With the holidays drawing closer and almost all the new music that’s coming out released by now, it’s time to take a look at the first in a series of what some artists and music industry types liked the most in 2008.
Jeremy Spencer/Five Finger Death Punch
Top 10 Albums of ’08
01) Disturbed, Indestructible (Reprise)
02) Nickelback, Dark Horse (Roadrunner)
03) Scars On Broadway, Self-Titled (Interscope)
04) Slipknot, All Hope Is Gone (Roadrunner)
05) Coldplay, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (Capitol)
06) Trivium, Shogun (Roadrunner)
07) Beck, Modern Guilt (Interscope)
08) In This Moment, The Dream (Century Media)
09) Metallica, Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)
10) Guns N’ Roses, Chinese Democracy (Geffen)
Neil Fallon/Clutch
Top 5 Albums of ’08
01) Otis Taylor, Recapturing the Banjo (Telarc)
02) Various, Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump (Strut)
03) Various, Roots of Chicha (Barbes)
04) Menahan Street Band, Make the Road by Walking (Daptone/Dunham)
05) Kool Keith, Dr. Dooom 2 (Threshhold/Traffice Entertainment)
Jesse Korman/The Number Twelve Looks Like You:
Top 10 Stuff List of 08:
01) iPhone 3G
02) Disney/Pixar’s movie Wall-E
03) Macbook Pro
04) Foxy Shazam, Introducing Foxy Shazam (Ferret Music)
05) The Iron Gym pull up bar
06) Stepbrothers
07) Adobe Illustrator CS4
08) Obama being elected!
09) Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who
10) The Fall of Troy, Phantom on the Horizon (Equal Vision)
Josh Grabelle, Owner, Trustkill Records
Top 10 Albums of 2008:
01) The Gaslight Anthem, The 59 Sound (Sideonedummy)
02) Volbeat, Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil (Mascot)
03) Four Year Strong, Rise or Die Trying (Universal)
04) Children of Bodom, Blooddrunk (Spinefarm)
05) Heaven Shall Burn, Iconoclast (Century Media)
06) Anberlin, New Surrender (Decaydance)
07) Rise Against, Appeal To Reason (Interscope)
08) Bring Me The Horizon, Suicide Season (Epitaph)
09) Alkaline Trio, Agony & Irony (Epic)
10) Bullet For My Valentine, Scream Aim Fire (Jive)
