Here's my 10...

10. Last Summer - Lee Gaze, Lostprophets
9. The Kids Aren't Alright - Noodles, The Offspring
8. Boys Of Summer - Kris Roe, The Ataris
7. Right Side Of The Bed - (Unknown), Atreyu
6. The Warmth - Mike Einziger, Incubus
5. Pain - Jim Adkins, Jimmy Eat World
4. Slither - Slash, Velvet Revolver
3. I Caught Fire (In Your Eyes) - Quinn Allman, The Used (Purely for the opening 20 seconds)
2. Like Light To The Flies - Matt Heafy, Trivium
1. Open Your Eyes - Dave Baksh, Sum 41

Ok, I'm thinking 10 may not be enough lol....

And just for the hell of it I'm adding:

I'm Not Ok (I Promise) - Ray Toro, My Chemical Romance

Erm, excuse me.

How can you have a list of ten best guitar solos and not had zepplin - stair way to heaven or deep purple - smoke on the water?!?!

My daddy said you should be shot.

Cos I made it out of the stuff I listen to the most.

Then you need to listen to better things.

Have i not raised you properly???

That and I was sick of seeing the same things when I always see a 'Top ... Guitar solos' topic anywhere else. Thought I'd bring it up to date a bit.

Ok ok knickers no need to be twisted

I think that in later years that the art of the guitar solo has kinda been lost...it's more riff focused.

I can't think of many off the top of my head, but here's a few:

Muse - Hysteria
Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator
Velvet Revolver - Fall to Pieces
Audioslave - Like a Stone

And probably anything Slash has ever done, because that bloke has some serious passion.

Can't think of many off-hand, but Pantera - Cemetary Gates springs to mind straight away

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by KaTiEStar
Ok ok knickers no need to be twisted

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lol, don't worry pet, I saw the same kinda thing on another forum and when I put my choices in, I got flamed to cajun proportion

Any Angus (AC/DC) Young riff.

Everything and anything Randy Rhoads does/did on the live "Tribute" CD...

Van Halen: Fair Warning...again pretty much everything Eddie did on that CD.

Cry of Love: Brother....Audley Freed..the whole CD again...

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by Keenangel
Everything and anything Randy Rhoads does/did on the live "Tribute" CD...

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CD love

The best guitar solo in the history of rock music ever belongs to Dave Gilmore in Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb'. Fact.

Under a Glass Moon by John Petrucci of Dream Theater has a fantastic solo,

Drop Dead Legs by EVH probably has the best power amp distortion tone EVER on the outro solo.

Joe Satriani has done some amazing things on guitar, and has forgotten more about the fretboard than more folks will ever realise they have yet to know.

And Stevie Vai as a handle in his guitars to help him carry them around, that's when they don't have 7 strings!!!
That in itself deserves a mention.

In no particular order (well, the first's my favourite but other than that...) here's mine:

Nightwish - Dead Boy's Poem
Metallica - The Unforgiven
The Eagles - Hotel California
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Tod Rundgren's Motorcycle Guitar
Manic Street Preachers - You Love Us (The Richy Edwards Version)
Nightwish - Swanheart (somehow this perfectly describes my life)