What is the greatest guitar album of all time?

???

http://chaineux.de/kitaro/disco/clip/sm_best_of_kitaro_kuckuck184663_cover.jpg

Television - Marquee Moon
Buddy Guy - Stone Crazy
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love
Les Rallizes Dénudés - '77 Live
Quicksilver Messenger Service - s/t
High Rise - I

First thing comes to mind is Presence, but that can't be the answer because it's mostly a bit rubbish.

So I'll say Rumours.

not Loveless anyway

marquee moon!
also, maybe Zuma

Yeah, it's Marquee Moon.

raw power

Pre-Beatles answer

http://image.kazaa.com/images/61/081227111861/Mickey_Baker/The_Wildest_Guitar/Mickey_Baker-The_Wildest_Guitar_3.jpg

Concierto (Jim Hall) for me.

marquee moon

marquee moon just seems like the most *pure* guitar rock album. there's not a whole lot in the way of those guitars.

disraeli gears
boston

Up On The Sun - Meat Puppets
Marquee Moon - TV
Moonhead - Thin White Rope
On Your Feet Or On Your Knees - BOC
Perfect From Now On - Built To Spill
Flammende Herzen - Michael Rother
Coeur De Verre - Popol Vuh
Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen
Revolver - Beatles
T. Rex - self titled 1st LP

That's 10, which is 1 with a 0 after it.

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yeahhh, was thinking "green street" might be my jazz guitar album of choice. that or "midnight blue."

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van halen - van halen

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A3fDDxReG18/RjAHON0RxPI/AAAAAAAAAF0/3sg1E4cg5fQ/s320/Takeuchi-Bushi.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PVxpiiDZv7Y/SUera-FUjoI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/94Mt9liTKgg/s320/youth+of+america.jpg

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd412/flatofangles/Arrow.jpg

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd412/flatofangles/b52s.jpg

Bunnies r great.

one of my first thoughts was ventures in space because I love the album, but then I was like "but then again, it isn't really GREAT or anything"

http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/node_article_image/files/The-Who-Live-At-Leeds.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Beck-Truth.jpg

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Oh crap. That didn't work. Oh well, just imagine that's the cover of Truth by Jeff Beck in my previous post.

man it's not the great but Don't Break the Oath is for sure as good a guitar album as several candidates here

some personal faves

Double Nickels on the Dime
King Crimson - Discipline
FZ - Shut Up n Play Yer Guitar
Fahey - Womblife
Arcana - The Last Wave

Tool - Lateralus

Yeah, this one probably isn't THE greatest either, but I'm gonna lodge a sentimental vote for Steve Tibbetts' YR. Beautiful home production with scads of overdubbed acoustic and electric guitars, a little Indian percussion, and no vocals. A bit new-agey in spots, but capable of working up a blizzard of fuzz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsykaW-gcKY

Steve Tibbets is awesome; it heartens me to see him mentioned on ILX.

Richard Thompson is hands down one of my faves, but it just occurred to me that there is no definitive Richard Thompson great guitar album. Solos, sure, and songs, but albums? He's just too tasteful and restrained, especially in the studio.

guitar/vocal? sort of, that one has the epic jamz on it. but yeah, he really doesn't have one record that you'd say was really a straight-up guitar record. even guitar vocal has more songwriter-y stuff + acoustic covers.

And too often he'll play genius solos in meh songs ("Tear Stained Letter," "You Can't Win").

It's true. Richard Thompson was made to be compiled.

ha, yeah, he played "can't win" when i saw him last year, and it was like "GET TO THE SOLO, DUDE". Worth the wait, tho!

Watching The Dark 3CD is RTs great gtr album AFAIC. (Including a killer live 'Can't Win')

xp I know! I only saw him once, in 1996, and I had the exact same reaction. But damn, that solo tore the place apart.

yeah, and that more recent thompson box set has a disc devoted to guitar workouts iirc.

The "Shoot Out The Lights" solo on that is some serious Merzbow shit. Knocked my socks off.

As far as sheer guitar overload, this was a formative fave that I still revisit:

http://www.satriani.com/discography/Surfing_With_The_Alien/Surfing_With_The_Alien.jpg
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien

I will still rep for Satch

that's just how hesh I am

No Steve Vai no cred.

