According to Ethan Hein, the best guitar solo ever recorded is in Prince’s 1986 classic “Kiss.” This piece looks at the song’s birth, including the version performed by the band he originally gave the song too, followed by a more in-depth look at the solo itself—which is easy to learn on a note-for-note basis but hard to replicate the feel of. Of particular interest to me is the impressively low number of tracks that make up the song: just nine, compared to dozens on other similar songs of the same era, and over a hundred now.