To make voting for your favorite records easier, we haven't included Jeff Beck’s singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums.

With producer Nile Rodgers at the helm, Jeff Beck contributes some fine riffs and melodic bursts to many catchy and cliched 80's AOR lyrics such as "Ambitious", "Nighthawks" and "Gets Us All In The End", but the glorious moment is his reunion with Rod Stewart on the lovely if vain "People Get Ready". They had 2 albums that were excellent, and I like them both equally well and those are Rough and Ready and the Oranges Album with “Goin Down”. It is a blues played loud and heavy and has a spectacular solo for the time, with possibly the longest feedback note to that date. Where other fusion players would make their own distinctive impact, Jeff Beck somehow remembered to keep things rocking and on great songs like Stevie Wonder’s “‘Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers” showing his incredible sense of melody before blowing the doors off on “Freeway Jam” and closing with the majestic and beautiful “Diamond Dust” would be regarded even more as one of the most innovative and original guitar geniuses of all time.

On this 1965 single Beck’s playing manages to mimic a sitar in the eastern drift of the main riff before nose diving into a blistering fuzz-toned solo, predating Norwegian Wood by six months and Paint it Black by almost a year. Truth is a key album in the evolution of rock music towards its hardest sounds, at the height of stars like Jimi Hendrix and Cream.

Later, 1972’s Jeff Beck Group album, recorded with a reconfigured line-up in Memphis and produced by Steve Cropper, saw Beck try his hand at soul on covers including Ashford and Simpson’s I Can’t Give Back The Love I Feel For You and Stevie Wonder’s I Got To Have A Song. Unfortunately I came late to appreciate the huge range of music Jeff Beck played and only knew him from his Yardbirds days. Of course, there's no rock musician who can shine if they don’t have a half-decent song to express themselves in. Beck-Ola did not enter the Gaon Album Chart, but it peaked at number 33 on the component overseas album chart in 2014. The albums Roger Waters made after flouncing out of Pink Floyd had plenty of the grandeur and ambition that helped forge Dark Side… and The Wall, but they lacked a certain something: namely, David Gilmour.The album includes vocalist Rosie Bones and is a showcase for Beck to demonstrate the fact that his guitar playing still rocks and is capable of captivating listeners with other worldly sounds. With the riff of Train Kept A-Rollin' you could say that he invented Led Zeppelin, with Heart Full Of Soul he puts himself at the forefront of psychedelia and shows that a guitar (with a good fuzz pedal) can sound like a sitar, while the solo with slide on Evil Hearted You is another great example of the incredible guitarist he is, sounding halfway between Morricone and surf.

There aren’t many better examples of how far out Beck pushed The Yardbirds in his short, 20-month stint as a member than the bad trip heebie-jeebies of Happenings Ten Years Time Ago. After the Yardbirds, with 'Truth', Jeff Beck tears it all down to build it back up in his own image with improbable success.

Aligned to the Stones and Pretty Things, thanks to an authentic approach to playing the blues, their demos featured here, including Trouble In Mind, Nursery Rhyme and Wandering Man Blues capture a fledgling Beck already master of his instrument and pushing boundaries with the use of feedback. This album has such an array of sounds it’s unbelievable, but overall it is one of the most beautiful albums ever by Jeff Beck and yet again shows us just how dynamic and broadly talented he is.