 | Anna Domino by Anna Domino
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £8.69 Discreet and superb. So discreet no one ever noticed! Not for people who get irritated with 80's rhythmn boxes.
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 | Jesus Christ Superstar: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album by Soundtrack
Buy new: £17.98 / Used from: £12.78 How can such a fabulous record have such a bad recording quality? The remastered version sounds even worse.
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 | Foreigner by Cat Stevens
Buy used from: £7.30 I don't even like Cat Stevens...except for this record! 100 times better than his Best Of's, to which this album rarely contributed. Think I read somewhere Cat Stevens doesn't like this record.
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 | Goodbye Cruel World by Elvis Costello
Buy used from: £1.98 Only Costello record with no bad tracks spoiling it
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 | Over-Nite Sensation by Frank Zappa & the Mothers
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £3.99 Perfect music from another planet
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 | Space Ritual Alive In London by Hawkwind
Buy new: £9.88 / Used from: £7.61 Best Live record EVER. This and Van Morrison's "It's too late to stop now" are the only really good ones ever made. Precursor to Heavy Metal but in a hippy, freaked out way.
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 | More Love Songs by Loudon Wainwright III
Buy new: £4.98 The man made some 20 records to get this one right - and he sure did
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 | Back in Your Life by Modern Lovers
Buy used from: £11.40 It was hard to choose just ONE Jonathan Richman record...
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 | Dummy by Portishead
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.85 For some weird reason, I cry when I listen to it on headphones...!? Pity their other records aren't up to the same standard.
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 | Psychedelic Furs by The Psychedelic Furs
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £3.59 I don't even like these guys - how did they get this record SO right? Not for people who don't like a "wall of sound".
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 | The Psychomodo by Cockney Rebel
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.99 This one or Best Years Of Our Lives - let the devil choose. It's a huge "ego-trip" though and that gets on some people's nerves.
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 | Talking Heads 77 by Talking Heads
Buy used from: £3.50 When you start this good, the rest of your career should be doomed... The fact it wasn't shows how good they were.
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 | Creedence Clearwater Revival (20 Bit Mastering)
Buy used from: £5.56 This and Dylan's Blonde On Blonde are the only really good records from the sixties, and again, I don't even like these guys...
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 | Acquiring the Taste by Gentle Giant
Buy new: £14.19 / Used from: £4.89 Forgotten by everybody, but me! Three Friends, Octopus, Free Hand and In A Glass House could all be in this list. Gentle Giant are a serious candidate to the title of Best Band Ever.
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 | Pampered Menial by Pavlov's Dog
Buy used from: £4.94 Mid 70's symphonic to the extreme. Is he a castrati, or what? Sounds great, anyway. Second record is fine but not as good and the rest are best forgotten.
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 | The Modern Dance by Pere Ubu
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £5.20 So weird and so great, in a class of it's own.
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 | Casablanca Moon/Desperate Straights by Slapp Happy
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £57.73 This one isn't perfect from start to end, but it's so peculiar...
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 | O Espirito Da Paz by Madredeus
Buy new: £16.98 / Used from: £4.25 Well, I'm portuguese. Had to include something from Portugal and there wasn't much to choose from in Amazon...No, honestly, this is GOOD. Extremely moody or boring, depending on your perspective.
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 | Wildflowers by Connie Price & Keystones
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £11.68 An instrumental mix of funk, jazz and repetitive music. Should be dreadful but it isn't.
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 | The Age Of Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £4.29 Just to prove that standard pop can sometimes be brilliant...
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 | Emergent by Gordian Knot
Buy new: £12.19 / Used from: £13.95 An instrumental mix of hard rock and King Crimson. How can that possibly sound any good?
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 | Byron: Bug Music by Don Byron
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £5.45 Jazzy with tons of clarinet. His records are VERY different from each other. Don't go buy the others just because you like this one.
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 | Snow Borne Sorrow by Nine Horses
Buy used from: £18.26 Most musicians get awful as they get old. Not David Sylvian. This is VERY slow and moody. Some people will consider it boring.
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 | The Budos Band II by The Budos Band
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £6.64 Another instrumental mix of styles (afro, jazz and who knows what). Indescribable (ooops, I've just described it...).
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 | Marquee Moon by Television
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £2.99 Dense intertwining guitars. It sounded better when it came out but it's still a fabulous record.
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