100 Greatest Guitar Solos

100 Greatest Guitar Solos

Featuring a list of the top 100 guitar solos ever

Every guitarist has opinions on what some of the greatest recorded guitar solos are. While there are many that are commonly regarded as "great", there are lots of others that don't get as much attention. Not too long ago, the editors of Guitar World magazine put together a reader's poll, to find out what their readers considered to be the best guitar solos of all time. The results surely reflect the magazine's demographic (no jazz guitar solos, for example), but no one can argue the following 100 selections boast some great guitar work.

001) Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
002) Van Halen - Eruption
003) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
004) Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
005) Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
006) Guns N' Roses - November Rain
007) Metallica - One
008) Eagles - Hotel California
009) Black Sabbath - Crazy Train
010) Cream - Crossroads
011) Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
012) Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
013) Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
014) Derek and the Dominos - Layla
015) Deep Purple - Highway Star
016) Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
017) Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
018) Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
019) Pantera - Floods
020) Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
021) Pink Floyd - Time
022) Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
023) Rage Against The Machine - Bulls on Parade
024) Metallica - Fade to Black
025) Jethro Tull - Aqualung
026) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
027) Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy
028) Ozzy Ozborne - Mr. Crowley
029) Steve Vai - For the Love of God
030) Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
031) Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
032) Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun
033) B.B King - The Thrill Is Gone
034) Radiohead - Paranoid Android
035) Pantera - Cemetery Gates
036) Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star
037) Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
038) Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
039) Neil Young - Cortez the Killer
040) Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years
041) Queen - Brighton Rock
042) Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
043) ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
044) Pearl Jam - Alive
045) Doors - Light My Fire
046) Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
047) Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
048) Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
049) Santana - Europa
050) Kiss - Shock Me
051) Ozzie Ozborne - No More Tears
052) Jimi Hendrix - Star-Spangled Banner
053) Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
054) Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA
055) Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie
056) Black Sabbath - War Pigs
057) Pantera - Walk
058) Eric Clapton - Cocaine
059) Kinks - You Really Got Me
060) Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
061) Metallica - Master of Puppets
062) Pink Floyd - Money
063) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
064) Prince - Little Red Corvette
065) Allman Brothers - Blue Sky
066) Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
067) Michael Jackson feat. Eddie Van Halen - Beat It
068) Yes - Starship Trooper
069) Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing
070) Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
071) Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
072) Aerosmith - Walk This Way
073) Phish - Stash
074) Deep Purple - Lazy
075) The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
076) Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
077) Alice In Chains - Man in the Box
078) Grateful Dead - Truckin'
079) Van Halen - Mean Street
080) AC-DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
081) The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
082) King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
083) Stevie Ray Vaughan - Scuttle Buttin'
084) UFO - Lights Out
085) David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
086) Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post
087) Johnny Winter - Highway 61 Revisited
088) Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
089) Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
090) Eric Clapton - Let It Rain
091) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Heard It Through the Grapevine
092) Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
093) The Doors - The End
094) Rush - Working Man
095) Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
096) Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
097) Judas Priest - Beyond The Realm Of Death
098) Dream Theater - Under a Glass Moon
099) Jeff Beck - 'Cause We've Ended as Lovers
100) Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive

100 Greatest Guitar Solos