Necrophagist - Culinary Hyperversity - that solo fucking kills
Symphony X - too many to choose from (Of Sins and Shadows, The Turning, Divine Wings, Damnation Game, A Fool's Paradise, etc.)
Adagio - anything off the first half off Underworld
Jason Becker - Altitudes
Favorite soloists - Jason Becker, Mike Romeo, Frank Gambale, Allan Holdsworth, Paul Gilbert, John Petrucci