Rolling Stone 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time - Statistics

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Number	Songs	Answer	% Correct
1	Purple Haze, Voodoo Child	Jimi Hendrix	95%
2	Johnny B. Goode, Maybelline	Chuck Berry	90%
4	Hot for Teacher, Panama	Eddie Van Halen	87%
3	Kashmir, Stairway to Heaven	Jimmy Page	86%
14	Purple Rain, When Doves Cry	Prince	86%
31	Something, Let It Be	George Harrison	81%
15	Gimme Shelter, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	Keith Richards	81%
33	Brighton Rock, Killer Queen	Brian May	78%
35	Tears in Heaven, Bell Bottom Blues	Eric Clapton	78%
105	Sweet Child O' Mine, Welcome to the Jungle	Slash	77%
38	Back in Black, Whole Lotta Rosie	Angus Young and Malcolm Young	76%
11	Oye Como Va, Black Magic Woman	Carlos Santana	74%
8	Sweet Sixteen, The Thrill Is Gone	B.B. King	72%
88	Smells Like Teen Spirit, Scentless Apprentice	Kurt Cobain	71%
32	Seven Nation Army, Ball and Biscuit	Jack White	70%
30	Rockin' in the Free World, Cowgirl in the Sand	Neil Young	69%
28	Comfortably Numb, Shine on You Crazy Diamond	David Gilmour	68%
159	Help!, Day Tripper	John Lennon	67%
47	Sunday Bloody Sunday, Where the Streets Have No Name	The Edge	65%
155	Nero, Falkor	Yvette Young	65%
13	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Symptom of the Universe	Tony Iommi	62%
22	Born Under a Bad Sign, As the Years Go Passing By	Albert King	60%
37	My Generation, Substitute	Pete Townshend	60%
107	Time Between, Chestnut Mare	Clarence White	59%
19	Hide Away, The Stumble	Freddy King	59%
100	Angel of Death, Raining Blood	Kerry King	58%
96	Sultans of Swing, Romeo and Juliet	Mark Knopfler	58%
23	One, Fade to Black	James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett	57%
44	Blitzkrieg Bop, Judy Is a Punk	Johnny Ramone	56%
173	Maybe I'm Amazed, Taxman	Paul McCartney	56%
210	Playing With Pink Noise, Skimming the Fractured Surface to a Place of Endless Light	Kaki King	55%
5	Freeway Jam, I Ain't Superstitious	Jeff Beck	54%
10	You Don't Love Me, Whipping Post	Duane Allman	53%
18	Killing in the Name, Guerrilla Radio	Tom Morello	53%
106	Radio Free Europe, The One I Love	Peter Buck	52%
16	Ramblin' on My Mind, Traveling Riverside Blues	Robert Johnson	51%
41	Bo Diddley, Road Runner	Bo Diddley	50%
205	Cliffs of Dover, Benny Man's Blues	Eric Johnson	50%
62	Albatross, Rattlesnake Shake	Peter Green	50%
20	Love Struck Baby, Cold Shot	Stevie Ray Vaughan	50%
84	Rollin' Stone, Mannish Boy	Muddy Waters	49%
21	Crazy Train, Mr. Crowley	Randy Rhoads	48%
203	Idle Moments, Jean De Fleur	Grant Green	47%
111	Not for Sale, Yeah Right	Kelley Johnson	46%
110	Rhiannon, Go Your Own Way	Lindsey Buckingham	46%
25	Dani California, Under The Bridge	John Frusciante	45%
75	Highway Star, Smoke on the Water	Ritchie Blackmore	45%
101	Up Around the Bend, Ramble Tamble	John Fogerty	43%
83	Hallowed Be Thy Name, Aces High	Adrian Smith / Dave Murray	42%
228	God Save the Queen, Pretty Vacant	Steve Jones	40%
185	Aztec, Wiggle Wobble	Peggy Jones	39%
136	Mama Kin, Walk This Way	Joe Perry	38%
7	Le Freak, Good Times	Nile Rodgers	36%
76	Cherry Bomb, Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)	Joan Jett	35%
43	Creep, Paranoid Android	Johnny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien	35%
182	Cassandra, Rat Race	Earl 'Chinna' Smith	34%
240	Love Thing, P.R.D.C.T	Erin Smith	34%
225	Looking at You, Poison	Fred 'Sonic' Smith / Wayne Kramer	34%
58	2112, The Spirit of Radio	Alex Lifeson	33%
