 | The Jazz Age by Jack
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.62 One of the great lost albums of the 1990s - literate, art-inflected wonder released in era of 'Be Here Now' & Robin Williams' solo career....
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 | Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Still my favourite Costello LP- 'Beyond Belief', 'You Little Fool', 'Man Out of Time'....
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 | Fried by Julian Cope
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £15.00 Copey a bit lost in Albion....'Reynard the Fox', 'Sunspots', 'The Bloody Assizes' - see 'Repossessed'...
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 | English Settlement by XTC
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.89 Well it's got English in da title? - see also 'Skylarking' & 'Oranges & Lemons' & The Dukes of Stratosphear...
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 | Don't Stand Me Down by Dexy's Midnight Runners
Buy used from: £25.00 The British equivalent of both Pet Sounds & Smile, only much much better (yes I know Kevin Rowland has Irish roots...)
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 | The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks
Buy used from: £5.28 If one LP could define this list, it would probably be this one-
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 | 20 Jazz Funk Greats by Throbbing Gristle
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.25 The cover itself is a great work of art that could only stem from the psychology of this nation!
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 | New Wave by The Auteurs
Buy used from: £16.40 After the false-start of The Servants, this was where Luke Haines arrived & made our lives the joy they are in a parallel universe...
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 | The Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £2.50 See also The Canterbury Scene, or in Syd's American-made mirror a reflection of Roky Erickson-
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 | Suede by Suede
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.70 Lots of nice lines about volvos and references to smalltowns and a Reginald Perrin world: 'Sleeping Pills', 'Pantomime Horse', 'The Next Life', 'Animal Nitrate' et al...
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 | The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
Buy used from: £4.99 & no list of this nature would be complete without The Smiths: Carry On, Oscar Wilde, Jean Cocteau, Terence Stamp, The Byrds, Elvis- but still very English?
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 | What's The Matter Boy? by Vic Godard
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £3.48 This beat Orange Juice, St Etienne, Robyn Hitchcock, Caravan, ATV, Billy Bragg & Van Der Graaf Generator...
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 | England Made Me by Black Box Recorder
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.81 More Luke Haines, with a title from Graham Greene and one of the best LP covers ever! "Life is hard- kill yourself or get over it!!!!"
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 | His Greatest Misses by Robert Wyatt
Buy used from: £19.90 Nice career compilation that includes 'Shipbuilding' & 'Sea Song'....
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 | Vauxhall and I by Morrissey
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £1.20 His best solo LP & along with 'Viva Hate' & 'Your Arsenal' one of the few to bother with (You are the Quarry is dire...)
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 | Grotesque (After The Gramme) by The Fall
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.49 Definitive reissue of definitive Fall-LP featuring Marc Riley in the line-up: 'English Scheme', 'The NWRA', 'Totally Wired' , 'Leave the Capitol', 'CNC's Mithering'....
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 | Forever Breathes the Lonely Word by Felt
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £14.16 This one beat Blur, Wire, The Teardrop Explodes, The Slits & The Brilliant Corners....
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 | Back in the Dhss/Trumpton Riots by Half Man Half Biscuit
Buy new: £10.48 / Used from: £16.00 Worth entry for 'All I Want for Xmas is a Dukla-Prague Away Kit' alone!
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 | Original Pirate Material by The Streets
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.94 .......................................................................................................
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 | George Best by The Wedding Present
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £4.99 Expanded reissue of Indie-classic: 'Give My Love to Kevin', 'My Fave Dress', 'Nobody's Twisting Your Arm', 'A Million Miles'....
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 | Bummed by Happy Mondays
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £2.24 Produced by Martin Hannett
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 | Bryter Layter by Nick Drake
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.89 His most English-album? (a most English singer- Warwickshire floats through his voicebox...)
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 | Selling England by the Pound by Genesis
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £5.10 The 'Grotesque' of the 1970s?
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 | Mr. Fantasy by Traffic
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.48 Like a psychedelic Brit-take on The Band....
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 | Hits by Pulp
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £1.48 Oh Jarvis is so English- 'Babies', 'Razzmattaz', 'Sorted for...', 'Trees', 'Do You Remember...'
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