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Sort of serious answer:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vERXdKOTltE/TIP-OX_61FI/AAAAAAAAA3Y/DaASbqBQ788/s1600/borisfront.jpg

man today, probably maggot brain

will be different answer in a few hours or maybe minutes

my kneejerk response is Rhythm of Youth

motherfucking Layla. far from being a Clapton fan but that album is beautiful. something by Skynyrd too

probably hendrix i guess

why would you want to listen to a "guitar album" anyways?

to rock

if i want to rock i listen to a rock album

actually this is a good contender:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Me_and_jerry.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Blankgeneration.jpg

if i wanna rock i listen to rock wit cha.

http://www.myrareguitars.com/guitar-pictures/the-dream-syndicate-the-days-of-wine-and-roses.jpg

when i wanna rock i listen to i wanna rock

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Blank Generation is a good call. Lou Reed's Blue Mask might deserve a mention too.

New York Dolls's first two albums are magic. Thunders solo So Alone too. Johnny is probably my favorite guitarist ever (alongside Keith of course)

(a more serious answer than before: I think my personal favorite guitar playing appears on Purple Rain and Album/Cassette/Compact Disc)

Fugazi - Red Medicine

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Raggedglory.jpg

Lou Reed's Blue Mask might deserve a mention too.

YES! love love love the guitars...the songs...not as great

paranoid, evol, 3rd VU

DJP has just managed to vote for steve vai w/o meaning to btw

steve vai's masterpiece is "eat 'em and smile" IMO

xxp Sonic Youth and the Velvets otm. White Light/White Heat ffs

some good Gene Vincent compilation to thread

I absolutely 100% intended to vote for Steve Vai

in fact, I would have also given "Viv Woman" an honorable mention if I could have been bothered to look up the album it was on

oh yeah who was that hot shit dude that played for vincent?

speaking of which,

vinnie vincent invasion record is bonkers guitar

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nhT5KbzU_Dw/S4ali39JYSI/AAAAAAAAAIU/iDhaTQZpWZo/s320/415rqaf6s9l_sl500_aa240_.jpg

oh shit, now I feel bad for forgetting to mention Sharrock's Guitar. That is THE answer.

Cliff Gallup is tha name

clear to higher time - blue humans
aida - derek bailey
death of the rare bird ymir - hans reichel
guitar solos - fred frith
five titles - ascension
double live 2 - fushitsusha
death adder - rod poole
in pittsburgh - loren mazzacane connors

cosign Dream Syndicate, been listening to that the past 2 weeks

Flex-Able! That was its name!

I should get that again, I remember it being awesome.

random q about black woman/sharrock. you know on "blind willie" where he's playing unamplified electric guitar (at least i think that's what it is). Does Sharrock do that elsewhere? Are there *any* other examples of that by anyone? It's a cool sound that I can't remember hearing in other places.

also cosign Dream Synd.

xp There's a few Hendrix home/demo recordings where he does that ("My Friend" on the recent box), but offhand, I can't think of that as a deliberate choice by a guitarist. Which is too bad because it's a pretty cool idea. Rickenbacker 330s, properly miked, sound like weird-ass acoustics.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UncrqlD9lUs/TRkhr9kYe6I/AAAAAAAAB0k/o6Y4ahi2jKk/s1600/miles-davis-tribute-to-jack-johnson.jpg

xp yeah, something kind of cool about how (at least with sharrock) he has to play it REALLY hard, but it still has a kind of small, miniature sound.

a friend lent me a danelectro he had removed all the electronics from, it was great as an acoustic and I made a really awesome sounding song with it a million years ago

I'm not sure if that acoustic electric thing is what Zappa's doing here, but I love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG5kTelrA50

i'm pretty sure it's unamplified electric on this baths track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHvWURUzj3Q

some guitar records i like:

opal - happy nightmare baby
sonny sharrock - ask the ages (the pretender's sharrock album, i suppose)
sonic youth - evol
john fahey - the yellow princess
black sabbath - master of reality
monster magnet - spine of god (lol but really)
sir richard bishop - fingering the devil
magical power mako - super record

Blank Generation is a good call. Lou Reed's Blue Mask might deserve a mention too.

For the same reason!

sonny sharrock - ask the ages (the pretender's sharrock album, i suppose)

Nah. This album is perfect.

