This list isn’t complete without Rory Gallagher!
The Captain Beyond album deserves mention also.
Or Peter Banks and Flash...I could go on and on...
WHAT??? No Link Wray??? Oh yeah, I forgot - “Nobody played guitars in the 50’s”.
Half of these guys learned their riffs from Link Wray when they were about 13, and most of them will admit it.
Totally bogus list without the Reverend Horton Heat.
Best guitarist of ALL time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYALiTct1_I&feature=related
Very LOLable list if you ask me.
Where’s the dual lead work? Iron Maiden ring their bell a bit?
These “top” lists are such garbage.
Guns and Roses, Sweet child O mine!!
Any list of top guitar albums that doesn’t have Les Paul and Chet Atkins somewhere on it is BOGUS
I think it’s a pretty good list...for rock music....but i will comment that none of the guitarist on any of those albums could even attempt to play like Lenny Breau or Danny Gatton.
Here another,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdV-eOhb-bc
No Moby Grape? Wow.
How about Steely Dan’s “Countdown to Ecstasy”...Skunk Baxter and Denny Dias at their best.
Or Sonic Youth’s “Daydream Nation”.
Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain”?
Nice to see Television in there.
Zappa and the Mothers’ “Burnt Weeny Sandwich” seems to be missing.
No Free on the list?
If The Sex Pistols made it VU certainly deserved a place.
Gibson’s list stinks.
I love/hate these lists. Even if you double it to a hundred someone important/influential/incredible gets left off. But they do get the juices flowing, don’t they?!
Predictable list.
All 10, with the possible exception of Van Halen, are blues guitar in whole or in part.
But hold on, you say, rock and roll is drawn from the blues and the guitar parts in particular haven’t changed much. Fair point.
But...if the ‘top’ rankings are based on virtuosity, originality, influence, or other criteria then some of the usual suspects can be dropped down or off (or have their multiple albums reduced by one or two).
Where are U2? Edge’s delay techniques were and are unique.
Where are the Ramones? Buzzsaw power chords are commonplace now but in 1976 they were revolutionary.
Where are the Police? Andy Summers had the entire world buying chorus pedals starting in 1977-78.
And as much as I love Oasis, Definitely Maybe pales in comparison to (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? as an album and/or a guitar album. DM is full of plodding, derivative sludge due to Noel and Bonehead’s lack of technique when it was recorded. Morning Glory is full of inventive riffs and tasty acoustic parts.
And where, for crying out loud, are the Ventures and/or Duane Eddy? They defined guitar music and guitar albums.
The problem with asking guitarists about favorite albums is that you get the same list over and over again, because guitar parts from those albums form most players’ vocabulary. In the end, it’s a self-limiting exercise.
This should be called the Top 50 *Electric* Guitar Album list.
Since when does good guitar have to be heavily amplified? Anyone ever heard of the Reverend Gary Davis?
Where is James Burton, the best guitar player of all time?
Zappa? Trower? Mountain? Rush for Pete’s sake? Oy.
Skynyrd - One More From the Road
Steve Gaines, Rossington & Collins
BTO’s “Not Fragile”, James Gang’s “James Gang Rides Again”, Ten Years After’s “Undead”, and any of a number of ZZ Top’s albums. Pick one.
Guitar album?
The Who - Live at Leeds
Humble Pie - Live at the Filmore