But I'm going to say "Grasping Air" by YOB.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 08:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Tom Waits "Hoist That Rag"
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, Daft Punk - "Digital Love"
― Number None, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, marc ribot has had some great solos for sure
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Dammit i thought that was one of the bits they didn't rip off.
― Number None, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
White Stripes "Ball And Biscuit"Six Organs Of Admittance "A Thousand Birds" etc.whoever plays the solo in Grinderman's 'No Pussy Blues"
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
The entire two sides of neil michael hagerty's first solo record. also "louisa la ray" from plays that good old rock n roll.
― sknybrg, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
David Rawlings (plays with Gillian Welch) deserves to be mentioned -- he pretty much kills on acoustic throughout the Time the Revelator album ....
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh yeah for sure! Also on the record they backed Robyn Hitchcock on, Spooked. Check 'If You Know Time'.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
the strokes "whatever happened" is my fav solo of the decade
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
also my chem "i don't love you"
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Rawlings plays a bit of electric on the other Gillian Welch album from this decade, Soul Journey, but I'd be curious to hear him just completely shred non-unplugged-style. He's got something called the David Rawlings Machine, with an album coming out next month I think? Dunno what that'll be like.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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well yeah lots of people like that song but i wanted to say what up to my kshighway and dem
― crazypoxyfule (some dude), Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
hey yoooo
― the supposedly self-aware acoustic stylings of Joe Latte (kshighway1), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Boris with Michio - Rainbow might be my favourite solo ever as well
― merked, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
the 'digital love' solo sounds like a synth trying to emulate a guitar to me? not that it matters, it's fantastic
― 6335, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Digital Love is a synth guitar surely? Fantastic solo, and as far as I can tell, played by one of DP, not a session muso.
Second Impossible Germany (which is Nels Cline) and At Least That's What You Said, which is Tweedy.
Rawlings sure does shred it on an acoustic live.
How about Steven Drodz on Powerless from the new Flaming Lips? It's really fucked up, a kind of splattery, dissonant anti-solo with piercing Pete Cosey style high register fuzz and delay shrieks.
― Stew, Thursday, 29 October 2009 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
― d90 (D90), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
aw fuck you, tube!
― d90 (D90), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
ween - woman and man
― I regret choosing this bland user name (peter in montreal), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
There was a Drive By Truckers song from Southern Rock Opera that had a memorable solo. I think it was "Shut Up and Get on the Plane" or "Greenville to Baton Rouge".
― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Friday, 30 October 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ the last two minutes of "Decoration Day" w/ all three guitarist shredding is one of my fave
― Moreno, Friday, 30 October 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
"Say Please" from the Monsters of Folk album. Only reason I bought a copy. (And no, it wasn't worth it.)
― The Boxing Pretzel Wizard, Friday, 30 October 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Digital Love is a synth guitar surely?
definitely sounds like a synth emulating a guitar, and not someone physically paying a guitar or guitar-like synth.
― umadeus grozart (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
playing*
― umadeus grozart (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Ghost - Hazy ParadiseWilco - Impossible Germany
― Gavin in Leeds, Friday, 30 October 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
yo la tengo - cherry chapstick
― I regret choosing this bland user name (peter in montreal), Friday, 30 October 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure if this counts as a guitar solo, since it probably wasn't extemporaneous, but the last minute of Liz Phair's "Red Light Fever" is very memorable.
― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Saturday, 31 October 2009 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Blake Sennett's outro solo on RK's "I Never" is beautifully melodic.
― Bears Are Alive! (Pancakes Hackman), Saturday, 31 October 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― Stew, Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:17 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark
YES
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 31 October 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
The solo at the very beginning of The Wolf by Andrew WK makes me think of Brian May or something:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgiG1qWW_Jo
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 31 October 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
New Pornographers - "Twin Cinema"
― Maltodextrin, Sunday, 1 November 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Meshuggah - Straws Pulled At Random
― Marty Innerlogic, Sunday, 1 November 2009 11:54 (fourteen years ago) link
the digital love solo was programmed rather than live played i think - i remember one interview when the daft punk guys pretended to not understand why anyone would think the difference mattered, which was endearing
― thomp, Sunday, 1 November 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The Darkness "Love Is Only A Feeling"
― billstevejim, Sunday, 1 November 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like we may have done something along these lines but not exactly before, but it feels like a good time to do this off the back of Guitar bands who don't really do guitar solos, and the how and why of not doing guitar solos
Apollo Sunshine - "Ghost"
― crazypoxyfule (some dude), Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:56 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Hey man, I dl'd this tune and really liked it and then went to search ilx for other Apollo Sunshine references and it's pretty much just you reppin' hard for them. So I just wanted to let you know that I'll probably buy the whole album sometime later on if I have $10 to spare.
― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
fuckin' sweet, dude. that album's in my top 10 of the decade, great stuff.
― et tu, omas? (some dude), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:10 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark
was about to say the same thing.
― Josh L, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't believe this thread is 5 years old! I found quite a few good records from here. It's weird though, I could have sworn that someone mentioned Nowhere to Go by Friends of Dean Martinez on here.
Anyway, how about great guitar solos of the '10s?
― sonic yarmouth (how's life), Monday, 27 April 2015 12:47 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb9dg1R1oPA
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 27 April 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link
sufjan stevens - djohariah
― ufo, Monday, 27 April 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
Charalambides (Tom Carter) "Into The Earth"
― grandavis, Monday, 27 April 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
Wow, that sufjan track is no joke! Where did THAT come from?
― how's life, Monday, 27 April 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link