2007 TOP TEN LISTS

From a myriad group of idiosyncratic twits:

Ray 13 (AKG editor, rock n' roll epicure, armchair anarchist, ale drinker)
1. The Sadies - New Seasons LP
2. Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic (vinyl reissue) LP
3. Subhumans - Internal Riot LP
4. Rick White - Memoreaper LP
5. Exploding Hearts - Shattered LP
6. Feist - The Reminder LP
7. Tranzmittors - s/t LP
8. Bad Brains - Build A Nation LP
9. Wolfbrigade - Prey To The World LP
10. Petunia & The Loons - s/t CD

Matt Mean (increasingly domesticated man about town)
No particular order:
- Twistin Rumble Volumes 1 - 4 (Hip-dislocation inducing party platters sold to me by Crypt Tim personally!)
- The Fleshtones, Lyres, Wildebeest, Sonics, DJ Norton Billy & Mariam, DJ Jeff Connelly (Cavestomp 07)
- The Sadies – New Seasons LP
- Loco-Moncton vinyl releases - Fear of Liptick, The Damnsels, Bad Luck #13 and Varsity Weirdos
- The Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic (reissue) – LP
- Sweat (book) – The story of the Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band by Joe Bonimo
- Bloodshot Bill pomade + Live Show + Rolling Stones Juke Box Series Split 7 " w/ Rockin’Enocky
- King Kahn and BBQ Show – Teabag Party 7" ep
- The Laundromat Bar featuring the Tropical Wheat barf-o-rama in the summer of 07 – Sorry Jen!
- Tony Truant & the Fleshtones – Allo Brooklyn, Ici Montmartre 10"

Craig Pinhey (drinker of beer, wine & spirits)
1. Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder CD
2. Any Trouble - Life In Reverse CD
3. Graham Parker- Don't Tell Columbus CD
4. Joel Plaskett - Ashtray Rock CD
5. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga CD
6. Nick Lowe - At My Age CD
7. Buck 65 - Situation CD
8. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen (reissue) CD
9. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (reissue with bonus live CD from 1978)
10. Robbie Fulks - Revenge (live) dbl CD

Tuna (former rock n' roll manager, alcohol vendor, bbq king)
In reverse order
10. The opening of The Laundromat Expresso Bar in Moncton, NB
9. C.W. Stoneking - King Hokum LP
8. The Emperors - Karate b/w My Baby Likes To Boogaloo 7"
7. Bloodshot Bill (and his Nice & Greasy Pomade) live at the Paramount Lounge X 2
6. Bad Luck # 13 -The Rocky Road To Ruin 7" + reunion/release show
5. Luis & The Wildfires - Brain Jail LP
4. Tony Truant & The Fleshtones - Allo Brooklyn ,Ici Montmartre 10"
3. The Wildebeests - Annie Get Your GNU LP
2. The Black Lips/King Khan & the BBQ Show - Merry Christmas 7"
1. Cavestomp 2007 Featuring The SONICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ken Kelley (Monoxides, music columnist)
1. The Bees – Octopus CD
2. Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City CD
3. Jesse Malin - Glitter In The Gutter CD
4. Kings Of Leon – Because Of The Times CD
5. Los Lobos – The Town & The City CD
6. Queens of The Stone Age - Era Vulgeris CD
7. Rooney – Calling The World CD
8. Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger & Follow The Lights CDEP
9. Teddy Thompson – Up Front And Down Low CD
10. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky CD

Glen Bourgeois (prog-centric DJ, archivist, web master, fan etc.)
1) Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 CD
2) The Travelling Wilburys - Travelling Wilburys (boxed set) CD
3) Morse Code - Procreation (reissue) CD
4) Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full CD
5) The Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn (reissue) CD
6) Maneige - s/t (reissue) CD
7) Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand CD
8) The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (reissue) CD
9) Radiohead - In Rainbows CD
10) Rooney - Calling the World CD

Metal Matt (record store clerk, vinyl addict)
1. Brutal Knights - Feast of Shame LP
2. D.I. - Horse Bites, Dog Cries (Reissue) LP
3. The Kids - S/T (Reissue) LP
4. Bad Luck #13 - The Rocky Road to Ruin 7"
5. Career Suicide - Attempted Suicide LP
6. Statues - New People Make Us Nervous LP
7. Fear of Lipstick - Indie Band 7"
8. Brutal Knights - Living By Yourself 12"
9. Wolfbrigade - Prey to the World LP
10. Damnsels - s/t 7"

