 | Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths
Buy used from: £8.95 Glorious music - Chiming guitars and Morrissey's evocative lyrics. Every tune a winner!
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 | Substance by Joy Division
Buy used from: £2.10 A superb collection of Joy Division's more accessible material.
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 | Substance by New Order
Buy new: £11.18 / Used from: £2.85 I once proclaimed "Bizarre Love Triangle" to be the best pop tune ever released!
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 | Memoryhouse
Buy used from: £19.99 Orchestral music that is often fragile, haunting, melancholic and above all beautiful.
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 | White Album - The Beatles by The Beatles
Buy used from: £11.98 The most enduring of all The Beatles' output. This album skips and romps down many musical paths.
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 | Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £4.99 This is a diverse collection of deeply soulful tunes, conjured from Stevie's enormous heart!
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 | Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.99 Drake's finest - The strings on "River Man", the heartbreaking melodies of "Way to Blue" - GORGEOUS.
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 | If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £3.58 Incredibly catchy folky baroque pop. "Fox in the Snow" is impossibly lovely.
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 | Image: 1983-1998 by Susumu Yokota
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £2.75 Occasionally spooky, occasionally sublime, ALWAYS outstanding! Yokota is a twisted genius.
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 | Low by David Bowie
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.00 This masterpiece swings from avant garde spiky pop to dreamy symphonic soundscapes. Essential Bowie.
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 | Also in White by Bill Wells Trio
Buy used from: £8.99 A perfectly poised set of downtempo numbers. Noirish and utterly addictive!
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 | Computer World by Kraftwerk
Buy used from: £9.44 My favourite Kraftwerk LP - Funky, bleepy and icy but not bereft of soul. Choice electro.
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 | Remain in Light by Talking Heads
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £3.91 Funky as hell and utterly unique - this is Talking Heads' finest.
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 | Film Music 1966-1987 by Ennio Morricone
Buy new: £13.49 / Used from: £5.36 Morricone has a remarkable ability to create music that makes grown adults weep like children. Just listen to "Gabriel's Oboe" and say it isn't so!
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 | Have You Fed the Fish? by Badly Drawn Boy
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.34 Bombastic, shiny rock tunes with killer melodies. This is music to give you a kick start and shake out the cobwebs.
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 | Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Buy used from: £8.00 The endless layers of guitar here serve to create a very hypnotic album. This music ENVELOPES the listener with its glorious waves of noise.
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 | The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.99 A sprawling, epic album filled with grand pianos, huge guitar riffs and Jason Lyttle's fragile vocals. Excellent stuff, and thankfully it sounds nothing like ELO!
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 | Gorecki - Symphony No.3: Sorrowful Songs
Buy new: £10.78 / Used from: £6.95 String-soaked symphony that will stir your heart to breaking point. When the soprano enters proceedings, the listener has no choice but to surrender completely. An exhaustingly brilliant symphony.
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 | Doolittle by Pixies
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.43 Like Talking Heads before them, The Pixies managed to pull off the rare feat of sounding like no-one else before or since. "Doolittle" is the jewel in their crown.
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 | The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £3.50 This eponymous cracker from The Velvets is crammed with bittersweet lo-fi guitar pop. "What Goes On" is effortlessly cool. "Pale Blue Eyes" is wonderfully intimate. Brilliant.
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 | Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £4.89 Phewph - the guitars here are ENORMOUS. Huge crunchy riffs that could peel the paint off walls. A visceral work of art.
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 | Suicide by Suicide
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £16.00 Is "Frankie Teardrop" the most terrifying piece of music ever? Or is it simply the best? Okay...it's the most terrifying. You got me.
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 | The Piano by Original Soundtrack
Buy used from: £11.99 My favourite musical instrument provides most of the magic on this exhilirating score.
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 | Music From the Penguin Cafe by The Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Buy used from: £7.99 Challenging music but very, very listenable. This ranges from foot-stomping folk to sublime guitar and cello arrangements. Exquisite.
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 | Hail to the Thief by Radiohead
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.19 Some absolute gems on this classic - The emotive "Wolf at the Door" must be one of the strongest album finishers of our time. Radiohead are righteous!
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