If we're talking stunt guitar, a token vote for (the otherwise indefensible?) Racer X:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlyYC3KRqfQ

(Ridiculous solo at 2:08 or so)

east-west

xxxp yeah, Robert Quine of course

Not enough Black Metal in this thread. I could go on about Varg or Striborg, but, for me Tobias Mockl is yer only man: check out Darkspace III or Kristal und Isa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f51ST_T74u0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_oTHkpExbQ

a friend lent me a danelectro he had removed all the electronics from, it was great as an acoustic and I made a really awesome sounding song with it a million years ago

Yes. My Danelectro reissue may sound best through nothing. It's like the clavichord of electric guitars.

Also, DJP: EXCELLENT choices, I was trying to think of the best Prince gtr album and it really is Purple Rain.

Polvo Today's Active Lifestyles

Here's one that puzzled me when I made my list of 10. What is the fucking ne plus ultra of JANGLE guitar albums? There's no one Byrds LP I can really pick, no one Soft Boys LP... I'm almost thinking Heyday?

maybe the feelies' good earth?

Oh yeah... or, similarly, the dB's first album... such great gtr sounds on that...

this record goes ham on the guitar front:

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this does it for me:

http://madshoes.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/notorious-front.jpg

Ted Falconi. Not jangly at all, but you can't fuck with this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnFVItNSwJM

i guess my tastes are sorta pedestrian but for me a great 'guitar album' sits at the nexus of neil young, marquee moon, sabbath, boris, hendrix, trad blues, and classic fingerpicking

this is insane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsRgZRjJfts&feature=related

this is even more insane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DWbIEyfyMY

sorry, should have posted this version cuz its not annoyingly boxed in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHnnR3Q0APw&feature=related

Pink Moon

so in love

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4270/cover_333211922009.jpg

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. (Which would be my answer no matter what kind of album you asked for--in this case, it actually fits the question.)

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xpost Clarence White shreds.

Prince is a tough case, because he's a much better rhythm player than he is an electric player, which sometimes errs (as much as prime Prince can err) on the side of style over substance. But listen to the TIGHT rhythm playing at the end of "Lady Cabdriver." Nuts.

notorious byrd bros is the business

Randy Holden's Population II and Neil Young's Weld are albums for which there are no speakers in the world big enough for proper playback. You need speakers the size of walk-in freezers to hear those records properly, I think.

Another personal favorite: Keiji Haino's Execration That Accept To Acknowledge, a 40-minute solo guitar explosion that was the first thing I ever heard by him.

Notorious Byrd Bros is one my very favorite records but I have trouble thinking of it as a guitar album.

My Haino choice would be Affection...

Robbie Basho - Venus In Cancer
Return of the Durutti Column
Fripp/Eno - No Pussyfooting
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
Fennesz - Hotel Para.lel

are my current favs

if i had to pick one as greatest... probably Return of DC

any Django Reinhardt & Hot Club of France Quintet comp

or

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or

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or

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/2007_09_24_CD1.jpg

i'd like to do a live show and just play three boomboxes with one playing led zep and one playing funhouse and one playing grand funk. really loud. a conceptual noise piece.

one of my ideal guitar moments is just, like, the last 30 seconds of this song? something like that. there's a drum crack and i am in heaven.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXR1o6s9UY4&feature=related

i don't really know what the greatest anything is. i tell you though herb might be on to something with the whole funhouse thing.

i just have an endless capacity for records like this. there is no end. apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QExDfM_C-eU&feature=related

i could listen to Funhouse all day n all night

all this rock is good but really, for greatest guitar
Friday Night in San Francisco ftw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaCZ106b5w

Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia

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this thread needs kick out the jams

this thread needs space ritual, and high rise 2.

yeah i thought of those too. so many good ones

guitars are pretty cool.

they really are

Like most of these so far.

It's got a lot of other stuff on it besides guitar, but might want to add Forever Changes.

i want some non-hippie faves. where's rockist scientist? where the whirled beat lovers? where's africa? where's jamaica?

i ask a lot of questions, don't i?

i don't think i have a favorite classical guitar record. i like a lot of them. i was listening to finnish modern classical music for the guitar the other night! some heavy shit.

