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GUITAR’S GREATEST ALBUMS TOP 40 BEST EVER
40. The Eagles – Hotel California (1976)
Guitarists: Don Felder, Glen Frey, Joe Walsh
Download now: Hotel California, Life In The Fast Lane,
New Kid In Town
39. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (1991)
Guitarists: Kevin shields, Bilinda Butcher
Download now: Knows When, Blown a Wish, Soon
38. The White Stripes – Elephant (2003)
Guitarist: Jack White
Download now: Seven Nation Army, I Just Don’t Know What
To Do With Myself, The Hardest Button To Button
37. David Bowie – The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972)
Guitarists: Mick Ronson, David Bowie
Download now: Five Years, Ziggy Stardust, Moonage
Daydream
36. Queen – A Night At The Opera (1975)
Guitarist: Brian May
Download now: Love Of My Life, Sweet Lady, Good Company
Did you know: Queen have spent the longest time on the UK
album chart with a total of 1,322 weeks, 29 weeks more than
The Beatles.
35. Pearl Jam – Ten (1991)
Guitarists: Stone Gossard, Mike McCready
Download now: Alive, Black Porch
34. Pantera – Vulgar Display Of Power (1992)
Guitarist: ‘Dimebag’ Darrel Abbot
Download now: Walk, This Love, F**king Hostile
33. Pixies – Surfer Rosa (1988)
Guitarists: Black Francis, Joey Santiago
You say: "No Pixies would've meant no Nirvana - and we'd
probably all still be listening to Van Halen, God Help Us."
Trevor Mole
Download now: Gigantic, River Euphrates, Where Is My Mind?
Did you know: ... Teen Spirit was Kurt Cobain’s “attempt
to write a Pixies song.
32. Green Day – American Idiot (2004)
Guitarist: Billie Joe Armstrong
Download now: American Idiot, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams,
Whatsername
Did you know: The album won a 2005 Grammy for Best Rock
Album, beating Velvet Revolver and The Killers.
31. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (1988)
Guitarists: Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo Download now: Teenage riot, Silver Rocket, Providence
Did you know: Thurston Moore is possibly the world's tallest
rock star, at six feet and five inches.
30. Santana – Abraxas (1970)
Guitarist: Carlos Santana
Download now: Samba Pa Ti, Black Magic Woman, Oye Como
Va
29. The Clash –London Calling (1979)
Guitarists: Mick Jones, Joe Strummer
Download now: London Calling, Clampdown, Train In Vain
28. Iron Maiden – Number Of The Beast (1982)
Guitarists: Dave Murray, Adrian Smith
You say: “Metal’s best band. Their best album.” Sean Cole
Download now: Hallowed Be Thy Name, Run To The Hills, 22
Acacia Avenue
27. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold As Love (1967)
Guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
Download now: Spanish Castle Magic, Little Wing, Castles
Made Of Sand
Did you know: Kirk Hammet and Pearl Jam have both
covered Little Wing live.
26. Thin Lizzy – Live And Dangerous (1978)
Guitarists: Scott Graham, Brian Robertson
You say: “Simply makes you want to pick up your guitar and
play until your fingers bleed!” Alex Hunter
Download now: Cowboy Song, Emerald, Still In Love With You
25. Slayer – Reign In Blood (1986)
Guitarists: Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman
Download now: Raining Blood, Angel Of death, Jesus Saves
24. The Beatles – The Beatles (‘The White Album’) (1968)
Guitarists: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney
You say: “Anyone who says this album is a rambling mess is
just wrong!” Matt Bradshaw
Download now: Happiness Is A Warm Gun, While My Guitar
Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter
23. The Who – Who’s Next (1971)
A must-have album for the classic rocker
Guitarist: Pete Townshend
You say: “Townshend’s greatest work, brilliant rythm playing.”
Ken MastersDownload now: Won’t Get Fooled Again,
Behind Blue Eyes, Baba O’Riley
Did you know: Until democracy arrived in the nineties, Won’t
Get Fooled Again was banned from sale in South Korea.
22. Iggy & The Stooges – Raw Power (1973)
Guitarist: James Williamson
Download now; Gimmee Danger, Search And Destroy, Raw
Power
21. Deep Purple – Made In Japan (1972)
Guitarist: Ritchie Blackmore
You say: “Blackmore at his best is untouchable”. Gerald Clarke
Download: Strange Kind Of Woman, Highway Star, Child In
Time
Did you know: The album‘s songs were recorded over three
nights, but it is claimed that they do not feature a single
overdub.
20. Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti (1975)
Guitarist: Jimmy Page
A big album from a big band, and arguably Page at the peak
of his powers. With 15 diverse songs taken from various
sessions there’s everything from the 11-minute slide-fest
In My Time Of Dying to the grandeur of the mighty Kashmir.
You say: “From Washing-up to breaking-up to making-up;
the soundtrack to my life for 30 years." Andy Balcam
Download now: Kashmir, The Wanton Song, In My Time Of
Dying
Did you know: Robert Plant’s raw vocals are due to a recent op on vocal chords nodes.
19. Cream – Disraeli Gears (1967)
Guitarist: Eric Clapton
You say: “This is Clapton at his peak, aided by his best ever
band.” David Kraemer
Download now: Strange Brew, Sunshine Of Your Love, Tales
Of Brave Ulysses
Did you know: Tales Of Brave Ulysses is the claimed debut
of the wah pedal on record.
18. Metallica – Metallica (aka ‘The Black Album’) (1991)
Guitarists: James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett
You say: “The riffs, the vocals, the solos, the
drums...sublime!” Rich Collins
Download now: Sad But True, The God That Failed, Nothing
Else Matters
Did you know: This album has sold 14 million copies in the US
alone.
17. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street (1972)
Guitarists: Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Mick Jagger, Al Perkins
You say: “A lot of quality Stones to choose from, but Exile
shades it.” Kevin Preston
Download now: Tumbling Dice, Ventilator Blues, I Just Want To
See His Face
Did you know: Keef charged each Stone 250 pounds a week to
stay in his mansion, Nellcote.
16. Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues (1990)
Guitarists: Gary Moore, Albert Collins, Albert King
Download now: Oh Pretty Woman, Still Got The Blues, All Your Love
Did you know: George Harrison plays slide on That Kind Of Woman
15. Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
Guitarist: David Gilmour
Download now: Breathe, Money, Us And Them
14. Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine (1992)
Guitarist: Tom Morello
Download now: Bullet In The Head, Bombtrack, Killing In The
Name
Did you know: After 9/11, RATM were banned by the US
media co Clear Channel for their ‘questionable’ lyrics.
13. Radiohead – The Bends (1995)
Guitarists: Johnny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Tom Yorke
You say: “Johnny Greenwood is Britain’s greatest, most
inventive player.” Nicole Flynn
Download now: Just, Street Spirit (Fade Out), My Iron Lung
Did you know: Even Tom Yorke admits that Street Spirit is “a
bit depressing”.
12. Extreme – Pornograffiti (1990)
Guitarist: Nuno Battencourt
Download now; He-Man Woman Hater, It (‘s a Monster), Get
The Funk Out
11. Nirvana – Nevermind (1991)
Guitarist: Kurt Cobain
You say: “Album of the nineties, easy.” Antonio Adams
Download now: Lithium, Drain You, Smells Like Teen Spirit
Did you know: Kurt Cobain originally intended to entitle the
album Sheep.
10. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II (1969)
Guitarist: Jimmy Page
Opened by Whole Lotta Love, this is arguably the defining
Zeppelin album, ‘IV’ notwithstanding. This was when Page
discovered the roaring power of Les Pauls and 100-watt
Marshalls while Plant’s lyrics can still make sailors’ blush.
This is Zeppelin at their devilish best.
You say: “Boast some of the most memorable riffs ever. Still
rocks!” Dave Meaburn
Download now: Moby Dick, Ramble On, Whole Lotta Love
Did you know: The album knocked The Beatles’ Abbey Road
off the Number 1 spot in the US charts.
9. The Beatles – Revolver (1966)
Guitarists: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul
McCartney
The Beatles pioneer the use of the recording studio as
instrument and reinvent popular music in the process as all
three songwriters hit the top of their game ltaneously.
Still sounds pioneering and amazingly fresh after 40 years.
You say: “The greatest group ever hit their peak.” Allen Tucker
Must download: Tomorrow Never Knows, She Said She
Said, Taxman
Did you know: She Said She Said (originally ‘He’) drew on
Lennon’s 1965 encounter with a tripping Peter Fonda.
8. Stevie Ray Vaughn And Double Trouble – Texas Flood (1983)
Guitarist: Stevie Ray Vaughn
The blues was all-but extinct by the eighties – cue SRV.
