 | Promenade by The Divine Comedy
Buy used from: £11.89 His breakthrough album is just packed with great songs... especially 'Summerhouse' and 'When the lights go out'. Saying that, I have all his other albums.
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 | Very by Pet Shop Boys
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.59 All the Pet Shop Boys albums are great, but this has so many great tracks. (For something a bit different try Concrete though - PSB live!)
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 | Page of Life by Jon & Vangelis
I can't help loving "Is it love". The rest of the album is truly odd - but in a great way!
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 | Sue by Frazier Chorus
Buy new: £7.98 It might be that 'Dream Kitchen' is the only one from this album that you know... But the whole album is packed with the same dry humour.
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 | The Very Best of The Lighthouse Family by Lighthouse Family
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.88 Single "Lifted" is the big number but there is lots of good stuff on here.
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 | Swinging the Blues Dancing the Ska by Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Buy used from: £2.27 Jools is always great, but this album includes 'Everybody Needs Somebody' with Solomon Burke - amazing!
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 | Works: Volume 1 by Lake and Palmer Emerson
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £14.84 All good tracks but unusually the Greg Lake ballads stand out - especially Closer To Believing & C'Est La Vie. Of course, the playing throughout this album is amazing.
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 | Under The Pink by Tori Amos
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £0.75 Cornflake Girl, Past the Mission and Space Dog. (Is she a big nuts? Probably, but it really doesn't matter when she sounds like this!)
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 | Bring on the Night by Sting
Buy new: £18.59 / Used from: £8.16 It might be old, but this album shows his genius - surrounding yourself with great musicians makes you greater! 'Tea In The Sahara' is the best version anywhere.
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 | Harbor Lights by Bruce Hornsby
Buy used from: £0.70 For me this is his best studio album to date. ('Here Come the Noise Makers' is a magnificent live album.)
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 | Shelter Me by Richard Page
Buy used from: £11.95 Truly one of great undiscovered albums of the last 30 years. The cover of "Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away" is a good end but all the tracks are so perfect.
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 | My Colouring Book by Agnetha Faltskog
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £1.66 That's right - it's the blond one from ABBA! These covers are really beautifully put together with "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" so close to perfect (forget the Cilla original!)
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 | All Over The World: The Very Best Of ELO by Electric Light Orchestra
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.00 You will not realise how many of these you know.
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 | Dream into Action by Howard Jones
Buy used from: £10.43 His second album and in many ways this is his most iconic. Just listen to "Elegy", "Hunger for the flesh" or "Look Mama" and you have heard everything he has ever written!
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 | Ellipse by Imogen Heap
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £7.50 The newest album on the list - it's quirky - perhaps a little too like Lilly Allen in places - but the rich layered production is completely enveloping!
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 | The Platinum Collection by Rolf Harris
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £6.99 So I don't have this specific album - just 'Stairway to Heaven' but the cost of the triple album here will be worth it for that one song!
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 | I'll Lead You Home by Michael W. Smith
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £3.34 This might seem like an odd one in this set but this album is, in my opinion, probably his best 'normal' album. Trilogy is a great piece of writing. Look out for Richard Page doing BVs too.
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 | A Night In Paris by Krall Diana
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £2.61 This live album is a great way to finish off the day - her ability to make these songs her own is probably her greatest skill.
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