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For an endless summer...
Endless SummerEndless Summer by Fennesz
Buy new: £18.09 / Used from: £7.50
This is the one, though the track he did with Sylvian on Blemish was the ideal Summer-blissout...
No Other: Remastered & ExpandedNo Other: Remastered & Expanded by Gene Clark
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £4.23
The Ex-Byrds masterpiece: From a Silver Phial, The True One, Strength of Strings....
Technodelic: RemasteredTechnodelic: Remastered by Yellow Magic Orchestra
Buy used from: £136.32
If Kraftwerk had progressed beyond The Man Machine & heard Big Science...One to class alongside Tin Drum and Moon Safari...
Morvern Callar - Original SoundtrackMorvern Callar - Original Soundtrack by Morvern Callar
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £8.95
Great soundtrack to great film: Boards of Canada, Stereolab, Czuckay's Cool in the Pool...
Pacific Ocean BluePacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson
Buy used from: £35.00
I've said it before & I'll say it again: REISSUE THIS NOW!!!!! : Time, Moonshine, River Song, Friday Night, Pacific Ocean Blues...
EurekaEureka by Jim O'Rourke
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £6.00
The 90s equivalent to Song Cycle; influenced by a film and would give its name to another film of the same name. The key word is Eureka...
B-52'sB-52's by The B-52's
Buy new: £4.37 / Used from: £9.99
This is an LP I must insist on including....Planet Claire, 52 Girls, Rock Lobster....
PsychocandyPsychocandy by Jesus & Mary Chain
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.52
& this LP is sublime stuff I've recently rediscovered: Taste of Cindy, The Hardest Walk, Just Like Honey, Some Candy Talking, You Trip Me Up, Cut Dead, In a Hole...
Made To Love MagicMade To Love Magic by Nick Drake
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.12
Tweaked version of Time of No Reply will do fine...any ND LP would do. Or Richard Thompson or John Martyn or Anne Briggs....
AcceleratorAccelerator by Royal Trux
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £10.96
Another 90s masterpiece & the kind of record that makes you want to maim the Rolling Stones...
Electric MudElectric Mud by Muddy Waters
Buy new: £4.37 / Used from: £3.00
Read about this on Head Heritage UK/Unsung & then it was the best episode in Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues. What's the Howlin' Wolf one called?
50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats by The Fall
Buy new: £8.68 / Used from: £5.49
Two disc career retro, from 1978 to 2003: Free Range, The Chiselers, Totally Wired, Eat Y'Self Fitter, Cruiser's Creek, Telephone Thing, Living Too Late, Rowche Rumble, The Classical, US80s, Touch Sen
Happy Songs for Happy PeopleHappy Songs for Happy People by Mogwai
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.03
A bit under-appreciated this one. Gorgeous stuff that I could listen to till the end of time. Not that Mogwai make bad records..
Younger Than Yesterday: RemasteredYounger Than Yesterday: Remastered by The Byrds
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £6.67
The psych-rock-country classic: Time Between, Thoughts & Words, Have You Seen Her Face, Why?, Girl with No Name, Lady Friend....
Hot Buttered SoulHot Buttered Soul by Isaac Hayes
Buy used from: £94.15
Some of the best cover versions ever, especially that 18-minute take on Jimmy Webb's By the Time I Get to Phoenix: a Desert Island Disc if ever I heard it!
The Border TrilogyThe Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.75
Cormac McCarthy's classic trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing & Cities of the Plain....
The Alexandria QuartetThe Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Buy used from: £0.01
This version has extra-notes and is one of those books you could get lost in....which is a good thing where I come from-
The MagusThe Magus by John Fowles
Buy used from: £1.98
Captain Corelli's Mandarin borrwed the flashback/locale from this book. Starts off as a cross between Graham Greene & Patrick Hamilton and goes somewhere else into a twisted realm...
Greek MythsGreek Myths by Robert Graves
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £8.00
Graves' classic that you can browse through or read in order; see also The Histories by Heroditus...
The Sheltering SkyThe Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Buy used from: £1.68
Patrick Bowles classic travel-horror (Kafka Goes on a voyage); ideally read to Sakamoto's soundtrack to the flawed Bertolucci film...
Paris, Texas [1984]Paris, Texas [1984]
Buy used from: £4.30
Wenders' classic road-movie starring the lush one called Nastassja Kinski and having a great score from Ry Cooder...
Once Upon a Time in the West -- Special Collector's Edition (2 discs) [1969]Once Upon a Time in the West -- Special Collector's Edition (2 discs) [1969]
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £4.00
Leone's perfect Spaghetti Western filmed in California...
Y Tu Mama Tambien [2001]Y Tu Mama Tambien [2001]
Buy used from: £3.47
Gorgeous road movie with lashings of sex, some Eno, a nod to Mexico's troubled history- all from Harry Potter 3's director!
Sex And Lucia [2002]Sex And Lucia [2002]
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £8.15
This one lingered long after I saw it: enchanting stuff. Oh, and there's the odd shot of genitalia. Thought I'd warn you..
Summer With Monika [1952]Summer With Monika [1952]
And summer has to end sometime, youthful love begins to die, & Proust makes perfect sense...