What is the greatest guitar album of all time?

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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

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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

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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"

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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:

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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:

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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

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!

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The real answer might be:

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

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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

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

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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

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so hot!

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for tarfumes

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nice!

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phat!

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bon!

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the avengers!

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

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earth quake!!!

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link wray at winterland!

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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

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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.

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

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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.

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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:

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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:
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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.

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^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

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