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Clapton - Layla outro - Again, another vote for this. The piano part is nice enough but all those bloody wailing slide parts - it's like having twenty cats outside the back door...
Edwyn Collins - Girl Like You - Another vote for this. It might fit the song but it's still a crap solo and I've always hated the song anyway.
Any Jimmy Page solo - Yes he wrote some memorable riffs but his solos don't go anywhere in particular and all have that scratchy horrible tone.
Bryan Adams - I Need Somebody - A sort of melodic fill like the one in the Edwyn Collins track above. Just irritates me for the same reason as that song.
Any Nirvana guitar solo - just no.
Alter Bridge - Down To My Last - Most of the solos on this album are just overly widdly, wah drenched and saturated with high gain. I think Tremonri upped his game a fair bit on the Blackbird album...
What it comes back to is my dislike for the song's recording (the song itself is very good, lets face it). I think it would work much better if rather than pretending to be Wonderwall, they went to one of two natural places it belongs. The first would be to acknowledge what it is, a power ballad, and go full 80s, like the sax solo on China In Your Hand, but played on guitar (which I've always thought would sound great).
The other way would be to go light acoustic ballad, more "More Than Words" and tone William's delivery down as well.
All IMHO, I know a lot of people love the song as it stands.
I think in some ways its less irritating than for example "rule the world" by Take That where the song has a section which might as well say "insert guitar solo here" but doesn't have one. Whenever I hear that I insert a solo in my head.
This is one thread where no-one will have a consensus!
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Don't particularly hate any guitar solos, it's all good; there's not going to be one out there that pleases everyone. That said, Take That did a cover of Teen Spirit live (on youtube somewhere), and there's a solo on that which isn't particularly adept. Can't say I hate it though, it made me smile and that's something.
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What about giving the poor audience a break?
I'm usually begging to be put out of my misery during those kinds of interminable solos.
Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog and Stairway are notable exceptions.
Frequently he'll come up with a fantastic solo which is melodic, tasteful, serves the song perfectly and, of course, has his wonderful tone. Then he'll spoil it all by doing a massive shred run back down the scale, which is not only anticlimactic in the context of the solo as a piece of music, it also just doesn't fit. Perfect example - 3:50 in Faithfully.
He does it in When You Love A Woman too, and Separate Ways, and Only The Young.
A solo I have always hated is Commodores Easy - I HATE that zippy slide up the strings that keeps happening.
Also, flying in the face of popular opinion, I hate the tone on the 'revered' Goodbye to love. Cool solo otherwise.
Their guitarist launched into an extended spoof solo without the other instruments. After a while, the band started yawning. Then they picked up one of the horn players and used him as a battering ram to knock the guitarist off the stage.
They had a bloody excellent guitarist though.