 | Passion and Warfare by Steve Vai
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.36 The ultimate in guitar pyrotechnics. Best songs; 'The Animal', 'For the Love of God', 'Sisters'
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 | Population Override by Buckethead
Buy used from: £33.83 Amazing solos, riffs and melodies from Buckethead and Travis Dickerson. Best songs - 'Unrestrained Growth', 'Too Many Humans', 'Earth Heals Herself'
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 | Ah Via Musicom by Eric Johnson
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £6.52 Chops, tone, style, versality, soul. Eric Johnson is an ultimate guitarist. Best songs - 'Cliffs of Dover', 'Desert Rose', 'Righteous'
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 | Soul to Soul by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.63 I don't care what anyone says, this is his best album. 'Say What!' is the best bit of guitar playing ever. 'Ain't Gonna Give Up On Love' is the best blues song ever. Other highlights include Change It
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 | Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix Experience
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.97 The original Guitar God. This is his best work. Best songs - '1983', 'All Along The Watchtower', 'Voodoo Child (Slight Return)'
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 | Surfing With the Alien by Joe Satriani
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £3.14 Great melodies, solos and riffs combined with amazing technique. Best songs - 'Surfing With The Alien', 'Satch Boogie', 'Echo'
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 | Sonic Temple by The Cult
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.94 Phenomenal riffs and solos from the greatest British guitarists ever (Billy Duffy.) Best songs - 'Sun King', 'Fire Woman', 'Edie (Ciao Baby)'
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 | Meat Is Murder by The Smiths
Buy used from: £4.99 Johnny Marr's melodies are impossible to play, although I wish he did more solos. Best songs - 'Well I Wonder', 'That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore', 'Meat Is Murder'
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 | The Wall by Pink Floyd
Buy new: £12.28 / Used from: £6.00 David Gilmour's solos are so precise and perfectly phrased that I think that I may as well just give up. Best songs - 'Another Brick in the Wall 2', 'Hey You', 'Comfortably Numb'
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 | Truth by Jeff Beck
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £4.00 Proto-metal began here. Jeff Beck took blues, funked it up and made it heavier, and hey presto!, a new genre emerged. Best songs - 'Shapes of Things', 'Beck's Bolero', 'Blues De Luxe'
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 | Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.83 Jimmy Page's guitar parts in 'Stairway To Heaven' have rarely been matched in a rock song. He was also a great riffer. Best songs - 'Black Dog', 'Rock and Roll', 'Stairway To Heaven'
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 | Still Got the Blues by Gary Moore
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £1.95 Blues virtuoso. You need this, if only to hear him murder Albert King and Albert Collins. Best songs - 'Oh Pretty Woman', 'Still Got the Blues', 'The Sky Is Crying' (bonus track) has an amazing solo.
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 | The Very Best of Jeff Healey by Jeff Healey
Buy used from: £1.24 Jeff Healey pwns. He pwns everyone. He's blind, and he still pwns. Best songs - 'Badge', 'See the Light', 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'
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 | Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera
Buy new: £7.78 / Used from: £3.95 Heavy, groovy riffs and amazing solos...it must be Dimebag Darrell! Best songs - 'New Level', 'This Love', 'Hollow'
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 | Abraxas by Santana
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.75 Mesmerising blend of latino, blues, rock, jazz and world music. Best songs - 'Black Magic Woman', 'Samba Pa Ti', 'Hope You're Feeling Better'
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 | ... And Justice For All by Metallica
Buy new: £9.58 / Used from: £5.16 James Hetfield's riffs are awesome, but Kirk Hammett's solos are breathtaking. Best songs - 'Blackened', '...And Justice For All', 'One'.
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 | Van Halen by Van Halen
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £3.91 Eddie Van Halen invented metal guitar. The tapping, legato and alternate picking here still sounds amazing today. Best songs - 'You Really Got Me', 'Eruption', 'Ice Cream Man'
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 | The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Buy new: £10.58 / Used from: £3.21 All the guitarists that played for Lynyrd Skynyrd were great, but Gary Rossington was the best. Great fifs, solos and slide guitar. Best songs - 'Free Bird', 'Tuesday's Gone', 'That Smell'
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 | Blizzard of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £3.30 Randy Rhoads was a pioneer in the same vein as Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen. He's still overrated, though. Best songs - 'Crazy Train', 'Mr. Crowley', 'Revelation (Mother Earth)'
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