 | Sea of Love by The Adventures
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £2.67 Worth getting for "Broken Land" - gloriously gloomy 80s Celt-rock.
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 | Afternoons in Utopia by Alphaville
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £3.02 Worth getting for "Universal Daddy" - the summer Euro-hit that never was.
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 | Quench by The Beautiful South
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Let's face it, the only song anyone remembers off this album is "Perfect 10", and not without reason.
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 | Blur by Blur
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £1.07 I'm a sucker for the quirky pop of "On Your Own", but not for anything else here I'm afraid.
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 | The Best of Bucks Fizz by Bucks Fizz
Buy used from: £1.00 I know, I know: my soul is damned, but I wanted to hear "I Hear Talk" again before I died.
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 | A Place in the World by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Buy used from: £2.98 Worth getting for the wistfully romantic "Naked to the Eye". The rest? Meh.
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 | Demon Days by Gorillaz
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.48 Worth getting for "DARE", though it's a song you need to have seen the video for to truly appreciate.
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 | Bigger Than America
Buy used from: £13.14 The whole album is good, but if each song's fabness was represented by a Manhattan skyscraper, "Dive" would be the Empire State Building.
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 | Walk On by John Hiatt
Buy new: £16.49 / Used from: £4.39 Pretty underwhelming as a whole, but the atmospheric title track is one of Hiatt's best.
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 | The Same Sky by Horse
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.72 Strewth this album is dull, except for the stupendous 80s melodrama of "Sweet Thing".
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 | The Best Of Jon & Vangelis by Jon & Vangelis
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.01 Not all of these songs are terrible, but I wouldn't miss any of them except for "I'll Find my Way Home".
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 | The Best Of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.99 This is OK, but if you were alive in 1981 you'll be buying this for the supreme uplifting funkiness of "Ai No Corrida".
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 | Hopes and Fears by Keane
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £1.93 It's pleasant, but I feel only "Bedshaped" might save this album from ultimate oblivion.
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 | Trans-Europe Express by Kraftwerk
Buy used from: £5.75 "Europe Endless" always makes me grin, and well and truly steals the show here.
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 | Lost In Space by Aimee Mann
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £4.49 "Humpty Dumpty" is in a different league of tunesmithery from every other song here, none of which I can remember.
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 | Ladies of the Canyon by Joni Mitchell
Buy new: £5.88 / Used from: £2.46 "Big Yellow Taxi" may be the only song you know from this album. There's a reason for that.
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 | Easter by Patti Smith Group
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.99 I'm afraid that this album does nothing for me, except the rock classic "Because the Night".
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 | Devils & Dust by Bruce Springsteen
Buy new: £18.09 / Used from: £2.90 Not a bad album, but the title track is quite soul-piercing.
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 | Tyger by Tangerine Dream
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £3.95 You might think a Tangerine Dream album with vocals is a bad a idea - and you'd be right. Fortunately they trusted their better judgment on the mellow instrumental "Alchemy of the Soul".
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 | The Definitive Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons by Frankie Valli
Buy new: £22.19 / Used from: £6.29 If you think the Bee Gees' falsettos are a crime against taste, Frankie Valli will make you scream (and not because you're singing along). However, "December 1963" is sung normally, and is good.
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