Your actual 2008 top ten albums (released in any year)

[JamesU]

*Waits patiently for for Trembling Eagle's list.*

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13. AC/DC - Powerage

I revisited this album this year as well!  It's like, their darkest album.

[masterofsparks]

13. AC/DC - Powerage

I revisited this album this year as well!  It's like, their darkest album.

One of my favorite AC/DC stories concerns Mark Kozelek covering What's Next to the Moon (from the Powerage LP) at a live show and a folk-nazi type in the audience, unfamiliar with the song's origin, swearing up and down that it was a Leonard Cohen cover. When informed that it was actually a Bon Scott lyric, I think he felt like a bit of a chump. Slobs win again!

[masterofsparks]

8. Monster Magnet - Spine of God

I'd like to imagine you got into this because of me.

Did you include this on your disc? I can't remember - I need to get your discs out again. Anyway, I originally bought this album in the mid-90s, so I sadly can't give you credit for introducing me to it.

MOS introduced me to a whole world of rock I'd never heard of from made-up places like Sweden.  And if you sent me that Trader Horne album, MOS, I will see you at the Renaissance Faire.

I honestly can't remember what I included on my disc, but I'm glad to have helped (if indeed that was a compliment). Trader Horne was not me, though.

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If ever there was a soundtrack for the broke, dejected lovelorn slob, Powerage would probably be it.  This album probably most keenly draws the line between the sort of band AC/DC was with Bon and what they became with Brian (rich, famous, aloof rather than earnest).

[iAmBaronVonTito]

If ever there was a soundtrack for the broke, dejected lovelorn slob, Powerage would probably be it.  This album probably most keenly draws the line between the sort of band AC/DC was with Bon and what they became with Brian (rich, famous, aloof rather than earnest).

on any level, no matter what, i will continue to stand by the ideal that AC/DC was, and will always be, more profound (used relatively) when fronted by Bon Scott.

i agree with your statement 110%, angstrom. 

[Scot]

exactly. ac/dc with bon produced "ride on," a top-notch tough-guy ballad for the ages. i'm unable to imagine brian johnson-era ac/dc putting out a song like that; i can't even imagine that guy singing it. (does he? i last saw ac/dc 13-14 years ago and have no memory.)

[dave from knoxville]

While I listen to new stuff, I tend to cling to my comfort acts. I think I posted my top 25 for the year somewhere else, so I will post these, as of summer 2007, my favorites ever.

1 Beatles Rubber Soul
2 Beatles Revolver
3 Bob Dylan Blood On the Tracks
4 Beatles Sgt Peppers
5 Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
6 Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
7 Kate Bush The Dreaming
8 Fleetwood Mac Tusk
9 Jules Shear The Great Puzzle
10 King Crimson Red
11 Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight
12 Radiohead OK Computer
13 World Party Goodbye Jumbo
14 Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory
15 Neil Young Zuma
16 Ben Folds Rockin the Suburbs
17 Todd Rundgren Something/Anything
18 Aimee Mann (mostly) Music From the Motion Picture Magnolia
19 Matthew Sweet Girlfriend
20 Kate Bush Aerial
21 Jellyfish Bellybutton
22 Camper Van Beethoven Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
23 Neil Young Freedom
24 XTC Skylarking
25 Richard Thompson Rumor and Sigh

I am not exactly cutting any edges here, and I was always too laid back to be much a punk guy. I could go deeper if anyone cares. WAY deeper.

[dave from knoxville]

If ever there was a soundtrack for the broke, dejected lovelorn slob, Powerage would probably be it.  This album probably most keenly draws the line between the sort of band AC/DC was with Bon and what they became with Brian (rich, famous, aloof rather than earnest).

How quickly would an attorney contact you if you called your band A/CD/C? Or just A Seedy Sea?

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How quickly would an attorney contact you if you called your band A/CD/C? Or just A Seedy Sea?

Pure speculation, but I'm guessing it'd have a lot to do with if you also knocked off their logo - typeface.  And if you actually released records.

But I honestly don't see AC/DC being quite as moody as say, REO Speedwagon vs. REO Speedealer.  They have about a zillion "tribute" bands already, so they can't be too uptight about it.

REO Speedwagon on the other hand, lighten up already, jeez.  Buy a sense of humor.

[yesno]

There's a band called Hayseed Dixie.

[Scot]

... and they are exactly as bad as one might expect them to be.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

lots of harry nilsson this year.
lots of death cab for cutie (photo album/transatlanticism).
plenty of the kinks/the zombies/the animals.
more than enough memphis garage/frat bands from the 60's/70's.
and my fair share of anything posted on this board.

i listened to more "old" music this year than any year ever.  thusly, i love my gift from DFK.

[moonshake]

my top 10 according to last.fm:

Reigning Sound – Time Bomb High School
Portastatic – Bright Ideas
The Dirtbombs – If You Don't Already Have a Look
Superchunk – No Pocky for Kitty
Ghostface – Fishscale
Superchunk – Foolish
Oblivians – Popular Favorites
Wings – Wild Life
David Kilgour – Here Come The Cars
David Kilgour – A Feather in the Engine

[JonFromMaplewood]

I like the data-driven answer, Moonshake. You're the Oakland A's of list-making!

TOP TEN OF ALL TIME? DAMN!

1. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
2. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
3. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Cowboy Junkies - Black Eyed Man [DON'T JUDGE!]
5. Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
6. The Beatles - Abbey Road
7. Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg
8. Fugazi - Thirteen Songs
9. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
10. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On