 | Axis: Bold As Love by Jimi Hendrix Experience
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £2.49 Anything you'd ever want, from anything.
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 | Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse/Outlaw by Eugene McDaniels
Buy new: £6.58 / Used from: £4.21 An advert for the clarity that comes with smoking lots of weed.
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 | The Reality of My Surroundings by Fishbone
Buy used from: £3.66 Anything goes. Don't ask me how, but they pull it off.
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 | Double Nickels on the Dime by Minutemen
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £12.96 From hardcore to funk, D-Boon is a misunderstood genius, the rhythm section is perfect.
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 | The Message by Cymande
Buy used from: £29.99 Latin jazz soul funk reggae rock done as well as could be hoped.
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 | Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £2.99 Greatest voice ever. Most consistent album.
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 | Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
Buy new: £14.38 / Used from: £5.95 Zappa shows that he was truly one of the greatest guitarists ever. Captain Beefheart is great on "Willie The Pimp"
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 | Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Buy used from: £4.96 Eddie Hazell's classic! The first track alone would make this a psychedelic legend but it is backed by some vintage Funkadelic.
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 | Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.97 Ranges from calm to insane, beautiful to ugly. Mingus' classic.
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 | Low by David Bowie
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.49 First half is full of classic Bowie, second half is Eno-style electro soundscapes.
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 | Blazing Arrow by Blackalicious
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.98 This is hip-hop from a different planet, intelligence, dignity, class and humour.
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 | McDonald & Giles by McDonald & Giles
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.99 Never been much of a prog-rock fan but this is more jazzy than most. Great drumming throughout and talk about multi-instrumentalist, Ian McDonald plays EVERYTHING!
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 | Hardcore Jollies by Funkadelic
Buy used from: £7.49 Criminally underrated! Smokey and You Scared... are two of the best p-funk songs.
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 | The First Minute of a New Day by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
Buy used from: £8.35 The height of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson's partnership.
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 | Still Bill by Bill Withers
Buy new: £5.18 / Used from: £2.99 Yes Bill Withers, who is thankfully still with us.
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 | Mr. Bungle by Mr. Bungle
Buy used from: £4.35 Weird and scary but some of the most fantastic musicianship available.
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 | Stand by Sly & The Family Stone
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £4.98 In my opinion the best Family Stone album. Just!
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 | All Day Music by War
Buy used from: £19.98 Beautiful funky and clever, the best War album.
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 | Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury (Re-Issue) by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.08 Michael Franti is a modern day Gil Scott-Heron, his albums with Spearhead are very good too.
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 | Betty Davis by Betty Davis
Buy used from: £22.00 Raw funk from Miles Davis' ex. Includes the legend that is Larry Graham on bass and a generally great band.
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 | There's No Place Like America Today by Curtis Mayfield
Buy used from: £7.95 My favourite Curtis album.
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 | Birds of Fire by Mahavishnu Orchestra
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.99 Second album from a band with legends on every instrument. Billy Cobham and John McLaughlin the main draws.
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 | Graham Central Station by Graham Central Station
Buy used from: £4.95 Larry Graham again, showing that Sly Stewart didn't have ALL the best songs. Ain't No Fun.. and Hair are genius.
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 | Here My Dear by Marvin Gaye
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £2.47 The most bitter, personal, heart wrenching album ever made, this is real soul!
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 | I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You by Aretha Franklin
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £2.35 The Queen of Soul delivers true classics.
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