The Best Rock Albums of 2007

Today's post in 50 Years of Music, a section of my blog devoted to the best rock albums of the past fifty years, will include the best albums of 2007. I have covered 41 years of music in other posts (1965-2006), which can be found by typing the year into the search bar at the top of my blog. Each post in 50 Years of Music is updated frequently, with new albums recommended by readers added to the posts. What's your favorite?

• Avenged Sevenfold- Avenged Sevenfold
• Foo Fighters- Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss- Raising Sand
• Paul McCartney- Memory Almost Full
• John Fogerty- Revival
• Eagles- Long Road Out of Eden
• Linkin Park- Minutes to Midnight
• Bruce Springsteen- Magic
• Kings of Leon- Because of the Times
• The White Stripes- Icky Thump
• Foghat- Live II (Live Album)
• Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
• Kid Rock- Rock n Roll Jesus 
• Ted Nugent- Love Grenade 
• Bon Jovi- Lost Highway

Rush- Snakes & Arrows (2007)

Snakes & Arrows is the nineteenth studio album by the Canadian rock group Rush released on May 1, 2007. The album reached #3 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Chart and has been certified Gold in Canada.

Snakes & Arrows includes four singles-- "Far Cry," "Spindrift," "The Larger Bowl," and "Workin' Them Angels." The first single, "Far Cry," reached #22 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Chart, and "Workin' Them Angels" charted at #30 on the same chart.

Notable of the album is that David Gilmour, guitarist and vocalist for Pink Floyd, is credited in the album's liner notes because he influenced Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson to write much of the guitar parts on the album on an acoustic guitar first instead of on an electric guitar, according to a September 2007 interview with Lifeson in Guitar Player Magazine. 

Also, much of the inspiration for the lyrics and lyrical themes found in the album were largely written during Rush drummer Neil Peart's cross-country trip on motorcycle across the United States, who has been the main song lyric writer on previous Rush albums. Much of the music found on the album was written at jam sessions with bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, with Peart collaborating over the internet for some of the writing and recording of the album from his home in California. Many Rush albums both past and present have been largely written musically using the "jamming" method between Lee and Lifeson, where the two would get together in their homes in Toronto, Canada, and start jamming and piecing their individual pieces of compositions together to form songs.

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