I'd be curious to hear how others weigh in on the topic. "Taco Riff" is a term used to describe a metal riff that is both incredibly heavy and gleefully decadent. So no Khanate or Cheap Trick.

Until I'm proven otherwise, I'm going with the "chorus" riff on Electric Wizard's "Dopethrone".

Second place considerations -
"Metamphetamine" by Eyehategod.
"SRT" by Fudge Tunnel
"Blacktop" by Helmet

What do you think?

= Justin

I would say just about ANY Fudge Tunnel riff. Such an underrated band.

I'll go with Napalm Death's whole catalog. They belted out some outstandingly heavy and decadent riffs. How could they not?, the guitarist uses a twelve-string sometimes.

High On Fire's "Razor Hoof"
Om's "On The Mountain At Dawn"
Bathory's "Call From The Grave"
Earth's "Coda Maestroso in F (Flat Minor)"
Mastodon's "Iron Tusk" (I almost typed Iron Tush)
Any Voivoid riff
Pretty much any Emperor riff
and that one track from Darkthrone's Transylvanian Hunger album that sounds really off-kilter, yet happy.

All this talk of tacos and stoner rock is making me hungry.

#1 Taco Riff.

There's a "super duper" easy answer to this question, but, really, the guy stole this riff from Irving Berlin, who likely stole it from someone else.

Now you will please excuse me while I wash the hog semen of the 1980s from my face and torso.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

#1 Taco Riff.

There's a "super duper" easy answer to this question, but, really, the guy stole this riff from Irving Berlin, who likely stole it from someone else.

Now you will please excuse me while I wash the hog semen of the 1980s from my face and torso.

Oh The Bradley.

numberthirty wrote: One week, One Night In Bangkok and Puttin' On The Ritz wound up getting played back to back. Those jams freaked my little self out big time. Every once in a while, I still have a nightmare about that day.Jeez, the former has a really racist music video while we're at it.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:#1 Taco Riff.There's a super duper easy answer to this question, but, really, the guy stole this riff from Irving Berlin, who likely stole it from someone else.Now you will please excuse me while I wash the hog semen of the 1980s from my face and torso.So I'm a 90s kid by rights - the parts of the 80s that I lived through I was entirely too young to recall - and I'm just wondering: we're all of you on cocaine, or only those of you who left some sort of legible cultural markings?

We were driving back from Portland this afternoon, and had the new Cartographer record playing in the van. During the last minute of "Evil D," I look over at Chris and then back at the road."Taco Riff.""Totally."