I just want some people to suggest some of their favorites (I'd really like to see crap like Slipknot and My Chemical Romance excluded from this list) when it comes to a song that relies heavily on the melody of the guitar.

Some that come to mind for me include:

Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam
Jane Says - Jane's Addiction
Fool in the Rain - Led Zeppelin
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynard Skynard
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Bulls on Parade - Rage Against the Machine
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns n' Roses
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
Santeria - Sublime
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

Add more... I forgot several thousand...

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns n' Roses =)
i really like that song. i don't know what but something about it makes it my favorite guns n' roses song.

The Toadies have a lot of music with a strong guitar melody. As for newer stuff, Kings of Leon also have very melodic guitar work on almost all of their songs.

Classical Gas - eric clapton?

My Sharona - The Knacks

"Tears In Heaven" - Eric Clapton
"Hotel California" - The Eagles

omg omg any song by jimi hendrix or eric clapton or crosby still and nash lol

all along the watchtower wasnt orginally by jimi hendrix was it?

any way, my favorite is red house-jimi hendrix

hmmm....I'm gonna go with pretty much everything Megadeth has ever done, since Mustaine and crew always put forth some tight, tight riffs....Picks: "Architecture Of Aggression", "Symphony Of Destruction", and "Dread and the Fugitive Mind"

Can't forget Black Label Society, either. I love their new album, Mafia. Great guitar work, through and through. My picks: "You Must Be Blind" and "Berzerkers"

Other bands: I suppose Cradle can be counted on this list. Take "Mannequin" , "Hurt and Virtue" and "English Fire" as my picks for good riffs.

There's The 69 Eyes, with their slow, gothic bent "Angel on my Shoulder".

'Free Bird' --- Lynard Skynard

perfect bliss

smoke on the water - deep purple

Crystal Kay - Hard To Say (acoustic version)
Lena Park - Fall In Love (acoustic version)

pinball wizard - the who
and..tainted love, but i'm not sure who it's by. it's on my playlist several times by different people. =/

Indeed.

You shook me all night long-AC/DC
Peace of Mind-Boston

Basically ANY Children of Bodom song. Their guitarists are AMAZING and utterly unique. Basically all of the songs are based heavily on the guitars. They're awesome.

I'll probably sound dumb when saying this, but "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin.

"Iron Man" by Black Sabbath.

"Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns n' Roses.

Hmm...

1tym - One Love. the accoustic version :D really soothing and nice.

For me, it's like everything Red Hot Chili Peppers, JOHN FRUSCIANTE I LOVE YOU!! ahem..anyway.

All songs by them are great, but here's some to listen to:

Dosed
Under the bridge
Californication CD version or the Live at Slane Castle
Purple stain
Can't stop

And many more, and they sound better live.

Ooohhh, Change the World by Eric Clapton is good, too. Or Freedom by Jimi Hendrix, ok I should stop talking now, haha!

-FaR

I guess a little guitar-ish music are in Michelle's song Breath. o_O

the only songs that comes to mind is --

"Collide"- Howie Day
"Goodbye My Love"- Michelle Branch

best guitar based song on this earth has to be Caddillac on 22's by David Banner ma Friend......

Praise to the Mississippi Streets....

Binge and Grab- Buckethead

Golden Rose- Jimi Hendrix

Somewhere over the rainbow-hendrix

Hey Joe-Jimi Hendrix

Purple Haze-Jimi Hendrix

i'm so glad that most cb'ers have great taste in music.

all the aforementioned songs are simply wonderful.

Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana - Lithium

i know there are more, they're just not coming to mind.

Aerosmith & Run DMC - Walk this Way
Run DMC - Rock Box
Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana
Michael Jackson - Beat it

Since I've been loving you - Led Zeppelin
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Master of puppets- Metallica
Nothing else matters - Metallica
Dust in the wind - Kansas
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin
Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin
Say it ain't so - Weezer
Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendix
Little Wing - Jimi Hendix
Short Skirt Long Jacket - Cake
Back in Black - ACDC
Hells bells - ACDC
Micheal Jackson - Beat it
Wyona's Big Brown Beaver - Primus
Hotel California - Eagles
Amber - 311

Any song by Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, and Alice in chains

funny, i was just thinking about this earlier when i was listening to the red hot chili pepers.

anything from:

the red hot chili pepers (of course)
nirvana
jimi hendrix (purple haze)

there is a song by the fall out boy (i think, don't take my word for it), i think its' called "where's your boy" (or somthing fairly close to it). its accoustic by the way.

your right, their are THOUSANDS...but i'm drawing a bit of a blank here.

when i read this; the first thing i thought of was

Dear Jamie - hellogoodbye

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing- Jack Johnson....:]

So Long Sweet Summer - Dashboard Confessional

Iron Man- Black Sabbath

that song is continuously playing in my head

Whoever said Classical Gas..i concur. it's awesome.

Dream On by Aerosmith.

Shame that song is being made a novelty.

Metallica - Fade To Black
Metallica - Orion
Guns N' Roses - Knockin On Heavens Door
Children Of Bodom - Kissing the Shadows
Tesla - Love Song
Any Guilty Gear song

I agree.

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

lifehouse - you and me
eric clapton - tears in heaven
MYMP - i`ll never get over you getting over me