Van Halen Top Guitar Album Of All Time

[Jagermeister]

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/top-50-guitar-albums-0730/

Gibson.com’s Top 50 Guitar Albums of All Time



1. Van Halen, Van Halen (1978)
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced (1967)
3. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
4. Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
5. Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction (1987)
6. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II (1969)
7. The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East (1971)
8. Cream, Disraeli Gears (1967)
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland (1968)
10. AC/DC, Back in Black (1980)
11. Television, Marquee Moon (1977)
12. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
13. The Who, Live at Leeds (1970)
14. Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961)
15. The Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
16. Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow (1975)
17. Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Ozz (1980)
18. The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main St. (1972)
19. The Who, Who’s Next (1971)
20. Black Sabbath, Paranoid (1970)
21. Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman (1981)
22. The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers (1971)
23. Van Halen, Van Halen II (1979)
24. Chuck Berry, The Great Twenty-Eight (1982)
25. The Stooges, Fun House (1970)
26. AC/DC, Highway to Hell (1979)
27. The Beatles, Revolver (1966)
28. Aerosmith, Rocks (1976)
29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin (1969)
30. Oasis, Definitely Maybe (1994)
31. Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Sky is Crying (1991)
32. Lynyrd Skynyrd, One More from the Road (1976)
33. The Beatles, Rubber Soul (1965)
34. The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)
35. Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush, Live (1978)
36. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (1966)
37. Thin Lizzy, Jailbreak (1976)
38. Def Leppard, High ’n’ Dry (1981)
39. Roy Buchanan, Roy Buchanan (1972)
40. The Shadows, Dance with the Shadows (1964)
41. Deep Purple, Machine Head (1972)
42. Jeff Beck, Truth (1968)
43. The White Stripes, Elephant (2003)
44. Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas Flood (1983)
45. Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry in London (1965)
46. Danny Gatton, 88 Elmira St. (1991)
47. The Wildhearts, Earth vs. The Wildhearts (1993)
48. Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti (1975)
49. Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here (1975)
50. David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)

[Jagermeister]

4 Zep albums and only 2 VH?

WTF? I think at least 4 of the 6 should be on there. Intersting that no Hagar shit is on that list also.

[chefcraig]

4 Zep albums and only 2 VH?

WTF? I think at least 4 of the 6 should be on there.

Even with 4 albums, they somehow managed to miss Zep's Presence, unarguably the heaviest guitar album they ever released. And where is Steely Dan's Royal Scam? I mean really...Oasis?

[sonrisa salvaje]

Even with 4 albums, they somehow managed to miss Zep's Presence, unarguably the heaviest guitar album they ever released. And where is Steely Dan's Royal Scam? I mean really...Oasis?

I agree with you Chef. And Appetite for Destruction? Great album. I'll say it again - great album. But top 50, and coming in at # 5 no less? No way. That album has been blown out of proportion. It seems like critics want that album to be the shiny bow on the present that ended a genre of music but it just wasn't that important.

Also, good to see Chuck Berry on the list a couple of times. I also think that before you put Oasis, White Stripes and Guns on there you should dig a little deeper for guys like Frank Mareno and M.R.

[sonrisa salvaje]

Actually i see Frank Mareno at #35. Folks in my part of the country would kill me if they saw this, but i don't think Lynryd Skynyrd should be on the list either. If you need 4 guitarists whereas most of the other bands on this list needed 1 or 2, you probably shouldn't be on the greatest album list. Rush is another band i see that didn't get any mention - 2112 should be on there.

[VanHalenFan5150]

It's a nice list they have here though. Glad to see Van Halen's on it at least TWICE, and at the very top, to boot! But I agree-- Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee ripped on the 2112 suite

[Seshmeister]

I agree with you Chef. And Appetite for Destruction? Great album. I'll say it again - great album. But top 50, and coming in at # 5 no less? No way. That album has been blown out of proportion. It seems like critics want that album to be the shiny bow on the present that ended a genre of music but it just wasn't that important.

Don't you know Slash has become one of the greatest guitarists of all time, at least in the top 3 with Zack Wylde?

AFD has sold a fuck of a lot of Gibson guitars over the years...

[vh rides again]

where the fuck is Ted nugent? werent these fuckers alive in the 70s? Terrible ted toor it up like a mofo, who the fuck does these polls. of course vanhalen would be number 1, i mean put any other album up there and you would look like an idiot when i slapped ya across the face with vh 1 and told ya to play that and tell me anything else is better. fuckin A vanhalen is numero uno.

1) TED NUGENT

Stranglehold
Stormtroopin'
Hey Baby
Just What The Doctor Ordered
Snakeskin Cowboys
Motor City Madhouse
Where Have You Been All My Life
You Make Me Feel Right At Home
Queen Of The Forest

all good guitar songs and he plays a weird ass gibson guitar that really isnt suited for rock and roll, he makes it scream.

[Starwood]

Don't you know Slash has become one of the greatest guitarists of all time, at least in the top 3 with Zack Wylde?

AFD has sold a fuck of a lot of Gibson guitars over the years...

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And that wasn't even a Gibson...it was a copy.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Some of those are downright comical....

[vh rides again]

yeah i kno but almost everone i know looks at me like really? are you fuckin kiddin me when i play big bad bill or tora tora tora for them. man when your 15 those songs kick ass, im ashamed of the kiss collection i have, you wanna talk about down right funny? the ted master kicked ass in the day.

i seen ted nugent on a stack of amps 30 feet in the air just tearin ass on his guitar and rockin the amps he was standing on back and forth, they were probably moving 2-3 feet, he grabs a rope and swings across the whole stage and crashes into a huge fucking pa system speaker and doesnt miss a beat, playing with 1 hand. he was definately a crazy bastard and that album beats the hell outa derilict and the dominos at number 4.

[Dan]

Sweet As.

[sadaist]

That album has been blown out of proportion..

See Nirvana - Nevermind.

To me it's the exact same as Appetite For Destruction. Made out to be some earth shattering, groundbreaking, be all, legendary album.

Back In Black did more for music than both of those albums combined.

[kwame k]

.......and another thing, wasn't Nirvana supposed to be anti-guitar! A reaction to the formulated heavy metal guitar solo.

[Jesus Christ]

Well at least Nirvana's music WAS totally built around guitar riffs. Call it a "minimalist" approach compared to metal, but the riffs drove the song.

Not sure I'd say that about Oasis, or Cliff Richard & the Shadows (Though Cliff is My disciple). And I'll call Jack White a ridiculously overrated joke every time he shows up on one of these lists. I don't know who he got his "talent" from, but it wasn't Me or My Dad.

I'm honestly surprised that U2 didn't make the list even once. The Edge has one of those guitar sounds that you can recognize instantly, much like Eddie, Page, Keef, Angus & Malcolm, etc. Granted, I'm admittedly biased, since many of their songs are about Me, but that doesn't make it any less true.