Your top 5 favorite guiar solos?

[BusinessMan]

While there are many amazing solos out there, if you had to choose just 5 of your favorites, why would they be?
Mine are:
Threat signal- As I destruct
Moonspell- Moon in mercury
Devildriver- head onto heartache
Exodus- children of a worthless god (holt and Altus are gods)
Dream theater- the shattered fortress

And... GO!! (Don't hate on people's choices)

 

[Polythoral]

Under A Glass Moon - Dream Theater

 

[JustMac]

Soma - Smashing Pumpkins (Billy Corgan)
Rock Bottom - UFO (Michael Schencker)
Domination or Floods - Pantera (Dimebag Darrell)
White Walls - BtBaM (Paul Waggoner)
Elephant Man - Mastodon (Brent Hinds)

Those are just 5 I really enjoy, maybe not favourites. I feel guilty for omitting the classics (stones, floyd, sabbath Metallica, Megadeth etc) but I think they're more universal in that most people would out them in the top 5.

 

[mcleanab]

Hmmmm...

Revelations (Mother Earth) - Randy Rhoads
Touching Tongues - Steve Vai
S.A.T.O - Randy Rhoads
Limelight - Alex Lifeson
Killer of Giants - Jake E. Lee

I'm sure this would change given my mood...

 

[Daf57]

Wow, tough one. Can't think of all of them right now but ....

Allan Holdsworth: Devil take the hindmost (from Metal Fatigue)
Steve Howe: Yours is no disgrace (from Yessongs)
Jennifer Turner: Carnival (from Natalie Merchant's Tiger Lilly)
Eric Johnson: Cliffs of Dover
Larry Carlton: Kid Charlemagne (Steely Dan Royal Scam)

There are so many more "good" ones - I am hyper critical about solos, the above pass most of the criteria for "favorite".

 

[Daf57]

Limelight - Alex Lifeson

Ah! Good one! Might be my #6

 

[BucketheadRules]

Gordian Knot - Rivers Dancing (Ron Jarzombek)
Steven Wilson - Drive Home (Guthrie Govan)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - California (Dave Flett)
Dream Theater - Octavarium, or The Best of Times, or the end of The Count of Tuscany (John Petrucci)
Extreme - Get the Funk Out (Nuno Bettencourt)

Ask me tomorrow and I'll probably have changed my mind. Very difficult to narrow it down to five.

 

[Rosal76]

"Advanced corpse tumor" by Necrophagist.
"Beat it" by Eddie Van Halen.
"My Sharona" by The Knack.
Last solo in "People get ready" by Jeff Beck.
"Skin o' teeth" by Marty Friedman.

 

[Zer01]

The Shortest Straw
Crazy Train

 

[Deathspell Omega]

Blue Murder - Riot (John Sykes)
Allan Holdsworth - Gattox
Bad Dog - Prisoner Of The Fame (Russ Parrish)
Maragold - Oracle (Greg Howe)
Scott Stine - Self Indulgence

 

[gunch]

Meshuggah - Ritual
Fallujah - Venom Upon the Blade
Decrepit Birth - The Enigmatic Form
Death - Voice of the Soul
Odious Mortem - Domain of the Eternal Paradox

 

[Alimination]

-la villa strangiato- Rush
-A fortune of lies- Dream Theater
-When the water breaks- Liquid Tension experiment (petrucci's best moment imo)
-Practice what you preach- Testament
-Drive Home - Steven Wilson


as many mentions, this list changes frequently!

 

[JoshuaVonFlash]

Godfather Theme(Slash)
Pendulous Skin(Brent Hinds)
Better(Robin Finck/Buckethead)
Day in the Life Live @ Ronnie Scott's(Jeff Beck)
Little Wing live @ Royal Albert Hall(Jimmy Hendrix)

 

[DXL]

It might be cliche as hell but I have to say Stairway to Heaven
also
Tornado of Souls-Megadeth
Under a Glass Moon-Dream Theater
The Hunter-Mastodon
Princess of the Dawn-Accept
Big Bad Moon-Joe Satriani
Infected-Bad Religion
Bat Outta Hell-Meat Loaf
Ride the Lightning-Metallica
Burden-Opeth
Green Grass and High Tides-The Outlaws

 

[JoshuaVonFlash]

Green Grass and High Tides-The Outlaws

I knew I forgot one, killer solos in that song.

 

[chinnybob]

In no particular order, I have a definite top four:

Octavarium (Razor's Edge) - Dream Theater
Far - Coheed and Cambria
In The Presence Of My Enemies - Machine Head
Open Your Eyes - Alter Bridge

The fifth I can't decide on, maybe Tornado of Souls by Megadeth, For The Love Of God by Steve Vai or Uncle Skunk by Guthrie Govan. Also there's a really cool part in Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs by Oceansize but I'm not sure it's so much of a "solo".

 

[TheHandOfStone]

In no particular order

Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype I
Necrophagist - Ignominious and Pale
Death - A Moment of Clarity
Wintersun - Death and the Healing
Shawn Lane - Gray Pianos Flying
Paul Gilbert - Scarified
Guthrie Govan - Waves
Nevermore - Born
Opeth - Windowpane
Joe Satriani - Crushing Day

 

[Svava]

In the name of god - Dream Theater
The Enemy Inside - Dream Theater
Another Day - Dream Theater
When the Water Breaks - Liquid Tension Experiment
Guthrie Govan - Waves
Animals as Leaders - All of the songs -,-
Behind the Veil - Dream Theater
The Shattered Fortress - Dream Theater

 

[DXL]

In the name of god - Dream Theater
The Enemy Inside - Dream Theater
Another Day - Dream Theater
When the Water Breaks - Liquid Tension Experiment
Guthrie Govan - Waves
Animals as Leaders - All of the songs -,-
Behind the Veil - Dream Theater
The Shattered Fortress - Dream Theater

damn we got a Petrucci fan

 

[PAZ]

Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype 1
Pat Methany - The Way Up
Kurt Rosenwinkle - A Shifting Design
Aaron Parks - Nemesis
Animals As Leaders - Nephele