Apart from the instrumental rock artists, from time to time many bands have also produced songs with awesome guitar solos in em. Lets make a list of which tracks with vocals on em have also got awesome solos.

For instance

* Deep Purple - Sweet Child In Time
* Rainbow - Gates of Babylon
* Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
* Rainbow - Stargazer
* Dokken - Never Unchain the Night

Everybody please patch in with your list too.

XYZ - What Keeps Me Loving You
Lynch Mob - For A Million Years

Foreigner - seventeen and nightlife

?! From time to time?
I would not say that. :huh: I actually do not listen to Joe for example because of the solos but of everything else.
Anyways, back on the track I would say that many many many songs have awesome solos in them.
I cannot come up with a whole list right now as it will be too long, but I have to note the guy from my avatar <---- for actually making me picking up the guitar...
Other than many of his solos just a few

Judas Priest - Beyond the Realms of Death (just an awesome solo)
Brian May - .....
Randy Rhodes (Ozzy) - Crazy Train comes up, but many more... thus I get to
Zakk Wylde (Ozzy) - Tomorrow - simple but really nice IMO
Dimebag Darell (Pantera) - Cemetery Gates, Planet Caravan (originally by Iommi)
Slash - many many
Thunderstone - Tool of the Devil, Land of Innnocence
Godsmack - Re-Align, Changes
Grave Digger - Twilight of the Gods
Iced Earth - Melancholy
In Flames - The Jester's Dance
Sinergy - Laid to Rest
Clapton - ........
Hendrix - ........


I can probably continue much more but I thing you got what I like :P

add ''dirty white boy'' to that. that guy has the best pure rock tones IMO this stuff sounds better in analog cassete or vinyl.

* DIO - Rock n Roll
* Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots
* OutWorld - City of the Dead
* ACDC - Thunderstruck

pink floyd - sorrow
pink floyd - money

The fact that Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" has not been mentioned thus far in the thread is, frankly, a travesty. That second solo is absolutely perfect.

The solo in Stairway to Heaven is one of my all time favorites.

no Sultans of Swing??? that's one of the sweetest solo's ive ever heard!

Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Listening to this was one of the first times I really listened to guitar, and thought, wow, what a cool instrument.

Return To Serenity - Testament
I love the way this keeps building and getting heavier, like a storm brewing, getting unbearable, then quieting down - it fits the song perfectly. The guitar intro to the song is very cool as well.

Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana
I don't know why, but the pedal change (or whatever it is) in the middle of the solo seems like the greatest guitar solo idea ever to me.

Red Rain (version from Secret World Live) - Peter Gabriel
It's actually a bass solo, multiple ones, by Tony Levin (of King Crimson). I really like the way the bass cuts through the mix, but isn't obnoxious. You can tell right away it's Tony Levin. Very understated, but it's the coolest sound.

Can't think of any more right now.

heart turns to stone - foreigner inside infornmation great techno rock sound

any old VH I or VH II solo
Stairway
hotel california

and many that are mentioned up here. I would add all of the Rising force album for yngwie.

GnR - November Rain outro!
Deep Purple - Sometimes I Feel Like Screamin'

Neil Young - Keep on Rockin' in the Free World

hey hey my my - neil young

moonlight shadow- mike oldfield

Can't agree more!

always thought have a cigar guitar was equal to since ive been loving you , or very close to zep

Led Zepplin - Whole Lotta Love

"Time" deserves a nod too - in fact, off the top of my head I think I prefer the lead break to "Have a Cigar." Which, of course, also rules - basically, let's just nominate the collected works of David Gilmour and be done with it. lol:

tooth and nail - foreigner agent provocateur

Time rocks... and for those who wana hear it well i could only be bothered to use the one in my favourites:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HiaGECY8LWw

its dream theater but VERY accurate to the original.. the solo is beautiful. Obviously never beats the original! So go find the original!

Many many stuff really;

Slash (almost all his solos are beauties)
Saxon - The Eagle has Landed (and many others)
Robin Trower - A Little Bit of Sympathy
Gorefest - Fear (great band when u like Death Metal)
Free - All Right Now
Focus - Hocus Focus
John Petrucci - Damage Control
Wishbone Ash - Phoenix
Iron Maiden - The Clansman

John Petrucci - Damage Control

his Live ending of that song at G3 !
holy mother all lord it sounds godly!

Joe Satriani - Mtv Unplugged - Waterfall cover. awesome acoustic stuff

Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Megadeth - Ashes In Your Mouth

I was out jogging today and the song "Gonna Fly Now" from the original Rocky movie came on my iPod. I actually has a very cool and tasty guitar solo. I can't seem to find out who played it though, I'm guessing that it was a studio musician that I have never heard of though.

Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons (solo in 15minute).
Absolutely BRILLIANT!!

Two words...Purple Rain B)

Stranglehold from Ted Negent is one of the all time great solos, if you don't believe me just ask Ted Nugent :D

Definately Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Let's see, I'll try to think of some not mentioned...

VH - "Hear About It Later" - from Fair Warning. More cowbell! Also "One Foot Out the Door" - the solo is insane.

FZ - "Inca Roads." Mindblowing...

Pantera - "Live in a Hole" - I love how the rhythm section speeds up with the solo - just totally intense. Also "Regular People." I love that they didn't record a rhythm guitar part.

Black Sabbath - Warning - the long extended solo is one of my favorite guitar things ever. It was a big influence on me.

King's X - Fall On Me - - just about anything Ty Tabor does sounds great to me. Amazing tone.

Megadeth - Holy Wars - of course.

Led Zeppelin - Since I've been loving you & Stairway to heaven from live The Song Remains The Same (2007 remaster)

Eddie Van Halen - Eruption, Spanish fly, Cathedral
Jimi Hendrix - Villanova junction studio jam (longest available, outtakes 1968-70)
Gary Moore - Dirty fingers