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Top 50 Guitar Albums: Full List, Readers Poll Revealed
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Posted on 08/19/2010 5:38:47 PM PDT by 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)

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: fender; gibson; guitar; rockandroll; yep
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To: Lil Flower
Oh yeah, love me some Stranglehold. Ever seent the game montage in Invincible that used it?
121 posted on 08/19/2010 8:17:53 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Mama Shawna

Now that’s cool.


122 posted on 08/19/2010 8:19:18 PM PDT by j.argese (Liberal thought process = oxymoron)
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To: Mr. Blonde

Two fantastic guitar pickers and both blind! Doc Watson age 86 and Conrad Oberg age 14!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR4RxBKqWtk&feature=related


123 posted on 08/19/2010 8:20:07 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: crazydad

Though when people say “guitar album” the tendency is to think electric, I defy anyone to really listen to “wish You Were Here” and not be impressed. Same thing with “Life By the Drop” on SRV’s “The Sky is Cryin’,” which these bozos inexplicably put at 31.


124 posted on 08/19/2010 8:20:36 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: who knows what evil?

Ever see the Kids in the Hall sketch where the kid uses the chords from Smoke on the Water to beat Satan in a guitar battle?


125 posted on 08/19/2010 8:27:15 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Well, Robert Johnson’s on the list. He died a decade or more before the electric guitar was invented.


126 posted on 08/19/2010 8:30:56 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: who knows what evil?

Trower rocks!


127 posted on 08/19/2010 8:34:26 PM PDT by BigSkyVic
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To: relictele

And Journey, Queensryche, Dokken, Night Ranger? Where are they?


128 posted on 08/19/2010 8:36:20 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners, no mercy. 2010 is here...)
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To: BnBlFlag
Two fantastic guitar pickers and both blind! Doc Watson age 86 and Conrad Oberg age 14!

Pickin' the Blues
Doc & Merle Watson

And the Reverend Gary Davis. An inspiration to Hot Tuna.

129 posted on 08/19/2010 8:37:29 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Yep, Jorma and Jack. I was always into the Airplane a little more than Hot Tuna though.

(had to give Jorma a mention on this thread)


130 posted on 08/19/2010 8:49:14 PM PDT by Ammo Republic 15
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To: Grizzled Bear
Some of them I totally agree with. It is good to see Frank Marino made the list. I think he is very under rated. It is also great to see Def Leppard’s “High & Dry” made the cut. It is an awesome album that gets lost in the shuffle.

But not to have Judas Priest's twin guitar work included is just so wrong on so many levels. Glenn Tipton and KK Dowing set new heights for guitar attacks. The albums “Hell Bent For Leather”, Unleashed In The East”, “British Steel”, Screaming For Vengeance”, & “Defenders Of The Faith” are bench marks for guitar rock.

Then also not to have ZZ-Top in the top 50 just does not make any sense what so ever. The Reverend Billy G has got to be one the most inspirational guitarists around.

I think Blue Oyster Cult's “On Your Feet Or On Your Knees” and “Some Enchanted Evening” should have been there. The guitar work on those two live albums is phenomenal. I still get chills every-time I put them on. I spent hours working out their live solos. I mean there is much energy packed into those runs.

And the obvious how can they not include Captain Beyond!

Some of those on the list I have not listened to in while. I will need to go back an revisit a few of them to see if I am missing anything. Thanks for the ping.

131 posted on 08/19/2010 9:03:16 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: Grizzled Bear
Here are three more that should be on the list.

The Four Horsemen

I know these guys had some the worst band luck ever but those two albums are packed with Heavy Guage, Solid, Guitar work.

Then there is AC/DC's Powerage which should be listed.


132 posted on 08/19/2010 11:35:03 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: Grizzled Bear
And how could I forget Uncle Ted.

Ted has guitars WFO all the way on these two albums.

133 posted on 08/19/2010 11:43:34 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: Ammo Republic 15; Mr_Moonlight

Still touring, I saw them early in the Summer. Ian Anderson and crew did a nice show.


134 posted on 08/19/2010 11:56:44 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: circlecity

Everyone in Blue Oyster Cult could play lead and at one part in every show all six guys in the band would strap on a Gibson and stand in line trading guitar leads back and forth.

Bringing back fond memories of “Guitars That Destroyed the World”. Powerful


135 posted on 08/20/2010 3:29:23 AM PDT by Artie
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To: Free Vulcan

Can’t help you there.

I can’t quite muster up enough indignation when ‘corporate rock’ is omitted (although that term doesn’t apply to all of the bands you mentioned).

Of course, those bands have excellent players.


136 posted on 08/20/2010 3:42:09 AM PDT by relictele (Me lumen vos umbra regit)
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To: Mr. Blonde


137 posted on 08/20/2010 4:11:03 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: golux
I'll do you one better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jamc3NYRFMI&feature=search

138 posted on 08/20/2010 4:14:22 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: Mr. Blonde

Surprised on no YardBirds representation, considering the lineups it saw.


139 posted on 08/20/2010 4:16:12 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

My favorite Dime solo is still Psycho Holiday.


140 posted on 08/20/2010 4:18:09 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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