Can you name the 100 greatest guitarists according to Spin Magazine?

created by leviper
  • Enter a guitarist (last names acceptable) in the box below
  • Correctly named guitarists will show up below
  • Answers do not have to be guessed in order
  • Source: Spin
  • This does not account for taste (as usual with Spin). Exhibit A: #100.
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RankGuitaristBand
1Sonic Youth
2My Bloody Valentine
3Solo
4Nirvana
5Dinosaur Jr.
6Solo
7Television
8[Self-titled band]
9Funkadelic
10Run-D.M.C.
11The Stooges
12Solo/Gang of Four
13U2
14Slayer
15Black Flag
16Solo/The Mothers of Invention
17The Velvet Underground
18Black Sabbath
19Minutemen
20Solo
21Solo
22James Brown
23Cocteau Twins/This Mortal Coil
24Big Black/Shellac
25King Crimson
26The Smiths
27Solo
28Solo
29Radiohead
30The Melvins
31Solo
32Solo
33The White Stripes
34Napalm Death/Godflesh/Jesu
RankGuitaristBand
35Bad Brains
36Solo
37Solo
38Pavement/The Jicks
39Sleater-Kinney/Wild Flag
40Rage Against the Machine
41Chic
42Solo
43Session Musician/Wilco
44Solo/Mahavishnu Orchestra
45Solo
46Pantera
47Solo
48Hüsker Dü/Solo
49Captain Beefheart
50MC5
51Solo
52Solo
53Wipers
54Mayhem
55Solo
56The Breeders
57Built to Spill
58Pink Floyd
59Meat Puppets
60Death
61Solo
62Rufus
63The Smashing Pumpkins
64Obsessed
65David Bowie/Morrissey
66The Birthday Party
67Soundgarden
68Dillinger Escape Plan
RankGuitaristBand
69Solo
70The Modern Lovers
71King Crimson/Session Musician
72Solo
73Orthrelm/Krallice
74Patti Smith Group
75Pentangle/Solo
76Joy Division/New Order
77Screaming Females
78Living Colour
79The Jesus Lizard
80Jane's Addiction/Red Hot Chili Peppers
81Solo
82Throwing Muses
83Queens of the Stone Age
84Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
85Pearl Jam
86Fugazi
87Solo
88Earth
89Yeah Yeah Yeahs
90Morbid Angel
91The Slits
92Solo
93St. Vincent
94Tinariwen
95Napalm Death/Carcass
96Splint
97Yo La Tengo
98Sightings
99PS I Love You
100Solo
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Spin's 100 Greatest Guitarists Quiz

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  • Created May 3, 2012 in Music
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