 | The House of Love by The House of Love
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £7.99 The greatest album ever made from the ultimate Creation band. Terry Bickers guitar playing is excellent underpinning Chadwicks world weary psychedelia. Absolutely brilliant.
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 | The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
Buy used from: £3.79 The Smiths masterpiece, romantic and humourous. The Beatles of the 1980s.
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 | The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses
Buy used from: £1.99 Largely overlooked is this album's political ire, as evidenced on Bye Bye Badman, Elizabeth My Dear, and Waterfall. Sharp and pretty, the Roses arrogance was well justified.
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 | The Smiths by The Smiths
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £17.22 The Smiths first album is unfairly ignored in favour of previous recordings, these people are wrong. Moody and morbid, it sets the agenda for Morrisseys sexual liberation of the male.
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![The House Of Love [The German Album] - Singles Collection](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51miSwR1Q6L._SL75_.jpg) | The House Of Love [The German Album] - Singles Collection by The House of Love
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £34.67 Originally a German import from Rough Trade minus the Destroy the Heart ep, this is still an awe inspiring collection showcasing just how brilliant Chadwick & co. were in the early days.
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 | Closer by Joy Division
Buy new: £11.78 / Used from: £6.94 One of the most depressing albums ever made, depending on your mindset it can either be cathartic or unsettling.The Eternal and Decades are also one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed
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 | Low-life by New Order
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £1.29 Featuring some of their best songs i.e The Perfect Kiss, Sub-Culture, and Love Vigilantes, Low-Life is New Order at the height of their powers.
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 | Surfer Rosa by Pixies
Buy used from: £4.92 Their best lp, sordid, primal and brutally aggressive. This album benefits from Albini's unorthodox production i.e. it sounds like they're playing in your room.
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 | Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine
Buy used from: £5.48 After their shambling C86 beginnings MBV finally found their own groove here. Pioneering & innovative, shoegazing begins here.
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 | 69 by A.R. Kane
Buy new: £14.58 / Used from: £8.98 Paving the way for the Valentines and other likeminded artists, AR Kanes dreampop is anarchic, circular, and beautifully twisted.
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 | Love Is Hell by Kitchens of Distinction
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £9.90 Another band who shaped the shoegazing sound, with Patrick Fitzgerald being openly gay the Kitchens occupied a unique space in the scene. Regardless, this is a great album from an underrated band.
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 | Music for the Masses by Depeche Mode
Buy used from: £2.99 DM's best album and the one that saw them enter stadium land. Tough and uncompromising Masses was a further evolution of their sound revisiting some of their favourite themes e.g. sex and religion.
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 | Sulk by Associates
Buy used from: £18.00 A spiritual cousin of MBV's Loveless, Sulk was a great mix of the Associates skewed pop and studio experimentation.
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 | Today by Galaxie 500
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £6.66 Galaxie 500's debut is a lo-fi classic, at times heartbroken it's sound takes cues from the aftermath of the ear splitting feedback of the Velvets.
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 | Please by Pet Shop Boys
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.56 The Pet Shop Boys greatest lp, introducing their minimalist techno-pop to the world. Featuring the classic singles West End Girls and Opportunities, it's precision pop is lovelorn and despairing.
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 | Black Celebration by Depeche Mode
Buy new: £12.19 / Used from: £2.99 Depeche's perv pop got ratcheted up a few more notches on this, another outstanding album and New Dress is absolutely brilliant.
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 | Actually by Pet Shop Boys
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.00 Another stately album of perfect pop from PSB from when they could do no wrong. By no means lightweight the devastation AIDS leaves behind is tackled on 'It couldn't happen here'.
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 | Disintegration by The Cure
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.83 A return to the darkness of Pornography, Disintegration was epic and panaromic in it's own way. The Same Deep Water As You is still my favourite cut from this 89 classic.
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 | Introspective by Pet Shop Boys
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.68 Much influenced by the sound of the day - Acid House, this was another example of PSB's mix of deadpan vocals with ecstatic techno. Got 100 squillion out of 10 from the NME back in October 88.
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 | Ocean Rain by Echo & the Bunnymen
Buy new: £15.68 / Used from: £11.39 Not as clausotrophobic as Porcupine and more upbeat than Heaven Up Here, Ocean Rain is the Bunnymen's greatest moment. Here, they're doomy psychelica is at it's most intoxicating.
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 | Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £27.37 New Orders first classic album saw them finally move on from the sound they pioneered with Joy Division towards a more synthy electronic future. Your Silent Face is utterly brilliant.
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 | Meat Is Murder by The Smiths
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.99 Shooting to No.1 on release, Meat is Murder saw The Smiths further establish themselves as the rock band of the 80s, as well as converting a generation to vegetarianism.
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 | Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £8.48 The classic Spacemen album, heavily influenced by Suicide, Kraftwerk and The Velvet Underground, it is as blissful as any acid house trax of the day.
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 | Fried by Julian Cope
Buy new: £5.88 / Used from: £15.00 Fears for Julian Cope's sanity reached fever pitch back in 84. Indeed the album cover did nothing to allay this nor did many of the Barrett-like tunes included here. Whatever, it's still brilliant.
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 | On Fire by Galaxie 500
Buy used from: £5.58 Here, Boston's Galaxie 500 showed a more rockier side to their resigned and melancholy slow-core. Favourites include Decomposing Trees, Isn't it a Pity, Blue Thunder, and Tell Me.
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