Songs with a great riff but no solo

Bellycaster

Golden Earring - Radar Love (Drum Solos don't count)

Bellycaster

Blockbuster

tampaxboo

does contain trace elements of a a nonsolo-solo, but otherwise a riff of brutal binary banality (1111 1010 etc).

uncledick

Teenage Dirtbag - some nice riffs and easy to play.
All the Small Things - there's a middle 8 / solo thing but it's only 3 notes.

scrumhalf

Pretty Vacant

DiscoStu

Song 2. In, out, no solo, done.
Rifftastic.

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Beastie Boys - 'Sabotage'

Although the kick ass Riff I think is actually a fuzzed up bass, but presume you could get a similar thing with an octave/fuzz pedal?

exocet

Teetonetal

Phil_aka_Pip said:

stickyfiddle said:

Almost everything off the first 3 (or even 4) Foo Fighters records.

I'm sure they satisfy the second requirement. Whether they also satisfy the first may be considered subjective.

Monkey wrench. What a riff.

Lodious

Van Halen - Unchained (despite the 'one break coming up' which never turns up)

stickyfiddle

Teetonetal said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

stickyfiddle said:

Almost everything off the first 3 (or even 4) Foo Fighters records.

I'm sure they satisfy the second requirement. Whether they also satisfy the first may be considered subjective.

Monkey wrench. What a riff.

Exactly.

See also Everlong, Weenie Beanie and Enough Space (mostly bass, but awesome riffage), Stacked Actors (the best use of Drop A tuning in Grammy award-winning history?) and Generator. 

And All My Life, which isnt on the first 3 records and is so simple that it’s barely a riff but it’s perfect.

Wazmeister

Neill said:

The Small Faces "All or Nothing" 

Sex Pistols "Pretty Vacant" 

Two classics and good shout mate !

Id add 'Going Underground' by The Jam

CHRISB50

Elbow - Grounds for Divorce

stickyfiddle

CHRISB50 said:

A fair bit of Queens of the Stone Age output doesn't have solos. No One Knows etc. 

Elbow - Grounds for Divorce

Noone Knows has a solo. I know this because I can almost never play the twiddly bit at the end of it.

CHRISB50

stickyfiddle said:

CHRISB50 said:

A fair bit of Queens of the Stone Age output doesn't have solos. No One Knows etc. 

Elbow - Grounds for Divorce

Noone Knows has a solo. I know this because I can almost never play the twiddly bit at the end of it.

I forgot the solo. Damn.

Teach me for not listening to the song before posting. Edited now for accuracy. 

boogieman

Sex Machine. Has the little piano break I suppose but otherwise just pure, perfect riffage. Choon!! 

Dopesick

Entombed - Wolverine Blues