KZfaq should give you an award for this video.

that one repeated note on Cinnamon Girl is maybe my favorite solo ever.

Always loved the solo at the end of Pixies “U-Mass”. Short, noisy, and to the point. Joey Santiago also an underrated guitarist.

This is one of the best channels on KZfaq, thanks for everything you do

I’d definetly include Imposible Germany by Wilco. Nels Cline’s solo is excellent.

You have the best taste in music of any guitar teacher I've ever heard.

Love that Coffee and TV solo. Graham Coxon demonstrated it on that pedal show. Which is also where he told that story about the solo being a filler. I’ve always really liked Pixies solos and the solos on On Fire by Glaxie 500

Dinosaur Jr's "The Lung" -- basically a vehicle for Mascis to demonstrate his chops, but it still raises my spirits every time I hear it. Also the solo in "Carry the Zero" by Built to Spill. The latter is a wonderfully intricate song but the solo is simple, with lots of luxurious bends that contrast nicely with the rhythm parts.

Marquee moon....too long?

Great list, love seeing Marc Ribot get some respect. I haven't seen anyone suggest it so... Nels Cline on Wilco Impossible Germany

Paused video during introduction, going guess/predict solos that make list 1 In Bloom - Nirvana 2 Police Truck - Dead Kennedys 3 When You get Drafted - Dead Kennedys 4 Making plans for Nigel - XTC Edit: 0-4 Robert Quine played some awesome solos in the Voidoids, forgot he played on Blue Mask. Great list & video.

Joey Santiago’s solo on the Pixies’ “Hey” would have also been worthy. Thank you for including Clap Hands, one of my favourite guitar solos ever.

Another vote for Hugh Cornwell and his solo from Hanging Around.

The Andy Partridge solo on XTC's 'Complicated Game'. He stated in an interview some years ago that when he went for a take the backing track was too loud in relation to his guitar so he just started to play as randomly as possible to attract the attention of the producer/engineer in the control room, but none of them looked up, and when he finished they all said: "Great solo, Andy!" so they kept it. It also happens to fit the song perfectly and leads (pardon?) nicely into the increasingly frantic, breathless vocal that follows. And, as I'm here, the solo on 'Miles From Nowhere by' The Only Ones. Did you say three suggestion? Can't remember, but something by Hugh Cornwell such as 'Hanging Around', 'Sometimes' or 'Something Better Change'. I've always found his solos to be melodic and lyrical and wonder why he doesn't get name checked more often. Unless it's only me that likes his solos in which case it all makes sense.

Hugh Cornwell's solo in 'Something Better Change' is another great one.

I love the use of the wah in "Leave them all behind" by Ride

Johnny Marr's solo on shoplifters of the world, one of the few smiths solos

Love this list. I may have picked a few different choices, but really, it's hard to argue with the amazing folks you selected. I was listening and almost every time you went to the next selection, I almost literally burst out with "holy shit, yes!" And ending with that lovely rant about Neil Young has earned you and your channel a dedicated fan. Ok, truth is that already happened when I stumbled on your video of The Damned's Fan Club. Thank you for this channel. I love a lot of the other guitar and music channels out there, but far too often their actual music selections leave me cold.

Thanks Adrian! I feel like I have a nerdy British friend who shows me cool things. Keep up the great work man. Appreciate you.

I'm so grateful for your videos, Adrian. I started playing guitar when I was 10 years old, only just discovering the world of guitar music and lured in by the big, 'cool' rock solos of Guns 'n Roses, Van Halen, etc. As a girl I felt pressure to express my love for this type of music to seem cool to the guys and (male) guitar teachers, and it really got in the way of what I wanted to get out of playing guitar for myself. I never really felt compelled to pick up the guitar a lot in those years, and practicing left me frustrated. Many, many years later I discovered that playing guitar can be really fun and rewarding, when you don't have to prove to anyone that you can play Hotel California or whatever, and you can play guitar for yourself, to just have fun without the pressure of showing off. I wish I had had a guitar teacher like you that would have taught me guitar solos that wouldn't have impressed my parents at all at the recitals (because the solos aren't hard, or because my parents just wouldn't be able to 'get' them, lol) but would have made me an all the more fulfilled guitarist.

Great video. I was born late 60's. Grew up with two older brothers that were into the Beatles and The Who especially. Late 70's I got into (The) Sweet on my own. The 80's came along and I was on board with metal. While my brother turned me on to Adam Ant, Oingo, ect. With all that said, I truly enjoyed this video. This is the reason I have subscribed to you. You bring such a fresh breath of air into my musical lungs man. Thanks for all you do. Keep being you man. I appreciate your musical taste and knowledge. P.S. I have been debating getting a Wah-Wah. This video has sealed it that I should.

