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)

[Mr. Blonde]

Each one is present with one of their other bands though.

[al_c]

What?! No Estaban??!!!!
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[wildbill]

If you’re gonna use popular albums with singing on them as open for inclusion, I’d think you might want to also include so many more guitar based bands with wonderful guitarists like something from ZZTOP and Blue Oyster Cult—and I know I’m leaving out the blues guitarists from the black artists like Bo Diddley and Leadbelly.

[Betis70]

The thing is, it’s not “50 Best ROCK Guitar Albums”, it is 50 Best Guitar Albums, period.

To have only rock guitarists is an absolute travesty.

Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Paco de Lucia, Alan Hollsworth, John Williams, Christopher Parkening plus all the awesome country players out there, I mean WTH.

[Betis70]

Django was incredible.

[I Buried My Guns]

I have two submissions:

The works of Andres Segovia

X - Los Angeles

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Not a single album in the list by Zappa, Satriani or Eric Johnson. Who came up with this list?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“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.”

All siz? I thought BOC only had five members.

[circlecity]

"All siz? I thought BOC only had five members."

you are correct, it was 5. I guess it just sounds like six. ;-)

[DollyCali]

BTTT