102	Jesus Left Chicago, La Grange	Billy Gibbons	33%
196	The Frozen Man, Fire and Rain	James Taylor	33%
56	This Charming Man, How Soon Is Now?	Johnny Marr	33%
55	Can't You Hear Me Knocking, All Down the Line	Mick Taylor	33%
103	Crazy on You, Mistral Wind	Nancy Wilson	33%
127	For the Love of God, Yankee Rose	Steve Vai	33%
50	Dust My Broom, The Sky Is Crying	Elmore James	32%
94	Surfing With the Alien, Summer Song	Joe Satriani	32%
247	52 Girls, Mesopotamia	Ricky Wilson	32%
178	Sick Bed Blues, Devil Got My Woman	Skip James	32%
164	You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night	Dave Davies	31%
89	Heroin, Sister Ray	Lou Reed	31%
232	Billie Jean, Dirty Diana	David Williams	30%
130	The Bomber, Funk #49	Joe Walsh	30%
121	Misirlou, The Peter Gunn Theme	Dick Dale	29%
131	Floods, Cemetary Gates	Dimebag Darrell	29%
46	Willie the Pimp, In-a-Gadda-Stravinsky	Frank Zappa	29%
198	Guitar Man, Amos Moses	Jerry Reed	29%
68	How High the Moon, Tiger Rag	Les Paul	28%
60	That's All Right, Mystery Train	Scotty Moore	28%
113	Free Bird, Simple Man	Allen Collins / Gary Rossington	27%
250	Message in a Bottle, Every Breath You Take	Andy Summers	27%
57	Silver Rocket, The Diamond Sea	Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo	27%
194	The Boys Are Back in Town, Emerald	Brian Robertson / Scott Gorham	26%
70	Django's Tiger, Djangology	Django Reinhardt	26%
156	Blue Suede Shoes, Glad All Over	Carl Perkins	25%
34	Dark Star, Morning Dew	Jerry Garcia	25%
52	Boom Boom, Boogie Chillen'	John Lee Hooker	25%
9	For The Roses, Coyote	Joni Mitchell	25%
248	Riders on the Storm, Roadhouse Blues	Robby Krieger	25%
246	Dazzling Blue, Kathy's Song	Paul Simon	24%
69	The Shape I'm In, Like A Rolling Stone	Robbie Robertson	24%
61	Gravity, In Your Atmosphere	John Mayer	23%
59	21st Century Schizoid Man, Heroes	Robert Fripp	23%
117	Frosty, Sno-Cone Part 1	Albert Collins	22%
27	Stone Crazy, First Time I Met The Blues	Buddy Guy	22%
77	Whiskey River, Night Life	Willie Nelson	22%
180	Breakdown, You Got Lucky	Mike Campbell	21%
124	Even Flow, Animal	Mike McCready / Stone Gossard	21%
65	T-Bone Shuffle, Mean Old World	T-Bone Walker	21%
145	In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Jessica	Dickey Betts	20%
54	Runaway, Something to Talk About	Bonnie Raitt	19%
109	The Width of a Circle, Suffragette City	Mick Ronson	19%
140	Bluebird, Carry On	Stephen Stills	19%
126	Black Hole Sun, Gun	Kim Thayil	18%
123	Starship Trooper, Close to the Edge	Steve Howe	17%
29	Maggot Brain, Funky Dollar Brain	Eddie Hazel	16%
135	Mr. Tambourine Man, Eight Miles High	Roger McGuinn	16%
175	Bullfrog Blues, Laundromat	Rory Gallagher	16%
45	Soul Man, Green Onions	Steve Cropper	16%
42	Pride, Cult of Personality	Vernon Reid	16%
186	Razamatazz, Hold the Line	Steve Lukather	15%
172	Brass in Pocket, Stop Your Sobbing	Chrissie Hynde	14%
48	Gypsy Woman, Move on Up	Curtis Mayfield	14%
148	Rocket 88, It's Gonna Work Out Fine	Ike Turner	14%
189	We Die Young, No Excuses	Jerry Cantrell	14%
192	Black Widow, Lisa	Lita Ford	14%
63	Shoot Out the Lights, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning	Richard Thompson	14%
80	Joyful Noise, Whipping Post	Derek Trucks	13%
245	Mississippi Queen, Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)	Leslie West	13%
98	Rumble, Jack the Ripper	Link Wray	13%
219	Victim of Changes, Breaking the Law	Glenn Tipton / K.K. Downing	12%
6	Strange Things Happening Every Day	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	12%
