 | Crosby, Stills & Nash by Crosby Stills and Nash
Buy new: £10.48 / Used from: £6.99 The perfect debut by the perfect band - put 3 musical geniuses together and what do you get? Well, fighting mostly, but in-between some of the best music ever produced.
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 | Head by The Monkees
Buy new: £7.08 / Used from: £3.53 If ever an album was born to be ridiculed at the time and held up as a masterpiece 40 years later then this is it. A post-modern musical classic, even if the film dialogue gives you a 'head'ache.
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 | The Autumn Stone by The Small Faces
This album's unfinished state is a great shame because, judging by the handful of 'new' tracks here, it could have been the best Small Faces album of the lot. All this and classic singles too!
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 | Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £8.00 One of the Stones' most accomplished albums, full of the sort of provocative, swampy, up-tempo rock-blues fusions that fans love so much yet take up only a small proportion of their output.
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 | Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) by The Kinks
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £4.19 An interersting hybrid this one, with Ray Davies studying the impact of the crumbling empire on the British psyche and a concept album about his 'everyman' uncle Arthur. 'Shangri-la' is superb.
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 | Basket Of Light by Pentangle
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £3.99 Folk-jazz-rock fusions with a hint of blues and some psychedlia thrown into the mix, this album features old songs dressed up to sound contemporary and new songs that sound like standards.
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 | To Our Children's Children's Children by The Moody Blues
Buy new: £4.98 An album that takes you beyond the stars, celebrating the optimism 40 years when man landed on the moon and wondering where we could go next. Classic Moodies!
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 | Live At Leeds by The Who
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £7.20 Steady yourself ears - this is the hardest, heaviest rock band of them all at their hardest, heaviest best, mixing the epic with the downright funky basics. Punk seven years early.
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 | Déjà Vu by Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Buy new: £5.68 / Used from: £3.78 A prettier but also spookier album than their debut, with harmonies straight from heaven and rock credentials straight from hell.
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 | Mona Bone Jakon by Cat Stevens
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.33 Many records are said to be 'life-changing' but this one really is; pop entertainer Cat Stevens is trapped in a hospital room dying from TB. This is the album where his style comes together.
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 | Sunflower/Surf's Up by The Beach Boys
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.70 Add some delightful music to your day with Sunflower, one of the prettiest Beach Boys. It's also the only album where they sound like a 'band', with all five men flowering under Brian Wilson'sshadow
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 | Nicely Out of Tune by Lindisfarne
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.99 In which a psychiatric nurse, a bricklayer and some college buddies put together one of the most quietly brilliant debut albums of all time. If you like 'Lady Eleanor', you'll love this album.
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 | Untitled by The Byrds
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £4.99 Last-gasp work of brilliance from a band who already realised that they were an endangered species. Arguably Roger McGuinn's best work, written with Dylan co-writer Jacque Levy.
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 | Confessions of the Mind by Hollies
Buy new: £15.49 Vintage Hollies, mixing things that made them great in the 60s (great musical hooks, terrific 3-part harmonies + instrumental skills to die for) with eveything that's about to come of age in the 70s.
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 | American Beauty (Remastered and Expanded) by The Grateful Dead
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £3.45 American and beautiful: lyrical, poetic, visual and full of magical three-part harmonies and the most fragile of acoustic accompaniments. Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter are master storytellers.
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 | Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £2.59 Cat's best known LP is still under-rated! For any listener with an open mind, an intelligent brain and a pair of discerning ears, 'Tillerman' is one of the best musical journies of them all.
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 | All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
Buy new: £13.08 / Used from: £10.99 Never had the 'quiet Beatle' had so much to say; never did he say it so well or with such a passion. There are so many under-rated individual tracks on this triple LP I could go on for hours.
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 | John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £8.58 A painful album to listen to (which sounds like an even more painful album to have to make), but it's an important, powerful statement that needs to be heard at least once by every Lennon fan.
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 | Blows Against The Empire - 35th Anniversary Expanded Edition by Paul Kantner / Jefferson Starship
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.00 A bunch of hippies steal a spaceship and set off in search of the stars; whoever is first to colonise other planets please take me with you - I want to see if space is really as beautiful as it sounds
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 | If I Could Only Remember My Name by David Crosby
Buy new: £5.68 / Used from: £2.95 There will never be another record like this one - special guest stars all contribute their unique skills to this highly personal choral-like album about loss and redemption.
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 | Songs for Beginners: (CD+DVD) by Graham Nash
Buy new: £11.98 Self-portrait of ex-Hollie and CSNY singer finds him at the top of his game, highlighted by the moving 'I Used To Be A King'.
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 | Ram by Paul & Linda McCartney
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £5.99 Half- fascinatingly oblique and hard-to-follow, quite unlike anything else in his back catalogue, and half honest and intimate, telling us about the joys of home and country like a religious convert.
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 | Stephen Stills II by Stephen Stills
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £12.00 Despite it's mixed reputation, this is actually one of Stills' most balances, varied and consistent CDs flying from one genre to another almost as quickly as a CSNY reunion turns from love to hate.
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 | Every Good Boy Deserves Favour by The Moody Blues
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £7.94 EGBDF, based on the 5-scale musical sequence, is that rare beast of a record - an apologetic album from a group of musicians who've finally made it 'big' and yet fret about what they have to offer.
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 | Meddle by Pink Floyd
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.79 Worth owning for the 23-minute masterpiece 'Echoes' alone, even this album's lesser moments have a cheeky charm other Floyd albums would give their left cows-hoof or right tea-cup to include.
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