Mark McGrath (unassuming audiophile, consumer of heaviness, beer hunter)
1. Aerogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go CD
2. Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade CD
3. Cobalt - Eater of Birds CD
4. Deathspell Omega - Fas, Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum CD
5. The Editors - An End Has A Start CD
6. Interpol - Our Love To Admire CD
7. The End - Elementary CD
8. Band of Horses - Cease To Begin CD
9. Sigur Ros "Hvarf/Heim" CD
10. Air Formation - Daylight Storms CD

PJ Giant (music promoter, alcohol drinker, bass player, local legend)
1 - High On Fire - Death Is This Communion CD
2 - Pride Tiger - The Lucky Ones CD
3 - Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion CD
4 - C'mon - Bottled Lightning LP
5 - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 CD
6 - Fu Manchu - We Must Obey CD
7 - The Sadies - New Seasons CD
8 - Baroness - The Red Album CD
9 - Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire CD
10 - Monster Magnet - 4-Way Diablo CD

Remi Leclair ( a comic hunter indeed )
1. The Sadies - New Seasons CD
2. Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion CD
3. The Ocean - Precambrian CD
4. Zozobra - Harmonic Tremors CD
5. Pelican - City Of Echoes CD
6. Rush - Snakes & Arrows CD
7. Monster Magnet - 4-Way Diablo CD
8. Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris CD
9. C'mon - Bottled Lightning Of An All Time High LP
10. Akimbo - Navigating the Bronze CD

Eric Neurotic (very polite record store clerk, Fear of Lipstick, Varsity Weirdos)
1. The Exploding Hearts - Shattered LP
2. The Chinese Telephones - s/t LP
3. The Vicious - Igen 7"
4. Red Dons - Death to Idealism LP
5. Revisions - Revised Observations LP
6. The Damnsels - s/t 7"
7. Statues - Same Bodies Same Faces 7"
8. The Potential Johns - s/t 7"
9. Bad Luck #13 - The Rocky Road to Ruin 7"
10. The Cute Lepers - So Screwed Up 7"

Marc Doucet (currently drummer for the Robins and Burnt Offerings / vinyl junkie)
1. Bad Brains - Build A Nation CD
2. Warsaw - s/t LP (reissue w/ bonus tracks)
3. The Kids - s/t LP (reissue)
4. Rick White - Memoreaper LP
5. Subhumans - Internal Riot LP
6. The Damnsels - s/t 7"
7. White Stripes - Icky Thump CD
8. Bad Luck #13 - The Rocky Road To Ruin 7"
9. The Eat - It's Not The Eat, It's The Humidity dbl LP
10. Eric's Trip - Bootleg LP

Steve Hickox (The Monoxides / fabulous impersonator)
1. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 CD
2. The Redwalls - s/t CD
3. The Redwalls - The Wall to Wall Sessions CD
4. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times CD
5. The Go - Howl on the Haunted Beat You Ride CD
6. Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full CD
7. Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Raising Sand CD
8. Clutch - From Beale Street to Obliveon CD
9. Down - Over The Under CD
10. John Mellencamp - Freedom's Road CD

Mark Gaudet (Purple Knight / The Robins / Funeral Fog / Eric's Trip etc.)
1. Subhumans-Internal Riot LP
2. Funeral Fog-Channeling Ancient Shadows CD
3. Darkthrone - Fuck Off And Die CD
4. Mayhem-Ordo Ad Chao CD
5. Bad Brains-Build A Nation CD
6. H.I.M.-Venus Doom CD
7. White Stripes-Icky Thump CD
8. Paul Stanley-Live To Win CD
9. Rick White Album-Memoreaper LP
10. Ronnie LeBlanc - Jack Slaps Magic Hat CD

Gavin MacNeil (AKG contributor / dangerous man / noise merchant, CBLA agitator)
1. Nappy Brown - Live performance in February, George's Roadhouse Sackville, in a snow storm.
2. Statues - New People Make Me Nervous LP
3. Bad Luck #13 - Live performance w/ Fear of Lipstick, The Manhattan, Moncton, Dec 1st.
4. Minutemen - We Jam Econo DVD
5. Bloodshot Bill - Live performance, The Paramount, Moncton
6. The Evens - Live performance in Fredericton, Charlotte Street Arts Centre
7. The Moths! - Games/Wild Birds/Valentine - ep
8. Los Campesinos! - Sticking Fingers Into Sockets LP (check out their Police Story cover)
9. C'mon - Bottled Lightning LP, great packaging and an absolute amazing single track - "unh"
10. Radiohead - In Rainbows - I own a couple of tracks but I am putting this up for the pure corporate chaos it created.

