 | Violator by Depeche Mode
Buy used from: £1.38 As with SOFAD some of their best work but for different reasons. As at the start of the 80's the turning into the 90's saw a chart friendly balance - but this time on their own terms. Defining !
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 | Songs of Faith and Devotion by Depeche Mode
Buy used from: £1.05 Probably their best album (ex Violator). Simply intense soundscape and the last as a four piece. Increadible with headphones and loudspeaker alike. It's all in here apart from cheesy middle 8s
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 | Leftism by Leftfield
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.46 About as organic as it gets - probably the loudest band I have ever witnessed that kept the audio hifi beyond belief. I used this album when auditioning loudspeakers.
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 | Moon Safari by Air
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.99 LoFi French horns and Serge Gainsbourg mix with a touch of Jon Denver. Seriously, this is an awesome album (with Modular Mix tagged on). Play it on a rainy day or a stary night.
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 | Mezzanine by Massive Attack
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £1.73 Dark, threatening, meloncholy. A simmering culdron of emotion an elegant production - perfect for dark rooms and candles.
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 | Gran Turismo by The Cardigans
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 A well balanced mix of Nordic melodic indie with just a hint more electronica that I was expecting - a pleasent surprise as is the intriguing Ms Pearson's delivering from innocence to decadence
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 | The Man-Machine - Kraftwerk
Buy used from: £3.83 From the Godfathers of modern music. Just about every album on my list owes something to these masters of 'complex simplicity'. Probably their most comprehensive work.
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 | Dare!/Love and Dancing by The Human League
Buy new: £15.88 / Used from: £9.26 For me, the sound of the early 80's - especially Love & Dancing... many a summer day spent clad in black carrying around the sounds of the league perched on my shoulder. Classic
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 | Penthouse and Pavement by Heaven 17
Buy used from: £2.85 Futurists to white boy funkers - something for everyone at the time. So far removed from the League yet somehow strangely familiar.
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 | Erasure by Erasure
Buy used from: £1.67 Why I chose this particular E album.?I had been a loyal fan from 1985 but lost interest by 1992... discovered this is a discount bin in 1998. Thank God. As near as V&A got to a concept abulm. Joyous.
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 | The Joshua Tree by U2
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £0.51 Probably their best album - compares to DM's SOFAD in they way it is seamless. One for headphones on the train journey from Naples to Rome. Classic.
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 | The Nightfly by Donald Fagen
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.93 Not really a big Dan fan but somehow this album is just a great way to spent 40 minutes.
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 | Classic Sinatra: His Greatest Performances 1953-1960 by Frank Sinatra
Buy new: £9.28 / Used from: £1.76 Thanks to the Chairman I restarted my career using a little known sample of his. Will always be eternally greatful. Shame he past away just weeks before he got a chance to sue me. I miss him.
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 | Number One in Heaven by Sparks
Buy new: £9.29 / Used from: £4.66 1st Sparks album I owend. Electronica, 4's on the floor, live drums, lush string vocoders - sounds like something from 2001 !! Ron Mael used to scare the sh!te out of me. Very scarey. Very Ecellent.
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 | Ray of Light by Madonna
Buy new: £9.88 / Used from: £0.01 Just goes to show what spending time with an inventive producer and living in London can do for the girl. Her finest work. Hey... I actually like a Madonna album - fancy that !
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 | Holst: The Planets
Buy used from: £20.18 From a crisp spring morning to the last shards of light on a winter's day to a hazing autum afternoon.....
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 | The Best of Bond ...James Bond by Various Artists
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £2.98 Long before Robbie Williams plaigiarised my idea I was paying homage to Mr Barry - along with Mr Jarre(Maurice), Mr Williams and Mr Arnold they take not only our imagination but also our heart strings
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 | Star Wars Trilogy: Original Soundtrack Anthology
Buy used from: £15.00 It surrounds us and binds us......
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 | Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns
Buy new: £6.79 / Used from: £1.65 A great introduction to the classics. Bright, upbeat and with have to wondering just how much time Camille spent at the Zoo/Farm in order to create this masterpiece.
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 | Barber: Adagio; Symphony No.1 etc. by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £1.71 It you want to be moved - it has to be Sam's Adagio for Strings.
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 | Welcome To Wherever You Are by INXS
Buy used from: £0.36 And who says I don't like instraments with strings! I know it's a studio album but it still manages to capture that INXS live sound as well as showing a very clever side of the band.
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 | Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.13 Sounds like it was recorded in one take. Intense... no funk on this album just pure garage rock at times and then reflective retrospective inwardly seeking self diagnosing ballards at the other extrem
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 | Replicas by Gary Numan
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.80 It wasn't until 1994 that I finally understood this album. It was a weary winters day and Gary and I sat mixing one of his singles over Milky Bars and crumpets when he spilled the beans about SU's !
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 | Equinoxe by Jean-Michel Jarre
Buy used from: £7.92 Like father like son, genius. Many a night looking up at the stars listening to this one.... I am convinced he's got an alien singing somewhere in the background - the one locked up in his basement !
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