Polvo - Celebrate the New Dark Age

John Fahey - The Legend of Blind Joe Death

http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/images/SF034COVER.jpg

Stacy Q - Two of Hearts
Kix - Bad Metal Stinger
Brooks & Dunn - Altweekly Heroes For A Few Weeks In The Mid-00s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma0Fa9t6vh4

sometimes

oh and per the thing i posted upthread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE

ok before i become a pain in the ass i should prob figure out where that acoustic blues thread i started at some point is and just put the rest of this there

Love - Four Sail

this thread needs kick out the jams

― m0stlyClean, Thursday, 28 April 2011 02:52 (6 hours ago)

ty - wouldve been too predictable coming from me

What is the fucking ne plus ultra of JANGLE guitar albums?

Meat Is Murder

King Sunny Ade - The Best of the Classic Years

Maggot Brain-Funkadelic
Games Dames And Guitar Thangs-Eddie Hazel
Todd-Todd Rundgren

Up On The Sun - Meat Puppets
Coeur De Verre - Popol Vuh

I love you Jon Lewis.

Few more: "Pink Flag"; a Beefheart album (take your pick ('scuse pun)); Funkadelic, "Standing on the Verge of Getting it On"; an early Bohannon album

arto lindsay trio - aggregates 1-26
bill orcutt / harry pussy - take your pick
joe morris - singularity
sonic youth - sister
pussy galore - sugarshit sharp
not strictly guitar, but: smithsonian folkways music of indonesia 15: south sulawesi strings
sajjanu - pechiku
miles davis - dark magus ( primarily for pete cosey )
kenny process team - surfin' with.. or the bingo complilation cd
somehow i can't identify a single eugene chadbourne / henry kaiser / derek bailey (maybe "close to the kitchen" w/ noel akchote?) release to include
joyfully seconding polvo's "today's active lifestyles", decals / trout era beefheart
& despite the guitar-shop-bore quotient - those zappa guitar albums get me.
and finally - no album but people needsta recognize DAN STEARNS' wild no-wave microtonal fusionisms he is the bomb.

Jeff Beck's Truth really seems to have fallen out favor, and I went years without listening to it. But like Marquee Moon, the songs don't get in the way of the guitar, but they're still a bunch of great songs. It's surprisingly un-wanky, given what it influenced.

Not a jangle album, but likely the best Rickenbacker album:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/4a0c9e0363ace0f5c38ff2f9d1236d0a/103194.jpg

One of my personal all-time guitar albums, certainly one of the best of the 90s, is "Yank Crime" by Drive Like Jehu. Supreme.

I have a real soft-spot for "The Inner Mounting Flame" by The Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Maggot Brain a really good call.

Insanity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ljrPfsa50

Vince Gill is my favorite stealth virtuoso

One of my personal all-time guitar albums, certainly one of the best of the 90s, is "Yank Crime" by Drive Like Jehu. Supreme.

I have a real soft-spot for "The Inner Mounting Flame" by The Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Both good calls!

Also Danny Gatton's "Redneck Jazz Explosion"! Pretty jaw-droppingly good.

something by this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_nwKcGnakE&feature=related

fuck off joe satriani. twiddly toneless wank.

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you tell 'em, jumpskins! jumpskins?

Popol Vuh "Coeur de Verre" for me too.
And Thin White Rope, always Thin White Rope.

http://www.toliveandshaveinla.com/blog/haino_connors_cover.jpg

^ that's a good one. I couldn't think of which Haino to pick, and as much as I love his guitar playing, my favorite records of his are his vocal duos with Barre Phillips and Peter Brötzmann.

Boy, too many great records to second all of them. That Lee/Gill/Gatton thing is sick.

The Bluesbreakers LP was as good as Clapton ever was, in my opinion. And re: Richard Thompson, there's a track-by-track live version of Mock Tudor that's usually for sale on his site (Semi-Detached Mock Tudor) that's just amazing, especially the version of "Hard On Me."

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/186477.jpg

there should be something with keith rowe involved here, i don't know what. maybe 'weather sky' with toshimaru nakamura.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21DP42pZHsL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

zen alien motar master

"That Lee/Gill/Gatton thing is sick."

wow yeah that is so much fun. they all sound great.

oh yeah i like this one too!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cLI19EXK2oU/S5-7vt5mK5I/AAAAAAAAAbI/ChoX8kBdvsM/s400/boris-flood.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/1184344.jpg

That Stoneman Family "Going Up Cripple Creek" tube wins. Roni Stoneman (banjo) is nuts and crazy good.

