Post and discuss your favorite guitar solos, guitar songs, guitar albums, guitar riffs, and any other lists regarding guitar music!

I shall update it for everyone as a catalogue, in the same way as the favorite guitarists thread.

Post away!

I'll start things off... this a very rough first draft

favorite guitar albums:
Standard Brands (Lenny Breau & Chet Atkins), Virtuoso Duets (Christopher Parkening & David Brandon)
Ocean Memories (Bola Sete)

favorite rock guitar albums:
Jeff (Jeff Beck), Captain Beyond (Captain Beyond), Bridge of Sighs (Robin Trower), Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (Derek & the Dominos), Rising Force (Yngwie Malmsteen)

favorite guitar songs (basically songs in the proper sense where at least the main theme in played on guitar, usually written for guitar too):
all-time: Paris (Lenny Breau), Maggot Brain (Funkadelic)
rock: Cause We've Ended As Lovers (Jeff Beck), Cliffs of Dover (Eric Johnson), Always With Me Always With You (Joe Satriani), Little Savage (Yngwie Malmsteen), The Way It Has to Be (Shawn Lane), Get You Back (Shawn Lane), Evil Eye (Yngwie Malmsteen), Black Star (Yngwie Malmsteen), Icarus' Dream Suite (Yngwie Malmsteen), The Loner (Gary Moore), Thin Ice (Rick Graham)
classical: Koyunbaba (Domeniconi), Fantasia X (Mudarra), Fantasia VII (Dowland), Fuoco (Dyens)
jazz: Motivation (Bean, Gaylor, Norris), Swing to Bop (Charlie Christian), Unit 7 (Wes Montgomery), Clouds (Django Reinhardt), When the World Was Young (Sonny Greenwich), Jingles (Wes Montgomery), Full House (Wes Montgomery)
other: Ocean Waves (Bola Sete), Leaving Del Norte (Bruce Langhorne), Smoky Mountain (Chet Atkins/Tommy Emmanuel), El Panuelo (Paco de Lucia), On the Sunny Side of the Ocean (John Fahey), Whale in the Sky (Michael Gulezian), Love Song (John Abercrombie), Sea Song (Pat Metheny)

favorite in-song guitar solos:
Time Away (Paul Kossoff), Seasons (Jeff Beck), 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago), Swanee River (Django Reinhardt) .....i'll have to think some more... All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix), Blue Sky (Allman Bros Band), Firth of Fifth (Genesis), Desert Rose (Eric Johnson), Aqualung (Jethro Tull)

favorite guitar riffs:
Super Stupid (Funkadelic), Fire (Jimi Hendrix), Bring It On Home (Led Zeppelin)

random songs i love for the riffs+solos/overall guitar performances:
Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix), Crazy Train (Ozzy Osbourne), You Really Got Me (Kinks), Red House (Jimi Hendrix), White Room (Cream), Byblos (Chicago)

Cool, George! Didn't realise you liked Bridge of Sighs so much - unusual to see a Trower album there but no Hendrix. The disciple but not the leader? I like that album very much myself.
What is Byblos - Chicago?

yeah i like Bridge of Sighs more than any Jimi album... definitely atm anyway

Byblos is my favorite Chicago song and one of my favorite songs eva
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search/ ... o%20byblos

that's a whole lotta views and a whole notta posts... come on you guitarheads!

I still consider myself ineligible to post here ....i've heard pretty much zero to put out a list like that...

Annoying cliches
-Slow = with feeling, fast = unemotional display of technique. The first is a false equivalence, the second is just plain false most of the time.
-So and so invented/was the first to do this or that, ie. who first used feedback, or somebody used two-handed tapping before EVH. Interesting historic footnotes, but rarely anything more.
-He just plays scales - accomplished musicians don't just play scales
-He only plays pentatonic - it can be a valid critique of one's versatility, not generally applicable to the quality of one's work. There's a lot of great music in those 5 notes. (I fall into a similar trap myself when I talk about Clapton. I criticize him for rarely venturing outside of a narrow safety zone. For that reason, I rank him somewhere between 8 and 15 on my personal list, but I shouldn't underrate what he's done within his zone.)
-80's guitarists suck. Hey, I'm no big fan of Poison and their ilk, but some of these guys could play, let's not dismiss them out of hand, give them their due credit... On the other hand, screw those guys.