Weilding a battered Strat and a guitar tone to die for,
his relentless riffing and belief in every note he played
earned him the mantle of the last true guitar hero.
You say: “I saw him live, and his tone came from somewhere
inside him – he was out of this world.” J Dawson
Download now: Texas Flood, Rude Mood, Lenny
Did you know: Texas Flood was recorded free-of-charge over
Thanksgiving, in Jackson Browne’s Downtown Studio.
7. Metallica – Master Of Puppets (1986)
Guitarists: James Hetfield , Kirk Hammett
The all-time creative high point for heavy-metal? Metallica’s
third album does everything right – power, melody
, intelligence, with Hetfield, Hammett and the late bassist Cliff
Burton at the peak of their powers.
You say: “They made every other metal band redundant at the
time with this, but now it’s timeless. Matthew Hardy
Download now: Master of Puppets, Orion, Battery
Did you know: Metallica weren’t the first band to play this
album in its entirety, live; Dream Theatre did it in 2002!
6. John Mayall – Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton (1966)
Guitarist: Eric Clapton
God on guitar? Check. Les Paul? Check. Overdriven Marshall
for cranked ‘woman’ tone? Check. Much imitated? You bet.
Ever bettered in the pantheon of straight-up electric
blues albums? Don’t be ridiculous.
You say: “Made me want to pick up an electric guitar. I did and
still play.” John Snocken
Download now: Hideaway, Ramblin’On My Mind, Steppin’ Out
Did you know: Ramblin’ On My Mind features Eric Clapton ‘s
first-ever recorded vocal.
5. AC/DC – Back In Black (1980)
Guitarists: Agnus Young, Malcolm Young
With vocalist Bon Scott barely cold, the rest of the band came
back from a grave of their own to produce a wonderful
album, full of immense riffs and a diamond-hard production
courtesy of ‘Mutt’ Lange.
You say: “I once listened to it eight times on the bounce
and loved it." Al Willis
Download now; Back in Black, Have A Drink On Me, You
Shook Me All Night Long
Did you know: Brian Johnson sang Nutbush City Limits at his
audition.
4. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975)
Guitarist: David Gilmour
A meditation on alienation, madness, and a tribute to their
absent (but then suddenly not-so-absent) friend
, Syd Barret, who famously turned up during their
mixing. Their best work? You clearly think so.
You say: “That guitar sound – an album of awesome playing.”
Tim Jackson
Download now: Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I – IV,
Wish You Were Here
Did you know: The lyric “Which One’s Pink?” (in Have A Cigar)
was actually asked of the band in early interviews.
3. Led Zeppelin – IV (1971)
Guitarist: Jimmy Page
It’s got the rock bluster, the acoustic sublimity, and the last
word in epic...you know the song. In short it’s got the lot
– every home should have one.
Download now: Black Dog, Stairway To Heaven, When The
Leevee Breaks
You say: “A true classic, and not just for guitar, Stairway NOT
denied.” Pete Nelson
Did you know: Black Dog was named after a hound that kept
sniffing around Headley Grange manor house,
where the band were recording.
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland (1968)
Guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
Jimi wound-up the Experience in style, with his sprawling
exploration of blues, soul, psychedelia, guitar
grit and studio frippery. It occasionally drifts,
but its best moments reveal a guitar icon at his zenith.
You say: “A double-dose of the greatest. Absolute genius.” John
Simmons
Download now: Crosstown Traffic, All Along The Watch
Tower Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Did you know: Jimi hated the original naked woman cover.
1.`Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction (1987)
Guitarists: Slash, Izzy Stradlin
The album contains 12 songs of which only Anything Goes is
merely unbelievably good: the remainder are all genre-defining
slabs of US rock and catapulted five street urchins up to a new
level of success and debauchery.
You say: “If any band writes a better song than Welcome To The
Jungle, I’ll eat my subscription!” Guy Harrison
Download now: Paradise City, Nightrain, Sweet Child O’ Mine
Did you know: Duff McKagan sat next to Kurt Cobain on his final
flight back to Seattle.
P. Ramlee – Bunyi Gitar (1966)
Guitarist: Omar Rojik?
What? No Bon Jovi, no Van Halen, no Darkness, no Oasis, no Aerosmith,
no Search, no Wings, no M. Shariff, no XPDC, no Kassim Selamat...
no Smoke On The Water, no Satisfaction, no Enter Sandman, no Who Else...!
lol, You do not have to disagree.
Words: Joseph Bosso Guitarist 284 December 2006
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