dust off your air guitars or if you’re
feeling really ambitious here real ones
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 guitar albums
for this list we will be looking at
great guitar based albums from across
the decades
however we will be ignoring albums that
are strictly instrumental in nature as
those are a list for another day
number 10 the wall pink floyd–
looking past the more operatic and
plot-driven moments Pink Floyd’s the
wall is an orgy of premium guitar tones
courtesy of David Gilmour you don’t help
them to bury
from the high-strung acoustic work of
hey you to the big muff soaked Majesty
that is comfortably numb the wall will
have you maxing your line of credit at
Guitar Center
relying mostly on his trusty black strat
Gilmore also used his battered but
well-loved workmate Telecaster strat
number zero zero one and most
surprisingly a 1955 Gibson Les Paul
Goldtop with which he recorded the
gritty and sustained solo to another
brick in the wall
number nine machine head deep purple
recorded in Switzerland during infamous
and well-documented times machine head
was the album that put deep purple on
the map and ritchie blackmore in the
hallowed halls of guitar hero dum
the album completely reshaped hard rock
thanks in no small part to Blackmore’s
finger picked blends of Blues and
classical influences a Fender Strat and
a cranked Marshall stack the guitar is
typically favored 200-watt Marshall
majors which he had bought it to sound
like supercharged vox ac30 s this
created a sound guaranteed to have
neighbors tapping on your wall in
appreciation
number eight Master of Puppets Metallica
recorded in Denmark by Flemming
Rasmussen Master of Puppets was the
album that brought james hetfield
signature crunch and kirk hammett crisp
emotive and melodic lead work to the
masses
in an effort to keep things efficient
haven’t used pro tips from joe satriani
with both guitars using Meza boogie ABS
head field stuff mostly to a Jackson
King V ham it branched out employing a
70s Gibson Flying V a Fernandez
Stratocaster coffee and a Jackson Randy
rose to achieve platinum selling
awesomeness
number seven Disraeli gears cream
if the graffiti artists of London hadn’t
already declared Clapton God they
certainly would have when this dropped
recorded in New York City and just three
and a half days and completed the day
the band’s us work permits expired
Disraeli gears broke cream into the
American market
tracts like strange brew and the Hendrix
inspired sunshine of your love are
filled to the brim with psychedelically
enhanced blues
tales of brave Ulysses mark Hopkins
first use of the wah-wah pedal wallet
Gibson SG and a couple of dimed
Marshalls fueled slow hands woman tone
featured throughout the album
number six Appetite for Destruction guns
and roses
my new job
arriving at the height of hair metal
Appetite for Destruction marked the
reintroduction of bluesy electric guitar
playing to the mainstream / and producer
Mike clink explored gear options before
settling on the Jimmy Page proven combo
of a Les Paul and a Marshall amplifier
while the les paul’ in question was
actually a fake Gibson
there’s no denying it’s very real tone
witness the chunky co-lead work on my
train
the milky solos on sweet child of mine
and the wah-wah frenzy that is mr.
