Name the best albums you've heard in the last 2 to 3 years.

[JoeDogInKC]

Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls

Seriously, if you like DT and similar stuff, you HAVE to get this CD. It's available on iTunes.

 

[whitestrat]

You like Disco ???

It's not as pop-ish compared to what I expected... There ARE other tracks other than "bye bye beautiful", you know?

 

[whitestrat]

1) Sixx A.M. - The Heroin Diaries - Wow... What can I say? This has got to be one killer effort from the 3 guys. Everything from the playing, composition to recording is nothing but exceptional. It's way way ahead of most stuff I hear coming from the US these days. James Michael's voice is what really caught me on this album. Not so much DJ Ashba's playing, who's rhythm work is killer, but the singing!!! Oh wow... That's emotion right there... I wonder if he does any other band efforts? I hope they put out a 2nd release, but considering the original purpose of this album, I'm not sure if that's gonna happen. This album is so good that I'd consider it a modern classic, if it wasn't so serious. it's what Motley Crue should have sounded like!

Whoa! Just found out! There's a 2nd album coming out end of this year!!!!

 

[dwells]

Marco Sfogli-theres hope
Greg howe-soundproof
lamb of god-wrath

 

[JMB27]

any of the recordings by Johnny A
any of the recordings by Derek Trucks
The Little Willies
Project Percolator by Jim Weider
Smokin' at The Half Note by Wes Montgomery (not new, but new to me)

cheers always, eh

Joel

 

[JoeDogInKC]

whitestrat,

Check out the one I mentioned. Talk about emotive singing. You'll be blown away man!

 

[savannah_sean]

T Lavitz School of the Arts
Joe Nardulli/Ad Astra
Carl Roa - Eternity
The new Steve Morse Band album, when it arrives

 

[Headstock]

Michael Landau Group - Live
Ashes Divide - Keep Telling Myself It's Alright
Chris Whitley - Dirt Floor (little bit more than 3 years old
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Jedd Hughes - EP
Mindy Smith - Long Island Shores
Trev - Trev
Lukather - Ever Changing Times
Doyle Bramhall II - Welcome
Ian Moore - And all the colors
Heaven and Hell - the Devil You Know
Five Finger Death Punch - Way of the Fist
King's X - Xv
Craig Erickson Project - Shine
Mark Selby - Dirt
Mark Selby - Nine Pound Hammer

 

[DaPatrooch]

Just a few-

Dream Theater- Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Rush- Snakes & Arrows Live- another great live album from Rush! they're now in their 50s and better than ever IMO

Chickenfoot- it was a bit of a letdown at first, but it really grew on me. It's just a really good rockin' album!

Tool- 10,000 Days- One of my favorite albums ever, I love it so much, sometimes I get the urge to listen to it then I can't get enough of it for a while. This happens at least once a month. Oddly I haven't gotten any of their other albums yet, but I really want to.

 

[Pablo]

On the guitar-centric widdly side of things:

Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
Steffen Schackinger - ElectricGuitartistry
Jeff Beck - Live at Ronnie Scott's

On the less widdly side:

King Crimson - The Power to Believe
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Mind's Eye - A Gentleman's Hurricane
Cynic - Traced in Air

 

[whitestrat]

whitestrat,

Check out the one I mentioned. Talk about emotive singing. You'll be blown away man!

Will do man. Thanks!

 

[acidpuppy]

1) shawn lane - powers of ten

2) shawn lane - the tri-tone fascination

3) pink floyd - dark side of the moon

4) pink floyd - the wall

5) dream theater - images and words

6) dream theater - awake

7) osi - free

8) osi - osi

9) al di meola - elegant gypsy

10) porcupine tree - fear of a blank planet

 

[Jason2112]

Rush- Snakes & Arrows Live- another great live album from Rush! they're now in their 50s and better than ever IMO

They're going to start writing for the next album this fall - at least Alex says so, but who knows since Neil's a new daddy..

Here's a few you probably haven't heard:
Andy Lovegrove - Just A Man (my favorite so far this year)
Kelli Ali - Rocking Horse
Neal Morse - Lifeline
..and..
Machine Head - The Blackening
Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad (awesome)

 

[walleye]

themata by karnivool

dream theater fans would probably like it. note "dt fans" not "petrucci fans"

 

[RobertS]

In random order:

Andy Timmons - Resolution
Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders
Exivious - Exivious
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Riverside-Anno Domini High Definition
Indukti-Idmen
Blotted Science-The Machinations Of Dementia
Marco Sfogli-There's Hope
Paul Gilbert-Silence Followed by a Deafening Roar
Scale The Summit - Monument / Carving Desert Canyons
Lincoln Brewster - Today Is The Day
Tetrafusion - Absolute Zero
.. and a lot of others

 

[Assumer]

Porcupine Trees last two and the las couple of Flower Kings

 

[D.K.]

Well...

Albums, that are maximum 3 years old:

David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk, Remember that night
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a blank planet
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings (deffinitely not the best DT album, but still better than the most)

Albums, that have impressed me in the last couple of years:

Django Reinhardt - everything he did
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing, Arriving somewhere..., (actually, everything they've recorded is great)
Zemfira - russian singer-songwriter, no one here has probably ever heard of her, all 5 albums
Riverside - Out of Myself
Roger Waters - Amused to Death (Impressed by this for almost 15 years, Jeff Beck is Godlike on this)
Whitesnake - Slip of the tongue (Steve Vai at his best), Live ... In the shadow of the Blues (Tommy Aldridge is marvellous)

 

[drewbixcubed]

Not necessarily the best "guitar" rock, but definitely new music that is constantly on my play list (I recommend a lot of older albums by the same bands)

Muse: Black Holes and Revelations; Absolution
Coheed and Cambria: Good Apollo IV, No World For Tomorrow
Incubus: Light Grenades
Kings of Leon: Only By The Night
Wolfmother: Wolfmother (original Euro EP is best)
Radiohead: In Rainbows

 

[paranoid70]

Last night I picked up Big Elf "Cheat the Gallows" at Amoeba. It sounds original and familar at the same time. Can't wait to see them with Dream Theater & Zappa on Saturday.

 

[tommydude]

1) Paul Gilbert & Freddy Nelson "United States" Unbelievable guitar work
2) Paul Gilbert "Get Out of My Yard" (buy the dvd too!!)
3) Whitesnake "Good to be Bad"
4) **new to me** Malmsteen's "Double Live" from 1999 I finally bought it. LOL