songs with just one riff

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what songs have the same riff over and over with no changes?

― cw28 (cw28), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Fit But You Know It" - The Streets

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

the first two I can think of are.

"Ball n' Chain" by Social D.
"Born in the USA"

― cw28 (cw28), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick Drake to thread

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Master of War - Bob Dylan

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

If samples are allowed, shit loads of hip hop tunes.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

almost the entire lungfish recorded output

― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Deathrape 2000 by Wiseblood .. i love Jimbos sonic playfulness .. but this 10 mins of single keyboard riff is just too much.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Warm Leatherette

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"o superman"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Oneida to thread.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

working class hero is practically the same riff as masters of mar.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

at what point does a riff end and begin? i mean say a song is all lead (no rythm guit.) and changes all the time...is that one huge riff?

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

that first song on 69 love songs.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

nah nah. i take riff to mean some sort of musical phrase. what youre talking about is more of a run-on sentence.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"(I'm) Stranded" by the Saints.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't there some fairly early Pussy Galore song where they actually suddenly yell "one riff!" in the middle? Maybe that's even its name; I don't know!

― chuck, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

There's more than one riff in "(I'm) Stranded"!!!!!!!!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Big New Prinz

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"you really got me" comes pretty close. the riff moves as the chords change, but pretty much keeps going and going.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU CHEATED

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

pandemonium - k/j. 7 minutes worth¡

― dysøn (dyson), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

sex bomb by flipper

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Urinals and 100 Flowers to thread.

Lots of obscure DIY/Punk type stuff, see Alienate by One Gang Logic.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

TV EYE!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Stereolab - 'Mass Riff'?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Give It Away" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Black Sun" - Loop

― darren (darren), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Sonic Youth, "Expressway to Yr. Skull/Madonna, Sean and Me/Crucifixion of Sean Penn" whatever you want to call it.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stupidly Happy" - XTC
"We Did It Again" - Soft Machine

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Right To Work" - Chelsea

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Len - "Steal My Sunshine"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

neu - halloagallo

vu - sister ray

most of the first suicide album

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The solo in "Give It Away" has a different riff behind it, I think. Or it might be the same riff in a different key.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Public Enemy - "She Watch Channel Zero"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Trelldom - Sonar Dreyri

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Len - 'Feelin' Alright' Dust Brothers Remix
Beck - 'Devil's Haircut'
JC Chasez - '100 Ways'
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - 'Early Riser'

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

CIRCLE
RAMONES
MISFITS
HIGH ON FIRE
BILLY CHILDISH

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The break parts of "Devil's Haircut" don't have the same riff ("I Can Only Give You Everything" by Van Morrison).

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Boredoms, Acid Police

I seem to mention this a lot

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

That nobody has mentioned The Fall yet is astonishing.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Aside from the introductory bit, "Evil Woman" by ELO, I believe.

― phil d., Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Seger System "2+2="
almost the entire Spacemen 3 catalog
lots of Earth songs

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Myonga, I said Big New Prinz.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That nobody has mentioned The Fall yet is astonishing.

Even more astonishing: nobody mentioned "Paranoid".

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

But "Paranoid" is not just one riff, far from it

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I can only hear one riff plus the solo.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The "Can you help me/ thought you were my friend" section is not the same riff

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah. Okay.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't there some fairly early Pussy Galore song where they actually suddenly yell "one riff!" in the middle? Maybe that's even its name; I don't know!

That's "Sweet Little Hi-Fi".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't the entire DFA catalogue based on this very idea?

"Share Your Hips" -- Stones.

― Jack Gibson, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"share your hips" sounds like it should be by either r. kelly, britney or samantha fox.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stars and Sons" Broken Social Scene

― darin, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Myonga, I said Big New Prinz.

...Oh, I see...that's obviously one of the 300-or-so Fall songs I'm unfamiliar with...[really embarrassed]

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"Start"

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Revolution- Spaceman 3

― Jeff K (jeff k), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Myong, it's the evil pounding krautrockist one-riff version of Hip Priest and utterly essential, the first time I heard it m'self was when I saw them in April

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The awesome awesome 'Strong Island' by JVC Force.

― Affectian (Affectian), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The "Can you help me/ thought you were my friend" section is not the same riff

isn't it "Can you help me / occupy my brain"?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, it's "Can you help me/won't you pee my end?"

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Joy Division - "She's Lost Control" (even when it totally clashes with the rest of the music!)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Joy Division pwn this thredd

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Many Chevy Heston songs.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Coldplay, "Yellow."

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim O'Rourke on the album Insignificance has at least one song that is all one riff.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"Let's Build a Car" - Swell Maps

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"lust for life"

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Passenger" - Iggy Pop

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Inna-Gada-Da-Vida, baby, don't you know that I'm lovin' you. It's paused for the organ and drum solos, but I think still qualifies.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Paused? Those solos are like 10 minutes long.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

But the solos don't really constitute "riffs," so there's still only one riff in the song. Although I guess the drum thing does kind of have a riff.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

recently: "Yeah" - Usher & Lil Jon

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Wire - Go Ahead

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Can - Oh Yeah/Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead/The Fall - I Am Damo Suzuki/Hole - that song off Pretty On The Inside (Good Sister/Bad Sister?)

They're all the same riff.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Refugee" by Tom Petty, and "Learn to Fly" by Foo Fighters (which Dave Grohl says was directly inspired by his desire to write a song like "Refugee").

― Chris Neal, Sunday, 19 September 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

pandemonium - k/j. 7 minutes worth¡
-- dysøn (dyspleasur...), September 7th, 2004 8:49 AM.

"Millenium" too?

Maybe that's more like two riffs over and over.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Refugee" by Tom Petty

But brief as it is, it does have that totally different 8-bar "Baby, we ain't the first/I know a lot of other lovers been hurt" bridge before the organ solo.

― Phil Dennison (Phil D.), Sunday, 19 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

This is quite clearly the only way to write a song

― Sonny aghoghghghg!!, Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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