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oh man built to spill is so good for guitar stuff. if you like that vibe, definitely check out Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been. J Mascis has this way of making solos feel effortless that always makes me want to noodle around for hours.

also pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain. the guitar parts are deceptively simple but so satisfying to play. "range life" was one of the first songs i learned that actually sounded decent lol

Foals - Antidotes

Some stuff I've enjoyed learning or are on my to learn list, but when I got back into it the two I kept playing were electric wizard funeralopolis that led to more metal songs and creating riffs and calatayud vals that got me into more classical stuff like Bach

Electric wizard - dopethrone the slides on funeralopolis are very groovy and fun, sanguisugabogg and black Sabbath for more grungy grooves

Gojira, Pantera for some fun chugs and sheds and techniques to learn

Bach, toccata and fugue, bwv997 prelude, anh114 minuet in g are all pretty fun and sound awesome

Some old strumming classics like big rock candy mountain or big iron

Some faster Spanish style like Malaguena or learning the rasgueado techniques if you have access to a nylon string

Indie focused crumb, khruangbin, zero 7, Bonobo, boards of Canada, air, ratatat, Tycho I don't usually try to match the tone but just playing the melody or a bass line or something in the same range is fun

Some of my favorite guitar oriented indy albums.

The Dead Weather - Horehound

The Kills - Blood Pressures

The Pack A.D. - Funeral Mixtape

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

Wye Oak - Civilian

Bad Books - Bad Books II (original version)

Thrice - Beggars

O’ Brother - Death of Day EP

Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight

At the Drive In - Relationship of Command

Edit: also any of Elliot Smith or Jose Gonzalez’s stuff too, especially for fingerpicking

X - Under the Big Black Sun

Snail Mail & Bon Iver have some great guitar parts (especially Bon Iver; delish)

Interpol, of course

City & Colour (great songwriting).

Dinosaur Jr., of course

King Krule - 6ft Under the Moon

"Buck" by Brainstory. It's funky, groovy, melodic, jangly, chill. Overall some phenomenal guitar work.

Revolting Cocks - Get Down (studio cut)

Marquee Moon by Television

Discipline by King Crimson

Strange Mercy by St. Vincent

Lone Rhino by Adrian Belew

A Weird Exits by Thee Oh Sees

Fear of Music by Talking Heads