[xslimmiejimmiex]

These may not all be solos, but I enjoy these guitar parts
 
Audioslave - "Like a Stone" = 2:53-3:29
Journey - "Don't Stop Believin'" = 3:05-3:21 / "Open Arms" = 1:30-1:44
Linkin Park - "Shadow of the Day" = 2:49-3:06 & 3:24-3:41
Maná - "Bendita tu Luz" = 1:24-1:38 & 3:03-3:18
Metallica - "Nothing Else Matters" = 3:03-3:44 & 4:55-5:24
Orgy - "Fiction (Dreams in Digital) = 2:32-2:45
Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train" = 2:44-3:12 / "Mama I'm Coming Home" = 2:28-2:53
Parkway Drive - "Romance is Dead" = 3:32-3:44 & the whole outro @ 4:26-end
Rammstein - "Du riechst so gut" 3:37-3:54 / "Mein Herz brennt" 3:39-4:12
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Californication" = 3:29-4:09 / "Scar Tissue" = 0:58-1:10 & 2:47-end / "Otherside" = 3:21-3:28
 
Entire songs
Agalloch - "Limbs"
A Perfect Circle - "Judith" / "3 Libras"
Santana - "Smooth" / "Maria Maria" / "Black Magic Woman"
Thrice - "Silhouette" / "Stare at the Sun" / "So Strange I Remember You" / "The Beltsville Crucible"
U2 - "Where the Streets Have No Name" / "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
Van Halen - "Eruption" / "Dance the Night Away" / "Jump" / "Right Now" / "Little Guitars" /

 

[JayMitch]

Not going to read through this so as not to skew my thoughts, but there are some that immediately come to mind and in no particular order...
 

1. Bark at the Moon (Jake E. Lee, literally the solo that made me want to learn how to play guitar)
2. Superstitious (Kee Marcello from Europe - pretty flaky band but this just a beauty)
3. Hotel California (perfect, absolutely perfect)
4. Summer Song (Joe Satriani; yes, it's an instrumental, but Joe plays melody lines rather than vocals and then sticks a solo in there and this one always makes me smile and make guitar faces)
5. For The Love of God (Steve Vai, even better when you know the story behind it)
6. Another Brick in the Wall (again, perfect, absolutely perfect)
7. Comfortably Numb (Gilmour's hands are magical)
8. Hot For Teacher (has everything that made EVH great)
9. Lay It Down (Warren De Martini, Ratt)
10. Under a Glass Moon, Scarred, Metropolis, Another Day and so forth (John Petrucci, Dream Theater - I'm heavily biased here)

 
As soon as I click Submit on this post I'll think of a dozen more.  And I also know I want to go pour through songs now.

 

[kothganesh]

Some of my favorites:
 
1. Deep Purple - The Mule (from Fireball)
2. Deep Purple - Mistreated (from Burn)
3. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 
4. Eric Clapton - Cocaine (Live) from the Ronnie Lane's Appeal to ARMS concert
5. Clapton/Harrison - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (probably all Clapton)
6. Peter Frampton - Do You Feel like We Do (Live)
7. Van Halen - Dance the Night Away/Eruptions/Dancing in the Street

 

[OldSkool]

Fine. I'm gonna keep suggesting Blues solos until you hippies finally start to get it.

 

 
Just kidding.... Here's a few more solos I like.
 
 
Tin Pan Alley - SRV (In The Beginning)  4:33 to 6:29
 
Blackest Day - Joanne Shaw Taylor (White Sugar)  3:00 to 5:02
 
Short Fuse Blues - Dave Hole (The Live One)  2:48 to 4:29
 
Mr. Rattlesnake - Lance Lopez  (Live)  4:10 to 7:05

 

[StratocasterMan]

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Fine. I'm gonna keep suggesting Blues solos until you hippies finally start to get it.

 

 

 
Did you say Blues solos?
 
How about Buddy Guy's "I Smell A Rat" from the album Stone Crazy! (The whole song is full of solos.)
 

 
Buddy goes to the edge and sometimes goes right over it!

 

[OldSkool]

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Did you say Blues solos?
 
How about Buddy Guy's "I Smell A Rat" from the album Stone Crazy! (The whole song is full of solos.)
 

 
Buddy goes to the edge and sometimes goes right over it!

 

[10068]

Updated the OP with times (thanks StratocasterMan)
Thanks everyone for posting, there's some great stuff here!

 
 
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2:30 to 4:35 in the second half (part 6-9)

 
Much better example. Now I can listen to your selection specifically. Some of that sounds almost like an electric violin. I wonder what technique Gilmore was using? Is it possible he may have used a bow on the guitar strings or a guitar accessory called an Ebow?

Honestly I think it's just more likely that Gilmour is AN AMAZING FRICKIN GUITAR PLAYER

 
Listen to Time's solo as well (I updated the OP with the times, but it's basically 3:00 to 5:00) he also hits those crazy high notes in that song.
 