brownstone
number five blizzard of Ozz Ozzy
Osbourne
one of just two studio albums Ozzy
recorded with the late great randy
rhoads
blizzard of aahhhs was a cold front of
hot guitar playing inspired by players
like Leslie West and Ritchie Blackmore
and compared to the likes of Eddie Van
Halen Rhoads is playing was far more
classically infused than that of his
peers
he was never limited by metal or hard
rock conventions using a now iconic
white 1974 Les Paul Custom a
polka-dotted Flying V a Marshall super
lead and a handful of choice effects
pedals Randy entered the realm of Guitar
Hero with crazy train alone
number four back in black ac/dc produced
by Mutt Lange within months of bond
Scott’s death back in black is widely
considered a CDC’s finest hour from the
pulverizing chug of the title song to
the bluesy melodic leads of hells bells
back in black as an air guitarist dream
and that you shook me all night long
intro rip is more Neil Young than
Malcolm or Angus but Malcolm kept things
together typically sticking with a
Gretsch while Angus used shockingly a
Gibson SG and a Marshall but added
compression through a wireless unit it’s
far from the intended purpose but you
can’t argue with the results
Wow
yes and will
number three Led Zeppelin to Led
Zeppelin
a masterpiece only rivaled by Led
Zeppelin for
Led Zeppelin – should be terrible
instead it’s anything but assemble
during seven tours and recorded
everywhere from London’s Olympic studios
to a nameless dive in Vancouver the
album and pages guitar work are solidly
and consistently awesome from ramble on
it’s a whole lot of luck quite likely
the reason late fifty sunburst Les
Paul’s require a mortgage Heartbreakers
isolated guitar solo was the moment
Paige finally hit on his classic Gibson
Marshall stack combination it’s a
discovery from which the world has never
really recovered
and she knows what love is for it
number two Van Halen Van Halen
sure the poses were watching David Lee
Roth but the cool kids were all watching
Eddie Van Halen
although techniques like string banding
tapping pitch harmonics and playing
stupidly loud had been around for
decades no one quite put them together
like Eddie Van Halen day
using a hot rodded marshal app and his
now infamous Franken strat on tracks
like running with the devil ain’t
talking about love and Jamie’s cryin and
he double handedly reshaped electric
guitar playing for the next decade the
critics may have been underwhelmed but
with 10 million copies sold fans
including Jimmy Page certainly were not
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
your mommy home and a number one are you
experienced the Jimi Hendrix Experience
let me stand next to yo
Jimi Hendrix was just some anonymous
guitarist in Little Richard’s bad then
1967 happened mostly recorded live in
studio for budgetary reasons rather than
style Hendrix’s debut contained some of
the first songs the guitar has ever
wrote
I swear my it showcased the full range
of his playing and contained an
impressive blend of psychedelic blues
and jazz influences from lighter bendy
strings to using feedback as an effect
cranked amps and fuzz pedals too liberal
whammy bar abuse a whole new standard of
guitar playing was established
so do you agree with our list what’s
your favorite guitar album
four more string bending top tens
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you
feeling really ambitious here real ones
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 guitar albums
for this list we will be looking at
great guitar based albums from across
the decades
however we will be ignoring albums that
are strictly instrumental in nature as
those are a list for another day
number 10 the wall pink floyd–
looking past the more operatic and
plot-driven moments Pink Floyd’s the
wall is an orgy of premium guitar tones
courtesy of David Gilmour you don’t help
them to bury
from the high-strung acoustic work of
hey you to the big muff soaked Majesty
that is comfortably numb the wall will
have you maxing your line of credit at
Guitar Center
relying mostly on his trusty black strat
Gilmore also used his battered but
well-loved workmate Telecaster strat
number zero zero one and most
surprisingly a 1955 Gibson Les Paul
Goldtop with which he recorded the
gritty and sustained solo to another
brick in the wall
number nine machine head deep purple
recorded in Switzerland during infamous
and well-documented times machine head
was the album that put deep purple on
the map and ritchie blackmore in the
hallowed halls of guitar hero dum
the album completely reshaped hard rock
thanks in no small part to Blackmore’s
finger picked blends of Blues and
classical influences a Fender Strat and
a cranked Marshall stack the guitar is
typically favored 200-watt Marshall
majors which he had bought it to sound
like supercharged vox ac30 s this
created a sound guaranteed to have
neighbors tapping on your wall in
appreciation
number eight Master of Puppets Metallica
recorded in Denmark by Flemming
Rasmussen Master of Puppets was the
album that brought james hetfield
signature crunch and kirk hammett crisp
emotive and melodic lead work to the
masses
in an effort to keep things efficient
haven’t used pro tips from joe satriani
with both guitars using Meza boogie ABS
head field stuff mostly to a Jackson
King V ham it branched out employing a
70s Gibson Flying V a Fernandez
Stratocaster coffee and a Jackson Randy
rose to achieve platinum selling
awesomeness
number seven Disraeli gears cream
if the graffiti artists of London hadn’t
already declared Clapton God they
certainly would have when this dropped
recorded in New York City and just three
and a half days and completed the day
the band’s us work permits expired
Disraeli gears broke cream into the
American market
tracts like strange brew and the Hendrix
inspired sunshine of your love are
filled to the brim with psychedelically
enhanced blues
tales of brave Ulysses mark Hopkins
first use of the wah-wah pedal wallet
Gibson SG and a couple of dimed
Marshalls fueled slow hands woman tone
featured throughout the album
number six Appetite for Destruction guns
and roses
my new job
arriving at the height of hair metal
Appetite for Destruction marked the
reintroduction of bluesy electric guitar
playing to the mainstream / and producer
Mike clink explored gear options before
settling on the Jimmy Page proven combo
of a Les Paul and a Marshall amplifier
while the les paul’ in question was
actually a fake Gibson
there’s no denying it’s very real tone
witness the chunky co-lead work on my
train
the milky solos on sweet child of mine
and the wah-wah frenzy that is mr.
