 | Live At Leeds by The Who
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £11.00 The definitive live rock album, catching The Who at their absolute peak. Makes their fearsome studio albums sound like Dido.
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 | Rank by The Smiths
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £3.29 Essential, because it proves The Smiths didn't fit their misconceived image as frustrated bedroom poets. Johnny Marr lives out his Keith Richard fantasies.
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 | 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!': The Rolling Stones In Concert by The Rolling Stones
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £12.45 ...and this is the source of Marr's inspiration. Forty years ago, the Stones were menacing and dangerous: not Jagger's bloated cash cow now endlessly touring the world's stadiums. Play for proof.
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 | Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1966: the Bootleg Series Vol.4 by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £10.59 / Used from: £7.48 The perfect Dylan album, showcasing both his early acoustic style (with a great solo rendition of 'Visions of Johanna') and his new electric sound that so disgusted some fans that one shouts 'JUDAS!'
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 | Live At The Lyceum by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Buy new: £4.57 / Used from: £5.14 A beautiful album, but one which gives Marley's sound the extra bite from a live gig setting. 'Get Up Stand Up' emerges as the ultimate call-to-arms for the disaffected.
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 | Stop Making Sense: Special New Edition by Talking Heads
Buy new: £3.66 / Used from: £1.39 Calling pop music 'clever' is usually to damn it with faint praise. Not in this case: this is smart, infectious, and perfect. The DVD coneys David Byrne's vision even more effectively.
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 | How The West Was Won: Live (3CD) by Led Zeppelin
Buy new: £13.98 / Used from: £7.69 How did this remain unreleased for 30 years? The Mighty Zep at the absolute peak of their powers. It's almost worth going deaf listening to this.
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 | Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: the Motion Picture Soundtrack - 30th Anniversary Special Edition by David Bowie
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.99 Rock as pure drama. It's not often that the sound of teen hysteria accompanies such thrilling music . See (6) - the DVD is even better, if only for Ziggy's outfits...
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 | Absolutely Live by The Doors
Buy used from: £7.49 By 1969-70, when this album was recorded, The Doors were a circus act: Jim Morrison's 'flash' at a Miami gig saw to that. This documents the era in its boozy, messed-up, tripped-out horrible glory.
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 | The Projected Passion Revue by Dexys Midnight Runners
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.75 The fascinating missing link between the first two Dexys LPs. Freed from the confines of the studio, singer Kevin Rowland could cut loose even more than he usually would on vinyl. 'Passion' indeed...
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