Top 50 Guitar Albums: Full List, Readers Poll Revealed

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[Mr. Blonde]

The top 10

1. Van Halen, Van Halen (1978)
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced (1967)
3. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
4. Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
5. Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction (1987)
6. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II (1969)
7. The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East (1971)
8. Cream, Disraeli Gears (1967)
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland (1968)
10. AC/DC, Back in Black (1980)

[chasio649]

Steven King is probably the most talented fingerpicker in the world and is extremely amicable.
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I met him...very nice guy.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

He's still the best guitarist in my book bar none !

Just a taste But if you don't like hard Rock forget it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQkcXEGiBA&feature=search

[LS]

No. Doobie Brothers. Was an engineer on “Star Wars.” Saw him playing about two months ago at a big Hollywood GOP confab (yes, there are some conservatives in Hollywood!)

[conservativeharleyguy]

He sold a million records in 1958, but that was a single. He did cut several “albums” that were not simply compilations of singles and had distinct themes (like many others then and later). But record companies wouldn't release them here specifically (and publicly stated) because they considered him “a bad influence on American youth”. That was one reason he was so big - and so influential - in England. Some of that material is even now just being released.

Not a lot of radio play, but he sold albums like crazy over there because he was an “American bad boy”, in spite of the fact that he was really pretty clean-cut for the times, and because of that sound.

The American music business people just thought his guitar was “too raunchy”.

[LS]

I know, but MG was the first group with FOUR lead guitarists, three of whom would play rhythm on a song while one did his thing.

[LS]

Sorry, three leads and a bass

[Mr. Silverback]

Another airball by the Gibson website. Stevie Ray Vaughan first appears at freakin’ 31? Good grief.

[ErnBatavia]

So where the hell is Pat Metheney?....or is this just another of those Gen-X thingies?

I sniff some racism and/or ageism....

[death2tyrants]

The Complete Works of Agustín Barrios Mangoré.

[Ammo Republic 15]

Yep, was just listening to some TYA last night...Watt and Cricklewood Green.

[death2tyrants]

Good point. Priest also had great duelists:

[Mr. Blonde]

I believe similar problems are there for The Kinks in America. They are severely underrated here.

[death2tyrants]

This should be called the Top 50 *Electric* Guitar Album list.

^^^^Ditto.

[Mr. Blonde]

Not exactly on topic, but Grace Potter can really belt it out. This video blew me away

[Artcore]

Not sure if I missed it, but no Guitar Album favorites would be complete without the mention of:

ERIC JOHNSON’s A Via Musicom!

[AFreeBird]

Was never a fan of Van Halen, and the only use I ever had for an ACDC album, was as a .22 target. The latter (Highway to Hell) some guy had played at a party - over and over and over again.

We had actually debated shooting the albums owner, but reason, and a bit of sobriety, prevailed. So, over morning coffee, out on the deck, we blasted that damn album straight to Hell.

[Ammo Republic 15]

That was interesting, thanks for your comment.

[Artcore]

Good Grief, I almost forgot to mention Django Reinhardt.

Check this 4 minute video out. This guy literally plays with two fingers (left hand), he’s incredible!!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iJ7bs4mTUY

[Mama Shawna]

My neighbors Uncle is Noki Edwards....lead guitarist of The Ventures...

[Mr. Silverback]

Yeah, “The Sky is Cryin’” at 31 and “Texas Flood” at 44. As muchg as I like some of the stuff on it (”Life by the Drop” is an absolute masterpiece) I wouldn’t have put “Cryin’” on this list at all if I could substitute pretty much any of the ones he made while he was still alive.

BTW, the last Gibson list was of the 50 greatest guitarists, and they had him at number 12. That’s like putting the Red Baron at number 12 on a list of the 50 best WWI aces.