I can't believe it took this long to finally give this rock icon a mention in this list. You cannot deny its influence unless you're head is stuck in the sand, and it has to be mentioned as one of the best debut records in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (1967)

Looking and playing like a brother from another planet, Hendrix delivered the most dramatic debut in pop history. Marrying the blues and psychedelia, dexterity and feedback trickery, it redefined the guitar's sonic possibilities, while beyond the fretboard pyrotechnics burnt a fierce artistic vision - 'Third Stone From the Sun' made Jimi rock's first (and still best travelled) cosmonaut. Without this...countless guitarists and cock-rockers might not have been (Stevie Ray Vaughn, Lenny Kravitz, even Miles Davis owes him), but most of all, without Experienced, there'd be no Jimi experience.

Well, they got another one right, to make it what, three or four , but I still have to laugh that they mention Lenny Kravitz, a guy who has questionable ability on guitar, as apposed to the dozens of monsters in the rock world (Eddie VH, Eric Johnson, Jeff Beck, Steve Morse....). Regardless, they chose the proper record by a proper artist, so I won't trash them on this one. I think I mentioned in another post that he was the reason I went out and bought a guitar, and countless others that I know.

Swish