Favourite 10 Guitar Albums

[Miguel Prado]

So....

i need to think about it..

[Dohol]

Miles Davis: Pangaea

Derek Bailey: Lot 74

Television: Marquee Moon

Fripp and Eno: No Pussyfooting

Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West: Stratosphere Boogie

Saccharine Trust: Worldbroken

Guitar Solos III

Duos for Doris (although Rowe doesn't play guitar... )

Robbie Basho: The Grail and the Lotus (or pick any other album)

Richard and Linda Thompson: Shoot out the Lights




Come back in an hour and I'll have ten different favorites...

[joeperucki]

Miles Davis: Pangaea

F'in A Yeah.

[jon abbey]

I don't like making short lists of favorite albums unless it's a very specific and narrow area, but two I'd almost certainly put on any list along these lines would be Taku Sugimoto-Opposite and Tetuzi Akiyama-Relator, both sadly long OOP.

[mono tony]

us maple - talker
sonic youth - washing machine
a minor forest - inindependence
june of 44 - engine takes to water
silver jews - american water
polvo - exploded drawing
chavez - ride the fader
amm - newfoundland
superchunk - foolish
deerhoof - reveille

[Yii]

Dial 'M' for Motherfucker - Pussy Galore

[faster]

I've always really, really loved the guitar on Willie Nelson's Who'll Buy My Memories (the IRS tapes). And Joseph Spence's Happy All the Time and Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family.

[Charon]

Adam Sussmann - Acoustic Guitar Solo

[Antoine]

A few things that come to mind

John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes
4G - Cloud
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Jack Rose - Opium Musick
Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
A bit of Django, Leo Kottke maybe.

edit : Oh, and some Rallizes Denudes, Live 77

[dialectics of shit]

Maybe not my favorite but certainly one of them, and one that routinely goes underappreciated

[Dohol]

Joseph Spence's Happy All the Time and Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family.

hell yes..

[frozen reeds]

Nic Jones - all
Roy Harper - Stormcock
The Groundhogs - Split
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres + the studio side of Fandango
Fleetwood Mac - all lineups/periods
Stones - Exile + 'Moonlight Mile'
Bowie - Heroes
D'Gary - Malagasy Guitar
Duane Allman - anthologies + 'Blue Sky'
Johnny "Guitar" Watson - 3 Hours Past Midnight
Harmonia - all
John Abercrombie - all 70s
Link Wray - Wray's Three Track Shack (compilation of his Polydor gospel records)
Popol Vuh - 3rd album or so onwards

[shorshe]

Magic Sam - West Side Soul
Taku Sugimoto & Moe Kamura - Saritote II
Susan Alcorn - And I Await The Resurrection Of The Pedal Steel Guitar
Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker - Hooker 'n Heat
Michael Pisaro - Mind is Moving
The Tetuzi Akiyama song in the 'Wooden Guitar' compilation
Pink Floyd - Animals
Manuel Mota - Sings
Carlos Paredes - Movimento Perpétuo
Napalm Death - Peel Sessions

[This is PRE]

Off the top of my head...

Derek Bailey: Aida
Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages
Michael Perlowin: Firebird Suite
King Crimson: Discipline
Fred Frith: To Sail, to Sail
Henry Kaiser/Jim O'Rourke: Tomorrow Knows Where You Live
Frank Zappa: Hot Rats
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
Shawn Lane/Jonas Hellborg: Temporal Analogues of Paradise
Kevin Drumm: s/t

...that's already 10 but something by Eugene Chadbourne could've been included, Keiji Haino, Davey Williams, Caspar Brötzmann, and many more luminaries I'm forgetting right now.

[Wombatz]

[bedouin]

The Tetuzi Akiyama song in the 'Wooden Guitar' compilation
Manuel Mota - Sings

agree, the akiyama track on that compilation is sublime and about 100 years ahead of the other tracks. also agree on 'Sings', arguably Mota's best recording under his name so far.

been playing Dave Holland's juzz/funk Extensions recently, there is a ton of guitar there (kevin eubanks) specifically a tune 'the oracle' which is mind bending.
and Frisell's 'Gone, Just Like A Train'.

[ReverendLove]

In chronological order just for this day:

Django Reinhardt - ... and the Hot Club Quintet
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Link Wray - Jack The Ripper
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Manuel Götsching - Inventions For Electric Guitar
Glenn Branca - Lesson No.1
Eugen Chadbourne's Shockabilly - Earth vs. Shockabilly
Noel Akchoté - Rien
Expo '70 - Center Of The Earth
Richard Bishop - The Unrock Tapes

[J.F.]

Bailey + Parker: The London Concert ('75)
King Crimson: U.S.A.
Frank Zappa: Them or Us (alone for the solo on "Truck Driver Divorce")
Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage II+III
Hans Reichel: Bonobo
Melt-Banana: Charlie
Deerhoof: The Man, the King, the Girl
Sonic Youth: Kill Yr Idols
Brötzmann/Brötzmann: Last Home
Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat
Arto Lindsay: Aggregates 1-26
(which reflects my current preference for rock music over classical stuff & free jazz)

Hmm... stuff that I rarely listen to these days, but which sure left an impression on me back then: John McLaughlin on the Mahavishnu Orchestra's Inner Mounting Flame and Allan Holdsworth on a few tracks on Gong's Gazeuse.

I also should have added some classical compilation/interpreter's portrait CD... something including stuff by Milton Babbitt, Hans Werner Henze, maybe Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough, Aldo Clementi.

[This is PRE]

Forgot Hans Reichel, good one...
I've also enjoyed Elliott Sharp's prowess on the instrument at times, especially on his solo Sferics record, all fretless guitar.

[mono tony]

thalia zedek's voice is a great match for lean, muscular guitar rock. "recidivist" is a great track, on gently down the stream