Top 10 Alternative Songs With the Best Riffs

The overall Alternative genre is a great genre, but like in many other genres it contains some killer riffs!

The Top Ten

1 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

2 Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

3 Mr. Brightside - The Killers

4 Plug In Baby - Muse

Awesome intro!

5 Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers

6 Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chili Peppers

7 This Charming Man - The Smiths

Long before Nirvana, Radiohead, and R.E.M. defined what we now think of as "alternative," there was a band who paved the way for them all by being pretty much the first underground band to achieve mainstream success -- The Smiths.

8 Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace

Amazing Riffs!

9 Awake - Godsmack

10 Comes As You Are - Nirvana

The Contenders

11 All My Life - Foo Fighters

12 So Cold - Breaking Benjamin

13 No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age

14 Walk - Foo Fighters

15 Burn - Three Days Grace

16 Feel the Pain - Dinosaur Jr.

17 Blackbird - Alter Bridge

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