Fantastic stuff and such a breathe of fresh air compared to endless shred and virtuosity that saturates youtube. Would love to see a breakdown of the Ribot solo. I love how all the solo's serve the song,surely the most important role of any guitar player. Keep up the good work! :)

That was great ! I expected some McGeoch, Robert Smith and Quine but only got Quine (truth is, you made very good Smith and McGeoch tutorials previously). What I would love next time is a Malkmus solo (what he does on 2 strings on Stop Breathin’ for instance, which is just adorable)

100% with you on Neil Young, it's emotional and expressive. Great job on all these.

Now this is the true wonder of KZfaq, finding a guitar teacher whos taste I share. Thank you Adrian! Suggestion: James Honeyman-Scotts poppy little solo in Pretenders ”Kid”.

A stellar teacher. A humble man. A gentleman, and a gentle man!... A super shout out- "thank you!", to you- Adrian, for all you have already taught, and WILL teach, in the future....

Coming to this video very late, but when I saw the title I thought "how great would it be if Boredom or Coffee & TV was on there?" I love your taste! Best guitar channel on YT.

At some point in the future the Eagles will be remembered for their take on copyright and not their music, which is sad. On a good note, love your selection of solos and your taste in music.

I'm so glad to see someone give Marc Ribot some credit as a musician. Absolutely CRIMINALLY underrated guitarist.

Thank you so much for including Coffee & TV.

Eddie Hazel's "Maggot Brain" and Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer", really great taste! Including Marc Ribot and Robert Quine is also a nice move. Personally, the guitar solo I'm found of that never appears in top 10s is The Velvet Underground's "What Goes On".

I NEED a maggot brain lesson

Great 'ramblings' Adrian!! Of course we will all have our own list and I suspect yours just like mine likely changes depending on the year, your mood and so on. You really did a great job getting those tones fairly close on a wide range of artists. Great job. 🎸🎸🎸

Beautifully curated list Adrian. An absolute joy. The 'Last Night' & 'Breakin' in my Heart' solos off the first Tom Verlaine LP instantly come to mind. Thanks for all you do.

Great to see Eddie Hazel and “Maggot Brain” get some love. IMO if you play psych, stoner, shoegaze, Maggot Brain is a must. As far as solos for your follow up, I’d like to hear any number of Dinosaur Jr. solos. Maybe you could do “Feel the Pain” because you never really dove into the solo during your lesson on that song

J Squire-i am the resurrection:)

YES! I was just going to recommend Buzzcocks Boredom before I knew it was in there. It's a great "fuck you" kind of punk solo - it has everything that's great about punk. Perfect for the song. I also love Richard Thompsons solo in "Shoot out the lights" - I dunno if you'll bring it up later, I had to pause the video during Boredom just to comment.

Alternate lists are fantastic, i am now searching out Funkadelic. cheers

What a fine list! First time a heard someone praising Richard Thompson in so many videos I´ve watched.

Robert Smith’s solo on the Cure’s Love song has always been one of my favourites. It’s a very memorable and almost vocal-like melody that perfectly sums up the emotion of the song rather than distracting from it as so many guitar solos tend to do.

Love it, great video Adrian. Some more suggestions: Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights Weezer - Tired Of Sex Smashing Pumpkins - Quiet Blur - You're So Great (probably my favourite solo ever) Also, pretty much anything by The Strokes. Their solos aren't especially unusual in themselves, but they're always so melodic yet really gritty and crunchy with the use of intervals. They're super underrated in the the guitar solo world.

Major shout out to Ron Asheton for his incredible work with the stooges. However t.v eye & fun house are both favourites. His soloing in both is stellar.

Dinosaur Jr - Get Me (Edit: three solos that are all great but the 2nd and 3rd solos are amazing)

Proving once again that Adrian creates the best guitar content on KZfaq. A couple of my favs... Nels Cline on Impossible Germany has been cited as a great, but also check out Wilco’s Side with the Seeds. Also, Mick Ronson on Moonage Daydream is legendary.

I had to subcribe because your lessons are so accessible and helpful for me, as someone more interested in uniqueness and feel than anything else. Lots of material here to draw inspiration from, thank you.

The solo on Bowie's 'I Can't Give Everything Away' always sounds to me like a nod to one of those Fripp solos

I thought a bit of Quine would be inevitable, just a question of which one to choose!

Great approach. I'd love to see one of Joey Santiago's solo here. His solos are weird and minimalist.

Your top 10 is pretty similar to what my favorites would look like in the genre as well. Thanks for sharing these! And showcasing these very expressive and artistic ideas. I gotta say somethin about the maggot brain from funkadelic. So my father passed when I was pretty young, before I got to know him really. One of his old school and early career friends reached out to me and was telling me stories and was talking guitar, and one of the stories is that my father and him had wives pregnant at the same time and they were to name us Willie and Waylon. And he held up his bargain and there is a Waylon that I have never met who is named because I’m Willie. And that my dad would put in the 8track of maggot brain every night on the way to work and that’s all they would listen to for weeks haha. Great stuff to me.

