10 Greatest Guitar Riffs Of The 90s

10. Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots

Hair metal is usually the main genre that got slaughtered when you talk about the grunge explosion. Since acts like Motley Crue and Poison were known to be much more extravagant, they didn't have a prayer once Seattle became the go to sound of the day. Then again, if there's one genre that should have been dead and gone long before this, it should have been the sounds of AM radio rock.

And in the middle of every alt rock band on the radio, Stone Temple Pilots turned in a guitar riff that sounds like it could have come off of an Eagles record on Interstate Love Song. Though there's a lot of crunch behind Dean DeLeo's tone on here, there's a lot more in common with those golden classics of the '70s than most people would like to admit, down to the fact that it practically has a country flair to the vocals.

In fact, there's a lot of un-rock parts of this riff that end up fitting surprisingly well here, like the slide guitar style that sounds like it's coming from Southern rock and the bass playing being all over the place, which is more reminiscent of something you'd see in the jazz world. When enough time passes to where the Guardians of the Galaxy movies switch to the '90s, this riff is going to be playing nonstop on the latest version of Awesome Mix.