Your top solo

Sassafras

Usually most solos on Electric Ladyland.
Other times, Dave Rawlins on The Way It Goes.

AlexO

Live Forever - Oasis. So simple but just magical.
Love this live version from Maine Road, seem's quite fashionable to slate Noel's lead playing but always thought he had great feel.

hollywoodrox

It’s so hard to choose  so I’ll say any van Halen solo ,intro , outdo .
 

Springywheel

KK downing on The Sinner, Unleashed in The East version. Whammy bar madness.
steve vai - tender surrender
satriani - pretty much anything off The Extremist

MagicPigDetective

Soundgarden, Like Suicide. Comes in after a big build up. Just soaring and epic, wah soaked and not the most technical, just totally builds on the song and takes it to another dimension. 

ZenOvertone

More popular choices

Larry Carlton - Kid Charlemagne
Robben Ford - Help the Poor
Steve Lukather - A Clue (Boz Scaggs)

A runner up - 

Uli Jon Roth - "Electric Sun - The night the master comes"...he lived near Brighton for a long time (may still do?).  Solo comes in about 1:52...Sky Guitar I expect.  

joeW

I haven’t heard enough of the solos listed here, so this is a great reference for material I plan to listen to,  My pick would have to be

Pat Martino -> Just Friends from El Hombre.  

To have done this at age 22 makes it even more impressive.

breakstuff

Hard to pick an ultimate favorite, but A New Level by Pantera is definitely up there. 

Cranky

EricTheWeary said:

tekbow said:

Uli J on Sails of Charon.

And I don't even like The Scorpions that much, but this blew my mind a couple of years ago when I heard it.

Full on shred at least 5 years before it was really a thing, and surprisingly little gain too.

I can't remember under what category but I've posted that clip on here before, that intro solo is a lovely thing ( although it's easy to get distracted by Uli's porn star moustache). That combination of technical, fluid playing and musicality is quite something. 
I saw him on his Beyond the Astral Skies tour, his album that was an attempt to get away from completely disappearing up his own artistic arsehole. Live most of the vocals were handled by Nicky Moore ( who does some of the backing vox on the album ) and it's a pity he didn't pursue that line up after.    

This is amazing.  Is it too late for this guy to get his own signature Strat?  Anyway, time to update the collection again . . . 

HAL9000

Key to Love - EC on the Beano album. Solo starts at about 1:02...

https://youtu.be/k0MnxYUKm4g

Firth of Fifth - Genesis. Solo begins at 5:47 (Steve Hackett I believe)...

https://youtu.be/SD5engyVXe0

Moonlight Shadow - Mike Oldfield. On this live version there are two solos (at 2:36 and 4:24). It’s the second one...

https://youtu.be/eFWTMUvNcyY

Kittyfrisk

Don't have a single top solo, but this is one I have always loved.
Earl Slick with David Bowie, 1974 'Panic in Detroit' Live.
Worth listening to all the way through, but the solo really kicks off around 3m 26s
PLAY LOUD.

koneguitarist

https://youtu.be/774UC5bxfCU

Solo starts 1:40 
James Burton with his 50s Tele. Searing!

TheOtherDennis

Mark Hart, Crowded House on the live Fingers of Love from Farewell to the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM4VXZi6z1E

axisus

rustneversleeps said:

proggy said:

There really are too many to choose from but I really love Bill Nelson's outro solo on Crying to the sky from the Sunburst Finish album. So tasteful.

And Comfortably Numb of course.

Don’t forget Bill Nelson’s “adventures  of a Yorkshire Landscape “from Live in the air age.

My favourite Bill Nelson/Be bop solo is Bring back the spark. I think that it is superbly melodic. It comes in at around 2.35, and it is a great build up from a slow start.