversation is limited to repeating the phrase, “ It ’ ll be a real dog-fight, in every sense of the word.

Corgan has stated the riff was conceived on an acoustic guitar while working at a record store in Chicago.

To demonstrate, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore grabbed an acoustic guitar and began playing a riff consisting of a single " G " repeated over and over, while vocalist Ian Gillan improvised lyrics over the top.

The So So Def remix does use the sample of " Hey DJ ", but in a different manner: both the album and Bad Boy remixes use the piano riff from " Hey DJ ", while the So So Def remix uses the line " Hey JD, won't you play that song, keep them dancing, dancing all night.

" while the show's guitar riff theme played.

The acoustic guitar plays a D – G – A chord progression, while Santiago plays a Byrds-style guitar riff which is the result of him double-tracking a 12-string Rickenbacker and a Telecaster.

Lennon wrote the guitar riff while in the studio recording " Eight Days a Week ".

" The song follows a traditional verse-chorus-verse structure ; when Kiedis begins singing, Frusciante jumps into a funk-oriented riff that is repeated throughout the verse while Flea plays a complex bass-line that makes use of virtually the entire fretboard.

At the end, Toodles Galore watches Spike strum Tom, who has replaced the strings on his bass, while Jerry plays a quick riff on Tom's whiskers.

Marker created the bassline, while Erikson wrote a jangly guitar riff.

In this case, John would have played the riff and solo on his Rickenbacker 325 12-string while George played the acoustic guitar on his Gibson J-160E, but this argument has never been resolved.

The musical elements have a live-sounding rawness while retaining the subtleties which are such essential parts of Arch Enemy's masterful mixture of pure riff and metal melodies ".

Praising it as " a finale to be proud of ," Riley notes that " Sugar Baby " is " built on a disarmingly simple riff that turns foreboding.

The first traces of " raga rock " can be heard on songs such as " See My Friends " by The Kinks and The Yardbirds ' " Heart Full of Soul ", released the previous month, featured a sitar-like riff by guitarist Jeff Beck.

In February 2010, the Australian judge ruled that " Down Under " did contain a flute riff based on " Kookaburra " but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song ( Colin Hay wrote the song years before the flute riff was added by a later member of the band ).

New Orleans producer-bandleader Dave Bartholomew first employed this figure ( as a saxophone-section riff ) on his own 1949 disc " Country Boy " and subsequently helped make it the most over-used rhythmic pattern in 1950 ’ s rock ‘ n ’ roll.

His appearance on stage always brought a roar of delight from the kids in the audience and Spike had soon left the text far behind as he went off into a riff of sublime absurdity.

", as well as the main riff from " Black Sabbath " and the bridge from " Children of the Grave " by Black Sabbath, are loosely based on " Mars.

The last song on the album, the 7 minute, 47 second-long " 747 ", with a characteristic keyboard riff and a long instrumental outro, became the band's closer for every show for the next 8 years, and won numerous best-song polls on Kent's website.

Later, on watching McCabe to come up with a guitar riff for one scene, Cohen decided he didn't like the film.

He wanted to develop his show further, and looked for a co-worker with a sense of humor to riff with on news and current events.

The song was based on a guitar riff by Jody Williams.

At a concert at Howard Theatre in Washington, D. C. Mickey & Sylvia heard Jody Williams play a guitar riff that Williams had played on Billy Stewart's debut single " Billy's Blues ".

Despite that, Look Into the Future still retains some of the experimental approach and sound of the debut, especially in the title track and " I'm Gonna Leave You ", the latter of which some claim inspired the main riff in the famous Kansas song " Carry on Wayward Son ".

As part of a contemporary craze for recycling oldies recordings to create new hits, Janet Jackson's 2001 single " Someone to Call My Lover " sampled the " Ventura Highway " guitar riff and rose to No. 3 on the Billboard pop charts.

A significant error on the Kingsmen's version occurs just after the lead guitar break ; as the group were going by the Wailers ' version, which has a brief restatement of the riff, two times over, before the lead vocalist comes back in, it would be expected that Ely would do the same.

At a Zappa concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Mothers Of Invention keyboardist Don Preston climbed up to the legendary venue's pipe organ, usually used for classical works, and played the signature riff ( this can be heard on the 1969 Zappa album Uncle Meat ).

The main riff from this song was worked into an instrumental piece played during some shows on the tour in support of this album and eventually morphed into the track " Anarchy-X " on the " Operation: Mindcrime " album.

In August 2008 Burke recalled that he'd hired musicians from Charlotte, North Carolina, to play at a gig in Long Island and he drafted them in to play the instrumental riff on " Everybody Needs Somebody to Love.

The musical structure of this song is complex ; though on the surface hard rock, it is a tango in 4 / 4 time, with an opening electric guitar riff by Barry Reynolds in which beats 1 and 4 of each measure are accented on the up-beat, and beat 3 is accented on the down beat.