The Fripp solo on Baby's on Fire is one of the most entertaining, frenetic and virtuosic I've heard. In fact, the whole Here Come the Warm Jets album is excellent.

This list is fantastic and VERY to my taste. I would look at something by Duane Denison from Jesus Lizard as well. dude is an amazing guitarist

Another vote for Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend", with Robert Quine -- how can you have too much Robert Quine? -- and also Matthew Sweet's "Sick of myself", with Richard Lloyd.

Excellent choices, some I didn't know, but I will look for those now, cheers. When you were explaining why you enjoyed Cobain's solo so much, I immediately thought about Shelley's 'chicken guitar solo ' for 'What do I get' and then you do 'boredom' just perfect. I got my first school gig at 14yrs old by passing off the songs from that album as my own, 'Lester Sands' was my favourite. John Mcgeogh 'Rhythm of your Cruelty ', by Magazine. 😎🎙🎸✅

Absolutely excellent video. I think Robert Smith on The Cure’s The Kiss is sensational. I still remember being in the front row of the NEC when they opened with this tune in 1988. And Fixing a Hole by the Beatles. I know it’s The Beatles but no one ever seems to mention that solo.

Up the hill and down the slope by The Loft. Just the right solo for a great song. A forgotten gem.

Jane's Addiction.. Three Day's. Is my fav.. absolutely incredible.

That Cortez the Killer solo is haunting and amazing! Well played

Great variety! How about something from the Stooges? The solo at the end of I Wanna be Your Dog is fantastic.

Johnny Thunders was great, even wrong notes sounded good with his playing

Nice list ! I enjoy this type of thing and even read through the comments to see what others think.

15.20 So glad i didnt skip ahead but just trusted your taste. mad but brilliant. You are opening my eyes Adrian

Great stuff as always. My suggestions are perhaps too mainstream, but here goes: 1. Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen 2. Little Johnny Jewel by Television 3. Whipping Post by the Allman Brothers (with all the frills of the live version, but maybe we're getting too free-form here) 4. Shooting Sun by Siouxsie and The Banshees

I Heard Her Call My Name has another two similar (and great) ones from a Lou Reed track (well, the Velvet Underground), though I can see them being pretty much impossible to play note-for-note since they're just so insane

Never much liked Les Pauls, but you have changed my mind, you get a great sound out of that LP of yours. Once again much enjoyed your vid

James Honeyman-Scott (Kid or Tattooed Love Boys) & Glenn Tillbrook - "Another Nail In My Heart" or "Black Coffee in Bed". Honorable mention for pure emotion and dissonance "Complicated Game" by XTC

Really enjoying this channel, glad I came across it

Thank you Adrian for giving us the alternative 'solos' emense video I especially loved the awesome Neil Young soloing cortez vibe. What a refreshing Friday night vibe to tap into this wee soloing master class. Adrian keep up the good work

Great stuff as always. Fantastically played and superbly presented. Another vote for the outro solo from dEUS's Instant Street and i am throwing in The Byrds' Eight Miles High and The Godfathers' I Want Everything.

Great to finally find someone else who also appreciates the Peruvian 70’s treated guitar scene! Knowing you're also a big fan of John McGeoch, I expected something from him in your list. For me Permafrost is simply the greatest guitar solo, but you could also choose Philadelphia or The Light Pours Out of Me. Maybe the slightly lesser mentioned Torn Curtain by Tom Verlaine of Television. Or Impossible Germany by Nels Cline playing with Wilco. Whatever, great and refreshing stuff as usual.

Jane's Addiction "Ain't No Right", perfect capture of the momentum of the song.

Adrian, great and inspiring episode. The depth and range of your musical taste is impressive. Kurt Cobain to Tom Waits? Neil Young? ( I come here for my Brit fix.?? ). + Avant-garde wild and crazy, not what I expected this evening! SOOO GLAD I CLICKED. Generally your a very meticulous, careful, generous understanding teacher ( Just what a mediocre guitarist like myself needs) but this time I think you genuinely ripped my face off ! OUT THE BOX:) THANK YOU

Started bopping around in my seat as soon as I heard the boredom riff, man that's a good song

Always been a huge fan of the Cherub Rock solo. Such careless abandon!

