If you want to hear my favorite guitar solo, go here:
www.poptodd.muxtape.com
and look for "Pablo and Andrea" by Yo La Tengo
(it's the last song)

Listen all the way through and, the second (distorted) solo is the one. It just brings the song to a higher place, without any sort of pyrotechnics. It's a dreamy kinda feel to begin with, and then, when the solo starts, it's just... something else.

Everything that a solo should be.