28. My Top 10 Albums Bought This Year

Now remember, I am saying bought, not the best albums in 2008. It's the best albums I bought and listened to over and over, whether I bought it in a store or through iTunes.

Here it goes:

10. "Max Webster" by Max Webster- Great debut album. Tracks to listen to: "Here Among the Cats," "Toronto Tontos," "Coming Off the Moon," and "Lily"

9. "The End of Heartache" by Killswitch Engage- Powerful album, one of the great heavy albums of modern times. Tracks to listen to: "Rose of Sharyn," "Breathe Life," "Declaration," and "The End of Heartache"

8. "Days of the New" by Days of the New- One of the best acoustic bands since America. Tracks to listen to: "Touch, Peel and Stand," "Shelf in the Room," "The Down Town," "What's Left for Me?," and "Where I Stand"

7. "Rated R" by Queens of the Stone Age- Down tuned to the max! First of three, count 'em, three albums on this list. Tracks to listen to: "The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret," "Auto Pilot," "Monsters in the Parasol," and "In the Fade"

6. "Catch ThirtyThree" by Meshuggah- A muso's best friend! Full of polyrhythms and break neck riffs! Basically, the whole album is one song broken into 13 tracks. The sections one might listen to a lot are, "The Paradoxical Spiral," "In Death- Is Life," "Shed," and "Sum"

5. "Lullabies to Paralyze" by Queens of the Stone Age- The album is seen as a continuation of their previous release (you'll read it soon), but all around great stuff. Tracks to listen to are: "Medication," "Everybody Knows That You're Insane," "In My Head," "Little Sister," and "Skin On Skin"

4. "All Hope Is Gone" by Slipknot- Their best album yet! Each track represents a different style of metal and the solo's are mind-boggling. Tracks to listen to are: "Sulfur," "Psychosocial," "Dead Memories," "Gehenna," and "All Hope Is Gone"

3. "Songs for the Deaf" by Queens of the Stone Age- Awesome concept for an album, lets make the album as if you are listening to various radio stations on the way to a gig in the Mojave desert! It's how I like it, nice and heavy sounding. The is the album that precedes Lullabies to Paralyze. Tracks to listen to: "No One Knows," "First It Giveth," "Song for the Dead," "The Sky is Fallin'," "Hanging Tree," "Go With the Flow," "God is On the Radio," and "Song for the Deaf"

2. "Ain't Life Amazing" by Kim Mitchell- One of the best albums I have ever heard! Great for the start of summer. Not bad for an old rocker is it? Kim Mitchell was the lead guitarist and singer for Max Webster back in the 1970's. Tracks to listen to are: "Ain't Life Amazing," "Got a Line On You," "Love Overtime," "Space," and "In the Stars Tonight"

1. "Blackfield" by Blackfield- Fantastic album, but maybe not the best album to listen to when you are feeling down! But it is a very sonic and atmospheric piece of art rock. Tracks to listen to are: "Open Mind," "Blackfield," "Glow," "Scars," "Pain," "Summer," and "Hello"

Picking the top three was hard, and I even moved their spots alittle bit. I think out of all the songs from those ten albums, my favorite song off of any of them is "Love Overtime," by Kim Mitchell. Just a solid groove with an awesome complementing solo. It makes you feel good, and that's what I like about songs. Sort of ironic considering that I put Blackfield's self-titled album at number one because that album can get down right depressing to listen to! But it's constructed brilliantly and everysong hits the nerves that are suppose to be hit.

Maybe who ever reads this will post their own top 10! I can only hope...