best albums for the guitar solos sound

Marillion - Fugazi

Rush - Power windows

Rush - Pressure/Grace

Jadis - More than meets the eye

Steve Hackett - Spectral mornings

Collage - Moonshine

Not necesarily prog and not in order:

Midsummer Night Dream........Steve Hackett

Friday Night in San Francisco.......Al DiMeola, John Mc'Laughlin & Paco de Lucía (I burned my guitar with frustration after listening this album.)

Revolutions.........Magenta (Listen Opus 1 and Opus 2)

Caravanserai.........Santana (Carlos did magic there)

Love, Devotion, Surrender......John Mc'Laughlin & Carlos Santana

Wish you Were Here........Pink Floyd (Different style than the previous but equaly brilliant)

Iván

asuma wrote: hair metal. period.

Hehe, you're so easily amused when it comes to guitar solos.

Pick a Zappa album (well, except for the few where there's no guitar). The man deserves to be mentioned more often with the top classic rock guitarists- I'm convinced he could hold his own with Hendrix, Page, Beck, etc. One pick? Well...Shut up and play yer Guitar, of course

Fripp and Belew, together or not. Discipline for the pair, Lone Rhino for just Adrian, and Starless and Bible Black for Fripp's most powerful

Fragile has Howe's "Mood for a Day"...enough said.

Hackett's "Horizons" on it's own is reason enough to get Foxtrot.

Gilmour made very cool expressive sounds. Meddle. Martin Barre often surprised me (Ian as well). Songs from the Wood.

Non-prog choices: Carlos Montoya My Best, Michael Hedges Aerial Boundaries, Leo Kottke 6 and 12 string Guitar, Ry Cooder Paris, Texas OST, Segovia The Segovia Collection, SRV Texas Flood, Thurston Moore Daydream Nation, Larry LaLonde (Primus) Sailing the Seas of Cheese, Jerry Garcia (Jerry Garcia Band) That High Lonesome Sound, Brian May Queen II, John Williams The Seville Concert, Johnny Marr (Smiths) Louder than Bombs, Ricky Scaggs Kentucky Thunder, Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) Treasure, Eric Johnson A Via Musicom, J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) Where You Been, Andy Gill (Gang of Four) Songs of the Free, Django Reinhardt Best of Blue Note, Chet Atkins Me and My Guitar

plus out of nostalgia I have to give an honorary award for Yngwie's Trilogy album that I loved so much in high school. Like the man said, "hair metal. period."

My favorite guitar albums...mostly contain David Gilmour

Animals - David does a hell of a job on Dogs.. and the rest of that album.

Delicate Sound of Thunder... live David... can't get any better than that guitar solo he does for SOYCD.. or Sorrow... or Comfortably Numb on that cd... just incredible.  The version of CN on Pulse is pretty incredible also...as well as the guitar opening to "Coming Back to Life"..

Otherwise I prefer Jeff Beck's "Who Else"

 GENESIS - The lamb lies down on Broadway.

STEVE VAY - Fire garden.

TOTO - Toto IV.

LED ZEPPELIN - The house of the holy.

IRON MAIDEN - Caught somewhere in time.

Animals- Pink Floyd

Dance Of The Flames- Guru Guru

The Inner Mounting Flame- Mahavishnu Orchestra

Surfing With The Alien- Joe Satriani

See The Light Jeff- Healey Band

Solar Music live- Grobshnitt

Back Together Again- Larry Coryell & A^phonse Mouzon

Heck there`s so many.

Vibrationbaby wrote: Solar Music live- Grobshnitt

Mr. Vibe, you couldn't be more right!

I also like Jeff Beck's work on "Amused to Death" and my all time favorite guitar player David Gilmour on "Wish you were here" and "The Wall" (specially on "Comfortably Numb")

I am surprised no one mentioned Steve Morse or Eric Johnson, their solos are the most gorgeous I know.

Gamalon's self-titled album features also great guitar solos.

Anthony Phillip's guitar playing in his PP&Ps are also worth checking out.

Spastic Ink's 'Ink complete' is full of fun guitar solos.

U.K. - U.K. (Holdsworth lights it up here.)

Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom (Eric is a monster and Cliffs of Dover is spetacular!)

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightengales and Bombers (Mick Rogers played some memorable leads on this one.)

King Crimson - (Nearly every album was a guitar feast.)

Steve Morse - High Tension Wires (Steve can play it all.)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Near perfect tone from Gilmour.)

Yes - The Yes Album (Steve Howe hits it from many angles.)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Alex shreds it up.)

Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries (No one, repeat, no one tortures a Martin like Hedges "RIP" ) 

Steve Hillage - Fish Rising (crappy mastering, but solos galore)

Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift (Any questions?)

Too many more to mention.