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KharBevNor:
The efficacy of a 'guitar song' or 'guitar album' is NOT a simple measure of technical ability. You can't just wham a load of technical solos and whatnot together and make a decent song. This is the mistake quite a few people make. I mean, that stuff can be fun, but scarcely does it have the best emotional impact. You need balance, taste, etc. etc.
Despite which the best guitar albums in history are certainly:
Wuthering Heights - Far From The Madding Crowd
Star One - Space Metal (Limited edition 2CD version)
Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
And songs:
Judas Priest - All Guns Blazing
Arch Enemy - Angelclaw
Cryptic Wintermoon - Supersatan
Venom - Bloodlust
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Arghoslent - Flogging the Cargo (Utterly objectionable bigoted nazi assholes, but insane axe-swinging)
Liquid Tension Experiment - Paradigm Shift
Demons and Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Nightingale - State of Shock
Dark Tranquillity - The Treason Wall
Orange Goblin - Magic Carpet
Bloodbath - Outnumbering the Day
Candlemass - Mirror, Mirror (definitely some of the finest riffage ever)
Death - Voice of the Soul (Possibly the best instrumental ever. I don't care if it's technically christian metal)
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water (Seven and a half minute 'Hey Ritchie, go nuts' version from 24 Carat Purple)
Behemoth - In the Gardens of Dispersion
You can't beat metal and hard rock for guitar. Bone hard fact.
Brokenface:
As much as this seems to be an opinion question, there is in fact one quantifiable Right Answer to the thread.
That answer is Ratatat.
JLM:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---The efficacy of a 'guitar song' or 'guitar album' is NOT a simple measure of technical ability. You can't just wham a load of technical solos and whatnot together and make a decent song. This is the mistake quite a few people make. I mean, that stuff can be fun, but scarcely does it have the best emotional impact. You need balance, taste, etc. etc.
--- End quote ---
True. Otherwise there would be a ton of Yngwie Malmsteen songs all over the airwaves.
lofin:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---The efficacy of a 'guitar song' or 'guitar album' is NOT a simple measure of technical ability. You can't just wham a load of technical solos and whatnot together and make a decent song. This is the mistake quite a few people make. I mean, that stuff can be fun, but scarcely does it have the best emotional impact. You need balance, taste, etc. etc.
--- End quote ---
i didn't really want to get into this but fuck it.
i would really like you to tell me the emotional impact on some of the stuff you listed. oh never mind, everyone knows that bitches in makeup sounding like getty lee, singing about god damn black knights and dragons at 120bpm really means a lot to everyone. actually, i'm crying right now.
(i do like deathmetal guitar riffs and solos though, i just think the image thing they do is pretty lame)
all i am saying is that MBV does not make me say "damn that guitarist is awesome" which is the requirement set by the topic starter.
KharBevNor:
Hoorah for being clueless! Let's dissect why you're wrong:
1) None of those songs are about black knights or dragons, though two are about vampires, and one is about a cyborg satan powered by fear, so fair play.
2) Only two of the songs are death metal since you nigh on certainly can't tell the difference between black metal and death metal, and wouldn't know what MDM was if it was smoking crack out of your navel, i'll give you five. tops.
3) Your view of emotion seems to concentrate on emotion as in emo, ie 'sadness'. Fuck off. Angelclaw and Aces High are some of the most uplifting tracks ever. Across the tracks listed a whole spectrum of emotions is evoked. Furthermore, as we are talking about guitar, I am focusing ENTIRELY on the emtional content of the guitar music, ignoring vocals, keys, bass, violins, etc.
4)Death - Voice of the Soul
5) Finally, I wasn't criticising your choices or anyone elses at all. Don't get defensive, especially when you don't know what you're defending against what, or you're highly liable to get owned.
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