 | The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.88 80 - A much underrated bowie classic from 1970. This and T.Rex's '..Swan' were the foundation stones of glam rock. The title track is Bowie at his sublime.
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 | UFOrb by The Orb
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £1.00 79 - Ambient house. Who remembers it? Yes, it was s***e in general but this was its finest hour. Wonderful chill-out album that hasn't dated much.
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 | The Clash by The Clash
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £1.71 78 - From chill out to pogo-out! Fast, frenzied and just too damn exciting for words here. White Riot is arguably one of the best punk tunes ever!
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 | Am I Not Your Girl? by Sinéad O'Connor
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £0.48 77 - This is (suprisingly) Sinead's best album. If Ella could do cool cover albums, why not everyone else? A truly great work much ignored sadly
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 | The Unforgettable Fire by U2
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.67 76 - The beginnings of superstardom began here. And why not? If they make albums as sublime and daring as this.
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 | Please Please Me by The Beatles
Buy used from: £4.49 75 - Simplicity is a great thing, isn't it? Half an hour of raw Northern soul just before they gave in to the screaming teen girls. Fab.
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 | On the Corner by Miles Davis
Buy used from: £3.86 74 - Hard as hell funk/jazz from the man. This is too good to resist if you are up for some proper fusion 70s stylee
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 | Rock N Roll Animal by Lou Reed
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.24 73 - Just the right side of heavy metal to still be cool. The segue into Sweet Jane is one of my favourite RandR moments of all time.
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 | Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band by Yoko Ono
Buy used from: £24.38 72 - Yes, I know. Yoko Ono? Yoko Ono. All I can say is 'judge not...'. Scary, primal rock that could easily have been made in 1977.
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 | Parklife by Blur
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.45 71 - An anglophile's dream. Shades of the Kinks, The Jam, Syd Barret et al. Plus a Chic-stylee disco song. All together now..'All the people....'
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 | The Stooges by The Stooges
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £3.25 70 - An indespenible rock and roll album that everyone should own. The missing link between the VU and garage rock. Brilliant!
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 | Pop by U2
Buy new: £9.18 / Used from: £0.98 69 - Probably the most underrated of U2's albums. It is a grower, admittedly, but it's worth the repeated plays. Fine album
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![Trans-Europe Express [IMPORT]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JD2TYXYFL._SL75_.jpg) | Trans-Europe Express [IMPORT] by Kraftwerk
Buy used from: £3.16 68 - Wow. German cool. A powerful statement on electronic music made 4 years before everyone used synthesisers
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 | Imagine by John Lennon And The Plastic Ono Band
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £6.46 67 - Imagine, for me, is still one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. I remember when it was No.1 after his death and I couldn't hold the tears back every time I heard it. RIP.
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 | Out of Time by R.E.M.
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.62 66 - The Athens boys hit the big time but don't compromise. Almost the perfect REM album...(see later)
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 | Definitely Maybe by Oasis
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £0.79 65 - Say what you like about them now, but at the time this was a damn fine back-to-basics RandR album
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 | Live/1975-85 by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Buy new: £17.98 / Used from: £8.99 64 - Bruce does give good show. You have to admit it. This is a fine live set. And it isn't boring despite its 3hr length.
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![Magical Mystery Tour [VINYL]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41E1G9A2KNL._SL75_.jpg) | Magical Mystery Tour [VINYL] by The Beatles
Buy new: £16.59 / Used from: £20.00 63 - Good album this despite it 'technically' being a compilation. This and Sgt P make the perfect Beatles '67 scrapbook. (BTW, I chose vinyl here as it comes with a fab full-size booklet!)
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 | Dark Magus by Miles Davis
Buy used from: £12.50 62 - Hard and very loud plateaus from Miles in '74. I don't why I love these electric-extreme '70s double albums but I do.
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 | Desertshore by Nico
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.99 61 - I just love this album for the grim, pseudo-classical, goth mood it sets. Unquestionably her finest album and one I'd recommend to any newbie.
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