I subscribe to the email newsletter over at truefire.com, and once a week I read about all the new video guitar lessons they have.
This week they had a blurb about this wall in their studio, and how when it was built someone scribbled “Top 100 Guitar Albums of all time” on the newly dried fresh paint. Over time, all the artists that were in the studio have scrawled in their votes. In this newsletter they were looking for submissions from readers so they could add any that received more than 10 votes to the now legendary wall.
So – I scratched my head, and this is the list I came up with. It’s a work in progress I guess, because so far I only have 65. These are not in any particular order – just the order that I thought of them in. These are what I believe to be the best guitar albums of all time that I could think of so far – or modern and / or rock guitar at least.
If I knew of someone learning to play or just getting into it – this is the list I’d give them (again, in no particular order):
Eric Johnson – Ah Via Musicom
Joe Satriani – Surfing with the Slien
Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced
Led Zeppelin – IV
Stevie Ray Vaughn – Texas Flood
Kiss – Alive
Mattias IA Eklundh – Guitar Freak
Allman Brothers – At Fillmore East
AC/DC -Back in Black
Alice Cooper – Killer
Allan Holdsworth – Metal Fatigue
Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker
Cheap Trick – Live at Budokan
Deep Purple – Machine Head
Kansas – Two for the Show
Def Leppard – Pyromania
Eagles – Hotel California
Extreme – Pornograffiti
Gary Moore – Still got the blues
Joe Walsh Life’s Been Good
Los Lonely Boys – Los Lonely Boys
Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Ozz
Pantera – Cowboys from Hell
Stanley Jorday – Magic Touch
Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive
Rainbow Straight – Between the Eyes
Steve Miller – Fly Like an Eagle
Van Halen – Van Halen
ZZ Top – Deguello
Yngwie Malmsteen – Marching Out
The Who – Who’s Next
Whitesnake – Slip of the Tongue
Guns and Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Ted Nugent – Intensities in 10 Cities
Motley Crue – Shout at the Devil
Santana – Inner Secrets
Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
Queensryche – Empire
Prince – Purple Rain
Montrose – Montrose
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Skynyrds Inyrds
Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Judas Priest – Screaming with Vengeance
Joe Bonamassa – Live at the Cabooze
Jeff Beck – Blow by Blow
Iron Mainden – Piece of Mind
J. Giels – Band Blow Your Face Out
Incubus – S.C.I.E.N.C.E
Green Day – Dookie
Rush – 2112
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Yes – Fragile
Derek and the Dominoes – Layla
Frank Zappa – We’re Only in it for the Money
Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
The Clash – London Calling
Chuck Berry – Greatest Hits
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Mountain – Climbing
Pat Metheny – Tore Down House
Mike Stern – Odds and Evens
B.B. King – Deuces Wild
Bo Diddley – Go Bo Diddley
Queen – Killer Queen
do you have any to add? submit your comment now…
originally posted: 2005-10-20 23:20:10 -0400
Um…no Richard Thompson?
I’ve never heard of Richard Thompson. Once I googled him I saw he has many albums and is well revered in the guitar community, but I’ve been playing guitar for 35 years and I didn’t recognize his name at all – and I love all styles. Is he primarily big in Europe or the UK or somewhere other than the US?