 
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Best solo in the best song by the best band.
 

I feel like Stairway to Heaven is just famous for being famous. Yeah it's a really cool song, but amongst all the other Prog and Metal and Rock genre "epic"-style songs, this is one of literally thousands, and certainly not the best. By the time I'd heard this song, I'd been listening to progressive metal bands for a few years, and this song is "meh" compared to them.
 
Bands like Dream Theater for example have put out songs that I think are similar in type, if Stairway could be considered a particular type of song, but superior musically in every way.
 
I don't mean to rag on you specifically, I just get tired of it getting Best Rock Song Of All TIme and crap every year (e.g. radio stations' listeners votes) when that is clearly 100% false.
 
Okay, finished my rant, sorry. Just to clarify, I do enjoy the song

 
 
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1. Under a Glass Moon, Scarred, Metropolis, Another Day and so forth (John Petrucci, Dream Theater - I'm heavily biased here)

 
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Music is all about atmosphere, bro. I'm all about laying the cards down, but you're missing a piece of the story if you're skipping to the solo without hearing the rest of the song.

I don't think this is completely wrong, I see your point, but I also think that amazing guitar work should stand on its own.
 
For example my top faves of Time and Alive, if I skip to the solo part it takes nothing away from the ear-melty of the experience.

 

[kothganesh]

Sduibek
I am with you on Led Zep and Stairway. Very good song but does not stand out in anything at all. I am actually shocked it is ranked #1 in some rock songs lists but I suppose these are subjective.

 

[KElyas]

This P-Funk song is almost one long solo by the one and only Eddie Hazel. Great album to listen to if you like this Beatles cover
 

 
Now from P-Funk to G-Funk, who would you ever think there could be a guitar solo as intense and long as this in a hip hop song and be all original? (just skip to 7:30)
 

 

[eyefloater]

nowhere man-the beatles
what god wants part 3-roger waters, jeff beck on guitar. favourite all-time solo.
little wing-hendrix.
goodbye to love-the carpenters, tony peluso, both solos.
the tourist- radiohead
be mine tonight-th' dudes, nz band, dave dobbyn guitarist.
rock a bye bye-extreme. awful, cheesy song but fantastic long, slow solo which ends the tune.
time-pink floyd.
ten years gone-led zeppelin.
plus assorted solos by camel's andy latimer.
driven by you-brian may.

 

[vertical]

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Alvin Lee's solo on I'm Goin Home at Woodstock. Must see/hear it. 

agreed. That's a memorable one!

 

[Destroysall]

             Dir En Grey - "Different Sense
 
I love the solo in this amazing song. Very sweet, smooth, and quick too!

 

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[size=medium]Guitarist[/size]	[size=medium]Album[/size]	[size=medium]Song[/size]	[size=medium]Solo timing[/size]	[size=medium]Note[/size]
[size=medium]Keith Richards[/size]	[size=medium]It’s Only Rock n Roll[/size]	[size=medium]Time Waits for No One[/size]	[size=medium]3:24 – 5:30[/size] [size=medium]6:01 – 6:25[/size]
[size=medium]Hendrix[/size]	[size=medium]Experience Hendrix[/size]	[size=medium]All Along the Watchtower[/size]	[size=medium]1:43 – 2:50[/size]	[size=medium]Note the transition at 2:20. His solos build throughout the song[/size]
[size=medium]Slash[/size]	[size=medium]Appetite for Destruction[/size]	[size=medium]Sweet Child O Mine[/size]	[size=medium]3:35 – 4:38[/size]
[size=medium]Robin Trower[/size]	[size=medium]Essential[/size]	[size=medium]Too Rolling Stoned[/size]	[size=medium]4:00 – 7:00[/size]	[size=medium]Very under-rated guitarist [/size]
[size=medium]Albert King[/size]	[size=medium]In Session (w/ Stevie Ray Vaughn)[/size]	[size=medium]Match Box Blues[/size]	[size=medium]3:30 – 5:08[/size] [size=medium]6:15 – 7:20[/size]
[size=medium]Carlos Santana[/size]	[size=medium]Santana[/size]	[size=medium]Treat[/size]	[size=medium]2:01 – 3:04[/size]
[size=medium]Carlos Santana[/size]	[size=medium]Woodstock[/size]	[size=medium]Soul Sacrifice[/size]	[size=medium]7:33 – 8:44[/size]	[size=medium]Poured his soul into this one[/size]

 
The table above includes solos I really like that I hadn't seen while skimming through this thread. 

 

[RUMAY408]

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Alvin Lee's solo on I'm Goin Home at Woodstock. Must see/hear it. 

Outside of Hendrix the best shred (on film) at Woodstock.

 

[Headphile32]

These two are great:Gary Moore -
Empty Rooms - Live at Montreux 2010

 
 
 

[size=0.9em]Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways - Live at Montreux 2010[/size]