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Van Halen’s 1978 debut has been selected the Top Guitar Album Of All Time by Gibson.com.

The guitar-manufacturer has been counting down their Top 50 Guitar Albums this week, as voted on by the Gibson editorial and writing staff, an all-star jury of guitarists and readers of the site.

The list is an impressive collection of guitar records – more than half (27) were released during the 1970s, with the most recent disc being The White Stripes’ "Elephant" (2003), coming in at #43.

In terms of guitarists themselves, Jimmy Page’s work with Led Zeppelin earned the most spots on the list, with 4; Eric Clapton was next at 3 (Derek and the Dominos, Cream and John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers), while many other players held two positions each, including Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, and players from AC/DC, Pink Floyd, and The Beatles.

Gibson put together a video of Black Label Society’s Zakk Wylde counting down the Top 10 – check it out here.

Gibson.com’s Top 50 Guitar Albums of All Time

1. Van Halen - Van Halen (1978)
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (1967)
3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
4. Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
5. Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction (1987)
6. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (1969)
7. The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East (1971)
8. Cream - Disraeli Gears (1967)
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (1968)
10. AC/DC - Back in Black (1980)
11. Television - Marquee Moon (1977)
12. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
13. The Who - Live at Leeds (1970)
14. Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961)
15. The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
16. Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow (1975)
17. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz (1980)
18. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. (1972)
19. The Who - Who’s Next (1971)
20. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970)
21. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman (1981)
22. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
23. Van Halen - Van Halen II (1979)
24. Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight (1982)
25. The Stooges - Fun House (1970)
26. AC/DC - Highway to Hell (1979)
27. The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
28. Aerosmith - Rocks (1976)
29. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969)
30. Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
31. Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky is Crying (1991)
32. Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More from the Road (1976)
33. The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)
34. The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)
35. Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush - Live (1978)
36. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (1966)
37. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (1976)
38. Def Leppard - High ’n’ Dry (1981)
39. Roy Buchanan - Roy Buchanan (1972)
40. The Shadows - Dance with the Shadows (1964)
41. Deep Purple - Machine Head (1972)
42. Jeff Beck - Truth (1968)
43. The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)
44. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (1983)
45. Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry in London (1965)
46. Danny Gatton - 88 Elmira St. (1991)
47. The Wildhearts - Earth vs. The Wildhearts (1993)
48. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (1975)
49. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
50. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)

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