brownstone
number five blizzard of Ozz Ozzy
Osbourne
one of just two studio albums Ozzy
recorded with the late great randy
rhoads
blizzard of aahhhs was a cold front of
hot guitar playing inspired by players
like Leslie West and Ritchie Blackmore
and compared to the likes of Eddie Van
Halen Rhoads is playing was far more
classically infused than that of his
peers
he was never limited by metal or hard
rock conventions using a now iconic
white 1974 Les Paul Custom a
polka-dotted Flying V a Marshall super
lead and a handful of choice effects
pedals Randy entered the realm of Guitar
Hero with crazy train alone
number four back in black ac/dc produced
by Mutt Lange within months of bond
Scott’s death back in black is widely
considered a CDC’s finest hour from the
pulverizing chug of the title song to
the bluesy melodic leads of hells bells
back in black as an air guitarist dream
and that you shook me all night long
intro rip is more Neil Young than
Malcolm or Angus but Malcolm kept things
together typically sticking with a
Gretsch while Angus used shockingly a
Gibson SG and a Marshall but added
compression through a wireless unit it’s
far from the intended purpose but you
can’t argue with the results
Wow
yes and will
number three Led Zeppelin to Led
Zeppelin
a masterpiece only rivaled by Led
Zeppelin for
Led Zeppelin – should be terrible
instead it’s anything but assemble
during seven tours and recorded
everywhere from London’s Olympic studios
to a nameless dive in Vancouver the
album and pages guitar work are solidly
and consistently awesome from ramble on
it’s a whole lot of luck quite likely
the reason late fifty sunburst Les
Paul’s require a mortgage Heartbreakers
isolated guitar solo was the moment
Paige finally hit on his classic Gibson
Marshall stack combination it’s a
discovery from which the world has never
really recovered
and she knows what love is for it
number two Van Halen Van Halen
sure the poses were watching David Lee
Roth but the cool kids were all watching
Eddie Van Halen
although techniques like string banding
tapping pitch harmonics and playing
stupidly loud had been around for
decades no one quite put them together
like Eddie Van Halen day
using a hot rodded marshal app and his
now infamous Franken strat on tracks
like running with the devil ain’t
talking about love and Jamie’s cryin and
he double handedly reshaped electric
guitar playing for the next decade the
critics may have been underwhelmed but
with 10 million copies sold fans
including Jimmy Page certainly were not
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
your mommy home and a number one are you
experienced the Jimi Hendrix Experience
let me stand next to yo
Jimi Hendrix was just some anonymous
guitarist in Little Richard’s bad then
1967 happened mostly recorded live in
studio for budgetary reasons rather than
style Hendrix’s debut contained some of
the first songs the guitar has ever
wrote
I swear my it showcased the full range
of his playing and contained an
impressive blend of psychedelic blues
and jazz influences from lighter bendy
strings to using feedback as an effect
cranked amps and fuzz pedals too liberal
whammy bar abuse a whole new standard of
guitar playing was established
so do you agree with our list what’s
your favorite guitar album
four more string bending top tens
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you
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