 | What's The Matter Boy? by Vic Godard
Buy new: £5.13 / Used from: £5.14 Vic Godard sacks the Subway Scet on Bernie Rhode's orders and inadvertently revives skiffle. Bernie speeds up the master to make it sound more 'punk'.
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 | Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies
Buy used from: £49.30 Four geeks from New Jersey make a record that sounds like the Velvet Underground with Angus MacLise on drums.
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 | Harmony and Singles by The Wake
Buy new: £10.48 / Used from: £13.96 Inspired by New Order this mini-album debut found The Wake leap-frogging their masters with ease.
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 | The Guilded Palace Of Sin & Burritos Deluxe by The Flying Burrito Brothers
Buy new: £3.74 / Used from: £3.73 Gram Parsons' and Chris Hillman combine forces to inspire a generation (a two-edged sword) with their 'cosmic American music' on the debut Guilded Palace of Sin.
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 | The Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £5.45 A Brill Building Velvet Underground - the 50s meets the avant garde. For the full story listen to "Jonathan Jonathan" by the Rockingbirds, which brings me to...
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 | Whatever Happened to the Rockingbirds by Rockingbirds
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.59 I actually wanted to include the debut but it's unavailable, so this is a neat substitute. Camden Town meets Hank Williams and much reverie ensues.
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 | Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis
Buy new: £4.34 / Used from: £3.30 The absence of Miles Davis in the Channel 4 100 is indicative of the redundancy of such lists. Get rid of all the Beatles albums and replace with MD albums.
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 | Thirst by Clock DVA
Buy used from: £25.83 This could fall under the lazy moniker of 'post punk' if it weren't so scary. Dark, claustrophobic and downright weird this prefigures the likes of Massive Attack's Mezzanine.
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| Waiting for a Miracle by Comsat Angels
Buy used from: £18.00 As one smart Amazon reviewer notes "the best album I ever heard". So good I've got three copies.
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 | The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks
Buy new: £8.97 / Used from: £7.44 No this is NOT Parklife! How lazy can people get? Once again replace all the Beatles albums with the Kinks and I'm happy.
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 | Diceman Lopez by OBI
Buy new: £7.64 / Used from: £0.48 So Parachutes by Coldplay is one of the twenty best albums of all time. Try this for size - better tunes, better arrangements, better words - in short better than Coldplay by miles.
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 | Grotesque (After The Gramme) by The Fall
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £5.82 No Fall records in the top 100. What is the world coming to? Not that it's likely to put Mr Smith off his stride. You lazy so and so's.
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 | You Can't Hide Your Love Forever by Orange Juice
Buy used from: £32.95 Camp - yes. Fey - yes. Punk rock - you bet! The Velvet Underground meet Chic, play on the swings and swig orangeade.
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 | Beyond the Sun by Billy MacKenzie
Buy used from: £2.29 Billy MacKenzie's last great masterpiece. Bonkers and beautiful.
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 | Cut by The Slits
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £3.78 Mad, bad and dangerous. Not many feminists in that Channel 4 list were there?
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 | Chairs Missing by Wire
Buy used from: £7.39 These are getting a bit obvious now - aren't they? Well if they would then at least three Wire albums would have been in that list.
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 | Another Music in a Different Kitchen by Buzzcocks
Buy used from: £18.80 More than simple pop-punk the Buzzcocks were, arguably, the first band to marry punk sensibilities with dance beats on Moving away from the Pulsebeat.
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 | Comforts of Madness by Pale Saints
Buy used from: £6.24 This could have been in the top 20 but instead we got the overly long, flabby 'space rock' of Urban Hymns. Just goes to show how redundant...I'm repeating myself.
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 | Radio Days by Various
Buy new: £14.49 / Used from: £5.65 Yes I know it's a film soundtrack but it's still far superior to Parachutes.
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 | Forever Breathes the Lonely Word by Felt
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £6.54 The other paranoid album made by people from Birmingham. Or should it be mad as a mongoose? No, not Lawrence, the people who didn't vote for this meisterwerk (that includes me).
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 | Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express by Go-Betweens
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £8.62 The Smiths if they had been born in Brisbane....but more consistent.
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 | Calenture by Triffids
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £3.58 Named after a sailor's delirium one of the Triffids greatest.
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 | Giant by Woodentops
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £22.01 Prefiguring baggy by about 3 years the Woodentops were misunderstood and criminally ignored.
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 | A Scandal in Bohemia by Jazz Butcher
Buy used from: £29.68 Big in Northampton and the environs. He's still out there and still great. Southern Mark Smith is sheer genius.
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 | Skylarking: Remastered by XTC
Buy new: £4.55 / Used from: £3.65 What! No XTC? As I said these lists are studpid.
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