 | Hejira by Joni Mitchell
Buy used from: £2.95 Took me a while to get into this, but now I'm addicted! Joni's masterpiece.
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 | Music from Big Pink by The Band
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £3.14 Same with this - addiction took hold and now The Band are for me officially the greatest ever! Unique magic.
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 | The Who Sell Out by The Who
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £3.48 My favourite Who album. Full of fun, inventiveness and most of all Variety. Pop Heaven.
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 | Complete Asylum Recordings by Judee Sill
Buy new: £9.58 / Used from: £15.00 Provocative, varied, mysterious, witty, childlike but wise. Words fail me. Judee would laugh! Brilliant stuff.
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 | Bryter Layter by Nick Drake
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £1.99 My favourite of his three albums. Thoughtful, melancholy but uplifting.
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 | Kathleen Ferrier Vol 8: 'Blow the Wind Southerly' British Songs by Kathleen Ferrier
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £3.24 If that voice didn't come from her soul, I don't know where it came from. My vocal deity, Klever Kath
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 | Whispering Pines: Live at the Gateway 1985 by Richard Manuel
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £5.37 The heart and soul of The Band playing on his own. His solo rendition of 'You Don't Know Me' could make a war end. Too beautiful and too soulful. Recommended.
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 | Blue Afternoon by Tim Buckley
Buy used from: £40.00 Try to get hold of this one, even take out a mortgage. Soulful, erotic but tender and searching. Buckley's best, by me!
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 | Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.44 For 'Whole Lotta Love' and 'Heartbreaker' alone, this is too great for words.
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 | No More Sad Refrains: The Anthology by Sandy Denny
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £5.49 Able to warm and then chill you, the voice and music of Sandy Denny is beautifully captured in this collection
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 | Songs for Distingué Lovers by Billie Holiday
Buy new: £14.19 / Used from: £5.86 Finally, the perfect ensemble to accompany the Lady. They listen to each other, to space, and most importantly, to Billie. Perfection
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 | Sail Away: Remastered & Expanded by Randy Newman
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £4.27 The master at his peak. Nuff said.
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 | Come a Little Closer by Etta James
Buy used from: £3.00 Etta testifies - raw soul and powerful performance.
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 | Let Me in Your Life by Aretha Franklin
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £8.45 Underrated Aretha, beautiful performances from the Queen
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 | White Light by Gene Clark
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £4.19 Intimate and haunting. Gene's second solo album
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 | Younger Than Yesterday by The Byrds
Buy new: £4.68 / Used from: £2.00 Despite losing Gene Clark, the Byrds were flying higher and further forwards.
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 | Broken English by Marianne Faithfull
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £4.50 Our first lady of drama, and her masterpiece
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 | Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty by Dusty Springfield
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.54 Already maturing as a singer - Dusty is our Soul Queen. She hadn't even gone to Memphis yet!
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 | Horses by Patti Smith
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.87 The High Priestess of Punk. Still untouchable, her debut and masterpiece
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 | Reckoning by Rem
Buy used from: £1.67 Suffers simply from having to follow their debut, Murmur. This is a beautiful album, especially 'Camera'
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 | Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths
Buy used from: £11.40 Includes the complete churning wonder that is 'How Soon Is Now', The greatest Manchester band, in their prime.
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 | The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £4.48 The underrated 3rd VU album. Sterling Morrison is especially great on 'What Goes On'. Plenty of gems to unearth.
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 | Songs for Drella by Lou Reed & John Cale
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £3.22 Reed and Cale reunite for a refreshingly intimate study of Warhol
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 | Gonna Take a Miracle by Laura Nyro
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.98 What songs, what singing! Laura and Labelle clearly loved these songs. You'll find yourself singing and dancing with them. Wonderful!
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 | Stratas Sings Weill
Buy new: £20.49 / Used from: £8.50 A brilliant collection of Kurt Weill songs given a provocative and emotional treatment. Worth your time.
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