What are the best anti-riffs in rock?

Graham Coxon

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BBC Radio 2 listeners have picked their favourite riffs in music, with Led Zeppelin’s Entire Lotta Love topping the listing. However what of the extra unconventional strategies of enjoying?

BBC Radio 2 listeners have picked their top riffs from of an inventory of 100 options drawn up by a panel of Radio 2 and 6 Music DJs, critics and producers. Topped quite predictably by Led Zeppelin and their 1969 hit Whole Lotta Love, the rest of the top 10 options the likes of Sweet Baby O’ Mine by Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC’s Again In Black, Cash For Nothing by Dire Straits and Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water.

Except for How Soon Is Now perhaps, the record is essentially made up of the burly titans of veteran rock. However what of these fretboard-bothering underdogs? These with less swagger and pomp who play their guitars the mistaken approach?

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