A top 10 list that doesn't suck!? Brilliant! My love of the majority of songs here goes some way to explain why I never fitted in with rock bands :) Quine, Shelley, Young, Fripp etc all made more sense than the stuff my contemporaries listened to in the 80s when I started. Its probably why I don't have many friends ;) I'd love to see a Dave Gregory XTC solo Pink Thing, Super Supergirl or Real By Reel perhaps? Joey Santiagos and Richard Lloyd are always worth considering too.

P.S. Thank you for including Cortez the Killer, and I completely agree with you. I would like to see someone try to breakdown one of his electric solos note-for-note, inparticulalry Cortez the Killer, I can only think of a few people who have actually covered it.

Love the coffee and TV solo, it really had that Coxon feel

Best wishes from Oz Adrian. So glad you included Neil Young’s Cortez solo in your post. I completely agree with your comments on NY. Likewise your comments on Richard Thompson. Such a great guitarist and songwriter. I’m an older guitarist pretty set in my ways and my heroes are all the usual suspects. However I happily subscribe to your Patreon pages mainly because you’ve introduced me to many guitarists and bands I probably wouldn’t have chosen to listen to. Way too many to list but including Wire, Siouxsie and the Banshees etc. This time it’s Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain now added to my library. Well done on reproducing that Coxon solo. Always look forward to your posts Adrian. I love the unpredictability element. Never quite know what you’ll tackle next. Keep up the good work.

Pixies, Where is my mind. Pale Blue Eyes Velvet Underground. Shadowplay, Joy Division, Plan 9 Channel 7 the Damned. Even Teenasge Kicks has a very simple but effective solo. Glad to see you have Neil Young up there.

So many songs to pick from, but the solo from Television's "Guiding Light" always hits me

Great video.. a few suggestions: Andy Summers has some interesting solos in Police: Bring on the night (another one note solo), Miss Gradenko (alternative jazz), Driven to tears (short, angular, perfect tone). then there's Richard Llyods solo in Television Foxhole. Big Black's Steve Albini, Kerosene chordal solo is mind blowing (his overall sound choice is always interesting)...

‘Everything Flows’, Teenage Fanclub

Best thumbnail ever ??

Brilliant, loved this video. I think one that would fit in with this list is the solo from the Scorpions "In-Trance"

... pauses to Google "Peruvian prepared guitar scene of the 1970s" ...

Great Job! Would have loved to seen you take on Baby's On Fire. Need part 2!

One of the main reasons I subscribe to you is you are out of the box, never heard of Maggot Head until now and totally blow away.....

When i heard the solo from The Great Curve by The Talking Heads performed by Belew, i was blown away, is just incredible and for some reason is not that well known or talked about... it has everything to be a legendary solo.

My favorite solo of all time is Gary Richraths guitar solo on Take it on the Run. I'm not an REO Speedwagon fan even, but it just elevates that song so much while being exactly what the song needs.

Sweet video, my friend! Uniquely awesome 👌

I love the lead throughout brick is red by Pixies. So, so, so good. Joey's playing & sound is so great.

This is so cool. Love your channel. I opened for Richard Thompson a number of years back when he played in my hometown. My dressing room was next to his and I could hear him warming up. He made some mistakes and I laughed because I figured I’m probably one of the few people that’s heard him not playing brilliant flawless guitar. He was incredible during the actual show. Definitely one of the best solo artists around.

for quite some time, I've thought the guitar parts on the old Tom Waits stuff really interesting and Clap Hands is really a great choice, I'm gonna rewind and take a closer look. Thanks Adrian. Love the other choices as well. Such a pleasure.

Klasse, liebe Grüße aus Berlin ;-) Love it I was 14 or 15 years old, when I was flashed by the Buzzcocks and this "Anti-Solo" (now I´m 56; FCK) You understand the spirit of this instrument much more than most shredders Hier bin ich richtig - I´m in the right place here

God bless you sir! You are an original and I love how eclectic your music interests are. Loved the Pixies tutorials you did.

"Behind a wall of sleep" the smithereens. Nice guitar solo.

I found "your ramblings" pretty interesting. While none of your choices would be on my list, I found your reasoning to be quite thoughtful and it displayed a real appreciation for the fullness of the term "alternative." Your videos tend to be interesting and useful, this one was also thought provoking. Nice work, even by your excellent standards.

Quality list there Adrian, interestingly, well to me anyway, Neil Young, Richard Thompson, Robert Quine, Marc Ribot, all big influences on Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo, who incidentally, was a big influence on Graeme Coxson, especially the solo on 'coffee and cigarettes'..

Adrian, awesome list! Surprised and pleased to see Waves of Fear on there! - as you said, it's the perfect solo for that song! And Quine's work all over the Blue Mask album is what makes it so great. As for other solo ideas: My Iron Lung by Radiohead, Santeria by Sublime and as others have suggested something by the Velvet Underground!

Love to see some J Mascis in your next vid

siouxsie and the banshees - the ghost in you