The Best Rock Albums of 2008

Today's post in 50 Years of Music, a section of my blog devoted to the best Rock albums of the past fifty years, will include the best albums of 2008. I have covered 42 years of music in other posts (1965-2007), and the posts can be found by typing the year into the search bar at the top of my blog. Each post in 50 Years of Music is updated frequently, with new albums recommended by readers added to the posts. What's your favorite?

• Metallica- Death Magnetic
• Mudcrutch- Mudcrutch
• Guns N' Roses- Chinese Democracy
• Airbourne- Airbourne
• The Black Crowes- Warpaint
• Alice Cooper- Along Came a Spider
• Mötley Crüe- Saints of Los Angeles
• Queen & Paul Rodgers- The Cosmos Rocks
• Motorhead- Motorizer
• John Mellencamp- Life, Death, Love, & Freedom
• Bob Dylan- Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
• Coldplay- Viva la Viva or Death and All His Friends
• The Dandy Warhols- ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols...
• Def Leppard- Songs from the Sparkle Lounge
• The B-52's- Funplex
• Ringo Starr- Liverpool 8 
• Todd Rundgren- Arena 
• Dokken- Lightning Strikes Again

AC/DC- Black Ice (2008)

Black Ice is the fourteenth internationally released studio album by the Australian rock group AC/DC, which was released on October 17, 2008. The album reached #1 in multiple countries, including: the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. The album has been certified 2x Platinum in the United States (2,000,000 units sold), Platinum in the United Kingdom, and 5x Platinum in Canada.

Black Ice includes four singles-- "Rock 'n' Roll Train," "Big Jack," "Anything Goes," and Money Made." Other notable songs on the album include: "Skies on Fire," "War Machine," and "Rock 'n' Roll Dream."

Notable of the album is that it is the final AC/DC studio album to feature Rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, Lead guitarist Angus Young's brother, who left the band in September 2014 after being diagnosed with dementia. Recording for the album began five years before its release in 2008, but was delayed due to the band's record label change to Columbia Records, and because of an injury to bassist Cliff Williams' hand, which prevented Williams from playing bass guitar for 18 months.

The song "War Machine" from the album won the Best Hard Rock Performance category Award at the 2008 Grammys. Also, Black Ice was the second best album of 2008 after Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.

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