Favourite 10 Guitar Albums

[fslmy]

It is interesting for me how few jazz albums are listed here

[jon abbey]

It is interesting for me how few jazz albums are listed here

why? even many jazz fans don't like jazz guitar much.

[Geoff]

I'll contribute some jazz for you filmy

Here's ten of the top of my head

Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent
Grant Green - The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark
Kenny Burrell - Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
John Fahey - The Yellow Princess
Blind Willie Johnson - The Complete Blind Willie Johnson
Charley Patton - Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton
Joe Pass - Virtuoso
Derek Bailey - Drop me off at 96th
Masayuki Takayanagi - Free Form Suite
Robert Fripp - Let the Power Fall

[bedouin]

Grant Green - The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark
Kenny Burrell - Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane

+1 on the quartets with Sonny Clark. It's amazing they kept these unreleased for so many years (pity they didn't keep the original artwork).
also, anyone who digs Burrell should check
Thad Jones - 'After Hours', and
Kenny Dorham - 'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia'

[bedouin]

Emanuele E. Forni - Ceci N'est Pas Une Guitare (Stradivarius)

[RFKorp]

No mention yet of Rod Poole's "The Death Adder"?

[orangettecoleman]

1. All Steve Tibbetts albums (this is number one, numbers 2-10 are ranked arbitrarily)
2. Ted Greene "Solo Guitar"
3. Elliott Sharp "Sili/Contemp/Tation"
4. Fahey- Return of the Repressed anthology
5. Allan Holdsworth - "Atavachron"
6. David Torn - "Cloud About Mercury"
7. Fennesz - "Hotel Parallel"
8. Keith Fullerton Whitman - "Playthroughs"
9. Cocteau Twins - "Victorialand"
10. Popol Vuh - "Einsjager & Siebenjager"

plus MBV and a bunch of other stuff that has already been mentioned

[J.F.]

3. Elliott Sharp "Sili/Contemp/Tation"
9. Cocteau Twins - "Victorialand"

Both E# and the Cocteau Twins where people I considered for a moment to include as well.

Another one: No Wave by James Blood Ulmer.

I listened to a few Trout Mask Replica tracks again today, and I see there's really a point to including that album here (as done above).

[presquepartout]

probably something by poison

[Lao Tsu Ben]

Perhaps an album by/with Burkhard Stangl, one by Dinosaur Jr, Hans Reichel's Death of the Rare Bird Ymir , Spirit? I realize I have to listen to this stuff all over again.

[yonhosago]

probably something by poison

I'm in

[Steven Reynolds]

Ghostly Thoughts - Paul Dunmall with John Adams (guitar) and Mark Sanders
Giant Sand - Long Stem Rant
Allman Brothers - Fillmore East for some great Duane
Ellery Eskelin - The Sun Died with Marc Ribot and Kenny Wolleson
Big Satan (honey i think they liked it) - with Tim Berne, Mark Ducret and Tom Rainey
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Wes Montgomery - Full House



seconds on many others including TMR, Are You Experienced, USA, etc.



I choose Eh for the recording with Stangl


no use to pick a favorite Rowe recording - but for AMM, maybe I pick Allentown or Before Driving....

[Geoff]

8. Keith Fullerton Whitman - "Playthroughs"

This is a good one too

[jtienhaara]

In no order some of my guitar favourites:

- George Benson Breezin'
- African Guitar Summit
- Naked City (Frisell Zorn et al)
- Mr. Bungle California
- Pantera Far Beyond Driven
- Pepe Romero / Concierto de Aranjuez
- Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
- Joni Mitchell Blue
- David Bowie 1. Outsude
- Primus Frizzle Fry

[mpisaro]

There have to be at least 1000 great guitar records! Nevertheless here are my favorite eleven in 2012:

King of the Delta Blues Singers/Robert Johnson (Columbia, 1961, recorded 1936/37)
The Art of Julian Bream (RCA, 1960)
The Bridge/Sonny Rollins (Jim Hall) (RCA, 1962)
Death Chants, Break Downs & Military Waltzes/John Fahey (Takoma, 1964)
Electric Ladyland/Jimi Hendrix (Reprise, 1968)
The Best of Bobby Womack/The Soul Years (Capitol, late '60's to early '70's)
A Tribute to Jack Johnson/Miles Davis (John McLaughlin) (Columbia, 1971)
Tonight's the Night/Neil Young (/Danny Whitten) (Reprise, 1975)
Marquee Moon/Television (Tom Verlaine, Richard Lloyd) (Electra, 1977)
Entertainment!/Gang of Four (Andy Gill) (Warner Bros, 1979)
Opposite/Taku Sugimoto (HatNOIR, 1998)

[bryan]

Kevin Drumm - S/T
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Charlie Patton - everything
Derek Bailey - Aida
Mississippi John Hurt - complete 1928 sessions
Papa M - Live From a Shark Cage
Neil Young - Zuma
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers
Immortal - Blizzard Beasts

that was tough, i don't want to do that again for a while

[gohleekwang]

A little off topic...

Helmut Lachenmann - Salut für Caudwell (Musik für 2 Gitarristen - 1977)

[RJMyato]

No mention yet of Rod Poole's "The Death Adder"?

this is definitely on my list, great album

[negative potential]

Entertainment!/Gang of Four (Andy Gill) (Warner Bros, 1979)

Man, I was waiting for somebody to finally name this. Is it just the case that so many people have appropriated this sound/approach by now that its original impact has been diminished? Though to be fair, Andy Gill names Wilko Johnson as a big influence. In addition to that, I'll name these:

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
B.B. King - RPM Hits
Ramones - Leave Home
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation (for the *great* combination of Robert Quine on lead and Ivan Julian on rhythm guitar)
Wes Montgomery - Boss Guitar
Charlie Christian - Genius of the Electric Guitar
Leroy Carr - the Best of Leroy Carr (for the *great* Scrapper Blackwell)
Public Image Limited - Second Edition
Grant Green - Sunday Mornin'

Not naming Keith Rowe or Annette Krebs or any of those cats. As much as I love that stuff, I don't really consider it "guitar" music. More like "steel string vibrations amplified through pickups and contact microphones and electronically/digitally processed" music. I'd have to make a separate list for that. And lest I be accused of bias, I also don't list classical or flamenco guitar recordings for the same reason. In terms of approach and technique, not to mention the different build and string material, it should be considered a different instrument. It's just not flat-picked steel-string guitar music, which is what most people mean.

[Dan Warburton]

Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation (for the *great* combination of Robert Quine on lead and Ivan Julian on rhythm guitar)

Word. Quine's solo on "Love Comes In Spurts" could be my favourite guitar solo of all time.
Meanwhile, I think I'd be miserable on my desert island without this



Manuel Mota, Outubro, 2006