51	Marquee Moon, Little Johnny Jewel	Tom Verlaine	12%
39	Your Cheatin' Heart, Wake Up Little Susie	Chet Atkins	11%
160	No Aloha, Drivin' on 9	Kim and Kelley Deal	11%
24	Susie Q, Hello Mary Lou	James Burton	10%
166	I'm Yours and I'm Hers, Fast Life Rider	Johnny Winter	10%
149	TV Eye, I Wanna Be Your Dog	Ron Asheton	10%
66	Boomer's Story, Memo From Turner	Ry Cooder	10%
26	Rattlesnake, Cruel	St. Vincent	10%
118	The Great Curve, Elephant Talk	Adrian Belew	9%
239	Rebel Rouser, Peter Gunn	Duane Eddy	9%
72	Right Off, The Noonward Race	John McLaughlin	9%
218	I Miss the Misery, The Steeple	Lzzy Hale	9%
146	East-West, Like a Rolling Stone	Mike Bloomfield	9%
120	Soulshine, Blind Man in the Dark	Warren Haynes	9%
209	This Land, Grinder	Gary Clark Jr	8%
74	Feel The Pain, Little Fury Pain	J Mascis	8%
17	Wildwood Flower, Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow	Mother Maybelle Carter	8%
53	Stash, Fluffhead	Trey Anastasio	8%
82	Four on Six, Willow Weep for Me	Wes Montgomery	8%
73	Spoonful, Smokestack Lightning	Hubert Sumlin	7%
115	You Satellite, Confection	Nels Cline	7%
153	Homework, Double Trouble	Otis Rush	7%
157	And I Love Her, Bright Size Life	Pat Metheny	7%
216	Horizons, Firth of Fifth	Steve Hackett	7%
161	Bad, Playing God	Tim Henson	7%
229	You'll Lose a Good Thing, I'll Suffer	Barbara Lynn	6%
78	Solo Fight, Gone With That Wind	Charlie Christian	6%
79	That Lady, Voyage to Atlantis	Ernie Isley	6%
167	Search and Destroy, Raw Power	James Williamson	6%
12	Let Yourself Go, Papa's Got a Brand New Bag	Jimmy Nolen	6%
212	Light My Fire, Here, There and Everywhere	José Feliciano	6%
67	Soon, Only Shallow	Kevin Shields	6%
190	Little Wail, What'd I Say	Lightnin' Hopkins	6%
132	Share a Little, Beggars Day	Nils Lofgren	6%
97	Gold Soundz, Night Society	Stephen Malkmus	6%
36	Freight Train, Going Down the Road Feeling Bad	Elizabeth Cotten	5%
231	One Dime Blues, Carolina Breakdown	Etta Baker	5%
195	Damaged II, Revenge	Greg Ginn	5%
40	Poor Boy, The Yellow Princess	John Fahey	5%
85	Josie, Rio Samba	Larry Carlton	5%
197	Midnight Express, Kiss It Better	Nuno Bettencourt	5%
87	Human Fly, Goo Goo Muck	Poison Ivy	5%
183	Wayfaring Pilgrim, The Messiah Will Come Again	Roy Buchanan	5%
139	It Hurt So Bad, Midnight in Harlem	Susan Tedeschi	5%
99	Cafo, Tooth and Claw	Tosin Abasi	5%
171	Little Man With a Gun in His Hand, Corona	D. Boon	4%
233	Hold On, Comfortable	H.E.R.	4%
237	Flight of the Bumblebee, Giant Steps (Rock Version)	Jennifer Batten	4%
142	Undo, Chega de Saudade/No More Blues	João Gilberto	4%
241	Highway Don't Care, Blue Ain't Your Color	Keith Urban	4%
215	Pretty Pimpin, Wakin on a Pretty Day	Kurt Vile	4%
108	Cannonball Rag, Nine Pound Hammer	Merle Travis	4%
49	Missed, Autumn Key	PJ Harvey	4%
202	Liza Jane, Oklahoma Borderline	Vince Gill	4%
163	Let's Get It On, How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)	Wah Wah Watson	4%
104	Heygana, Safari	Ali Farka Touré	3%
81	Black Water Side, The Waggoner's Lad	Bert Jansch	3%
249	History Repeats, Presence	Brittany Howard	3%
193	Running on Empty, Mercury Blues	David Lindley	3%
158	Born to Lose, Jet Boy	Johnny Thunders	3%
93	Cissy Strut, Just Kissed My Baby	Leo Nocentelli	3%
242	Heat Wave, Pristine	Lindsey Jordan	3%
147	When the Levee Breaks, Me and My Chauffeur Blues	Memphis Minnie	3%
133	Smoking Gun, This Man	Robert Cray	3%
177	Tamacún, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi	Rodrigo y Gabriela	3%
112	The Friend Catcher, Junkyard	Rowland S. Howard	3%
