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John McLaughlin - The Inner Mounting Flame

Carlos Santana - Abraxas

Scott Henderson - Vital Tech Tones I & II

+1 Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced & Band of Gypsys

Eric Clapton - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers "Beano" album

Mastadon - Remission & Leviathan

Tool - Aenima & Lateralus

Sonic Youth - Dirty & Washing Machine

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Def Leppard - Hysteria and Pyromania

Sugar - Copper Blue

Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall

Hooters - Nervous Night

U2 - Joshua Tree

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Live: UFO, Strangers in the Night; Robin Trower, Live

Rock: The Cult, Love

Pre-punk trip rock: Television, Marquee Moon

Guest galejt
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A Steve Kimock compilation I put together from legal downloads off the Web.

:lol: I know I'm old school but that is NOT an album. Also greatest hits albums are bogus too. JMO

Still, in my opinion, it is a perfect (album, CD, little electrons from my 'puter) for Guitar.

For a licensed, RIAA approved, commerically available source I pick Christopher Parkening, Simple Gifts, EMI (CDC-7-47525-2), but it is a collection of "hits", so I foul out again. :)

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roy buchanan - first 2 polydor albums

howlin wolf - moanin' at midnight/howlin wolf(rocking chair) -- ok,

a collection of singles, but that's what albums were back then, and

these tunes launched dozens of bands.

fugazi - steady diet of nothing & in on the kill taker

bb king - singin' the blue/the blues - again, singles. Not a thousand

notes per minute, just the right notes.

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Agree with many already posted, plus these:

Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Blood Sugar Sex Magik"

Sweet, "Desolation Boulevard"

Gov't Mule, "Gov't Mule"

Thin Lizzy, "Johnny the Fox," "Bad Reputation"

Motorhead, "1916"

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There are so many albums that come to mind, many of which I haven't listened to in so many years... I only mention this one because it's a weird coincidence: I had lent it to someone for a couple of months, and when I got it back last week and put it in the CD player, the very thought that ran through my head was, "the more I listen to this, the more I'm convinced that it is the perfect album." And the album is...

(drumroll...)

Dancing Naked in a Minefield, M.I.R.V.

Way off the beaten path, I know, but no matter how hard I try to play this album to death, it always gets me smiling and moving. Heavy, virtuosic, funky, funny as hell, cohesive as a proper "album" should be, but packing tons of variety. Has to be one of the most interesting productions of the last decade (certainly as much among those I've had the privelege to hear.) I think these guys are defunct but I can't stop evangelising. :)

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There are so many albums that come to mind, many of which I haven't listened to in so many years... I only mention this one because it's a weird coincidence: I had lent it to someone for a couple of months, and when I got it back last week and put it in the CD player, the very thought that ran through my head was, "the more I listen to this, the more I'm convinced that it is the perfect album." And the album is...

(drumroll...)

Dancing Naked in a Minefield, M.I.R.V.

Way off the beaten path, I know, but no matter how hard I try to play this album to death, it always gets me smiling and moving. Heavy, virtuosic, funky, funny as hell, cohesive as a proper "album" should be, but packing tons of variety. Has to be one of the most interesting productions of the last decade (certainly as much among those I've had the privelege to hear.) I think these guys are defunct but I can't stop evangelising. :)

Okay, I'm intrigued. How do I get my grubby mitts on this one?

-Jonathan

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I read these and get alot of 'oooh yea' ideas.

well...

Minutemen - Double Nickles on the Dime

ZZTOP - Tres Hombres

King Crimson - Discipline

Led Zep - HOTH (still wish it included the title track from P-G...that would be perfect squared)

Scofield - A Go Go

Dire Straits -

Replacements - Let It Be

Pixies - Doolittle

Bad Brains - I Against I

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Saw a couple mentions of The Cult. Surely their

best and best-sequenced album is Sonic Temple.

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Peter Green End of the Game is one of the best all time guitar albums and its like not punk...metal or blues kind of jazz like love it.

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Jonathan - back re: Minefield. My wife was embarrassed to admit (after I implied that Minefield was such a rare find LOL) that she bought it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=music&n=507846

Reviewers say 5 stars and I agree. I also read that Robin Zander is a fan and these guys toured with CT at one point (near-HFC content.) But if you buy don't expect an "important" album. Crank up the subwoofer and your sense of humor. :)

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Austin, I agree; Instrumental: Steve Morse - High Tension Wires

Dream Theater: Images and Words, Awake

Scorpions: Lovedrive

VH: VH1

Liz Phair: Whitechocolatespaceegg

Rush: Pictures...

Sammy Hagar: Standing Hampton

Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind

Ozzy: Blizzard, Diary

No Doubt: Trajik Kingdom

MSG: MSG

UFO: Obsession

REM: Green, Auto for the ppl

Journer: Infinity

etc. etc.

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I wasn't ever a big fan of Sonic Temple-"Electric" just is about as perfect an album to me as you can get.

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Jimi-Are You Experienced

Squeeze - Babylon and On

Kiss - Dressed to Kill

ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

XTC - Oranges and Lemons

These just never get old.

Guest Buck Dharma
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Sabbath Paranoid

Floyd Animals

Zep 2

Rush 2112

SRV Texas Flood

ACDC If You Want Blood

Skynyrd Pronounced

Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East

Man you can really tell peoples age from these choices. You can also tell who was a freak and who was a band geek.

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Paranoid is my least favorite (early) Sabbath album. It's like the caricature portrait of Black Sabbath with toon-tunes like Iron Man etc. Shame that's all some people have ever heard. I'm a sucker for the more progressive stuff like Sabotage, but even where the primitive heavy stuff is concerned I'd take Master of Reality or Volume 4 over Paranoid any day. The first album is a heavy hitter just in terms of sounding hauntingly British. Hard for me to be objective about *any* Sabbath pre-Technical Ecstacy or so since those albums are all I listened to as a kid.

(Don't get me wrong though, Planet Caravan, Hand of Doom, Jack the Stripper... fabulous stuff.)

(Oh then there's War Pigs... ah forget it, I love everything this band did until about '78.)

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GnR - Appetite For Destruction hardly a clunker on there IMHO, perfect bookends of tunes (WTTJ & Rocket Queen)

VH I

Aerosmith - Rocks

Failure - Magnified

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