@jssmith I think the key here is that you're a guitar player and a couple of the songs bore you from both playing and listening viewpoints. Fair enough--maybe we should split these lists into categories for musicians and non-musicians and further by under the influence or not under the influence ?
Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good
It rarely happens to me, but in a pile of records I bought over the summer I
found one with no cover. Shocking Blue’s 2nd album. 'At Home' (I’m your Venus is on it).
Even most Beatles albums have at least one song I could pass on, but not this one. Horrible fidelity, scratched to hell, but damn...
So I’d love to hear of other records that you all could suggest.
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@jssmith BTW who is your favorite guitar player ? I'm torn between Gary Clark Jr. and Joe Bonamassa--when younger it was Chet Atkins |
@jssmith Ooops--forgot to mention Eric in my top 3 |
@jssmith and now to prove i haven't had coffee yet i saw that you said Buckethead--sorry |
No need to filter lists. You like what you like and that's valid for everyone for whatever reason. Musicians will still have wildly divergent viewpoints. As far as guitarists go, I respect technicians, like Buckethead, Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Batio, Jason Richardson, Ewan Dobson and Guthrie Govan, the most because they are the most skilled at the instrument, but I tend to listen to "feel" players like Nick Johnston and Estas Tonne more, while I tend to play "fun to play" licks within my skill level, like Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Jimmy Page, James Hetfield, Dimebag Darrell and James Sykes. While all the technicians can play with feel, they tend to focus on speed because it's more satisfying. Buckethead is possibly the only one who focuses equally on both. But Buckethead is an autistic savant, which puts him on a whole different level of creativity and skill, hence the 300 albums of varying styles and techniques, not all of which I like, and world-class speed. But of all the guitar-focused albums I have, only Johnston, Malmsteen and Batio have put out one straight-through listen each. I didn't look at my list with playing in mind. Just which albums do I put on from start to finish and enjoy every minute of it and not have a thought of skipping anything. And I'd add one more I didn't think of ... Rush - Permanent Waves
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