 | London Calling by The Clash
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £2.40 The Clash at their finest. Such fantastic breadth of style, politcial lyrics - When music was made by people with something to say - NOT Simon Cowell
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 | The Lexicon Of Love by ABC
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £2.35 Possibly the most wonderful album of all time - I still get chills when I hear those strings on track 1
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 | Graceland by Paul Simon
Buy used from: £6.00 Controversial at the time because he dared to play with Black South Africans, but GREAT music
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 | (What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £3.90 Derivative, yes, but so many great songs you can't help but love this album
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 | Solid Bronze - Great Hits by The Beautiful South
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £1.99 Lovely easy vocals with biting lyrics and great tunes - If you only get 1 B.S. album this is the one!
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 | White Album - The Beatles by The Beatles
Buy used from: £12.49 So difficult to pick 1 Beatles album, so I picked this one JUST because it has Back in the USSR on!
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 | The Best of Everything But the Girl by Everything But the Girl
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Great mix of EBTG old and new - Get this and Walking Wounded (B000024LJR) and you're set!
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 | The Best of New Order by New Order
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.54 Virtually ANYTHING by New Order is fantastic, but this is a good introduction
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 | Smash The System : The Best of St. Etienne by Saint Etienne
Buy new: £39.99 / Used from: £3.23 Such a sweet sound it might make you feel queezy, but go with the flow and you'll fall in love with it
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 | Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Buy new: £6.28 / Used from: £2.44 A girl these days needs a gun on account of all the Rattlesnakes and She looked like Eve Marie-Sainte in on the Waterfront - Two lines that still swim in my head daily
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 | A Life of Surprises by Prefab Sprout
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £0.01 Some very special memories for me in this album, but anyone who likes great songs, well performed will love it too
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 | Third World Child by Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £4.55 If you like Graceland by Paul Simon, you'll like Savuka too. South African music which is so full of life
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 | Different Class by Pulp
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £0.29 Jarvis Cocker is the most (only?) interesting person in pop music today. This is PULP at their very best.
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 | Blondie
Buy used from: £0.98 Ignore the 1994 release date - this was their first album. Only 11 tracks, but everyone brilliant - They got bigger, but this was their best
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 | Forty Licks by Rolling Stones
Buy used from: £17.97 Anything with Satisfaction and Sympathy for the Devil is worth having - Often mimicked, never bettered
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 | On How Life Is by Macy Gray
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £0.01 Totally fantastic voice and some witty lyrics make this an album to savour
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 | Connected by Stereo MC's
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.05 The theme tune to virtually every mobile phone ad, but this was and is great dance music
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 | Sound Loaded by Ricky Martin
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.01 Needed something Latin and Ricky's Vida Loca gets him in - It's not on THIS album, but overall it's his best
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 | Pillows & Prayers - Vol. 1 & 2 (Cherry Red 1982-83) by Various Artists
Buy new: £8.99 Wow! - I didn't even know you could still buy this - Loads of great songs by bands you've never heard of along with some real duffers (but a different track listing to my LP)
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 | Bob the Builder: The Album by Various Artists
Buy used from: £1.26 Bob kept Westloife off of number 1 once and the great 'Superspud' make this a terrific album - maybe...
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