Here are some guitar things. Some people may know some of them already.
Flipper is another one of those essential building blocks like MBV or the Stooges. Flipper (+ post-My War Black Flag when they got all slow + heavy) begets The Melvins begets Earth begets Sunn O)).
Flipper –
Ha Ha Ha,
Get Away
(Sidenote, Kurt Cobain was all up in that mix – good friends w/The Melvins, sings on one of Earth’s early demos, etc. His
top 50 albums list is a pretty much impeccable collection of “guitarry shit”. Pretty much everything on it is great. That dude had good taste.)
Some punk rock is pretty good guitar music
The Weirdos –
We Got the Neutron Bomb
The Only Ones –
Another Girl Another Planet
(early) Social Distortion –
Telling Them,
Hour of Darkness After 1st LP Social D gets way more rockabilly which is not my thing at all but some people like it.
The Wipers –
Alien Boy,
Over the Edge
Everything the Wipers did is awesome. Greg Sage is massively underrated genius.
Hickey –
El Farolito RIP Matty Luv
pre-punk/post-punk/etc
Pere Ubu –
Final Solution
Television –
Marquee Moon magical guitar solos bends time + space
Chrome –
In a Dream from same SF avant late 70s scene as the great Tuxedoomoon
Glenn Branca –
Lesson No. 1 the Arthur Russell of post-punk
Mission of Burma –
That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate
anything by Killing Joke up to about 1985 or so
Squirrel Bait –
Sun God these guys transformed into Slint a couple years later, you can kinda hear it
Embrace –
Give Me Back,
No More Pain Ian McKaye’s band between Minor Threat + Fugazi. I prefer them to Fugazi (not to Minor Threat tho of course)
A couple of other random things
Thin Lizzy -
Emerald
Isengard –
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