Current favourite guitar album: Siouxsie & The Banshees' 'Juju'.

waitwaitwait I just realized Pete Cosey has yet to make an appearance!
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3906/cover_281421122010.jpeg

Seconding a lot of posts:

LZ - Presence
Michio Kurihara & Boris - Rainbow
Dream Syndicate - Days Of Wine And Roses
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Adding:

Bert Jansch - s/t
Link Wray - Rumble! The Best Of Link Wray
Howlin' Wolf - 16 Greatest Sides
Bo Diddley - Got My Own Bag Of Tricks

Luna - Penthouse
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/819/cover_122882912008.JPG

Man, makes me happy to see all of this Karl Precoda love! Days of Wine and Roses is great, and Karl is a very cool guy.

there should be something with keith rowe involved here, i don't know what.

http://www.churchofgrob.com/Churchofgrob/CATALOG/GROB209/Rowe.gif

i love this one v. much, but it is keith rowe at his most conventional i guess, even 'rockin'

http://superfm.com.pl/cache_img/QU1/QU1NLUlJSQ==/-391974364.jpg

billy t.k.'s powerhouse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_TK

can't forget:

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/8/5/5/28555_photo.jpg

really hoping Guy has a hyphenated last name

Man, makes me happy to see all of this Karl Precoda love! Days of Wine and Roses is great, and Karl is a very cool guy.

yeah, i love medicine show (or at least half of it) and the live EP too, though days of wine is in a class by itself.

"really hoping Guy has a hyphenated last name"

he does indeed!

http://therisingstorm.net/audio/thenplayon.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2137/1491091309_5bd74b92f4.jpg

The real answer might be:

http://dc221.4shared.com/img/QgE-qXNo/s3/Benga_Blast_front.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8vEwC-xBxac/TKPbepvEv9I/AAAAAAAAAp0/yhClq3dfnZ8/s1600/Dennis+Coffey+-+Goin%27+For+Myself.jpg

i just got a sweet copy of electric coffey. so many guitar tracks going at once. all the horn parts played by guitars naturally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7IRf2ww2Zs

Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat
MX-80 Sound - Out of the Tunnel
Byrds - Fifth Dimension

listening to the new Bardo Pond, that's thick w/ awesome Crazy Horse guitars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnayL0ppuWU

I'm I nuts for thinking Live at Leeds is a great drum and bass album more than a great guitar album.

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/tellus-10.jpg

Curated by Live Skull founding member Tom Paine.
With Lee Ranaldo, Arto Lindsay and Toni Nogueira, Janice Sloane, Butthole Surfers, New Detroit Inc., Bob Mould, Bond Bergland, Joseph Nechvatal, Elliot Sharp, David Llnton, Jules Baptiste, Tim Schellenbaum, Bump, Rudolph Gray, Hahn Rowe, John Myres, Lydia Lunch and Lucy Hamilton, Sue Hanel, Blixa BargeId, Andrew Nahem, Sandra Seymour, Run Nigger Run, Thurston Moore, Mark C. and Marnie Greenholz, Glenn Branca, James Vidos, Angela Babin and Joe Dizney, Frankenjerry.

The Yes Album

Groundhogs, Thank Christ For the Bomb

needs moar basho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stFIKXCZCuM

so hot!

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-allman-brothers-band/video/whipping-post_1665321351.html

for tarfumes

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-who/video/young-man-blues_1293014538.html

nice!

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-byrds/video/eight-miles-high_2146595923.html

phat!

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/aerosmith/video/train-kept-a-rollin_-1097964497.html

bon!

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/ac-dc/video/live-wire_1798411127.html

the avengers!

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-avengers/video/we-are-the-one_1592098297.html

dictators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/dictators/video/science-gone-too-far_-1932576846.html

earth quake!!!

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/earth-quake/video/rattle-snake-shake_-2105044858.html

link wray at winterland!

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/link-wray/video/good-time-joe_2146595632.html

for tarfumes

Thanks, Scott! That's a great performance. That whole show is insane.

