A listing of one person's best song parts. Not the whole song, just the best parts.

Some highlights:

• #40 "LA GRANGE" (ZZ TOP, 1973) — Before they were slick techno rockers perfecting synchronized guitar twirling, the boys in ZZ Top were good old fashioned southern fried blues rock to the highest order. The opening guitar from "La Grange" is the stuff of legend. Borrowing from the John Lee Hooker song "Boogie Chillen", Billy Gibbons starts strumming with a fuzzy groove that makes you think of driving a convertible across the desert. Used in at least a hundred commercials and movies since it was first released, "La Grange" is easily one of the more recognizable guitar openings of any rock song.
• #36 "YOU CAN CALL ME AL" (PAUL SIMON, 1986) — retroCRUSH fan John Edward Kilduff writes, "There's this one bass guitar lick near the end of Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al". It's flat-out funk that hits you at the spine and makes your whole body shake." He's right, and the video with Chevy Chase ain't too shabby either. The entire Graceland album was pretty amazing, for that matter. Simon's pairing with South Africa's Lady Smith Black Mambazo was groundbreaking and it worked beautifully.
• #22 "JUST A FRIEND" (BIZ MARKIE, 1989) — Purists may cringe at my use of the terms "Biz Markie" and "Music" in the same feature, but there's something so special and goofy about The Biz's vocals in "Just a Friend" that you can't help but love it. Sure, he sounds like a retarded cow that got hit by a car when he bleats out, "YOOUUUUUUU GOT WHAT I NEEEEEED!", but he may very well have the best retarded cow that got hit by a car vocalist of all time.

Thanks to Karen for the tip.