92	Huge, Just Abandoned Myself	Wata	3%
243	Mr. November, Bloodbuzz Ohio	Aaron / Bryce Dessner	2%
134	Real World, Celebrated Summer	Bob Mould	2%
128	Kids Don't Follow, I Hate Music	Bob Stinson	2%
64	Call The Doctor, Get Up	Carrie Brownstein	2%
200	Midnight Heat, Outside of This Town	Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram	2%
71	Ngungi, Mario	Franco Luambo	2%
141	Bleed, Demiurge	Fredrik Thordendal	2%
201	Cosmic Slop, One Nation Under a Groove	Garry 'Diaper Man' Shider	2%
230	Canción Animal, La Excepción	Gustavo Cerati	2%
168	How You Love, Gold and Silver	John Cipollina	2%
234	Philadelphia, Spellbound	John McGeoch	2%
137	Strange Loop, Shane	Liz Phair	2%
213	Night Shift, I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore	Lucy Dacus	2%
204	007 (Shanty Town), Take It Easy	Lynn Taitt	2%
187	Jockey Full of Bourbon, Aurora En Pekin	Marc Ribot	2%
224	Cruisin, The Tracks of My Tears	Marv Tarplin	2%
211	Y Control, Maps	Nick Zinner	2%
170	Amazona, Lagrima	Phil Manzanera	2%
114	Girlfriend, Blank Generation	Robert Quine	2%
138	Love and Happiness, Take Me to the River	Teenie Hodges	2%
208	Djanfa, Ce N'est Pas Bon	Amadou Bagayoko	1%
116	Only Loved at Night, No One's Little Girl	Ana da Silva	1%
152	Both Hands, Gravel	Ani DiFranco	1%
154	Live to Tell, Pipeline	Bill Frisell	1%
199	Azamane Tiliade, Tenere (The Desert, My Home)	Bombino	1%
91	Try Jah Love, 1865 (96 Degrees in the Shade)	Cat Coore	1%
191	Ask of You, Untitled (How Does It Feel)	Chalmers Edward 'Spanky' Alford	1%
220	Turning Green, Over Everything	Courtney Barnett	1%
119	Slide, Deathwish	Donita Sparks	1%
238	I Am a Tree, Mr. Child	Doug Gillard	1%
244	No Me Olvides, Bendita Nena	Edilio Paredes	1%
184	Ida Red, Twin Guitar Special	Eldon Shamblin	1%
226	The Clutch, Independence Day	El Kempner	1%
179	My Boy Lollipop, 54-46 Was My Number	Ernest Ranglin	1%
227	Light Field (In Consonance), Velvets and Pearls	Glenn Branca	1%
236	When It's Over, Up Front	Greg Sage	1%
206	Hey Nineteen, Killing Me Softly With His Song	Hugh McCracken	1%
143	Blue Line Swinger, I Heard You Looking	Ira Kaplan	1%
221	Theme from Captain Black, Timeless	James Blood Ulmer	1%
169	She-Wolf, Shame on You	Jessie Mae Hemphill	1%
223	Brownskin Girl, Jump in the Line	Joseph Spence	1%
207	Like Rats, Silver	Justin Broadrick	1%
214	A Shredded Coiled Cable Within This Cable Sincerity Could Not be Contained, Why in the Courtesy of the Prey Always Confused With the Courtesy of the Hunters Pt. 1	Keiji Haino	1%
122	Sunny Ti De, 365 Is My Number / The Message	King Sunny Ade	1%
181	You Just Can't Win, Everything I Want	Larissa Strickland	1%
235	I Was an Eagle, Wild Fire	Laura Marling	1%
150	It All Means Nothing, I'll Make You Sorry	Marissa Paternoster	1%
188	Shea Stadium, Vibrational Match	Marnie Stern	1%
174	Way Out West, Hillbilly Rock	Marty Stuart	1%
95	Pat's Trick, Glass Tambourine	Mary Timony	1%
90	Afrique Victime, Tarhatazed	Mdou Moctar	1%
222	Take the Journey, El Dorado	Molly Tuttle	1%
129	Halo of Flies, The Wolf You Feed	Nita Strauss	1%
144	Hit or Miss, Take This Hammer	Odetta	1%
151	Moja, Smokestack Lightning	Pete Cosey	1%
165	The Man I Love, Né So	Rokia Traoré	1%
162	Asa Branca, Tristeza Em Mim	Rosinha de Valença	1%
176	American Horror, Tiger Tank	Sadie Dupuis	1%
217	Easy, Brick House	Thomas McClary	1%
125	Typical Girls, So Tough	Viv Albertine	1%
86	Yesternow, Many Mansions	Sonny Sharrock	0%

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