“Music, true music, not just rock ’n’ roll, it chooses you. It lives in your car, or alone, listening to your headphones, vast scenic rituals and angelic choirs in your brain. It’s a place apart from the vast benign lap of America.” – Lester Bangs

I think it’s safe to say that music plays a big role in my life and a big part of my life involves work. I am constantly listening to music, if it’s not on the studio media player it’s on my headphones at my workstation. With this in mind I decided to list the 10 albums that had the biggest impact on me in 2008.

Let me start by saying that the 10 CD’s in this list isn’t necessarily from 2008, I mean, the one CD on this list was released in 1967! Just because it was new to me doesn’t mean it was new to anyone else.

So in no particular order, here they are:

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