Comments on: Worst guitar solos of all time

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:55:23 +0000

Miles: I don’t like the solo on Paranoid Android. If you have a problem with that, tough. If you can’t resist ad-hominem attacks on someone who dares to have different tastes to yours, you should be sentenced to listen to nothing but Yngwie Malmsteen

Gomez: Not only do you use ALL CAPS and fill your posts with obscenities, you demonstrate your inability to read. Freebird and Comfortably numb are not in my list!

For the record, I’m not a musician, I’m just a music fan. One of the audience who’s money ultimately pays musician’s wages.

By: gomez

gomez — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:34:37 +0000

YOU ARE A FUCKING RETARTED LITTLE BITCH. YOU DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT MUSIC, C’MON DAZED AND CONFUSED? PARANOID ANDRIOD? PULLING TEETH? FREEBIRD? COMFORTABLY NUMB? YOU ARE A DUMBASS. YOU PROBABLY CANT EVEN PLAY THE FUCKING GUITAR AND YOU DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT ANYTHING.

By: Miles

Miles — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:02:29 +0000

To the ignorant poser of a musician who wrote this article: you clearly don’t understand good music that dosen’t involve the guitar player being flashy and incoherently playing as many notes as possible in as little measures. Radiohead is not a solo type of band and they are obviously more concerned with an overall sound, to which Johnny Greenwood adds a tremendous amount, including his solo on “Paranoid Android”, which fits perfectly in context to the song.

By: Miles

Miles — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:01:43 +0000

To the ignorant poser of a musician who wrote his article: you clearly don’t understand good music that dosen’t involve the guitar player being flashy and incoherently playing as many note as possible in as little measures. Radiohead is not a solo type of band and they are obviously more concerned with an overall sound, to which Johnny Greenwood adds to a tremendous amount, including his solo on “Paranoid Android”, which fits perfectly in context to the song.

By: whatup

whatup — Fri, 20 May 2005 06:15:04 +0000

good choices, santana and hendrix proably did the best, and these just suck, and nice comment edit at the bottom

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:42:25 +0000

how the hell do u have comfortably numb on there? its practically the best solo ever. i can suck my balls.

By: Allan

Allan — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:44:20 +0000

You’ve got to be kidding me. Paranoid android is a genius solo and comfortably numb is epic in its own way. I dont know what you have been listening to while thinking of these as worst solo’s but you’ve tread on hot water. And don’t let me start on pitchfork media what a bunch of wankers. Pulling teeth (bass solo) is incredible they wouldnt know how to strum the bass. And dazed and confused? com’on incredible for the first zeppelin album. Yes so freebird might be a little long and daunting but i haven heard solos like that in years?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:45:32 +0000

Boston more than a feeling?! that solo is beautifull..Fuck you man!

By: pillcafe

pillcafe — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 09:52:50 +0000

The worst guitar solos, on the other hand, don’t get talked about much. I know I left out plenty of deserving guitar dudes on this list (there’s a lot of hammered shit out there, y’know). I took care to exclude bozos like Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, and John McLaughlin because, frankly, their styles seem to have less to do with pure rock-n-roll than that of say, Eddie Van Halen. Anyway, it’s a good bet that some of you will consider some or all of these solos the best of all time. For those about to sulk, we at Pitchfork salute you.

By: Billy Millions

Billy Millions — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:35:50 +0000

Nigel Tufnel? In a way Im glad to see that included in your list, but also a little confused. It was not meant to be a GREAT solo, but the whole concept of the movie and the music was a comedy. Does humor belong in music? Definately. But to pull it apart and miss its comic meaning by calling it a worst solo? Its one of those ‘so-bad-its-good’ concepts thrown in to make the humor all the more enjoyable.