Mike Gerber (AKG contributor / music junkie / bass player)
1/ Betty Davis- They Say I'm Different (reissue) CD
2/ Sandy Denny- Live At The BBC CD
3/ Betty Davis- Betty Davis (reissue) CD
4/ Unsane- Visqueen CD
5/ Profanatica- Profanatitas De Domonatia CD
6/ Ramesses- Misanthropic Alchemy CD
7/ OM- Pilgrimage CD
8/ Mayhem- Ordo Ad Chao CD
9/ Queens of the Stone Age- Era Vulgaris CD
10/ Cadaver in Drag- Raw Child CD

Daryl Buote (AKG contributor/ correspondent / rock n' roll enthusiast)
1. Jesse Malin - Glitter In The Gutter CD
2. Saint Alvia Cartel -s/t CD
3. Neurosis - Given To The Rising dbl LP
4. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger CD / Follow the Lights EP
5. Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers CD
6. Coffin Birth - The Miracle Of Death CD
7. David Francey - Right of Passage CD
8. Discipline - Downfall of The Working Man CD
9. Bruce Springsteen - Magic CD
10. Norma MacDonald - Nothing Is Where It Was CD

Bruce McKiel (Prodigal Son Living in Vancouver)
1. Brant Bjork & The Bros - Somera Sol CD
2. The Pack - Tintype CD
3. Bison - Earthbound CD
4. The Forbidden Dimension - A Cool Sound Outta Hell LP
5. The Fucking Champs - VI LP
6. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy CD
7. The Great Outdoors - Food, Booze & Entertainment CD
8. Rick White -Memoreaper LP
9. 3 Inches Of Blood - Fire Up The Blades CD
10. Akron/Family-Love Is Simple CD

Billy Battershill (Saint-John rocker)
1. Jesse Malin - Glitter in the Gutter CD
2. Saint Alvia Cartel - s/t CD
3. Coffin Birth - The Miracle of Death CD
4. Chaz Matthews - I Hate These Songs CD
5. Bruce Springsteen - Magic CD
6. Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers CD
7. Arch Enemy - Rise of The Tyrant CD
8. Dropkick Murphys - Meanest of Times CD
9. Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell CD
10. King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul...Please CD "

Grant Forsythe (Cranky Fredericton rock n' roll curmudgeon)
(in no particular order)
1. Super Destroyer play their first show opening for The Mudmen. We play like men. They play like radio friendly shmucks. If the two pipers weren't huge gorillas, we woulda punched their lights out on general principle.
2. Opening for DOA is the Port City cos not only was it Super Destroyer's first outta town show, but I banged some chick in the bathroom almost immediately after our set. Yeah, I'm a classy guy.
3. Jesse Malin - Glitter In The Gutter CD.
4. I win a copy of Stuart Gordon's Master Of Horror episode, Dreams In The Witch House autographed by the man himself. Fuck I rule.
5. Bad Luck #13's reunion show. Good times. Good drinks.
6. Slut Fest. Hippies run amuck having a good time until we take the stage and if I may borrow from the mighty Anti-Seen, we definitely "ruined their groove."
7. The Super Destroyer/Trole show. Not so much for the gig itself, but for the floor show outside. Once again, Saint John never fails to entertain me.
8. My (then) girlfriend greeting me at the door in a fishnet catsuit with a six pack in her hand.
9. John Skipp's novel. The Long last Call. Strippers and demons duke it out in a seedy backwoods strip club. Hells yes!
10. A lady friend of mine sends me the new Ghastly Ones CD for my birthday. Another also sends me a Black Halos tee. They're cool like that.

Terry Gorman (Reclusive pop music authority)
( in alphabetical order )
Beirut – The Flying Club Cup CD
Bright Eyes – Cassadaga CD
Future Clouds & Radar – Future Clouds & Radar CD
Great Lake Swimmers – Ongiara CD
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights CD
Paul Kelly – Stolen Apples CD
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand CD
The Sadies - New Seasons CD
Judee Sill – Live In London: BBC Recordings 72-73 CD
Waterboys – Book of Lightning CD