DEAD POET SOCIETY

JACK COLLINS OF DEAD POET SOCIETY

1 Thin Lizzy, “Running Back”

Something about the way they wrote riffs just sticks out. I’ve never heard more nostalgic-sounding guitar solos from any band. The riffs sound like someone singing to you at a campfire, but badass.

2 Tigercub, “Stop Beating on My Heart”

The way this song builds into the heavy riff is insane. It starts out soft like a Hozier song, and then it smacks you like a Black Sabbath riff out of nowhere. Brilliant.

3 Suicide Silence, “Unanswered”

This is still, in my opinion, the heaviest song ever made. The riff feels like a chainsaw ripping through your chest, and when I sit back and listen to it without moving, I always get chills.

4 Mac DeMarco, “Still Beating”

I’m always listening to Mac DeMarco.

— RICKY "HORROR" I like guitar riffs that speak and sound like their own voice. His riffs always make me feel like I’m relaxing... but at a lake with a fishing pole, for some reason. And I’ve never been fishing!

5 Cleopatrick, “Good Grief”

My favorite song right now. The way the riff hits in this song stands on its own. It’s mean but it’s fresh. It rips through the speakers.