Van Halen

I wish I was listening to rock stations when this bad boy hit the airwaves. (I was seven.) It must’ve blown the doors off the joint. No knock to the guitarists at that time, but no one changed the direction of rock guitar faster or more prominently than Eddie Van Halen did with this album. ‘Eruption’ continues to be the Mount Everest of tunes for aspiring rock guitarists to master almost 50 years later.