50 Greatest Guitar Solos

1) "Stairway to Heaven" (Jimmy Page) - Led Zeppelin

2) "Eruption" (Eddie Van Halen) - Van Halen
3) "Free Bird" (Allen Collins, Gary Rossington) - Lynyrd Skynyrd
4) "Comfortably Numb" (David Gilmour) - Pink Floyd
5) "All Along the Watchtower" (Jimi Hendrix) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6) "November Rain" (Slash) - Guns N' Roses
7) "One" (Kirk Hammett) – Metallica
8) "Hotel California" (Don Felder, Joe Walsh) - The Eagles
9) "Crazy Train" (Randy Rhoads) - Ozzy Osbourne
10) "Crossroads" (Eric Clapton) – Cream
11) "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (Jimi Hendrix) - Jimi Hendrix Experience
12) "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) - Chuck Berry
13) "Texas Flood" (Stevie Ray Vaughan) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
14) "Layla" (Eric Clapton, Duane Allman) - Derek and the Dominos
15) "Highway Star" (Ritchie Blackmore) - Deep Purple
16) "Heartbreaker" (Jimmy Page) - Led Zeppelin
17) "Cliffs of Dover" (Eric Johnson) - Eric Johnson
18) "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
19) "Floods" (Dimebag Darrell) – Pantera
20) "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Brian May) – Queen
21) "Time" (David Gilmour) - Pink Floyd
22) "Sultans of Swing" (Mark Knopfler) - Dire Straits
23) "Bulls on Parade" (Tom Morello) - Rage Against the Machine
24) "Fade to Black" (Kirk Hammett) – Metallica
25) "Aqualung" (Martin Barre) - Jethro Tull
26) "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Kurt Cobain) – Nirvana
27) "Pride and Joy" (Stevie Ray Vaughan) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
28) "Mr. Crowley" (Randy Rhoads) - Ozzy Osbourne
29) "For the Love of God" (Steve Vai) - Steve Vai
30) "Surfing with the Alien" (Joe Satriani) - Joe Satriani
31) "Stranglehold" (Ted Nugent) - Ted Nugent
32) "Machine Gun" (Jimi Hendrix) - Jimi Hendrix
33) "The Thrill is Gone" (B.B. King) - B.B. King
34) "Paranoid Android" (Johnny Greenwood) – Radiohead
35) "Cemetery Gates" (Dimebag Darrell) - Pantera
36) "Black Star" (Yngwie Malmsteen) - Yngwie Malmsteen
37) "Sweet Child O' Mine" (Slash) - Guns N' Roses
38) "Whole Lotta Love" (Jimmy Page) - Led Zeppelin
39) "Cortez the Killer" (Neil Young) - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
40) "Reelin' in the Years" (Elliot Randall) - Steely Dan
41) "Brighton Rock" (Brian May) – Queen
42) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Eric Clapton) - The Beatles
43) "Sharp Dressed Man" (Billy Gibbons) - ZZ Top
44) "Alive" (Mike McCready) - Pearl Jam
45) "Light My Fire" (Robby Krieger) - The Doors
46) "Hot For Teacher" (Edward Van Halen) - Van Halen
47) "Jessica" (Dickey Betts) - Allman Brothers Band
48) "Sympathy for the Devil" (Keith Richards) - Rolling Stones
49) "Europa" (Carlos Santana) - Carlos Santana
50) "Shock Me" (Ace Frehley) – Kiss

The best rock instrumental

5Peaches En Regalia - Frank Zappa
Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
Alice in Blunderland - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Alley Cat - Bent Fabric
Any Colour You Like - Pink Floyd
Apache - Incredible Bongo Band
Apache - The Shadows
Baja - The Astronauts
Beck's Bolero - Jeff Beck
Black Star - Yngwie Malmstein
Born Under A Bad Sign - Jimi Hendrix
Breathless - Todd Rundgren
Bumble Bee Boogie - B. Bumble & The Stingers
Careful With That Axe Eugene - Pink Floyd
Cecilia Anne - The Pixies
Cissy Strut - The Meters
Classical Gas - Mason Williams
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson
Crystal Planet - Joe Satriani
Djed - Tortoise
East-West - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Embryonic Journey - Jefferson Airplane
Erotomania - Dream Theater
Eruption - Van Halen
Europa - Santana
F*cking In The Bushes - Oasis
Fingertips Part 2 - Little Stevie Wonder
Fire on High - Electric Light Orchestra
Flipside - The Breeders
Flying - The Beatles
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Flatt & Scruggs
For The Love Of God - Steve Vai
Foreplay - Boston
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
Freeway Jam - Jeff Beck
Funeral For A Friend - Elton John
Glad - Traffic
Grazing In The Grass - Hugh Masekela
Green Onions - Booker T & The M.G.’s
Hang 'em High - Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Hideaway - Freddie King
Hocus Pocus - Focus
Honky Tonk Pt. 1 & 2 - Bill Doggett
I Robot - Alan Parsons Project
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Bros. Band
Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
Iron Butterfly Theme - Iron Butterfly
Is This Music? - Teenage Fanclub
Jack The Ripper - Link Wray
Japan In A Dishpan - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Jessica - Allman Brothers Band
La Villa Strangiata - Rush
Larks Tongue in Aspic - King Crimson
Last Date - Floyd Cramer
Last Night - Mar-Kays
Lenny - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Let's Go Away for Awhile - Beach Boys
Let's Go Trippin' - Dick Dale
Linus and Lucy - Vince Guaraldi
Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat
Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Medley - Fairport Convention
Meeting in the Aisle - Radiohead
Memphis - Lonnie Mack
Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
Miserlou - Dick Dale & his Del-Tones
Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin
Mood For A Day - Yes
New Orleans Instrumental No. 1 - R.E.M.
Number Three - Ben Harper
One of these Days - Pink Floyd
Orion - Metallica
Outta Space - Billy Preston
Overture (Tommy) - The Who
Pali Gap - Jimi Hendrix
Peter Gunn theme - Henry Mancini
Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band
Pipeline - The Chantays
Quadrophenia - The Who
Raunchy - Bill Justis
Rebel Rouser - Duane Eddy
Red - King Crimson
Reoccuring Dreams - Husker Du
Riviera Paradise - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Rock And Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter
Rumble - Link Wray
Samba Pa Ti - Carlos Santana
Satch Boogie - Joe Satriani
Scuttle Buttin' - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Slaughter On 10th Avenue - Mick Ronson
Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny
Song of The Wind - Santana
Soul Finger - Bar-Kays
Soul Sacrifice - Santana
Soul Twist - King Curtis
Soulful Strut - Young Holt Unlimited
Space Guitar - Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Sparks - The Who
Speed of Life - David Bowie
Surf Rider - The Lively Ones
Surfin With the Alien - Joe Satriani
Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet
Telstar - The Tornadoes
Tequila - The Champs
The Call of Ktulu - Metallica
The Happy Organ - Dave Baby Cortez
The In Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio
The Lonely Surfer - Jack Nitzsche
The Noonward Race - Mahavishnu Orchestra
The Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix
The Tenant - Japan
Theme from A Summers Place - Percy Faith
Third Stone from the Sun - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Time Is Tight - Booker T & the M.G.’s
Toccata - Emerson Lake and Palmer
Walk Don’t Run - The Ventures
Whale and Wasp - Alice In Chains
Whammer Jammer - J. Geils Band
Wipe Out - Surfaris
Wonderful Land - The Shadows
Wonderland By Night - Bert Kaempfert
Yakety Sax - Boots Randolph
YYZ - Rush