Your favourite of these ten riff-based songs?

I'll go with Iggy - even though that fucking shit advert ruined it for me forever.

stooges, i wanna be your dog - it stomps all over the rest

Louie Louie - Kingsmen. Mission statement, rock 'n roll.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

certainly not as hip as Iggy & The Stooges, but nevertheless a monster riff
also reminds me of The Simpsons episode where it was played on a church organ and of the movie "Manhunter"

I prefer Satisfaction when it was done by Buffallo Springfield and they called it Mr Soul...

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I just finally heard the Buffalo Springfield of Mr. Soul this week (I was previously familiar with the Trans version and also Uncle Tupelo Live version). I assumed that Neil copped the riff from the Stones, rather than other way about.

Whichever, that Buffalo Springfield version is so, so, so good. Way better than anything else Neil Young everr did (and I like Neil Young songs).

On edit: SPOILER ALERT: you can see that I was lissening to "Mr. Soul" when I did my piece of the Forum novel last nite.

Yes the Stones came first but Mr Soul is BETTER.

I always thought Mr. Soul was a deliberate reference to Satisfaction, given that the song's all about the singer/performer/audience etc.

Neil's later Borrowed Tune 'borrows' from the Stones' Lady Jane, so he was clearly a fan.

That makes a lot of sense, Stephen. That makes the song even a bit better to me.

Some support for THE KINKS. Looking back, this one was years ahead of it's time.

In the Bio SHAKEY Neil denies it was a deliberate act of theft and says it was an accident that it sounded a BIT like it and when he went to record it with BS he just ended up going with it - the original version is sposed to sound different with a droning tuning....

He does also say he thinks the Stones were the best band ever...

I still don't thing I have heard the real version yet. I only purchased discs 1 and 2 of the box set. I think the one I heard is an alternate "unreleased version." The riff certainly made it into that.

Back when it was new, the Trans "electronic" version was my favorite song for like a month.

Louie Louie - Kingsmen version. It's going to be played at my funeral, in fact I'd better write that down somewhere in case I get hit by a bus tomorrow

Purple top riffs poll.

Honourable Mention:

Black to Comm by MC5. Never recorded proper but lotsa boots attest to its power.

Voted Stooges.

I voted Elves B)

In the Neil Young book Shakey he also divides all of his tracks into two distinct Beatles and Stones camps which I found pretty interesting. You can kind of see a lot of what he does as extensions of those two bands. But then again you can see a lot of stuff as extensions of those bands, and those bands as extensions of a lot of other stuff before them.

The Last Time seems better than Satisfaction, creepier even, Stoneswise. Went with the Kinks.

Passenger for me, Love that song,
would,ve voted Elves though, because with the lyrics it ends up twice the song dog ever was.

I should have voted Elves, eh (I never heard the Stooges LP for years after, you too reader?) and I guess I would know Gadda-Vida and Sunshine if I knew them, but......

I fantasise, even to this dim dark day, of playing Rebel so thats my choice.

Now, back to Guitar Hero. I'm still working on my Iron Man bassline, cheese....