What is your favorite guitar solo? (Non-musician perspectives wanted)

[AxemanRifflord]

You read the title, send me the song with your favorite guitar solo. A timestamp to when the solo starts would be appreciated too (this isn’t so that I can skip to the solo. This is so that A, if the song has multiple solos, I know which one, B, just in case you don’t actually know what a solo is, I can more easily doublecheck). If your actual favorite solo was played on a different instrument, include that alongside your pick for the guitar solo.

For Fellow Guitarists

Please refrain from waxing philosophical about what makes a good solo. I’m trying to see what the normies actually think instead of conjecture on what they think.

[GodbreakerComic]

IMO the greatest guitarist of all time

[NickRowler]

I don’t know if this counts because it’s a cover. I just think that him using all of his fingers instead of a pic is interesting.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Oh man great topic! I play guitar but I generally don't mess with solos.
I'll wait a bit before putting something here, don't worry I'll keep my fat mouth shut about theory and all that stuff.

[moontokkym]

I am not a guitarist by any means but I really like the final guitar solo in Bibi's Animal Farm and the one from the Cranberries Zombie. When I listen to music I'm usually there for the vocals and I'll skip the end of songs once the vocals are done surprisingly often, but those two I never skip.

Bibi's Animal Farm (solo starts 3:23, ends 3:51) I absolutely love how it blends into the end of Bibi's vocals like it's continuing her cry out to the world.

Edit for TW: the MV is HEAVILY inspired by Kill Bill and Quentin Tarantino more generally. There is SO MUCH BLOOD and multiple screenplay décapitations via katana, don't watch if that's not something you're comfortable with.

And the Zombie solo (starts around 4:00 base only then builds til the end) is like the glimmer of hope at the end of the song that maybe through the pain SOMETHING can get better, kind of what I need right now.

[VibrantFox]

i can tell i still have hedgehog brainrot coz the first to come to mind is Crush 40's Knight of the Wind

but then the next to follow is this

and then a good number of the main boss themes from Sonic Frontiers

[ThunderChicken]

I've always loved the guitar solo in Autograph's Turn Up The Radio:

And Extreme's Get The Funk Out:

Of course I love just about all of Steve Vai and Joe Satriani's works, which are pretty much all guitar solo

[UnTalAugustus]

I don't pay attention to which solos I like, except for one in particular from one of my favorite argentine metal songs or just one of my favorite metal songs in general!

The Solo starts at 2:08

[thepenmonster]

Yup, I'm basic.

Edit- I think you wanted explanations?

The reason I like this is because the guitar's screaming pedal effects gives voice to the chaotic and kinda hopeless nature of the situation the main character is in. However the soaring progression and abundant use of string bends makes it seem like the character has pretty much left the Earth and is flying through his haze of being comfortably numb.

The fade out also leaves us wondering what's going to happen to this guy. All we know is the character has left us. Given the contents of the final act, this turns out to be true. He has checked out.

I don't know this last part for sure, but the album also ends with the same line it begins with so I doubt they didn't plan that sort of thing as well.

[Kuma]

In a game as choke full of awesome bangers, when you have the best guitar solo by a country mile, you know you fucking rock.

@UnTalAugustus

FLACO! ESO ES TENER BUEN GUSTO!

[yumeryuu]

Rusty Nail, the solo starts at 3:30

[Lensing]

I´m a musician and I don´t have a favorite guitar solo

But I remember my favorite guitar solo from the time before I had my first guitar.
It´s from a german punk band. The mother of the guy tells him he should get a proper
job and that he can´t behave like an idiot. The guy says "Yeah I can" and then plays
this killer guitar solo at
2:13

[CSJones]

I haven't played guitar in 12 years (although I did stick with bass longer), but I know four-fingerstyle, two-hand tapping, slap, flamenco strumming, and advanced percussion that clean on a steel-string acoustic are actual dark magic. I don't get how his fingers weren't ripped off. Oh yeah, and he was 18 when he did this.