i can't speak for serious music fans across the land or anything but i fucking love music...it's pretty much the best thing going....headphones, hanging around a stereo with your friends, singing your brains out on 95, ripping power chords in your basement.....is there anything else that brings that much joy...ok i know orgasms are great(c'mon you know they're fleeting and few and far between) but if i had to choose right this second i'm choosing rock over orgasms which brings me to my point....it's getting to be top ten list time...less than eight weeks to go by whatever weird logic calender i'm using....and my list is starting to come together......now i haven't written a top ten list in i don't know, i think it was 1998....so my weird logic math tells me that's eight years and that's a long time....but i've been thinking about all the great music that i've discovered or had introduced to me this year and a list just sort of started to fall into place........so for you....the few(one maybe?) who have gotten this far.....a gauntlet is thrown! ok that may be a bit dramatic but "a friendly challenge has been cast" just doesn't have the same bite, now does it?....write a top ten list  god dammit!....write a top four list if that's all you got.......but pick some damn music that grabbed you in all the right places this year.......the rule: it doesn't matter what year the record came out in....if it's new to you then it's new to me.....that's it...the only rule......now i'm probably going to get all verbose cascading praise on all the music i've loved this year but you don't have to...a simple list would suffice.......or write away...whatever floats your boat.....we got eight weeks people...i know i'm looking for that late entry in the top ten arena.....deadline: new years or sooner...or later...whenever....make a list...it'll be cool..........