Yeah, I agree with those cliches. It annoys the hell out of me when I read something about "HE ONLY PLAYS SCALES".

A list of Guitar related wishes !!

I would like to have seen Ritchie and Ronnie just one more time (RIP)

I wish Def Leppard had folded after one album (or maybe no albums)

I wish the enormously talented Viv Campbell would grow some balls and stop taking the Def Leppard paycheck playing rhythm to the much less talented Phil Collen (maybe his gig with the new Thin Lizzy may help)

I wish I'd taken the time to see the Who live years earlier. Townshend is a masterful and charasmatic performer

The only guitarists that I wish I'd seen that I haven't are Jimi and Ry Cooder

I wish the sublime Jan Akkerman had toured more after Focus and that he would get the recognition he deserves

I wish I could get into Pat Metheny

I wish that more people realised that George Benson is not just a soul singer, but one of the all-time greats of Jazz Guitar

I wish Guthrie would record a 2nd album

I wish the gift of Wisdom on those millions of deluded teenagers who think that Kirk Hammet is the greatest guitarist to ever pick up the instrument. (Slash fanboys can get in the same queue)

I wish I hadnt stood so close to the speakers in that small venue in manchester in 76 (I think) when AC/DC first came to the UK. I couldnt hear for 2 days and I still blame my Tinnitus on that gig.

I wish I understood more of Allan Holdsworths work - Love his stint with Tony Phillips etc, but most of it goes right over my head.

I wish I hadnt seen Clapton last year - It put a bit of a dent in some great memories

I wish Michael Angelo Batio was not ambidextrous or only had one hand

My guitar -related wish:

Richie Sambora would get more recognized for his talents.

Seeker, have you listened to Metheny's album with Brad Mehldau? It's how I got into Metheny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYdEkaKdsnY

Some of those are amazing and straight up hillarious Seeker, AWESOME !!

okay, I'll go for some short ones

Favorite guitar solos within a song

Temple of the King - Rainbow
Blue Sky - Allman Brothers Band
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
Seasons - Jeff Beck
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Beyond the realms of death - Judas Priest
Don't tell me - Van Halen
You and your friend - Dire Straits
Nutshell - Alice in Chains
Sweet Child o Mine - Guns n Roses
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Favorite in song solos Live :

Blue Sky - Allman Brothers band - Stonybrook
High Hopes - David Gilmour 2007 Royal orleans
Lights Out - UFO - Strangers in the Night
La Villa Strangiato - Rush - Exit Stage Left
Muffin Man - Frank Zappa feat. Captain Beefheart - best of compilation
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin - Live at Earls Court 75
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix in the west
Smoke on the Water - Ritchie blackmore - Made in Japan
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits - Alchemy
Empty Rooms - Gary Moore -1987


Favorite guitar songs

Streetwalker - Jan Akkerman
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Nottingham Lace - Buckethead
Esperanza - Dick Dale
Waves - Guthrie Govan
Memphis - Lonnie Mack
Pali Gap - Jimi Hendrix
Angel Footsteps - Jeff Beck
The Supernatural - Peter Green
Greg Howe - Come and Get it
For the love of god - Steve Vai
Black star - Yngwie Malmsteen

I mean wtf Beast?

Favorite guitar solos within a song:
Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues
Judas Priest (Glenn Tipton) - Beyond The Realms Of Death
Guns N Roses (Slash) - November Rain
Guns N Roses (Robin Finck) - This I Love
Iron Maiden (Dave Murray) - Strange World
Yngwie Malmsteen - Like An Angel
Cream (Eric Clapton) - White Room
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Queen (Brian May) - I Want It All/Bohemian Rhapsody/Love Of My Life
Bon Jovi (Richie Sambora) - Dry County
Deep Purple (Ritchie Blackmore) - Wasted Sunsets
Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page) - Stairway To Heaven
Pink Floyd (David Gilmour) Comfortably Numb

Tx SC - Appreciate that

I have bought several Metheny CD's because I feel I ought to like him, but I just dont. However, I will give that album a listen on Napster and let you know what I think

HOLY FUCK, thanks Wanted, no idea how that happened...FIXED !!!!

among your choices, cheers to Wasted Sunsets, awesome ....and I prefer Parisiene but SGtB is awesome....most of the others are pretty awesome so nothing can be said

Streetwalkers totally pwned me recently.....Anything I hear from Akkerman seems to be Gold ....