Magazin Total Guitar je sproveo anketu o najboljem rifu protekle decenije. Za najbolji rif od početka novog milenijuma do danas proglašen je onaj koji je grupa Muse osmislila za pjesmu “Plug in Baby”. “Muse je najvjerojatnije pobijedio u izboru jer je Matt Bellamy gitarski junak 21. stoljeća: genijalan, inovativan i pravi kreativac, a riffovi brzo uđu u uho” kazao je Stephen Lawson, urednik magazina Total Guitar.
Cijela lista 50 najboljih riffova:
1. Plug in Baby – Muse
2. Slither – Velvet Revolver
3. Afterlife – Avenged Sevenfold
4. The Dark Eternal Night – Dream Theater
5. Knights Of Cydonia – Muse
6. No One Knows – Queens of the Stone Age
7. Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes
8. Halo – Machine Head
9. Mr Brightside – The Killers
10. Beast And The Harlot – Avenged Sevenfold
11. Redneck – Lamb of God
12. The Ballad of John Henry – Joe Bonamassa
13. Lucifer’s Rocking Chair – Cancer bats
14. Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers
15. Rocket Skates – Deftones
16. Hardest Button to Button – The White Stripes
17. Mind Eraser (No Chaser) – Them Crooked Vultures
18. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys
19. Iron Tusk – Mastodon
20. The Grand Conjuration – Opeth
21. That Was Just Your Life – Metallica
22. By the Sword – Slash
23. Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
24. 50,000 Unstoppable Watts – Clutch
25. Black Ice – AC/DC
26. Milk Lizard – The Dillinger Escape Plan
27. Waking the Demon – Bullet for My Valentine
28. Cochise – Audioslave
29. Hunting for Witches – Bloc Party
30. I Believe in a Thing Called Love – The Darkness
31. Revolution is My Name – Pantera
32. Schism – Tool
33. Head Crusher – Megadeth
34. Date With the Night – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
35. The Day that Never Comes – Metallica
36. In the Morning – Razorlight
37. American Idiot – Green Day
38. 30/30-150 – Stone Sour
39. Renegades of Funk – Rage Against the Machine
40. Check My Brain – Alice in Chains
41. Ties That Bind – Alter Bridge
42. Grounds for Divorce – Elbow
43. Bubbles – Biffy Clyro
44. Devil in a Midnight Mass – Billy Talent
45. B.Y.O.B. – System of a Down
46. Break Stuff – Limp Bizkit
47. Underdog – Kasabian
48. Grown so Ugly – The Black Keys
49. Hash Pipe – Weezer
50. Girl’s Don’t Cry – AFI