 | Blues for the Red Sun by Kyuss
Buy new: £6.58 / Used from: £2.99 This is the best album by the best band since Black Sabbath. Kyuss were genre defining, Stoner Rock was a term created to try and describe what this band did.
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 | Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.99 Shine on (the complete version) cannot be described in words. This and Dark Side are comparable to each other but I prefer this album.
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 | L.A Woman by The Doors
Buy used from: £1.04 The Doors are simply the best band to have existed. This , the eponymous debut and Morrison hotel are excellent. Also the Live in Philedelphia really captures the band brilliantly live.
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 | Morrison Hotel by The Doors
Buy used from: £1.49 This deserves to be in this list just for Maggie McGill. That track and " Been down so long" are so dark and bluesy.
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 | The Music by The Music
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.98 Such a good band and even better live.
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 | Love Is Here by Starsailor
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Another great debut. Not a bad track on this album, everything sounds so fresh.
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![Stadium Arcadium [2CD Digipak Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516W20W1RYL._SL75_.jpg) | Stadium Arcadium [2CD Digipak Edition] by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Buy new: £11.18 / Used from: £1.99 By far the best Chilli's album. So much variety and class in this. It's hard to see how they could possibly better this. And I thought Californication couldn't be bettered!!
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 | Dirt by Alice in Chains
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.31 I just love this album from heavy, loud, in your face "Them Bones" right through to the dark and brooding "Down in a hole" and the magnificent "Would?" If you don't own this, then get it.
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 | (What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis
Buy used from: £3.64 You can't have an essential list without Oasis, and Heathen Chemistry was so close but this was the best of the best.
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 | Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £3.79 Impossible to decide between this and Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath. They really ought to both be in the list.
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 | No Wow by The Kills
Buy new: £9.79 / Used from: £4.75 The Kills are a very under rated band. This is a superb album. No Wow is a magnificent track you don't tire of hearing. Their 1st album is apparently just as good as this.
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 | Live at Winterland '68 by Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Co.
Buy used from: £4.23 This is a fantastic live performance of Joplin at her peak. Well worth an investment if you like this kind of female vocal style.
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 | Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock
Jazz is not everyone's cup of tea but this is a magnificent fusion that deserves attention.
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 | Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.87 Again, really hard to decide whether to put this in or 'Black Saint and the sinner lady". This won due to it being more accessible. Classic jazz at it's best.
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 | Vorsprung Dyk Technik: Paul Van Dyke Remixes 92-98 by Paul Van Dyk
Buy used from: £5.35 A quick skip of genres again. This has everything you could possibly want from trance. No wonder PVD is known as God!
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 | DJ-Kicks by Tiga
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £1.20 The DJ kicks series is really consitent. Tiga is a new favourite. If you can get hold of his Essential Mix then do so, well worth a look.
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 | DJ Kicks - Kruder & Dorfmeister by Kruder & Dorfmeister (mixed by)
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £3.97 Arguably the best of the series. This pair turn everything they touch to gold. Have a listen, you won't be disappointed.
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 | With Teeth by Nine Inch Nails
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.18 Reznors latest album and is certainly his most commercial. Excellent all the way through and Right where it belongs is now an all time favourite. Exceptional
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 | Hot Rocks 1964-1971 by The Rolling Stones
Buy used from: £18.97 Being unable to choose which Stones album to put in, I've gone for the best of their best period.
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 | Nevermind by Nirvana
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.99 Quite simply impossible to leave this out. Brough grunge to the mainstream and let us hear other fantastic bands. As a single Heart Shaped Box is the one track that should have been on this album
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 | Back in Black by AC/DC
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.42 Great fun. This and Highway to hell were excellent albums. So much packed into such a short space of time.
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