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the Guiterrorists album has some pretty good stuff on it, especially the albini part. I would really like to hear him do a guitar record like New Kind of Water or what hans reichel, henry kaiser and o'rourke and all those other guys do but maybe he thinks thats geekish or something.

Brise Glase is amazing and that's Steve Albini AND Jim O'Rourke

O'Rourke's Remove the Need is defenitely a masterpiece

Also great guitars:

Joseph Spence
Blind Willie Johnson

Albums:
First Few PJ Harvey records sound great:
'Rid of me' sounds fuckin' incredible.... when it goes from the very silent passages to the moment where the drums come in...ah ...and you hear the snare drum rattlin' tru the whole track....fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!

and

Mission of Burma: Vs

in my humble opinion "exploded drawing" by polvo is an incredibly good record.
i must have listened to the opener "fast canoe" a million times...the most hypnotic riff ever!

Are you all such intellectual math-rock geeks that you completely (with a few exceptions) ignore some of the best guitar playing/sounds ever?

How about some early Who, Led Zeppelin (yes), ZZ Top, Queen, Hunter/Wagner's work with Lou Reed and Alice Cooper, Kinks, etc etc.
Don Cab? Pixies? Puh-leeeze.

just a few (in my humble opinion)...

eddie cochran - EMI box set
link wray - live at the paradiso
frank zappa & the mothers of invention - live at the filmore east
ac/dc - highway to hell
queen - news of the world
the jam - in the city
the kinks - arthur
gang of four - entertainment
shellac - at action park
arcwelder - pull
barkmarket - L Ron
the white octave - menergy
mclusky - mclusky do dallas

any pre-87 Fall record
any record w/ santiago durango on it
Funhouse, Raw Power, the Stooges
any record other than a King Crimison that has Robert Fripp No Pussyfooting, Here Come the Warm Jets, all those Bowie records, etc, etc


Killing Joke, MX-80 Sound, Wormdoom, Rifle Sport, the Who, SKWM and the Creation in general

and the greatest guitar album of all time:
Presence

Yeah... I second the Led Zep.... most of Page's guitar sounds came out fucking ripping! Queen II is pretty fucking amazing in that aspect as well!

As far as a more spacial sound, Radiohead's OK Computer and a large part of David Gilmour's material from Pink Floyd really float my boat!

Ya

first three or four zz top albums, Zuma, Back in Black, Entertainment, Marquee Moon, Spiderland, Goat, Pen Rollings (Breadwinner, Loincloth, Honor Role), Link Wray, etc. have all been mentioned. I will add:

Crazy Horse "Ragged Glory" (truly great and surprising record)
Fleetwood Mac "the best of" (Peter Green era), esp. "Oh Well"
Doctor Feelgood "Down By the Jetty"
MX80 Sound "Out of the Tunnel"
This Sonic Youth live tape I used to listen to a lot but can't find now
Killing Joke first album
Smashchords EP
Most Zeni Geva: Null's huge, odd tonality and Tabata's freakish, piercing solos
Head of David first EP
Chrome (almost anything from the original Creed/Edge era)

I am completely in awe of:
Dead Meadow's guitar purity through extended riff duration
Andy Cohen's (Silkworm) high-wire instincts
High Dependency Unit's corroded, dense, psychedelic beauty
Bert Jansch's fluidity
Dolly Parton's flatpicking and banjo
Jim O'Rourke's versatility
The Desert Fathers' vibrato bar
Santiago Durango's continuous search for bigger bigness
John Haggerty's (Naked Raygun, Pegboy) powerchords
Alan Sparhawk's (Low) clarity and brevity
the Kadanes (Bedhead, The New Year) intertwining and enmeshing

-steve albini

Every single Pere Ubu album (especially modern dance, dub housing, cloudland, and the latest one, st. arkansas)
Mission of Burma - vs.
Melvins - ozma & bullhead
Flipper - generic
Rapeman - two nuns and a pack mule
Boredoms - super Ae


Also agree with steve about chrome, I'm surprised that their name is rarely mentioned. Some of the most innovative bands tend to get marginalized when journalists and rock writers talk about "important albums."