 | Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge: Parental Advisory by My Chemical Romance
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.38 Despite many cries of 'emo', this album comes across as an intense and intelligent slice of rock with a dose of anger to make it truly exciting listening.
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 | Floodland by Sisters Of Mercy
Buy used from: £1.88 The best place to start for properly written, razor-sharp songs from one of the best darkwave guitar bands of the 80s and 90s.
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 | Off the Bone & Songs the Lord by Cramps
Buy used from: £9.99 You won't find a more fun - or more trashy - band around. Much inspiration from PVC and B-movies, big hair and sunglasses after dark. Go now and hear it.
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 | Project 1950 by The Misfits
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £6.80 Although many Misfits fans would argue about this album, I'd say its the best way to learn about the Misfits sound. New lineup, same attitude, 10 fantastic 1950's covers.
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 | Dark Side of the 80s by Various Artists
Buy used from: £5.48 A peculiar but satisfying mix of 80s gems. Good to dance and sing along to, and a nice overview of alt. rock twenty years ago.
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 | Doolittle by Pixies
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.96 The best Pixies album of their career, this is kooky, charismatic alternative rock who became known to the mainstream after a quick name-drop by one Kurt Cobain.
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 | Dirty by Sonic Youth
Buy new: £4.37 / Used from: £2.99 Fantastically melodic songs with a nice layer of scuzzy guitar. Top song here is 'Sugar Kane'.
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 | PWEI Product 1986-1994: The Pop Will Eat Itself Anthology by Pop Will Eat Itself
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.95 A fitting tribute to a great band. Guitars are industrial, but rap-inspired vocals and samples (and fab song titles) set this late, great band a mile above the competition.
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 | Razorblade Romance by HIM
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £3.50 Despite a meteoric rise to fame, HIM are a properly talented band. Look past the critics and see dark, romantic music from a superlative band with excellent vocals. Also fantastic live.
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 | Once by Nightwish
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £9.00 The latest in an impressive series of European/operatic metal records from Nightwish. Tarja has a beautiful voice which is not at all compromised by the metal backing from the other band members.
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