10 Amazing Rock Songs That Are Ridiculously Short

For most of this list, it would be cheating to add any instrumentals into the mix. These are supposed to be just short snippets of what could have been great songs, and having a track that's nothing but shredding might be more of an interlude than anything else. If there was one musician who could get away with making a 1 minute instrumental interesting though, it was going to be Eddie Van Halen.

Which is strange because what we hear on Eruption is basically the bite sized version of what Eddie would do live. Throughout Van Halen's tenure, there would massive chunks of the show where it would just be Eddie onstage, weaving together some of the greatest guitar playing as if it was nothing. Ted Templeman knew that he had to capture that somehow, and he managed to get most of the exciting moments when recording a Van Halen soundcheck, as Eddie was working out the bugs of his signature tapping technique.

It does live up to its title as well, as Eddie's entire solo starts off with your traditional rock and roll style solo bits before actually exploding with one great lick after another. Seeing how Van Halen would include guitar features like this on most of their later records, hearing Eruption for the first time let them know that they had something special on their hands. In less than 2 minutes, Eddie had created a blistering guitar solo that you can actually sing along to.