Name an album on which you admire the guitar playing

funkyfraz

bluechargeboy said:

Pornograffiti by Extreme still sticks in the brain as Nuno's ultimate showcase of playing. Rhythm is as strong as the leads and the leads are mind-blowing. The songs and production have dated but the playing is still brilliant.

Even "More Than Words" has a cheeky little shred at the end to remind you what you're dealing with!

funkyfraz

That. ^

stratman3142

bluechargeboy said:

Pornograffiti by Extreme still sticks in the brain as Nuno's ultimate showcase of playing. Rhythm is as strong as the leads and the leads are mind-blowing. The songs and production have dated but the playing is still brilliant.

Even "More Than Words" has a cheeky little shred at the end to remind you what you're dealing with!

Yes that's another good one.

adampeter

AC/DC Highway to Hell, Malcolm in the pocket and Angus doing his best Chuck

Veganic

TonyR said:

The Smiths - Meat is Murder

Any reason why that one over the other The Smiths albums?

TheMarlin

'Machine Gun Etiquette' by 'The Damned'.

Rocky punky awesomeness with humour, and actual guiitar skills and melody thrown in for good measure.   

proggy

Be-Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish.

Track after track of pure genius from Bill Nelson.

Blueingreen

Kurt Rosenwinkel is the guitarist who excites me most nowadays.  I like his modern, fusiony electronica influenced stuff a lot but if push comes to shove I like his (still modern) take on American songbook standards even more. So tasteful, so fresh, so inventive. So I'll go for "Intuit".

richardhomer

The first Dire Straits album - a master-class in 'playing the song', taste and tone.

daveyh

Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs

digitalscream

Extreme - Pornograffiti

Ticks all the boxes:

Sounds awesome - yes
Technically brilliant - yes, of course
Rhythmically interesting - yes
Tasteful - yes, because in every case it's exactly what each song needs and nothing else would do the job better

bluechargeboy

digitalscream said:

Tasteful - yes, because in every case it's exactly what each song needs and nothing else would do the job better

@digitalscream

Interestingly I believe Nuno would disagree with that sentiment, he has cringed several times about over-playing on Pornograffiti. Not that I disagree with you!

Dopesick

Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II

The whole album is a blissful dream of creative guitar playing. One of the most unique albums of all time.

bingefeller

Edwin Dare - Can't Break Me.

Great riffs.
Tasteful, melodic solos with a jazz influence.
Tone isn't great in some places, Jeff Kollman used a Hughes and Kettner hybrid amp with an MXR Microamp infront.

One of my all time favourite albums.

duotone

John Mayer - Continuum 

HAL9000

richardhomer said:

The first Dire Straits album - a master-class in 'playing the song', taste and tone.

Good shout. TBH Any Mark Knopfler album fits your 'masterclass...' description. I'd probably nominate Sailing to Philadelphia.

An interesting thread. I'm a huge Clapton fanboy and my first thought was EC's 'From the Cradle', but thinking about it a bit more I'm more impressed these days with guitarists who see their job as supporting the singer (The Edge, Johnny Marr, Keef, etc), or if the guitarist and singer are the same person then those that serve the song and don't overplay (Robert Cray, Mark Knopfler, etc). Out of those MK is IMHO probably the more complete player.

So...

Sailing to Philadelphia.

TonyR

Veganic said:

TonyR said:

The Smiths - Meat is Murder

Any reason why that one over the other The Smiths albums?

@Veganic ;A difficult choice I know but I chose this album in particular because I remember being utterly blown away by the guitar sound and Johnny Marr's playing back in 1985 when I bought the aibum on the day of its release!

Veganic

TonyR said:

Veganic said:

TonyR said:

The Smiths - Meat is Murder

Any reason why that one over the other The Smiths albums?

@Veganic ;A difficult choice I know but I chose this album in particular because I remember being utterly blown away by the guitar sound and Johnny Marr's playing back in 1985 when I bought the aibum on the day of its release!

I just had a look at the track listing. I remember thinking that one was a bit "heavier" than Hatful or The Smiths. 

Also interesting* The Smiths fact.  Mozzer sang "Marie's the name of his latest flame" over Rusholme Ruffians live at least once.

*Not very

TheBigDipper

Richard Thompson - Acoustic Classics

richardhomer

TheBigDipper said:

Richard Thompson - Acoustic Classics

Wis'd. Just bought the second one today - I saw him do a solo acoustic show at Gawsworth Hall a couple of weeks ago - he's on a whole different level to most folk guitarists.