Got to add to the love for Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun. Some of my favourite guitariness on there. There's something in Reynolds' Rip It Up about the Kirkwoods using a pedal designed for Boston to get that smooth, sustained almost clean sounding overdrive.

Similar era - Replacements, Let It Be. A gloriously ragged sound. Rollicking riff and rhythm work from Westerberg and Stintson's solos are sublime, especially when he bursts forth on 16 Blue, releasing all that tension that has built up throughout the song.

Another shout for Revolver. Some of the best guitar sounds ever on that. Gibson 335 and Casinos (I think?) through overloaded Vox AC30s. Just perfect. Lennon's rhythm guitar never sounded better, while the fuzztone leads George and Paul get are perfect.

Ragged Glory is aptly titled. It's definitely THE Neil guitar album, although the Arc/Weld is absolutely glorious too. Just love how Crazy Horse and Neil just build and build to this monolithic intensity. The bits where they attempt, and succeed, to outdo their support act Sonic Youth by freaking out at the end of songs are incredible. I'd also rep for Dead Man, which basically invents latter day Earth.

Big Star - Radio City. Superpowered chiming strat heaven.

Giant Sand - Centre of the Universe. Howe Gelb's distorted acoustic, his snap and twang picking style, his Neil Young-via-Mark Ribot solos, plus all kinds of beautiful sonic muck.

Erkin Koray - Eletronik Turkuler. Amazing Turkish psych rock. Brilliant guitar playing, combing Anatolian modes and melodies with Chuck Berry derived riffage, psych fuzz solos and all kinds of funky grooves.

And YES YES YES to Group Inerane, either album. I love Malian desert guitars, and they're my favourite of the lot. Just an amazing guitar sound, so tightly coiled, tough yet effortlessly rhythmic.

Eddie Hazel - Games, Dames & Guitar Thangs

http://www.flwrpt.com/blog/images/hazel.jpg

The first self-titled T. Rex album was mentioned upthread. I was thinking when listening to the album before that, A Beard of Stars, recently that it's a really unique thing. The guitar playing is not virtuosic, but it's incredibly expressive in a way that's usually the domain of virtuosos - a combination of phrasing and intensity, I think.

Oh yeah-

James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing

-is a good one, that is.

for some reason i'm not able to search in google chrome(?) that I can see, but I just discovered Dave Mason's Alone Together....holy god what an album, and the guitars are just sick

Minneapolis post-punk band Fine Art had a really beautiful two-guitar interplay, and lots of crazed, scrabbly solos. I love this sound.

http://www.myspace.com/finearttheband

in love w/ steve gunn's guitar tone/playing on ocean parkway this year.

http://www.popsike.eu/pix/20100921/150496750550.jpg

the sound of it, the way it's played. same goes for all the other instruments. so fuzzed.

ZUMA

Holy shit I am discovering some motherfucking GEMS in this thread.

http://991.com/newGallery/Jesus-Lizard-Liar-97887.jpg

i am true Goat fan 4ever. God, I love that album. Goat was my nevermind. i mean i freaked over it like nevermind fans freaked. at the time. its kinda perfect. and deinitely one of my fave guitar albums.

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

literally:

http://i01.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/275830021/guitar_shaped_tin_box.jpg

Duane Denison is just a lethal guitar player on Goat and Liar. The riff on "Mouthbreather" is super cool, but the first five tracks on that album all still sound amazing as hell. Might like Liar a little better as an entire album, but really either sounds like the best while I am listening to it.

2nding Up on the Sun and Fun House.

Humble contribution:

Fahey- Fare Forward Voyagers (esp last track, it basically is the guitar to me.)

My vote goes here:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AgOUZOyaEUI/T8JY-MWRqhI/AAAAAAAALbg/VCQR6loOq0U/s1600/SonnyGuitar.jpg

For me it's either Master of Reality or Allman Brothers at Fillmore East. I guess '71 was a good year for guitars.

fun house

^

this thread is a funhouse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s-cKnqbho8&feature=player_embedded

^from Come, Don't Ask Don't Tell Songs like these, especially live, were downright frightening. Beautiful, but frightening.

King Sunny Ade - The Best of the Classic Years

― gospodin simmel, Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:40 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink